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Those are the "public VIP" bots that spam advertising. Basically the freebies, that those who want to be a bother use. The main "paid" ones are non-spamming period. Also yes they can easily go after them, but really many use offshore sites that usually protect them. IE: There's no laws against what they do, or if anything you have to prove your case before action is done.

Anyone with knowledge of said sites, can actually use (on Firefox) Flagfox to view site origins. Obviously you can do checks with other methods, but this is the general easy way of finding out. Then go through the laws for said country, seeing really if there's a way to take em down?

Really though.. if Nexon actually did this it would take a long while. Even to actually get their foot in the door, to actually start the process of taking down sites. All they need to do is just agree if ever threatened, move somewhere else under another name and back in business. So overall it's become a problem, but with all the legal routes being difficult, Nexon just isn't bothering with them.

Don't think it's not rampant across all games though. I wouldn't know about DFO or Mabinogi really, since I don't frequent those games. I know their main staple game is always hacked, sure they have pretty good measures in place too. Obviously between them and Korea doing various things, it's a lot better at banning then Combat Arms really is..