Dev Blog: Welcome to 2011!

I remember back in the pre-Big bang era there was a patch in the 0.5x or 0.6x era that had a time frame of 4 months until the next release was done. During this time all kinds of hacks were developed that took over spots like Wolf Spiders and other areas like Blue Kents that nearly killed the economies on various servers.

So yeah long times between upgrades are open doors for hacker communities to literally destroy everything and take over.

The monthly releases were not a bad idea, but what they should have done during times between major releases was develop new stuff using Tespia. There was no excuse to go back to these long time releases IMO. The problem was Nexon focused mostly on content releases rather than simple bug, glitch, and hack fixes usually called Security and Hotfix Patches (like Microsoft does for Windows) between major releases.

And as far as going to work for Nexon... yeah I'd work for them, but seriously... lower down some of the requirements, train people, and educate them to what is needed and build a competent workforce. Not a lot of tech savvy people have a Bachelor's Degree of Science, took programming courses, and meet all the wants, however you have so many people who'd love to work for you and help make things better.