I think some of us were expecting it T_T (Possible Xmas hill exploit + rollback)

]It's not my fault Nexon can't hire programmers with a proper education, degree, and certification to actually implement better security than what they have done. It's also not my fault that they never listened to the community, when the community (mostly at Nexon's own forums) are filled to the brim with exp whores, trolls, and degenerates who blast anyone with a good idea, or Nexon goes all Nazi on anyone who challenges their system and structure.

Myself and others like me have told them for well over 5 years how to beef up the security of the game, or at least front some better ideas for them, and they won't even listen or budge off their stump.

And what do we as a community get in return? Rollbacks, false bans, glitches, and more hackers than ever before.

Add in Nexon's inept failure to shutdown GK and others like them only adds to their list of bad ideas and complete failures. I know no game can be 100% hacker free, but Nexon should be able to detect a hack in a few days and patch it and prevent it from happening again at least for a few weeks. Do they? Hell no! Look at how many hackers we've had since 0.48 was out and the numbers have kept growing and growing since then each time. Hell Ecko hacked a GM account, though partially at fault of the GM, even after we had the PIC implementation.

I've been probably permanently banned from the Nexon forums for speaking out against Nexon's failed, stupid, and inept policies regarding security, additions, and overall content management, but it's not my fault they can't take negative criticism and grow better from it. They've been in such a race to catch up to KMS, they failed to notice what else was going on around them. It's not my fault the community has been clogged with nut jobs who could care less about doing things slowly and correctly, and want meaningless things yesterday.

If anything Nexon needs to just stop all content updates and focus on securing them game and wiping out hackers and the hacks they use and releasing security patches and start moving things more towards dynamic content of a 25% client to 75% server based game rather than 10% server and 90% client based game. We only need a client to get content from the server and play the game. We shouldn't have all these .WZ files at all. I've noticed at least one distro that uses a maplestory.lib file to use dynamic content.

Who's to say Nexon employees aren't competent with degrees? The hackers may be similarly talented as the Nexon workers and enjoy finding exploitations. Nexon does try to fix these hacks and get it eventually but naturally they can not divert all their resources to safeguarding the game as I imagine money isn't generated from this.

Also forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Nexon can really shut down hacking sites like GK and W8. If you weed a few out, more could sprout under a new alias or something right? They do make decent money from selling VIP Access too... I can't imagine the hacking sites to go down without a huge fight

Well, I applaud your 5 year long and probably futile effort to get Nexon to change their ways to suit your needs. I'm sure it takes lots of patience and perseverance.

I really think if we didn't have sites like GK... we wouldn't have these problems as bad as they are. Wish entities like Interpol would get off their ass and do something useful for a change instead of wonder where they'll get their next donut, danish, strudel, or kung-pow chicken from.

I lol'd. Comic relief right?