2014-01-02, 10:09 AM
late to the thread but caught up on most of the (main) details. the fm site, while not malicious in intent, is something that real markets do for customers. Economics calls it a "Perfect Information" system that allows customers to choose the best product for the lowest price.
think about progressive, or all state insurance companies, and how they let you see and compare prices on the spot. the site will help to stabilize prices of items already being sold. sure, it will help people undercut profits, but that is already being done. in ymck, before black friday stores expired, it took me almost an hour to check every shop for prices. that site, while breaking the tos via bot, scrub or w/e else, is, as it stands, not hurtful to the game at all. In a few minutes, i can search up my items and price them against similar items. Or i can search for that ONE THING i really need (purple powders o.o?) without needing to spend time in every single shop looking for the best price.
as long as he keeps his methods to himself, this could ultimately benefit nexon, even leading to an albeit shaky employment opportunity. maybe a one-time payday for method details. A possible streamline addition to the upcoming auction software that's buggy at best.
i believe the initial problem with rui was after the public release of methods. it's perfectly fine to hack the gibson when all you're doing is proving you could. problems obviously started after he opened the door and everyone began abusing the method.
and about the legal action taken. doesnt this create prescience for other suits against hackers and sites? nexon needed this win to protect future interests. lost revenue is not just about NX sales, its also selling mesos from well-known meso farmer sites, paying staff overtime to fix massive problems (that get broken too quickly) and, any time you take a service offline, you lose revenue. In december (now january) alone, the server down time is significant! nexon even took merchants and permits out of CS. that's like (cough i had to) burger king or mcdonalds removing/blocking the drive thru windows.
I dont really see nexon as the big bad bully cracking down on a poor kid. its more like they got the biggest drug dealer they could find, even if they can't touch the columbian drug farms, a major, and very public, player was hit hard.
i wonder if *they* could have rolled on Bizarro, would *their* suits be less?
think about progressive, or all state insurance companies, and how they let you see and compare prices on the spot. the site will help to stabilize prices of items already being sold. sure, it will help people undercut profits, but that is already being done. in ymck, before black friday stores expired, it took me almost an hour to check every shop for prices. that site, while breaking the tos via bot, scrub or w/e else, is, as it stands, not hurtful to the game at all. In a few minutes, i can search up my items and price them against similar items. Or i can search for that ONE THING i really need (purple powders o.o?) without needing to spend time in every single shop looking for the best price.
as long as he keeps his methods to himself, this could ultimately benefit nexon, even leading to an albeit shaky employment opportunity. maybe a one-time payday for method details. A possible streamline addition to the upcoming auction software that's buggy at best.
i believe the initial problem with rui was after the public release of methods. it's perfectly fine to hack the gibson when all you're doing is proving you could. problems obviously started after he opened the door and everyone began abusing the method.
and about the legal action taken. doesnt this create prescience for other suits against hackers and sites? nexon needed this win to protect future interests. lost revenue is not just about NX sales, its also selling mesos from well-known meso farmer sites, paying staff overtime to fix massive problems (that get broken too quickly) and, any time you take a service offline, you lose revenue. In december (now january) alone, the server down time is significant! nexon even took merchants and permits out of CS. that's like (cough i had to) burger king or mcdonalds removing/blocking the drive thru windows.
I dont really see nexon as the big bad bully cracking down on a poor kid. its more like they got the biggest drug dealer they could find, even if they can't touch the columbian drug farms, a major, and very public, player was hit hard.
i wonder if *they* could have rolled on Bizarro, would *their* suits be less?