2010-03-15, 02:44 PM
There's a very big difference between "innocent" glitch abuse and hacking.
The BF glitch, while obvious, didn't require the player to do something unusual to abuse. You met a monster, you attacked it with your skills, it died. As fast as any other monster attacked with that skill... But for incredibly high exp. Still, you were using the game client as downloaded from Nexon's site. No third-party programs, no packet editing, no wz editing, no shady practices like half-disconnecting your internet ("smuggling"), etc. Totally innocent.
So, until Nexon announced it was a glitch, they couldn't ban people for it.
Similarly, the tokens dropped from Jr. Newties all by themselves. People collecting them didn't do anything but play their clients, innocently. That time Nexon fixed it fast enough to not require a warning, but also didn't ban people.
These duped scrolls, however, were created by using a "third-party program" to interfere with the client's communication with the server, and this is obviously malicious intent. You don't do that innocently, however ignorant or oblivious you are. Bans are entirely justified in this case.
Buying the duped scrolls could conceivably be considered innocent - if it weren't for the fact that people who could afford 100 of them, even at the 5m price, had to know enough of the game's economy to know such market-flooding could not possibly happen in a legitimate way. (Or were meso-buyers who deserve banning anyway)
The BF glitch, while obvious, didn't require the player to do something unusual to abuse. You met a monster, you attacked it with your skills, it died. As fast as any other monster attacked with that skill... But for incredibly high exp. Still, you were using the game client as downloaded from Nexon's site. No third-party programs, no packet editing, no wz editing, no shady practices like half-disconnecting your internet ("smuggling"), etc. Totally innocent.
So, until Nexon announced it was a glitch, they couldn't ban people for it.
Similarly, the tokens dropped from Jr. Newties all by themselves. People collecting them didn't do anything but play their clients, innocently. That time Nexon fixed it fast enough to not require a warning, but also didn't ban people.
These duped scrolls, however, were created by using a "third-party program" to interfere with the client's communication with the server, and this is obviously malicious intent. You don't do that innocently, however ignorant or oblivious you are. Bans are entirely justified in this case.
Buying the duped scrolls could conceivably be considered innocent - if it weren't for the fact that people who could afford 100 of them, even at the 5m price, had to know enough of the game's economy to know such market-flooding could not possibly happen in a legitimate way. (Or were meso-buyers who deserve banning anyway)