So a bit of explanation. I play mabinogi, a korean MMO developed by Devcat and published by Nexon. The user base is, for the most part, nice and respectful. However the past few weeks I have played have tried everyones patience. Hackers have been tearing into the game.
Sure there have always been a few in the player base however their actions have been relatively minor or didn't affect anyone else. However now they are gaining GM abilities like a hide feature, the ability to attack characters without requesting a PVP match, and rumors have surfaced of a hacker gaining the ability to permaban players. While worrying these are all relatively small scale and don't affect much of the player base. Yesterday however they hit and hit hard... They killed the NPC's.
I'm not exactly sure how they managed it but they found a way to kill almost every single NPC. I'm not sure if they were able to just make the NPC's targetable then kill them all by hand or if they just made them all drop dead at the same time.
While the change in gameplay for my friends and I has been negligible, due to the nature of the game we can more or less replicate all the missing services, they just screwed over anyone trying to start the game over this weekend and most low to mid level players who use the NPC's to buy and sell weapons, potions, and other goods.
I just don't understand why they felt they needed to do this. Sure Nexon and Devcat are both rather lax in support for the game, but its a F2P game that isn't Pay to Win, they (especially Devcat) don't have the cash or resources of larger companies and the last thing they need is to pick up the pieces the hackers are leaving behind.
So how about you. Any stories about what have hackers done to you? Did they ruin a game you enjoyed, hack your compter or accounts, ect?
Sure there have always been a few in the player base however their actions have been relatively minor or didn't affect anyone else. However now they are gaining GM abilities like a hide feature, the ability to attack characters without requesting a PVP match, and rumors have surfaced of a hacker gaining the ability to permaban players. While worrying these are all relatively small scale and don't affect much of the player base. Yesterday however they hit and hit hard... They killed the NPC's.
I'm not exactly sure how they managed it but they found a way to kill almost every single NPC. I'm not sure if they were able to just make the NPC's targetable then kill them all by hand or if they just made them all drop dead at the same time.
While the change in gameplay for my friends and I has been negligible, due to the nature of the game we can more or less replicate all the missing services, they just screwed over anyone trying to start the game over this weekend and most low to mid level players who use the NPC's to buy and sell weapons, potions, and other goods.
I just don't understand why they felt they needed to do this. Sure Nexon and Devcat are both rather lax in support for the game, but its a F2P game that isn't Pay to Win, they (especially Devcat) don't have the cash or resources of larger companies and the last thing they need is to pick up the pieces the hackers are leaving behind.
So how about you. Any stories about what have hackers done to you? Did they ruin a game you enjoyed, hack your compter or accounts, ect?
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