An open letter to Nexon and MapleStory players

Some small things though. It's probably misleading that I said Blizzard generates less percentile revenue, where in fact, they generate more revenue than Nexon, just in smaller percentages comparatively to a whole solid number figure. Though despite this, Blizzard has a number of around 3,000 staff members that attribute to the overall operations (ie management, customer service, administration, game coordination, development, etc.).

Eh, we must keep in mind that Blizzards staff is split by game/franchise in most cases. I don't believe thats the case with Nexon correct me if I'm wrong.

Though I don't know the exact number figure per staff and I imagine them to be different per case and category, I do recall reading somewhere on this forum that the average pay for the standard Nexon GM is $9 an hour (I would like a correction if wrong). That isn't a whole lot at all! In the state of Georgia, in the city of Atlanta, flipping burgers and salting fries nets you $8.50-ish an hour. It's almost no wonder there aren't any sightings of GM's nor does it feel like they exist.

This goes back to what you said about pouring money into the staff. They need to increase pay and they need to hire more staff. Though I'm sure there are many like Shikage out there who would be glad to work for free, I want to mention that it was tried and done. If any of you remember the MapleWatch Leaf Brigade? They were a group of volunteers personally selected by Nexon who selfless aim at and combat versus hackers. Sounds all fine and dandy to have people who are willing to work for free (with zero reward) for the betterment of a game, but it was ultimately one of the biggest failures. The MWLB died, Nexon never revived it, and even during its existence, the amount of hackers changed very little.

Definitely. For 9 dollars an hour most people wouldn't want to follow kids around listening to L0LSP33K and communicate with the players. Though hell, like Shikage I would gladly do it for free. Also, in my opinion, the selection process for the MWLB was bad, as are all "random" selections by Nexon. For instance they should be targeting their older audience with that kind of job, possibly rewarding them at christmas or so for their loyalty by sending a basket(hopefully not full of fruits).

Have you ever played a private server? I GM'd for a few of them and we had no trouble crippling the hacker threat. In fact I was able to deal with a server of 800+ by myself with ease. Surely there can't be more than 20,000 on per server at a time(average). Even 2 gamemasters per populated world and 1 gamemaster per non-populated world actively taking care of problems would be a HUGE boost.

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Hey, a man can dream, yea?

Edit @ Kalovale: Hardly think they're idiots. Just think they lack some baser common sense. However if I continue as to why someone will tag me as a racist. So I'll stop there.