Got accepted to Nexon focus group 2/21 <-- Note This Is In The Past

To avoid forum bashing you need evidence. My sig gives enough evidence.. usually

Yes, but technically that's only one sample of idiocy and does not necessarily provide a representation of the whole.

Yes, but technically that's only one sample of idiocy and does not necessarily provide a representation of the whole.

We say that about so many of you...

We say that about so many of you...

I'm going to take that as a compliment.

Yes, but technically that's only one sample of idiocy and does not necessarily provide a representation of the whole.

I could write a book and supply enough evidence and reasons to support however i do not care enough to do so.

I could write a book and supply enough evidence and reasons to support however i do not care enough to do so.

I would buy that book.
For srs.

I wonder how eos would handle our community it basilified. I WANT TO SEE EOS CRACK YES I DO.

I wonder how eos would handle our community it basilified. I WANT TO SEE EOS CRACK YES I DO.

Why would I crack? I have the Off button.

Why would I crack? I have the Off button.

Let's agree to compromise and say that you having to hit said button would be your breaking point

The real reason we signed that NDA: To prevent us from leaking how bad it really is

In order to resolve the economic turmoil and problems with duplicating items, Nexon will be erasing all mesos and all items in the entire game.

Players will log in to find themselves equipped with beginner Maple Island equipment only.

Furthermore, mesos won't exist at all, monsters will no longer drop any items, and all equipment and use items must be acquired through the cash shop.

Still free to play though!

In order to resolve the economic turmoil and problems with duplicating items, Nexon will be erasing all mesos and all items in the entire game.

Players will log in to find themselves equipped with beginner Maple Island equipment only.

Furthermore, mesos won't exist at all, monsters will no longer drop any items, and all equipment and use items must be acquired through the cash shop.

Still free to play though!

Do you think before you type?

...Nexon would never be smart enough to actually impliment this! In fact, upon logging it would duplicate your beginner items as some form of glitch where any character with the ign starting in F N P U Y would fall victim too!

Could you ask them to fix the PIC reset system?

Could you ask them to fix the PIC system?

>title of thread is "Got accepted to Nexon focus group 2/21"
>requests a question be asked at the focus group on the 22nd

There's something wrong with the PIC system?
LF> more information

Reading skills to hard for me. D:
And I edited my original post to reiterate what I was apparently too stupid to type correctly. the PIC reset system has been broken for at least a year, and my 5 year old account can't be used right now due to it.

Reading skills to hard for me. D:
And I edited my original post to reiterate what I was apparently too stupid to type correctly. the PIC reset system has been broken for at least a year, and my 5 year old account can't be used right now due to it.

Not, sure what your problem is, but many of us here have accounts > 5 years old and have no problems. I even recently reset my PIC using the e-mail verification they have set up and it works fine. So the only real problems are for those accounts that do not have an active e-mail connected to them, and I have a few of those too unfortunately.

There's something wrong with the PIC system?
LF> more information

Don't know what the other person was talking about but I can say this:

It's worthless and stupid. It should be easy for a specialized keylogger to also screenshot on clicks and upload the screencaps to an external location to reveal the passcode, exactly the problem that made the earlier PIN code technically ineffective. A player also reveals their passcode to anyone watching the screen, so that's kind of stupid. There are PLENTY of secondary authorization methods that can be used, but requiring a second password entered via a software keyboard isn't one of them. Don't other systems have a system where you give them your phone number and they text you a unique code every time you log in? I guess that would require additional infrastructure on Nexon's part though, eh? Not as easy as adding one more field to the database to store a second password and adding a step in the client that asks for the second password.

Don't know what the other person was talking about but I can say this:

It's worthless and stupid. It should be easy for a specialized keylogger to also screenshot on clicks and upload the screencaps to an external location to reveal the passcode, exactly the problem that made the earlier PIN code technically ineffective. A player also reveals their passcode to anyone watching the screen, so that's kind of stupid. There are PLENTY of secondary authorization methods that can be used, but requiring a second password entered via a software keyboard isn't one of them. Don't other systems have a system where you give them your phone number and they text you a unique code every time you log in? I guess that would require additional infrastructure on Nexon's part though, eh? Not as easy as adding one more field to the database to store a second password and adding a step in the client that asks for the second password.

That's all fine and dandy, but if you don't get keylogged, the main problem is that there's no cooldown on PIC's. Yeah.
So basically, they can guess your PIC for however long they want and you're fucked because unless their internet goes down, they'll have until the next SC to figure your PIC out.

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=53961

^ Activity #3

#2: What top 3 games compete with MS and why? What top 3 activities compete with MS and why?

#1: You meet a gamer on an elevator and you go for 20 floors or about 1 minute. Describe a sales pitch on what you would say to the gamer with the intention of encouraging them to play MS. What things are unique or special about MS, etc

Time for #1 + #2 + #3 = 1~ hour of the 2 hour time slot

I have an active email connected to my account; whenever I attempt to reset it says "PIC or PIN has failed to reset." I've used both links sent, different browsers, cleared my cache.

Found this on ‘that one site with a W’

 Spoiler

Girl Monkey + Boy Monkey that hosted the event.

8~ Super monkeys that just observed us. They didn’t introduce themselves but I recognized Cox. At least half of them looked extremely bored during the whole thing, I even saw 1 super monkey just text through the whole thing.

6 others players + myself

- 200 shad bera, active, bosses, helps people
- 14x Mercedes
- 126 I/L that just goes on to talk
- 200 sair, 200 mercedes
- 18x and 17x chars, female
- 200 hero, 17x hero, other 15x~17x, female
- 15x UA drk, 15+ other chars

Two sessions total, mine was #1. Pretty sure we were grouped together based on similarity. All of us were 17~21/college and played 6 years ~ beta. Based on a comment I read somewhere else, it’s a safe assumption session #2 was comprised of mostly 13-15 year olds + people who played maybe 1~ year

Girl + Boy monkey do not know anything specific about MS, even admitted it

15x UA drk: I also have a 15x bishop, but I log on to it to do, you know

Us: Yea we know lol

Girl monkey: We don’t play MS or know a lot about the game, so what do you mean by that statement

Part 1 (20 min)

- What is your name
- What do you usually do
- What is your job/level
- Where and when do you play MS

Responses: Normal, nothing special

Part 2 (40 min)

- What does MS offer you?
- What features, characteristics, etc make it unique?
- What things do you not like, what problems, etc?
- MS is supposed to be a user experience, what is missing from MS?

Girl Monkey wrote quick summaries of what we said on sticky notes and put on poster board under questions.

Highlights + general responses

- Offers a way to be interactive with people and do things together
- Stress reliever
- Only 2D sidescroller around

- Account security. You get hacked, there’s no real compensation
- Tickets are a waste of time. I’ve had tickets that were made over a year ago and still not answered
- Needs more GM presence
- Exploits, glitches etc, seem to go ignored for days while everyone else knows about them

I don’t think it’s right that an item should be worth more than what someone can hold in their inventory

200 shad: The autoban system is faulty

200 hero: Yea lol hold EEEEEE

200 shad: You have people getting banned for stuff like that but people are actively fly hacking or botting and nothing happens

200 shad: I like to go bossing but half of the bosses are glitched. We can’t even HT properly because only the first 30 people can go and then after that you need to solo. I don’t know if that was intentional by you guys or not. Not everyone can solo and that’s really unfair. I can personally solo but I don’t really need the items that drop from it while my friends do yet they can never go so that’s really unfair.

Girl monkey: This may be obvious but I need to ask/clarify. What exactly about that is unfair?

200 shad: Even empress is glitched and that’s supposed to be the ultimate challenge. We can’t kill her because she heals back up all the time. I do have an empress dagger only because I spent 9bil mesos on it but not everyone can do that.

15x UA drk: I’d like to add on, that because of stuff like that, lots of people make these theories. For example, they say empress is glitched on purpose and then you guys introduce the music box event to get the weapons to make more money

200 mercedes: The GM presence is horrible. You can take a stroll through certain maps, and WE ALL KNOW which maps they are, and you’ll find botters everywhere. They’ve been there for months, the same exact ones

200 hero: I’ve played since beta and it was a lot harder to level up back then. Nowadays you can get to 120 in about 2 days

200 mercedes mind: pfft, 2 days for 120. Hahahahaha

200 shad: When I’m not on MS, I like to go on basil and talk to people. I get all my news from basil and it’s faster/better than the main website

Girl monkey: How many of you use basil

5/7 hands go up

18x/17x female: I use southperry

200 mercedes: Me too

15x UA drk: lol southperry is old

15x Drk: About account security though, you can now change your email so it's much better.

200 hero: Yea, with just the pic it's a great system

200 mercedes mind: ...................................

Girl Monkey to 95%+ things said: Hm *writes down*, okay *waits for next response*

Three activities: http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php...post924364


8~ super monkeys asked us some stuff for 15~ min

Random guy super monkey: Why do you make so many different characters?

Cox: You guys all talked about how the game is interactive and how you can talk with other people. But maplestory doesn't really have the "tools" to do that. For example, on facebook you can group people in lists and stuff or talk to certain people only but maple doesn't have that sort of system (yet).

200 mercedes mind: That’s what you really care about..? How people can talk to each other better?

200 hero: You can actually rearrange your buddies into lists and talk to specific groups all the time. I do it all the time and it’s really nice

200 mercedes mind: But rearranging your blist right now gets you autobanned

Random tidbits:

- Their office is nice. Even got a fountain soda dispenser in the middle of it
- The work area is people on computers with headphones on, but I saw mostly blank/blue screens
- Giant flat screen TV that constantly plays commercials/promotional videos for all games
- Saw the coffee mugs from the “Design coffee mug” event in a glass case
- Saw the giant wooden bench swing thing that’s in blabberbox videos
- I don’t think we got to ask 1 single question, just answered stuff

There’s probably more but I don’t remember. Feel free to ask for anything else