[Notice] [Complete] Scheduled Server Maintenance - October 15, 2015

[Typhoon]

Nexon so silly. Didn't block old gm names, and some banned chars still had their igns changed.

And yeah, anyone who makes their igns public this first week is simply dumb.

[Coogi]

There's not even a public bypass atm so if hackers are doing it, it's only a handful.

[moore4me]

Would seem to me, with so many not being able to sign in, Nexon would shut down the IGN event. That probably makes too much sense and would be too good of a thing in customer service.

[Typhoon]

There's not even a public bypass atm so if hackers are doing it, it's only a handful.

You don't need one if you're not opening the client itself lol

So take about a dozen people with the ability to log as many accounts as they want using Vpns, with hundreds of igns on a list, sniping faster than anyone who can type.

[MetaSeraphim]

I am infinitely sad that the main IGN I wanted from my favorite thing still belongs to an active account.

[¬Rob]

Me mentioning one ign I got doesn't matter, since I'm likely not going to try changing my current ones for a long time. :/
I'm still pretty attached to the names I have now, since I've had them for years already.

[SwordStaker]

I'm so happy. I was able to get around 20 or so names I've wanted for link skills and what not lol. I got Poop. My life is complete

[Sephie]

Sadly did not get the name I wanted. Oh wellllll

[TidusLoveYuna]

didn't manage to get igns i wanted : / but o well im happy with my mains ign and im not greedy for igns

[Thorr]

I managed to get my own name finally (Thorr). I also got my son's nickname. Those were the two I really wanted. Everything else on my list was taken, but tertiary.

[Foxino]

SO, who got their IGNs before bots did?

Got both my original names (i name changed twice lol) as well as ahri and a few other pokemon/bleach names.

[byakugan]

This event was garbage for me. I could get on and get back this one ign I had in one account like 5 years ago, but the true IGN I wanted I couldnt get it because the game kept freezing on me and when it stopped freezing I started getting tha 11002 error message. By the time the game allowed me to get on it was taken just like all other igns I could ever hope to get.

[SaptaZapta]

You don't need one if you're not opening the client itself lol

So take about a dozen people with the ability to log as many accounts as they want using Vpns, with hundreds of igns on a list, sniping faster than anyone who can type.

Going by the rankings, there were 100,000 new characters created since the wipe.
Seems kind of low for a dozen clb's running 24/7, but maybe the lists of "desirable" IGNs are actually very short.

[OrionTempest]

On a side note, Mihile link's still broken.

[fodjgngf]

Did they fix the whole event items expire too soon?

[RayGun]

these situations the bots also have a dictionary to attack, while it takes ages for me to think of a name to try. sadly i still have not gotten any names nor thought of anything new to try.

basically, no denying the event was a disaster and lots of people lost their names to bots and will never come back to the game

[SaptaZapta]

Did they fix the whole event items expire too soon?

Yes.

[Typhoon]

Going by the rankings, there were 100,000 new characters created since the wipe.
Seems kind of low for a dozen clb's running 24/7, but maybe the lists of "desirable" IGNs are actually very short.

That's exactly the reason. The majority of the people I knew doing it had only lists of 300-400 IGNs. Obviously all IGNs they felt were the most desirable. When you have that few IGNs, and everyone has basically the same list, only those IGNs would be taken and essentially split among all of them.

Not to mention, some of them were going after IGNs they themselves desired, just as most legits did. IGNs that others might not want.

Honestly, by looking at posts across multiple forums, it almost feels like legit people that did it manually got away with more solid IGNs as a whole when compared to ones obtained by botters.

The only advantage I felt botters had was that some of them knew Nexon would mess up banned player IGNs, and they did. They wiped any player that was billingPP banned, quite a few permanently banned players from awhile back and they didn't block some ex-GM IGNs. See: NXJoe, LAPD, CAPCOM, etc

[SaptaZapta]

Honestly, by looking at posts across multiple forums, it almost feels like legit people that did it manually got away with more solid IGNs as a whole when compared to ones obtained by botters.

Yeah, at least as long as they didn't run into the error 11002 thing, or foolishly relinquish their IGNs to try and get them on another character.

[Muppy]

How appropriate.. come back, log in, check out some features and then be utterly disappointed because you can't revert back to the old Hayato hairstyle due to the fact that the new one overrides it completely. Then log off in disgust.

So nostalgic!