How ‘maplestory n’ fight back against thousands of hackers

Avalanche massive multiplayer online role play (MMORPG) MAPLESTORY N has been since his mass launch in May.

Keith Kim, head of the strategy at developer Nexpace – the blockchain – arm of gaming giant Nexon – explained Decrypt This week thousands of accounts are banned every day to maintain the integrity of the game for legitimate players.

Hackers, glitchers, attackers and exploiters are common in every type of video game – we have the Call of Duty Hacked Lobby trenches. However, the deployment is remarkably higher in crypto games.

Some maplestory N players have reported that lobbies are being filled Bots Automatic Farmingwhile another user found An abuser who has defeated the end game boss in which a player called “A Game Breaking Flaw” in a viral X post.

Not only can a player earn real cryptocurrency in Maplestory N – by acting, sharpening and fighting – but thanks to blockchain, the malignant actors now own the items and tokens in his wallet. That means that their illegal profit has real value.

“It was a huge, huge problem. Internally, all our teams were on emergency situations,” said Kim. “The number of attacks for which we have received [MapleStory N] are many folds bigger than [the] Entire Nexon -Game -Ecosystem combined. We have never seen such a size of attack. I think it is because there is a lot to earn. “

MapLestory N is the first item in the wider Maplestory universe-a crypto ecosystem using the two-decennium old MapLestory IP, which has a considerable supporter. During the launch, the game led to a peak of 549% in active addresses on Avalanche, according to Nansen -DataBecause it delivered the largest NFT Munt that the network had ever seen.

Kim believes that a big reason for the huge number of hackers of the Maplestory Ns is low entry threshold. If a hacker is banned, they can easily make another wallet in seconds and play the game for free. Maplestory N therefore wants to find the “right obstacle” that hackers will scare off without postponing regular gamers.

As a result, the game has implemented a 30 -hour delay in cashing in assets, because this is the average time frame that an abuser needs to be banned. In addition to prohibiting thousands of accounts, Nexpace has also strengthened and improved its security systems Abnormal play detection system.

In addition, Nexpace limits the off-disasters of its special Avalanche L1 Gaming Network, Henesys. This means that any damage that is fueled by bad actors is isolated for Henesys, without an option for the abuser to pay in full. Assuming that they have also been banned from the game, the assets are effectively made useless.

If the HACKER problem becomes so bad that a large part of the stock of an active is held by forbidden perpetrator portfolios, then Nexspace has a Clawback function with which the developers can take back the assets that are prohibited accounts

“These are checked and these are controlled by different layers of a multi-sig [wallet]. These are very, very difficult to activate, “Kim explained.” But when we see a volume of macro assets that are bound or frozen in the Henesys L1, we can do some household and bring this value back to the gamers. That is an option that we have. “

He added that Nexpace would first ask the community before he activates the Clawback function. But for now, he said, it is not worth considering because of the low value of assets stranded by forbidden players.

“In general, when we look at the macro level, the income is much less than [what] They publish, “Kim explained.

“They actually bought XPC because they want to come in certain levels of items, so that they can be efficient and use the game within 30 hours.” He added: “But so far their net intake is much greater than – I think twice as bigger – than their mains current. So we don’t really have much damage there.”

Published by Andrew Hayward