What happened to Nexon?

Even if "giving away 500$" seems like a lot, it's not really 500$. Just 500k digital pixels. The thing is, if a player gets hacked and loses everything there's a high chance they'd quit and that means no more money from that player to Nexon. So compensating largely for the player's loss makes sure they'll stay on the game and possibly buy more NX in the future.

Then again, logic had never been Nexon's strength.

To me its equal to 500$ in store credit though. that's how i see it. Which still isn't bad imo.