2009-01-23, 05:45 PM
Deviant Wrote:Hackers have totally destroyed the Maple-economy, 95% of leechers are buying with legit mesos probably. It will take over a year before hunting ilbis/steelys actually becomes profitable again after hackers disappear. And dont even get me started on Ores with JQ hackers.
Leechers dont diminish the experience of the game for anyone. Unless you are crazy about rankings, then leechers are pretty harmless overall, do I like them? Not really. But I wouldnt go so far as to say they're worse than hackers. More HT drops on the market is nice, but for all the wrong reasons, those only come from HT for a reason, they're supposed to be rare.
16x+ characters are supposed to be rare and time-consuming. In Mardia, if you are part of THEFAMILY<3, you can easily be given a level 16x+ character which you do not deserve in less than two months. I have too much pride on my ranking that I worked so hard for and now people who aren't even on the game 80% of the time, passed me. Mages don't train with real trainers anymore, they'd rather get paid to leech some useless player who doesn't have the ability to grind.
In my opinion, leechers do far much damage than hackers ever did. Hacks can be patched but this leech illness can't. Hopefully with the new KMST patch, it is resolved.