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What do we need to do to get GMs to camp out in maps and ban all the hackers? I have been reporting but the same chars are in the same maps daily. Haven has become nearly unplayable. Nearly every map on every channel-all blaze wizards.
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Go look at the old forums, look at all of the hacking/botting ban lists. There are easily 10,000 names in each of the weekly lists.
So, once again, the problem will not be solved by having them camp out in maps, as you say. Because it's more than evident that they do ban bots.
The problem is that it's laughably easy to make a new account.
You can ban bots til you're blue in the face, but if all you require to make a new account is a valid email address that has not already been used to register an account, then you're never going to actually stem the flow. It's almost trivial to write a small script that A) creates a new throwaway email address(all you'd need it for is the confirmation email) andThey need to add some kind of extra registration requirement. Phone number or, like KMS does, some equivalent to a social security number(I don't know how this would be doable, given the international player base).
TL;DR: They do ban bots, you're simply ignorant if you believe otherwise, or believe that NX-spenders get preferential treatment. The problem is that it's incredibly easy to make new accounts and automate the process
Cough cough all you people who buy mesos from third-party sites(you know who you are).
Bottings plagued the game for years, like stated before its extremely easy just to make a new account after being banned.
In reality, this plagues almost every single multiplayer online game (and many online social media sites). It's part of the reason Facebook now requires a phone number to create a new account. The problem here is that no one wants to play a game they have to register their phone for. It's because so many people are used to having multiple accounts that they are shocked when a game doesn't let them.
How many of you have more than one account? How would you respond if you couldn't use them anymore due to phone verification?
To be clear, no one should be playing with more than one account in the first place. All it does is create people who only do everything by themselves and therefore leave a community that isn't really a community, with users who don't work together at all.
But honestly what would help a lot is to implement a legitimate Meso <-> NX/Maple points market in the game. That way if you want mesos and you have USD, you can buy NX, convert it to maple points and put it up for sale and get your mesos and vice versa. It would almost completely destroy the in game black market for meso buying and NX code selling, while also at the same time protecting players from scams involved with these operations (scams which they have no chance of getting help from Nexon over).
It appears that the shorter a name is, the more profitable it is, with four-letter names being the most expensive and sought-after. Five is a close second. If it's an actual word, then it's even more desirable.
As of now, people seem to act as if they feel untouchable, either through their level, their rank or how much money they spend on the game. If Nexon were to systematically go through and show these people that they aren't untouchable, maybe things would start getting a bit better as far as this crap goes.
They should have started taking action way back before the Bounty Hunter exploit nearly 3 years ago