What2doNexon

This is an MMO. What other people have and how other people play affects you by design.

I don't mean to bash people who want to play games differently, but really, if you want to "solo" an RPG there are far, far better designed single player rpgs out there you should be playing instead of this pomegranate.

Those of us who still play ms have a tendency to retreat into what we like doing and ignore other aspects of the game falling apart. CWKPQ was that for me, because the main requirement was organization and logistics, not having the best gear. It was a truly social aspect to a social game, and I liked that. People could still bring hacked gear and kill the bosses faster, but the basic equation of doing the pq wasn't altered - the same accomplishment for the same investment, for all players. This is not true at all of most other aspects of this game.

Bossing is comparative, there are a limited number of channels to do important bosses on, and the longer you take the more opportunities the boss script has to kill you. Some people boss for fun/because they have nothing better to do, but I and most others say a boss is only worth doing much if its profitable. This means its drops have to be desirable. Even before this hack the potential system was severely mitigating the importance of in game accomplishment - your damage range was more dependent on using cubes than any boss drop. This hack takes things a big leap further in that direction. Your damage is now most dependent on whether you use a hacked item - hacked items that will be readily available if the hackers get their way. This outcome can only be prevented if all such items are removed, since duping is a far more difficult issue to fix for ms, and will likely outlive any 301 attack anythings.

So, if in game accomplishment isn't important or relevant, why do things in game?