For-profit hacking is present in almost every massive multiplayer online game, but some hackers and programmers say MapleStory is remarkably easy to hack due to its “gaping vulnerabilities.”Įos Parish is a programmer who owns, a website that analyzes developments in MapleStory. While you can’t sell items for real money in the game, third party services like Paypal provide an easy loophole. The game is huge and free-to-play, with over 35 million user-created characters, and, as a consequence, constitutes a huge market for cheap items. MapleStory presents rare opportunities for hackers with even a cursory knowledge of coding, like Liu.
“I came all the way back to MapleStory,” he said, spreading salt over the eggs. It hadn’t gone as well as planned: old connections had gone stale or completely dead, and because he couldn’t force his friend to remove the post, there was little chance of this dupe ever working. Still, he couldn’t resist the allure of another dupe. This was his first time hacking Maplestory in a while, he told me, having quit for months.
Liu’s parents were long asleep, as were, Jalalian pointed out, most folks with finals the next day. “We’re in the I-have-a-headache-and-I’m-hungry stage,” Jalalian said, as we headed downstairs into a huge kitchen. With this Hail Mary in mind, Liu and Jalalian worked until 2 a.m., until they had built up a satisfactory cache of duplicate items. We’ll just rinse, repeat and keep duping items.” More than occasionally, Nexon fails to correct a hack. “It’s hit or miss we might as well continue. “Who the f**k is playing music?” Liu asked Duke over Skype. Liu stared at his computer screen and typed rapid-fire. The bedroom was silent except for the constant beeping of Skype notifications, between Liu and someone who called himself Duke. A vulnerability in the game’s programming had been discovered that could allow Liu and his friends to “dupe”-duplicate-hundreds of items, before Nexon, the South Korean company that publishes MapleStory, could catch on. Just twenty minutes before, Liu had been studying for a Multivariable final when he received a message from a MapleStory friend. This team, an unruly band of hackers in the game’s secret hacking community, are one of many such groups that have long plagued a corporation’s most successful and wildly popular game-and the company Nexon has sued in the past to punish hackers. Soon enough, the team needed for the complicated duplication process had been assembled. Frantically typing over Skype, Liu reached out to his online friends from across the globe. They tossed Multivariable Calculus textbooks haphazardly on the ground and tore laptops out of backpacks. They ran through the basement and up a flight of dark stairs into a messy bedroom, crowded by a king-sized bed. The two trampled into the Liu family home, a three-story fortress leaning over the mountainside.
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