Oh, look! ANOTHER new exploit!

If you're talking about the community and tespia participants, no, officially they aren't. hurrdurr. If you're talking about people in the employ of Nexon, then that isn't any sort of hacking, "white black or grey," triple hurrdurr.

They aren't; they could be.
My apologies for assuming that you have the capacity to understand such a suggestion.

LOL! You actually think hackers players that are already not playing by the rules will turn a new leaf and be good? hahahahaha

No, I'm suggesting that they can be bought.

Also nexon can not pay te amount of money hackers make while using hacks. Max mesos on many account,selling mesos,godly items, and still being able to be legit? You really think hackers will give up that luxury for 100k maple points? You sir are delusional as pineapple

No, you're ignorant as pomegranate.
You're putting all hackers under one bubble. Not everyone who creates exploits sells them.
Also, not everyone who has the capabilities to create exploits creates them.

If testers are enticed to find the potential exploits first, then that preempts the seller's ability to make money off of that potential exploit.

You are not getting it still

Hackers will NOT tell nexon what exploit they found. Yes, nexon wants you to find problems, but not problems where it requires you to to use third party programs. You are not suppose to be using those methods in the first place! i believe this is what octo is trying to tell you. Tespia is used to test new content that is coming out. Also why should someone hack on the test server, those hacks might not actually work on the live server where it count the most.

And, if they don't report, then nothing will have changed. No loss.
You're pretending that authorizing it on the test server will somehow make it worse on the live server.
That's nonsensical.

I dare you to give one example of a hack that would work on a test server but not a live server.

You're actually wrong yourself, too.
The people you think of as hackers, the ones running around abusing the game, no, they likely wouldn't.
There's an entire pool of people out there who have the skills, often far better than the script kiddies in fact, who don't use them because they understand the wrongness of it who would be quite happy to hop in to a test server and figure out where the gaps are if they knew doing it would actually make the game better instead of hurting it further and that they wouldn't be punished for trying to make it better. Those are the people who Nexon could in fact pay bug-bounty to and improve their games by working with.

THIS! THIS ENTIRELY!

The point was never about what Tespia is, it was about what it could be.
The sentence that started this discussion was "Done the right way, Nexon could use incentives to motivate hackers to improve the game.", clearly not in past nor present tense.

AND THIS!

God, I love people who bother taking time to comprehend what's being said.