FYI - White Scrolls

Yea, I'm not exactly new. I've been playing since 2006 actually. My opinion is based on actually playing the game and seeing the effects of what's happening, not making assumptions based on what I read on forums.

Then you know as well as I your entire statement isn't true, in fact entirely, false.

I've been through the worst times of this game. The fact is it's nothing new.

2006/2007 The worse thing you had to deal with were botters. DC hack didn't actually come into full swing until late 2008 early 2009. First dupe that happened in bera occured around that time frame as well, and that wasn't as damaging as the ones we've had to endure. We're currently in the worst of times.

The sad fact is that 90% of the community directly benefits from hacking in some form. It's not the same as it used to be. I know what you're talking about, I was there. Yea, there was a time hackers were shunned and legit pride existed but it's pretty hard to come by now with the simple availability mixed with the frequent exploits that make hacking such a prospective gold mine.

The pride isn't there anymore because the game delivers no challenge, any player can do anything, and the exploits that have came out has made the impossible possible. No matter how hard you work, you cannot ever accomplish what someone can do by spending $30, it wasn't always like that.

I and many other users are just sick of reading about how every new exploit, glitch, or problem is 'the downfall of Nexon/maplestory' or how 'the end is coming' because you dc'ed for the third time today. People need to realize it's not that bad. It used to be worse.

When was it worse? The game's already dead, people who still play, play because there's some form of attachment or a nitch suited for them. People try to continue playing, but they play within their means. I was a player that wanted to always go above and beyond, and I don't see a purpose anymore because a hacker can accomplish this by crashing the server a few times. No where has it ever been so bad that a player could shut down an entire server because "I felt like it".

The fact that I understand that and I live with it and don't whine and moan doesn't mean I condone it, it just means I accept it as part of online gaming.

That's exactly what condoning is. Also like to say that a game that is ran by hackers is not something apart of the game, it's become the game. As you said, theres probably nothing in the game you can do without a hacker being somewhat involved, including the ability to play.

Your whole post was a bunch of personal attacks strung together with complaints about Nexon and faulty assumptions, and you say I talk down to people? -_- get real.

You have, and nothing I said was personal, just your experiences and opinion are empty because you lack them. I don't believe you played in 2006, you wouldn't say such ludicrious things, 2006-early 08 were probably the best times maplestory has had, and they weren't picture perfect.

As for your other post, what exactly do you want as consequences? People get banned all the time. They could do IP bans and then people would be whining they can't login because a hacker had their ip once.

I don't recall requesting an IP ban, and banned all the time? Haha. Man, you have some research to do. People get away with duping all the time, and it only takes a small bit of initiative to find these players and delete them. Instead they have a slow reaction time where the items are flooded into the market and legitimate players (such as people who got banned for hoarding chaos scrolls during a clear glitch) get banned than the hackers who hold onto the meso/nx from those players. Then people who abuse the HTP glitch get rewarded nearly 3x it's value, even though they essentially cheated. The company needs initiative to resolved issues before they explolde into a problem where a few liable players become the entire server.

They could link to id's and then people would whine they were sharing too much info. There's no real simple solution to fix the issues of multiple accounts and the level->profit->ban mentality of todays hackers.

There are plenty, I just gave you one, the other would have a fucking GM active on the server to go "Oh hey, server crashed again, I didn't do it, lets shut off the game to resolve it!". Although nexon has been getting slightly better at this, their clean up is still as shitty as it was 3 years ago. All they have to do is trace one ID of one item on a few characters, delete them all, the end. Even if it takes 2 days (maximum in my opinion) I would happily invite that. Eventually allt he server downtime to keep resolving the same hack would eventually hit their pockets and they'd eventually have to step it up. Now it's kind of stopping the problem but never cleaning up the mess.