KajitiSouls Wrote:"if that sign points to Toledo and those other thousand signs to Toledo on the map, that point must be Toledo".In this case, it's paranoia and not concrete evidence leading to that Toledo. It goes something like this;
1. Tons of people get accounts stolen before
2. Slight suspicious arouses, but most people don't pay mind to it
3. Some new event happens that visibly brings forth glitches into the game
4. All stolen accounts after this event gets acknowledged, since 1 person points this possibility out and others decide to jump onto this train of thought. It could very well be the same exact amount of people losing their information as in phase 1, but nobody cared about it before. It's only now that people decide to look at every stolen account and think "oh, this must be for Nexon's messup at that last event!~"
This same thing happens a lot. There are plenty of times in the past where people notice a "spree of account hacking" and relate it to some recent problem in game, creating theories as to how the account thefts could occur in a way related to this game problem.
You can look into it if you want, but this certainly isn't the way to do so.
"So, how many of you got your accounts hacked this patch?" isn't collecting answers. All it's doing is making a placebo effect."Oh yeah, I got my account stolen recently! Now that you bring it up, this may have happened to me as well!!!!"
They may not have even thought anything of it at first, and would probably believe they had bad luck. They might be trying hard to think back on how their account got lost. Or perhaps they're too embarrassed to accept how their account got taken from them. In either case, once they read such a theory they'll stop any thought process they had relating to the cause of their account loss, and simply place the blame on this "exploit". It becomes a scapegoat, and as more people place the blame on this scapegoat it provides more fuel to a fire. The one rumor that some kid on Basil started because he didn't want to admit that he was sharing accounts leads to an outbreak of people stepping up to the plate and holding one another in support for each other.
"Don't worry, it wasn't your fault at all. It was Nexon. Let the anxiety release from you. You'll be more at ease knowing that your account loss could not have been prevented no matter what you did. Come, let's all forget our troubles."