GMS Server Status Discussion 2012-01

No they shouldn't. Whatever compensation they DO give will be better than the ring. Supposing they go with their usual 5k maple points (and lets assume a 1:40 ratio for nx), that would be equivalent to giving everyone 200 mill. Now you tell me how much a ring that everyone has is going to be worth. Evo Ring II 17's are selling for less than 100, so imagine a ring with an outrageously higher availability. How much would they be worth, huh? Same concept with duping items. Eventually, items will be duped to a point where the supply is so great, it isn't even worth it anymore (though hopefully we never get there).

Besides, giving out a ring does not solve the problem with the event (staying online for an hour). You have your ring. Wonderful. Now, how will you enjoy it when the server is still dcing every 5 minutes? What they need to do is stop whatever is causing the servers to act up, THEN extend the event by whatever amount is fair, and then continue the event from there. Yes, its frustrating for those who try over and over to stay logged on for an hour to do the rings (myself included), but giving a ring to everyone isn't going to solve the problem. Why are people making multiple rings? Perhaps for multiple characters, but primarily for profit. How satisfied do you think these people will be when everyone gets a ring, and its worth 5 mill each?

Just watch as they give us a 2x exp/drop event for two hours lol. Fine give us the maple points - but what I want is the ring. I've already sat through an equivalent time and I don't want to sit through more time waiting. I have a life believe it or not

Since we know that servers do crash when traffic is exceptionally high (as Scania crashes just before every hot-time) and there seems to be a substantial amount of lag just prior to the channels crashing (similar to the crashes in Scania just before hot-time), is it possible that someone's DDoSing Nexon's game servers?

Most likely, even as incompetent as Nexon is, if this were a mere problem with the game servers, the issue would have been solved by now and it's virtually impossible for this all to be the work of channel crashes or even server crashes (the amount of co-ordination and timing for it all is very very unlikely).

I doubt that it is a DDOS. Anyway in previous incidents the server could be brought down by sending a certain packet which presumably is being kept secret. I think the person doing the crashing is a single individual, but of course many cheaters are taking advantage to dupe, though they are not responsible for the crashes.

If you read the threads about this and watch the duped crap spree, it is fairly easy to come to this conclusion. Any other cause would be highly unlikely, though this volunteer guy at Nexon forums seem to think it is not. My guess is that Nexon is just spoonfeeding their forum staff with nonsense to save face. I know i would be very ashamed if my multi million dollar company got it's ass handed to it by children.

That volunteer (tyler?) is so totally making up whatever he is saying. how could he possibly know any of the stuff he has been saying. it is unlikely the nexon people would tell him anything. Most volunteers in past just said things like "stay calm and wait for nexon to fix it' or something soothing like that.

Also nexon have a history of denying the existence of hack attacks except when it is so obvious and in-your-face.