Familiar Hack

- snip standard Nexon apologist spiel -

There is zero justification for the entire Maple team going on two weeks' vacation while the game is up and running and tens (hundreds?) of thousands of players are on. Especially when the game is scheduled to run a whole bunch of events, many of them untested, to keep the customers playing while the team is on vacation.

Every normal corporation that's still doing business during the holidays, has some employees working at that time. Might have to pay them extra, might threaten them with dismissal if they refuse, but the bottom line is: you do not leave the shop open and unattended.

What do you think would happen if Walmart went on vacation and left their stores open? That is exactly what is happening to GMS now.


If they were here, and if they were on top of things (like, you know, actually reading forums, tickets, hanging around in the game looking at smegas, maybe spying in hacker sites), they could have stopped all these disasters from happening. When things are allowed to go on for weeks... of course there's no painless way to fix it now. And it's doubtful there's a painful way, either.

And the worst of it is, last year they also went on vacation and a bad exploit surfaced which was "fixed" in a most painful and ineffective way. You'd think they'd learn a lesson. But no. Paying someone holiday pay to keep tabs on the game is just too much.