[Alert] [Complete] Unscheduled Server Maintenance - January 1, 2014

[FoolsLove]

What would be the point of leaving the servers up and telling everybody to stop playing?
"We are disabling all features except the chat. Happy Mapling!"

I'd still log on, that'd be fun in its own way. :<

Also, I am saddened it took until almost midnight central for the servers to go down. One really can't help but feel bad for these guys though. They've worked their asses off so much since RED due to patch extensions and hackers just being general plantains.

[Satellite]

Well you can still do minigames and chat for the heck of it. It's something... Better than the game being down for days.

[RayGun]

noo not again, hopefully not rollback

probs i should get in habit of checking the h4ck site to see if any of these dupes out before playing

[Melbourne]

noo not again, hopefully not rollback

probs i should get in habit of checking the h4ck site to see if any of these dupes out before playing

That's what many people do.

[Mr Taffy]

Oh, don't worry, there are rond of hacks kept private.
The people that find them are smart enough for that.
EMS had a guy who had a lot of information on pretty much every EMS hack existing and he sent it to nexon EU multiple times. After being ignored for ages he gave up and decided to use them. They're still not fixed.

Long live Tryst <3
Lol I remember the time he smega'd through GM's and henehoes.

[kayeyearekay]

Found the thread on the hacking forum:

Dupe released 11:53pm EST (8:53pm PST) on the 8th December
USC began 2:20pm EST on the 9th December (so the game was up for under 15 hours)
MS rolled back to 8pm PST 8th December

This time around:

Dupe released 8:23pm EST (5:23pm PST) on 31st December
USC began 12:35am EST (9:35pm PST) on the 2nd(/1st) January (game was up for ~28 hours)
If they decide to roll back fully, it'll likely be to 5pm PST on the 31st, which is a loooooong time, so we'll see I guess.. though I don't think they have much choice.

Maybe they'll roll back up to the point where they blocked Hired Merchants/Permits from being sold in the Cash Shop and forget about the rest? No idea when that happened though. Was asleep I think.

thought i was the only one who noticed the merchants/permits.
they couldnt exactly shut down the FM, or ppl would be standing in towns spaming S> XYZ@@@@s

[RayGun]

they could just ban those peoples accounts instead of a rollback?

anyhoo a rollback can't be just to when they stopped selling merchants - most of the duping would have occurred before they took action to reduce it.

but 28 hours is heaps. the hacker chose their timing well - just when nexon workers leaving to go party - for maximum chaos

now give me my 10k maple points

[Razmos]

It's...back up?
this is earlier than I expected.

[Mazz]

No rollback, and my Dual Blade has been hellbanned. WHY?

[FoolsLove]

No hellban here. I was actually expecting one, because I had my shop open for about 6 hours after the dupe first went public while I was sleeping.

No rollback is very concerning.

[Notify]

[Complete] The maintenance is complete as of 5:35 AM Pacific. Cash items in your inventories have been extended by 24 hours from the start of the maintenance.

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance beginning on January 1, 2014.

Thanks for your patience!

Time:

Pacific: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 9:35 PM - TBD
Eastern: Thursday, January 2, 2014 12:35 AM - TBD


What will be unavailable:

• All MapleStory game servers.

Changes and Updates:

• An item duplication hack has been blocked.
• Accounts that were found to have used the hack have been permanently banned.
• Suspicious item activity has been reviewed.
• Many additional accounts found associated with item duplication have been permanently banned.
• Numerous accounts have been trade blocked. Each account will be released or banned on a pending the results of further investigation.

[SaptaZapta]

No rollback and that wasn't nearly enough time to scan the database for duped crap (which they don't even claim to have removed).
Well done, Nexon.

[kruimel0]

Oh, don't worry, there are rond of hacks kept private.
The people that find them are smart enough for that.
EMS had a guy who had a lot of information on pretty much every EMS hack existing and he sent it to nexon EU multiple times. After being ignored for ages he gave up and decided to use them. They're still not fixed.

Tryst knew the GMs close to personally, yet he only decided to send tickets about the hacks, not speak to the GMs he knows. Tryst did not ticket the hacks to get them solved, he ticketed the hacks to get attention.

[Daakun]

Already found a few shops with obviously duped quantities of valuables.

[Eos]

No rollback and that wasn't nearly enough time to scan the database for duped crap (which they don't even claim to have removed).
Well done, Nexon.

I think they're planning to deal with the duped stuff in the scheduled maintenance they postponed, in the interest of blocking this and getting the game back up ASAP.

Everyone should take that as a warning to be very careful between now and the next maintenance or risk being inventory-locked or banned for touching the naughty stuff that still exists.

[Mazz]

Accounts of some people who bought duped items in the most heavily affected servers (Scania, Broa, Windia by the looks of it) are untouched. The duped items and meso are still on them and in some cases they're not even hellbanned.
What the f'uck are Nexon doing. >__>

[ODANA]

I was really hoping for a rollback. I know of "legit" players who bought lots of no boom aees and put them in storage (and who know what else they bought), also the amount of ppl that scrolled their tyrants up to 15 stars with exploited scrolls, lots of 81 att lidium hearts, lots of nebs.
They are just telling people that using exploited products is ok... Right now this hacker that really profited off the exploit is showing off his items via smega, saying how much nexon sucks.
Funny thing? They aren't even hellbanned.
This really makes me mad.

[Jared]

Yeah... I'm with @Eos on this one. Given they've evidently taken nothing out of the game, they must be planning to sweep through later this week (or during next week's maintenance).

[MuscleWizard]

they don't want to rollback because having to do that twice in two months is incredibly bad pr

[Ivangold]

I got hell banned too