Dear Maplers,



Following our announcement from yesterday, we have decided on the final measures
to be taken against the Meso exploitation issue and would like to share them with
you before they come into effect.

We have tried to approach the current situation from various angles in order to find the
best possible solution that could maintain and protect your best interests in terms of
your accounts and usual gamplay, and after endless internal discussions, investigations
and simulations, we (toughly) decided on the following actions: 


STEP 1: THE MESOS OF ALL ACCOUNTS WILL BE DEDUCTED BY A CERTAIN, (FOR SOME CASES)
HIGH, YET REASONABLE PERCENTAGE, BASED ON THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT EACH ACCOUNT
CURRENTLY HOLDS.  

We know that this measure may be difficult to accept at first as it affects ALL players, regardless
the fact whether or not they have engaged in the illegal meso exploitation, and we are fully
aware that this will lead to the sacrifice of innocent and legit players.
However, and to our fullest regret, with the elapsed time and the amount and cases of spread
Mesos, it is impossible to distinguish non-participants from participants of the exploitation.
Therefore, we have decided to focus on bringing back balance to the economy and
enabling the normal gameplay again as quickly as possible, rather than spending excessive time
on investigating each case (based on the EOIs that we had called for) with very low outcomes
to expect.

However, we will still keep on pushing our best efforts to track down the actual hackers who have
plotted this disturbance, and take separate measures against them accordingly.

FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION, WE WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU NOT TO
SELL AND/OR TO BUY HIGHLY PRICED ITEMS UNTIL THE DEDUCTION OF MESOS ARE
COMPLETED, AS YOU MAY LOSE YOUR ITEM (THROUGH SELLING) AND EARNED MESO AFTER
THE GENERAL DEDUCTION.


STEP 2: ALL ACCOUNTS THAT HAVE BEEN TRADE-BLOCKED DUE TO THE MESO EXPLOITATION
WILL BE RELEASED FROM THE BLOCK AND COMPENSATED WITH 10,000 MAPLE POINTS.
(Accounts with mule characters only will be excluded from the compensation)

Additionally, as a compensation for the extended maintenance time for our latest server check on
Tuesday, February 1st 2011, all characters that possessed cash items during the time of
maintenance will receive 1,000 Maple Points (instead of 1 Incubator as previously noticed).

The above listed actions will take place with our regular server maintenance scheduled for
tomorrow, Wednesday, Feburary 9th, 2011
(click on the date to see the maintenance notice).

We sincerely ask for your kind understanding and support for this difficult decision we had to
make for the sake of the entire Maple community and economy, and deeply apologize for
the inconvenience that our legit players may have to suffer from.
As promised in our previous announcement, we will do our best to detect and to respond to
all unacceptable attempts as quickly and as firmly as possible in the future.

Once again, thank you very much for the great support and generosity you have backed us up with
through this process, and we hope to keep the Maple Community clean and enjoyable together!



-MapleStory Europe Staff-