Extended Maintenance to Address Meso Bug and New Dual Blade Launch Date

http://forum.nexon.net/MapleStory/forums...93571.aspx

Dear Maplers,

As you may be aware, an exploitable bug in MapleStory resulted in fake mesos being generated by malicious users. Once we identified this problem, we made the difficult decision to bring down the MapleStory servers to prevent further harm from being caused. Fake mesos increases the prices of Maple items for everyone, and this is an unacceptable activity which harms the game experience for all our players. While the servers are offline, we plan to fix the bug, remove all mesos that were falsely generated, and potentially take action against any exploiters who used this bug. Due to the severity of this issue, many accounts may be restored to a prior state. Any NX spent after the restore point will be refunded to impacted players.

Extended Maintenance
The Maple servers will remain offline until we have a clear estimated time on a fix. We will provide a specific maintenance schedule as soon as we are able.

New Dual Blade Launch Date
Unfortunately, addressing this issue impacts our game development schedule, and so we’ll be pushing the Dual Blade launch date to Wednesday, July 21st. The additional time ensures that we are able to fix the current issue, and fully prepare for the Dual Blade update. We know how much our players have been looking forward to the launch of Dual Blade. We’ve had a lot of fun working on the update events, the Q&A and other activities, and we’ll continue to work to ensure a smooth release next week.

Compensation
We know that the downtime, the update delay and the bug itself is bad for our players, and so we’ll be offering a mix of compensation and events that all players can participate in.

-- Cash item extension
-- 5,000 Maple Points
-- The Golden Temple will be available for one extra week. Golden Temple ticket items will also be on sale for 20~25% off.
-- Vega’s Spell will remain on sale for one extra week.One A Day Sale will also be extended for a week.
-- Make sure to check out the daily item!
-- 2x EXP and Drop events on the following dates:

a. Wednesday, July 14th 12 PM – 6PM Pacific Time (3 PM – 9 PM Eastern)
b. Thursday, July 15th 12 PM – 6PM Pacific Time (3 PM – 9 PM Eastern)
c. Friday, July 16th 12 PM – 6 PM Pacific Time (3 PM – 9 PM Eastern)
d. Saturday, July 17th 10 AM – 10 PM Pacific Time (1 PM – 1 AM Eastern)
e. Sunday, July 18th 10 AM – 10 PM Pacific Time (1 PM – 1 AM Eastern)

-The MapleStory Staff-
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-- Cash item extension
-- 5,000 Maple Points

-- 2x EXP and Drop events on the following dates:

a. Wednesday, July 14th 4 PM – 6PM Pacific Time (7 PM – 9 PM Eastern)
b. Thursday, July 15th 12 PM – 6PM Pacific Time (3 PM – 9 PM Eastern)
c. Friday, July 16th 12 PM – 6 PM Pacific Time (3 PM – 9 PM Eastern)
d. Saturday, July 17th 10 AM – 10 PM Pacific Time (1 PM – 1 AM Eastern)
e. Sunday, July 18th 10 AM – 10 PM Pacific Time (1 PM – 1 AM Eastern)

WOOT!
Damn that's some long lasting 2x

lmao, a lot of 2x events :o!

Wow those are some long 2x events.

Still no word on the ring events though. I guess they won't be extending it, unless they completely forgot it was going on.

What about adventurer rings? any decisions on if that event still ends today or will it be extended aswell?

hehe someone asked on nexon forum about the rings, no reply from -hime-

Lotta 2x events and -Hime- said

" Due to the severity of this issue, many accounts may be restored to a prior state "

I retract my woot and substittute it with fear...

I hope they extend the ring event, I don't see why they wouldn't.

And from what they say, it sounds like they can rollback only certain accounts. Is that possible? I thought they could only rollback an entire server at a time.

Rollback? I hope it's not 12 hours. ;s

this is pomegranate compared to the 4bil im about to lose

So much for getting my ring mule to 50 T_T

I hope they extend the ring event, I don't see why they wouldn't.

And from what they say, it sounds like they can rollback only certain accounts. Is that possible? I thought they could only rollback an entire server at a time.

if you know how to handle your own database, i think it's possible to rollback only certain accounts. I don't know how nexon database works, but at my work, i can do whatever i want with my sale's database lol

Oh well, as long as I can have a free permanent Transparent Hat, I'll be happy.

Hey hey, maybe I can finally get my Aran to 4th with the events and the cards.

...unless Nexon decides to roll me back.

Rollback? I hope it's not 12 hours. ;s

if they do rollback i will i will lose my khanjar, maker 2, 3 advanced diamonds i made, and a Angelic Betrayal that i made...

Disregard this post.

And from what they say, it sounds like they can rollback only certain accounts. Is that possible? I thought they could only rollback an entire server at a time.

Yes they have done that before. Several years ago (maybe 3 or so) there was a glitch with a Thanksgiving quest and everyone who had those quest items in their inventory during a SC got trade blocked. When they fixed it the rolled the character back to a point before the aquisition of a quest item. I could tell because they also moved my character and her experience, items, and mesos were all set to the point I was right before I aquired the first quest item. They also gave heavy comensation that time too because some people got rolled back several levels (they held two 12 hour 2x events and gave the affected people 24 hour 2x cards that lasted 3-4 days). Also from what I could tell they only rolled back the character, not the whole account. My other characters were right were I left them I think (though it's hard to say for sure because I wasn't using them much and when they couldn't trade I wasn't motivated to.)

>All players
>5,000 Maple Points

Huh, wha?

Not sure if 5,000 points is worth losing a Crit ring though. I was hoping to get a second one for the future Archer legend... My Gunslinger's at 48 too. And it's definitely not worth it to those who are about to lose hundreds of millions of meso. >_<

Ah well, I'll take whatever I can get. Gotta decide what to spend 15k NX on (three accounts).

Everyone gets 5k Maple Points? Not bad.

I myself haven't been in contact with any mesos from any other players in any way. So I'm assuming my accounts will have no kind of problems... ~prays~

And free 5k points and 2x events. Not bad. woot for me.

hehe someone asked on nexon forum about the rings, no reply from -hime-

Notice that all the event extensions have to do with the cash shop xP