2010-09-20, 01:19 AM
Quote:Only difference was Wizet actually had GMs present in the game at all times talking to the players.
Say what?
Talking to a beta player here. In the years that I played Maplestory, I have never once seen a GM - whether Wizet or Nexon. This is why you see "OMG I TALKED TO A GM" every 6 months in the Scroll Lock. It never happens.
Wizet had the antithesis of GMs in the game. There was that one spearman... "TehSpearman" I think, SSEAX'd (or was it DupeX) Kargos all the way to level 100 before any new exp curve was ever implemented all with slash blast. Reporting was completely useless. The hackers would stay for days and weeks regardless of how many times you or your friends reported. About all you could do was R> DEFAME on people for being an asshat. Your fame meant more back in the early days. If you had bad fame, no one wanted to party, trade, or train with you. It was a given that hacking was extremely prevalent, and those who had negative fame were only those who hacked. Thus, defaming someone else was a powerful reputation tool to use against someone you loathed.
Hell, even back in the old days there was a sense of hacker pride - camaraderie. People who played the game legitimately were looked down upon (this was around 0.25 - 0.35 - the glory days of hacking). Then you had people who hacked until level 70 - 100, then turned "legit" and trained as normal players do regardless if the character hacked to those levels. This was an accepted way to get to high levels. Before rankings, no one cared if they got banned for 14 days. They just said they were taking a break from the game for a while then suddenly came back.
In short, there was absolutely no GM presence back in Wizet days. Zip. Zero. None. The customer service was even worse than you youngins have it today.