Unscheduled Server Maintenance - 05.08.2011

Let me translate that announcement:

We have no idea how to fix this mess.
We left the game servers up until we could think of something, since downtime = lost revenue. We thought whatever fix we come up with will fix the game economy, no matter when it is applied and how much the hackers managed to ruin it before. But it finally dawned on us that legitimate players are also still playing, and if we end up having to roll back their accomplishments, they will get angry.

So, now the game servers are down until further notice. We're brainstorming. Or will be as soon as enough of us wake up, including Koreans. Once we think up a solution, we might have something of a time estimate on when it can be implemented. Hey, if Sony can take its network down for endless days, so can we, right?

Personally, I don't want a rollback, because I know whatever 2x compensation they give will never come close to making up for the training I've put in these past few days.

But, when Nexon try to surgically excise just the tainted meso and items from the game... it usually results in heavy casualties among the innocents, and the hackers laughing all the way to the (real life) bank.

If they really want to avoid a rollback, I think the following should be enough:

• Ban any character created this past week which has more than 100m meso. Let any legits who created a new character and funded it, log tickets.
  
• Delete any stacks of more than 200 chaos or pink scrolls. Ban any account with more than 2k of them on it.
  

Yes, the smarter hackers who converted their meso to items and stashed them in MTS, or who sold their meso to meso-selling sites for real-world money, will emerge unscathed. Such is life. But at least much of the excess meso, and nearly all of the excess items, will disappear from the market, and give us back some semblance of normalcy. Until the next exploit.
God, why must this game be run by such a bunch of incompetents?