I used to be active in the Nexon forums, mainly the Combat Arms section.
They were pretty awful to begin with. Kids, kids everywhere.
There was also a dutch dude who couldn't take any criticism. He made really shitty montages and when he got flak he said he only made them for fun and not for our entertainment.
They were pretty awful to begin with. Kids, kids everywhere.
The forums and the game were supposed to have an age restriction, but since we shared the forums with Maple Story and Mabinogi or whatever we couldn't post anything over PG13. Foul language became a bannable offense.
To make it worse there were "I am so mature"-16 year olds, the "I have a girlfriend and go to the gym, don't say I don't have a life"-18 year olds, etc.
Everyone started claiming "troll!" if you disagreed with them. Mods even made a "No trolling" rule which was pretty stupid because nobody there was smart enough to troll someone.
Mods were pretty biased, and there was one mod who was Serbian and did not understand English. He banned me for thirty days (and I had no previous infraction) because he misread my post. He never tried to apologize.
There were no PM function, so there were a lot of "@ someone" threads. The search function was broken 4/5 of the time.
Sadly it was filled with Turks. Let me fill you in.
Basically we knew Turks as hackers. They hacked a lot. They were top in percentage.
In overall number, Germany had more hackers. Don't forget that Germany has a lot of Turks so Turks around the world chose to associate their account with Germany, probably because they had family there or something.
There was a Turkish dude who was the top player, until Nexon made it a bannable offense to have other accounts found to be "hacking" accounts.
He had about 30 (!) hacking accounts. You could be banned for hacking and come back in a new account, but having an account found meant all your active accounts are kaput.
Then a guy who was pretty cool became the top ranked player and turks hated him.
Since Turkey also gave a lot of profit to Nexon, they made a Turkish website and forum. LOGIC!
They never made a French, German or Dutch site. But they made a Turkish one.
Long story short, there was a shitstorm because they banned people for not speaking English in the forum and Turkish in the Turkish forum. They were making a lot of threads against the top ranked player and he tried to defend himself.
The Turkish mod banned him for 30 days.
There. Now you know how much of a crappy place the Nexon forums were.
To make it worse there were "I am so mature"-16 year olds, the "I have a girlfriend and go to the gym, don't say I don't have a life"-18 year olds, etc.
Everyone started claiming "troll!" if you disagreed with them. Mods even made a "No trolling" rule which was pretty stupid because nobody there was smart enough to troll someone.
Mods were pretty biased, and there was one mod who was Serbian and did not understand English. He banned me for thirty days (and I had no previous infraction) because he misread my post. He never tried to apologize.
There were no PM function, so there were a lot of "@ someone" threads. The search function was broken 4/5 of the time.
Sadly it was filled with Turks. Let me fill you in.
Basically we knew Turks as hackers. They hacked a lot. They were top in percentage.
In overall number, Germany had more hackers. Don't forget that Germany has a lot of Turks so Turks around the world chose to associate their account with Germany, probably because they had family there or something.
There was a Turkish dude who was the top player, until Nexon made it a bannable offense to have other accounts found to be "hacking" accounts.
He had about 30 (!) hacking accounts. You could be banned for hacking and come back in a new account, but having an account found meant all your active accounts are kaput.
Then a guy who was pretty cool became the top ranked player and turks hated him.
Since Turkey also gave a lot of profit to Nexon, they made a Turkish website and forum. LOGIC!
They never made a French, German or Dutch site. But they made a Turkish one.
Long story short, there was a shitstorm because they banned people for not speaking English in the forum and Turkish in the Turkish forum. They were making a lot of threads against the top ranked player and he tried to defend himself.
The Turkish mod banned him for 30 days.
There. Now you know how much of a crappy place the Nexon forums were.
There was also a dutch dude who couldn't take any criticism. He made really shitty montages and when he got flak he said he only made them for fun and not for our entertainment.
