2011-02-12, 03:21 AM
A % reduction on all mesos while they take more time to investigate is actually quite a good move. Props to Nexon Europe for this decision and the well-elaborated posts.
The idea isn't to protect legits in the short run, but to protect them (as well as newer players and the economy) in the long run.
To the person who said they went from 2 bil to 400 mil...sure, you had 2 bil mesos and are now down to 400 mil...you got an 80% mesos reduction off your total. Now apply that to some hacker who's had 20 bil mesos from hacking. They would be down to 4 bil.
Now let me ask you, is it harder for you to earn 16 bil mesos or 1.6 bil mesos? With hackers having so much mesos and able to control the market with such enormous amounts of mesos, how do you think that would affect newer players...players who have not had market experience? They would walk into FM, see prices at 200 times of what they currently have. Do you think they would be likely to keep playing?
Okay, you may be thinking: "I don't care if they keep playing or not. They can quit...or they can do a quest and sell something (and hopefully not get ripped off) and get rich too and enter the market."
But what are the chances of that? How many new players really have a good economic foundation to think like that?
So...chances are, the newer players will quit. And with that, down goes the supply of overall items - which means that prices will remain high and stay high. In light of this, your 2 bil from legit merchanting will be worth MUCH less compared to the hacked 20 bil mesos...as opposed to you having 400 mil compared to a hacker's 4 bil - because it is obviously harder to legitly earn 16 bil mesos than 1.6 bil mesos.
Then when (some of) those hackers get their mesos completely removed/banned eventually...your 400 mil will be worth a lot more than it used to anyway. Give it time (don't spend large)...and your market should stabilize for the better with your new tax system.
The idea isn't to protect legits in the short run, but to protect them (as well as newer players and the economy) in the long run.
To the person who said they went from 2 bil to 400 mil...sure, you had 2 bil mesos and are now down to 400 mil...you got an 80% mesos reduction off your total. Now apply that to some hacker who's had 20 bil mesos from hacking. They would be down to 4 bil.
Now let me ask you, is it harder for you to earn 16 bil mesos or 1.6 bil mesos? With hackers having so much mesos and able to control the market with such enormous amounts of mesos, how do you think that would affect newer players...players who have not had market experience? They would walk into FM, see prices at 200 times of what they currently have. Do you think they would be likely to keep playing?
Okay, you may be thinking: "I don't care if they keep playing or not. They can quit...or they can do a quest and sell something (and hopefully not get ripped off) and get rich too and enter the market."
But what are the chances of that? How many new players really have a good economic foundation to think like that?
So...chances are, the newer players will quit. And with that, down goes the supply of overall items - which means that prices will remain high and stay high. In light of this, your 2 bil from legit merchanting will be worth MUCH less compared to the hacked 20 bil mesos...as opposed to you having 400 mil compared to a hacker's 4 bil - because it is obviously harder to legitly earn 16 bil mesos than 1.6 bil mesos.
Then when (some of) those hackers get their mesos completely removed/banned eventually...your 400 mil will be worth a lot more than it used to anyway. Give it time (don't spend large)...and your market should stabilize for the better with your new tax system.