2012-01-01, 01:49 AM
Seanny Wrote:Well, my post wasn't about the existence of hackers, but the community's response to them.
From my experiences with the other MMO's i've played, I have never encountered as much acceptance of hacking as i have here. Hackers are everywhere, but the overall response in this game's community, across all of its servers, (if not all, at least from my experiences on Zenith,El Nido, Khaini and a little bit of Windia and Scania) regarding them in this game is completely different. Lots more apathy.
A lot of people even in this thread say that hackers don't get the rejection they used to back in the older days when servers were few. One of the major things that's changed since then is MS's popularity, its only increased over the years.
MS community has even become politically correct with them. We don't call the people hacking our LHC maps hackers, that has too much negative vibe, let's call them 'glitchers'.
I disagree.
The primary cause of the population's acceptance of hackers is not the size of the population. It's Nexon's attitude.
Sad fact of life is that most people obey the law only out of fear of punishment. When Maplers see that hackers get away with everything, they stop caring and decide to grab whatever they can for themselves.
Nexon is also to blame for changing the game. It used to be so grind-intensive that only the most masochistic stuck around more than 30 or 50 levels. Nexon has made it progressively easier, trying to appeal to a much broader audience - not non-gamers, but non-grinders. Lazy instant-gratification people, who used to be pushed to private servers, are on GMS now and are happy to use any "shortcut" to make it still easier and faster to "win", even when the win is a rather meaningless "level 200".