I literally lost all faith in the Maple community.

The majority of Maplers are teenaged kids who play the game for entertainment. If they're given the opportunity to make their virtual characters stronger thus making the game more enjoyable and this opportunity appears at a time in which they would otherwise be playing legitimately, why wouldn't they take that opportunity? Most casual Maplers with low funding could care less if the item they got was legitimate or not. Not that I'm advocating duping but how can you blame them if Nexon is doing practically nothing to prevent it? This would be a different story and completely avoidable had Nexon decided to simply shut the servers after realizing that their unscheduled server checks had done nothing to fix the problem.