An open letter to Nexon and MapleStory players

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.

Nexon's the same way. Mabinogi staff differs from Maple staff.

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).

MWLB failed on the account of a few factors aside from their poor member selection:

• MWLB cannot patrol their home worlds.
  
• MWLB cannot interact with the players of the world.
  
• MWLB cannot participate within the FM. (not sure what this entails, but if it's what I think it is, golly that's stupid)
  
• MWLB cannot ban. They can only send working reports to GMs.
  

So to cut the chase, MWLB do not get paid and instead, wander a server not their own looking for hackers that auto-CC away from you. Without being allowed to interact with the community on a social and marketing scale, it's no surprise that the volunteers quit. This is also promptly why having people work for free won't work.

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?

My husband owned a Maple v75 private server. One of the largest until he withdrew from admining it and handed it over to his partner, letting it end sharply by Nexon closing it down months after he quit. But similar to your story, hackers were hardly a problem, though this is mostly credited to my husband's fine tuned auto-ban system. And anyone the auto-ban system does not catch, the large number of GM's would eliminate individually.