An open letter to Nexon and MapleStory players

My answers in bold, but I do disagree with most of your points. I think you underestimate how difficult it is to do what you're asking. Not to say they cannot afford it. However, when people keep buying NX and keep playing the game, why cut the profit margin?

For the sake of clarity in your future responses to my comments, I ask of you to not add in your responses within quotes. They don't function well for replies due to the way Southperry ignores quotes within quoted responses.

You have no idea how wrong you are here. The hacker is far more likely to continue using the same hacks on a different account, because those who hack don't generally make them theirselves, and those that do are already well aware how to avoid autobans as they've had plenty of time to figure out what triggers them.

You didn't even try to understand the context of the statement. Auto-bans aren't permanent. That in itself is an issue. The fact that a hacking player caught by the auto-ban system after determining 100% it's a hack won't deliver a permanent ban. The fault of the issue lies there. IP bans/MAC addresses are covered later. You failed to acknowledge the resulting statements delivered later while making this "counterargument" without comprehension of the whole context. In fact, your message of the hacker more likely to continue using the same hacks on a different account contributes to my argument of Nexon having faulty anti-hack mechanisms.

This WAS effective before the timed auto-cc was added. It stopped most players from botting overnight.

Is it effective now? No. Why does it persist? Only as a temporary measure to "combat" hacking when it seemingly affects legits more than hackers. Legits who train on maps with a person tabbed out see this message and get inconvenienced while a botting auto-CC-ing hacker is not inconvenienced by it slightly. Once again, failure to comprehend the issue at stake here. And once again, contributed to my argument of it being a faulty anti-hack mechanism.

It costs barely ANY mesos to report, furthermore, when it was unlimited, they were spammed reports for no reason. These are necessary. Also, this version of Auto-CC has been around long before most of Southperry's users even started playing. I'm talking no later than v.27

The fact it costs barely any mesos to report doesn't make it a problem. The problem is, you're not always going to encounter hackers on characters with mesos. Ever since beta ended, it was never unlimited. But I wonder, where in your judgement is it is it better to have only ONE report a day as opposed to multiple? The Auto-CC you mentioned has no bearing in aiding your argument either, because in fact, it attributes to the fact that reporting hackers is a complete failure by not letting players being able to report the hacker.

Did this ever work in GMS? It's not super effective, but I've already addressed the whole meso thing.

It never did. That's why I listed it as a faulty system.

So I'm not even sure why you even bothered to make those counterarguments up there, except to unintentionally further strengthen my points. If maybe you missed why I listed them the first time through, it's because I'm saying Nexon is at fault for implementing such FAULTY methods to prevent hacking.

You have no idea how terrible of an idea this is. Especially in the global version of Maple Story. This can ban players who've done nothing, or even stop new players from joining. IP's and computers are not tied to their owner. The answer lies not in increasing the power of the bans, but better by restricting registration.

IP bans are not tied to people. MAC addresses are tied to their computers, however! Provided that Blizzard uses the same method (IP + MAC Address Ban simultaneously), in order to go around the said ban, they've reduced their hacker ratio to completely minimal amounts. Why hasn't Nexon started doing what they've been doing yet?