Banned For Being An American

So, now that the year is finishing up my friends and I are getting more and more anxious to start seriously playing MapleStory’s MapleSea. I’ve been playing for about a month and I really like it but I just haven’t had enough time to devote myself to the game. Well, my friends and I all consented that it was time to take a brake and play last night and for some reason we couldn’t. We knew there was going to be a server update so we just gave it some time and kept trying to log in every hour but we were never let in. I wasn’t to worried about it and I was even looking into getting some a-cash finally. After two failed attempts in the past to get a-cash I was finally getting serious. Then, today, just as I was about to head out my friend called.

It seems we aren’t the only ones who can’t log in. On the game’s forum it has announced that all players from Europe and US can no longer play. They said that there is a MapleStory made just for us. I knew about it. It’s called MapleGlobal but it has lots of hackers and my computer just wont let me download it. So when we chose MapleStory we purposely choose MapleSea to avoid hackers and cuz we love people from other places and since MapleSea is in English we figured there was no harm in joining it.

Well, even MapleStory knows that MapleGlobal has hackers and apparently they have lumped all US players in a ‘hacker’ stereotype and banned all of us to keep us from hacking MapleSea. I think that is really stupid but I can understand where they are coming from but they did a lot of things really wrong.

1) They banned us without any notice whatsoever.

2) People spend US money called a-cash on this game and many people have spent anywhere from 10-500 dollars on this game. When they purchased that money and then items Asiasoft and MapleStory made an agreement that those players would have those items for 90 days. This agreement has obviously been broken and many people are upset.

3) They banned IPs but there is a way around it. Something about Proxys? I don’t know anything about a Proxy (other than the anime Ergo Proxy) but you know who would?? HACKERS.

So if please give me two seconds more of your time and sign this petition so I can go back. I really liked the game and I really want to keep playing.

http://www.petitiononline.com/mapcpet/petition.html