Known issue: Empress Cygnus bosses

How come the hackers are always able to come up with these things within days or even hours of the version-up, and under black-box conditions at that, while Nexon's own people can't imagine what is possible while having the code open to them?

I think there's a mixture of things at play here.

1) The current development staff for MapleStory know little-to-nothing about how the game was originally designed (Nexon has already admitted that their original devs are long gone), and this hinders them from actually remedying some of the long-known faults with the design of the game.
2) The language and distance barrier makes the GMS implementation yet more suspectible to these issues. It also further increases the response time for crisis situations (obviously).

With that considered, I think it's important to track the seeming improvement that has been occurring as of late. I think there is a clear trend here. Hope it continues.

I got a response to my three tickets I posted up on Friday within an hour. They weren't just auto generated message either they were a real response. Two got closed the other is a "work in progress" mark while they keep me updated on the issue.

That's pretty spectacular, I must say. If you don't mind me asking, what was the nature of the ticket? Glitch report/account hacked/etc.