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Peep wrote: »

Anyway the change doesn't make it better because this drop rate change is a nerf across the board with or without drop gear. Go have a look at iislingz vid as one example but the Koreans have already done the tests and the results are in. They may have increased the nodestone drop rate but because of how drop rate is calculated now it's still worse than what we currently have.

What Nexon's trying to do now is essentially a "calm down the masses" damage control campaign.

"It's all going to be alright, this benefits the less funded player, down with the rich that are so far ahead! [ignoring the time and effort it took them to progress]"

What is this, some kind of communist revolution?

That's all an insult to the opposition's intelligence. It's very well known that this will be to no one's benefit, except botters, who can just raise their prices since they don't care how the nerf goes. They'll just come out with a few thousand nodes at a time regardless. Ironically, it's the unfunded that'll suffer even more. They won't be able to afford the suspiciously unchanged supply of nodestones [botters], and only the rich will be able to buy a feasible amount, let alone max their nodes.

When KMS tells you it's going to be bad for everyone, you sure as hell better believe it's going to be bad for everyone, especially with the substantial amount of data and evidence they've collected. No amount of damage control and shillery is going to make anyone believe the lie that it's "decreasing the gap between rich and poor." Whoever's been told to say that, you've failed. You've had absolutely no chance to make a single person believe that.

I made my earlier comment about "enjoying watching those above you be knocked down while staying in the same place" under the generous assumption that people with little to no drop gear wouldn't be at all affected. But that's not the case. It's far worse than that. This isn't just a cap to 300% on drop gear, this is a massive change to the entire formula, and not only that, but drop rate will only partially apply to important items like nodes, symbols, droplets and event items.

To those trying to do damage control and assure the community that this is a good thing, you are all liars. You are doing no one but Nexon and botters a service with your futile attempts to defend the nerf. The opposition to this indefensible nerf has all the facts and all the numbers on their side. And I don't care if you're offended by how I said this all, because I'm just telling it as it is. I won't apologise, that's on you for trying to tell everyone that this is all to their benefit.

And my statement to Nexon: Everyone in KMS hated this nerf, everyone but like 5-10 people in GMS hate this nerf. Take a damn hint. The direction you're taking this game is nothing but an artificial increase of playtime, by making everything more and more grindy. Don't think the community's too stupid to notice anything.

Peep wrote: »

The naming and shaming rule shouldn't exist. Nobody cares about the well being of hackers and botters nor should they be protected. These people need to be shamed and should feel bad about what they are doing as they are ruining the game for all. People also need to know who these people are to avoid doing business with them as they could be at risk. EMS had a name and shame section on their forums before they merged with GMS. It was fine and honestly there was no clear toxic behavior on their forums in regards to this. At least EMS had some backbone.

As a compromise, if Nexon really doesn't want to get rid of the rule, why not just only enforce it in cases without evidence? That way you avoid witch hunting and bring the names of botters/hackers to attention. Like what was stated, no one should care if a botter/hacker is shamed for doing what they do. They negatively affect other players in various ways like the market, burning fields and map availability. GMs aren't doing a good job at getting rid of them, and I doubt they're even trying. This lack of effort shows easily. This wouldn't be an issue if they did actually their damn job as well as they're supposed to.

I'm not asking for people to go out of their way and only shame instead of reporting to GMs, but if those GMs can't even be bothered to take out hackers and botters, might as well have them exposed if anyone happens to take a screenshot or a video. You can't blame people for wanting to do that. Hackers and botters already break the ToS, so why continue to apply this "privacy policy" to them?

Aside from that, I'd like to see Nexon give their honest reason as to why they're continually unable to deal with hacking/botting. It won't warrant any sympathy but it'll at least be a start in understanding of what's going on with GMs and the state of the game.

Ivangold wrote: »

I keep seeying people in Lachelein and now in Arcana using bots, they don't even use Rune just there attacking the map, GMs could just patrol the popular maps and ban a lot of Macroes, generaly they don't harm much, but they still steal maps and make even less meanglfully lv250.

The problem's they don't patrol. If they do, then they're doing a horribly insufficient job. You can go to live chat and tell them about it, and they will say they're looking into it, but you'll see that same person hacking or botting in the same map and channel the next day, then the next week. The whole "naming and shaming" crap might not actually do anything, but actually enforcing a rule on it doesn't make Nexon look any better at dealing with the botting problem.

I'd rather this event never come back again if it's just going to be another 99% chance to get nothing but reward points. People should be guaranteed maple points in this event. Nexon's been fine with giiving away free maple points as seen with previous hot time boxes. For a 1 day event that you need to wait 10 hours for, sure as hell, people better be getting maple points. If not, it's a pretty pointless event as I see it.

I'd rather they just always have the current PSSB rotation in the stamp shop so it'll essentially be a guarantee you at least get 1 thing you want after several boxes of disappointment (or failed whaling).