An open letter to Nexon and MapleStory players

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

I sit corrected.

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.

So what you're telling me is, they gave the players no power beyond a contact line with GM's, made them work in a world they don't care about and can't grow to care about because they can't interact with players? Wonderful. Worst of all in my opinion is that most players could tell you a plethora of information on where to find hackers in the world, maybe some names here and there? People or guilds to watch for? Why leave that easily obtained yet valuable information simply rot?

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.

Eh, I was glad that the servers I was with did not rely on the autoban. I remembering slowly tuning the autoban system, and yet where I closed one hole, I usually saw another open, to the point that I would have had to go completely case by case to tune it right. However, I've always been part of a good GM staff. So believe me, I know how much an influx of GM's could do for Maple Story.