The Great Hacker War

The Great Hacker War is the nickname given to a time period with an influx of new hackers. Starting November 2009, many hacking sites, including the infamous Hack Site, released Public Hacks, commonly referred to as “Pubs”, to draw serious hackers into the hacking market. Many legitimate players were outraged; their Kill-to-Death Ratio’s dropping like flies. In December 2009, Nexon claimed to have banned 1000 hacking account, though this was still a fraction of the total hacking community, and had little impact on hackers. Hacking got so bad that some Legit players only played for the 2 days immediately following a patch, claiming it was the ‘’only time nowadays where only 15% of players are hackers”. Around late January, 2010, Nexon added a new feature to their business, designed to let people who did not want to spend real money on NX get some; Free Online Surveys. The majority of people who took the surveys were hackers who used the NX to add to their grade, allowing them to enter into the Black Market server. NX users were enraged. Many demanding the BM servers lock be raised. In the February 2010 patch the Black Market grade lock was raised to Silver. This eliminated most hackers, but also took 80% of normal players out. The community flooded the forums with demands about dropping the high grade lock. The grade lock was repealed quickly. The Great Hacker War unofficially came to an end on March, 2010, when AnhLab Hackshield updated, taking out 95% of all PUB hackers, and 40% of VIP. In the months following, hacking sites have been attempting to recover.