Password Update Campaign

I dont see what nexon is doing right now negative in anyway. Putting pic was negative? Doing this password update is negative? Heck when they have server checks that must be negative to right? Your going off all the past things i'm going off the present stop staying in one spot and learn to move on! If you get dumped you going to mope around forever? Or get over it?

Nexon is taking actions now and siding with what they are doing now is not negative in no way.

I'd have to agree & disagree with you.

Some of these things are good, some of them not so much. A mandatory password change is useful in certain cases; but I'm fairly sure the biggest reasons for people being hacked are inputting their information on non-nexon sites, and viruses. A password change every three months will not solve that; but it is a good step for security.

PIC, in my opinion, could have been implemented much better; I dislike it immensely. A Cellphone letter-pad is counterproductive, if you click in the same place three times, keylogger (reason for the random positions) can still tell you clicked in that spot three times. They can still tell which tab you're typing in as well, as that never changes position. So while it is more secure than a PIN, it could have been incredibly more effective. However in the end, it was also a good step.

Something that was a horrible step, and horribly implemented, was needing to start the game from the website. As I stated somewhere above, a big reason for accounts being hacked is inputting their information on sites they shouldn't be. Nexon, in their brilliance, did two things by forcing players to log in from their website:

1. People will download "Browserless Login Programs" in an attempt to bypass, and if the programmer put in lines to steal their information; good game.
   
2. People with no brain already input their information on false sites, this just gives false sites another open door.
   

It was poorly implemented because you can still open Maplestory.exe; and get so far as the login screen. Why? Why just not replace it's functionality with a little error message, a text box, anything? What's even more agitating is after we view the "Buy NX" Maplestory homepage, and choose to start the game, we still get the "Buy NX" splash screen.

Nexon is not all bad, all the time, but they really don't do a good job at satisfying their community's wants and curiosity, and actually attacking problems at hand ("Bugs every patch, but no revival of Tespia?" is one of my favorites). That's where all the random hate comes from.

As for the trust, Hime is a more or less trustworthy source I guess you could say. But nexon never seems to ever really say the truth. They dance around the subject, or announce a fix as a change, pretending like the problem never existed. For mass hackings that may work fine, but the Ticket System Change is a nice counter-example.