FlowsionMS Down!

It is a sad indictment when a PS with a handful of people run the game better than a multi million dollar corporations does.

Not really... it's to be expected. A ragtag bunch doing a smaller job out of love compared to a handful of employees who are expected to manage an exponentially larger amount of coverage.

A few things I'd like to point out:

#1: You might be bummed by this, but Nexon is entirely within their rights to do this. They are not greedy, they are a business, and they are an owner of intellectual property. Both identities (the business and the IP owner) are both morally and legally justified to do what they're doing. If you owned a business, you'd be doing all you could to maximize profits, and if you owned a lucrative IP, you'd be doing all you could to protect it.

#2: It doesn't matter if Nexon closing your unofficial server will bring you back to the official servers. Their goal is not to bring you back, their goal is to protect themselves from illegal competition. Go ahead and don't come back to Nexon... they don't care.

#3: If you want to do a private server, do a PRIVATE server. Keep it private. Don't allow it to be open to the public, don't allow anyone with a means to search know about it. What we've had thus far have been unofficial public servers, NOT private servers. You keep it private and Nexon won't even know your server exists.

#4: You developers should put your talents to good legitimate use. If you can create an original server backend to interact with an existing client, why not take the next step and create an original client? Heck, you do it right and you could even have your new original game run off the same account database that already exists for the MapleStory server.

To the people saying that we who were playing FMS are biased, you would be biased too, as you're plainly against PServers.

A bias on the side of reasoned law is not a bad thing. I am definitely biased in favor of laws that prevent behavior that I think should not happen. For example, murder is wrong, so I like that it is against the law to kill someone. Is it then bad that I would be biased if I had a debate against a murderer? A bit extreme of an example, I'll admit, but the parallels are solid: both are things which are illegal, both are things which are morally unjustified. No, just because you think Nexon has bad service, that does not morally justify you ripping them off.

No one is getting mad about a private server closing down. They're getting mad because Nexon is incompetent at doing things that private servers are able to accomplish.

A small unofficial server will ALWAYS have the power to have better GM presence. You get a good crew of folks GMing on a small unofficial server, and there is NO chance the official server could keep up.

And that is the only thing that the unofficial servers have over the official. Giving higher experience rates are not an objectively positive feature, and the client isn't managed by the unofficial crew either. It's really just that because of the unofficial server's smaller size and increased dedication from the team (being unpaid volunteers, that is), their GMs can control things a lot better. Really, the unofficial GMs might be good, but if you put the same crew on the official servers, I assure you that the GM presence STILL wouldn't be very good. There's simply too much, too many maps, too many people, too many idiots. Frankly, they can do what they do on unofficial because of how small it is.