MapleSAP Special: Hackers
Part 10: Ticket to Controversy

“…and in other news; the Nexon Cash Shop, the country’s biggest retailer of exclusive goods with 168 stores nationwide, has come under intense public scrutiny due to a ‘perposterous’ lawsuit filed by the Maple Legits Assiciation.
The suit, filed last Friday accuses the CS of promoting hacking; by means of selling tickets that give trainers twice the experience they recieve per kill and The double drop tickets will have you awarded twice the money you recieve when you pass a level test. The lawsuit is accompanied by a petition with 7000 signatures, and by other written demands by religious right-wing organizations including such groups as the NVAL, the PLEU, the Henesys Baptist Church, Kerning Hillel Organization, and a number of other groups.

“The 2xp tickets are sold at Nexon and AsiaSoft Co.’s Cash Shop stores accross the country. Prices range between
5000 NX and 20K NX cash. The NX currency is exclusive and only available for the upper class citizens. The currency exchange rate between the Meso and NX point is 100 million mesos for 10K NX, and of course, selling or buying NX is illegal and punishable by death.

“These controversial tickets whent on sale last year and demand for them is high among people who get NX cash. Since these tickets came out, more people have been leveling up faster than ever before, leaving non-NX users in the same generation in the dust. The population of high level people has swelled at an impeccibally fast rate. These facts have been repeatedly cited in the lawsuit, including the fact that due to the swell in high level population, places such as the Zakum arena are inaccessible today.

“A&W Avocats, the firm pushing the lawsuit, is suing the Cash Shop Co. for a whopping 500 billion mesos. AWA represents more than 350 legit purebloods in this case, and is aiming to drive the CS into the ground. Rev. Jean Saque of the PureBlood Evangelicals Union claims that using 2xp tickets is ‘absolutely no different than hacking,”

Other people who are morally outraged by the popular tickets have called them a means of ‘legalized hacking’
They are upset that the federal government approved of these so called hacks.

The Attorney for the Cash Shop said in a press statement that these tickets do not produce, contain, or use hack energy whatsoever.

The National Assembly and Senate are heavily debating about the tickets, which have stirred up as much controversy as the Kerning City safety zone for hackers….”
—Maple Radio News, December 14.

“…at all Cash Shop stores have been taken off the shelf and will not be available for purchase indefinately. The public controversy began at the MMOT Forums and Lit. Publishing Center in Kerning City, where a member posted a bulletin explaining her moral opinion about the tickets. The member, who’s name was not released, caused a stir among MMOT members. Other members, including the administrator, posted their own bulletins regarding the topic. The new bulletins dismissed the the notion that the tickets were a method of hacking, clearing many people’s conscience about using tickets.

“Two weeks after the ruckus at the Publishing Center, another person, who’s name was witheld, went on KLON TV for an interview and lashed out against the Cash Shop, the tickets, and the people that use them.
People protested the conservative moral assault on their use of the tickets..
Others, however emerged, denouncing the use of the tickets. The controversy reached a boiling point when Justice Arrow rangers attacked a group of level 2X mages in the Ant Tunnel. After a string of assaults, the situation reached a crisis point. At this time, the lawsuit was filed in Orbis Supreme Court…”
—Urban Rust TV News

Over the years, hackers have become less of a challenge in Victoria. They are hardly present anywhere, even in the Sleepwood forests where some camps have been raided earlier this year. They keep out of sight and hardly even venture into town. Since the last major killing spree in June, hackers outside of Kerning City seem to have disappeared from the map. Pureblood people and legit trainers have taken over. When the 2xp tickets came out, people have flocked to Cash Shop stores and bought them by the box. The crowds of people buying and using tickets either at the CS or in the wilds, greatly resemble groups of people that use to hang around hackers.
A fully legal form of hacking is indeed in use, but if it is legalized, why are people regarding these users as criminals?

“It is a vile sin. Those dam tickets were made by hackers, I tells ya! These people are sinning and we must put a stop to it!”
“If you are using a double ticket, then you are just as guilty and filthy as the hackers! To repent for this sin, you must be put to death!”
“Hackers have infiltrated Orbis!”

Not just the religious zealots are offended, but the country’s older generations of high level folk are also outraged:

“We trained for the longest time and we worked our asses off to get where we are at! We worked hard and honestly the entire way!” says a level 172 arch mage. “I just find it absured. We got no special treatment when we were, oh, about level 70 or so, and now all these damn noobs are levelling up like crazy. I’ve worked with people under level 130, and they are nowhere near mature, or respectful as they where when I was that level!”

But the high levels arent the only ones offended; a level 90 chief bandit has seen first hand the effects of these tickets, at Zakum.
“I trained like hell to get where I am at. There was no PQ available for me when I made level 51. That’s 39 levels of straight hard work! I’ve dreamed of fighting Zakum for years, and now that i am level 90 and have the SLIGHTEST chance of getting selected to go in by these people running the zakum service, all these pumped up noobs come in! They, like, trained up on steroids, that’s how bad it is! You got mages, chief bandits, hermits, rangers, snipers, even Permanoobs here all around level 100 or higher, and they have the mental capacity and maturity of level 30’s! And thanks to all the tickets and steroids they use, they do higher damage than a hard working person like me can do! I’m never going to get into Zakum now!”

It’s true. More and more people are reaching higher levels faster than they can mature into then.
“You got level 70’s acting the same way level 30 people do. They flaunt their powers in people’s faces, but ontop of that, they have no self control and anger management and they will go insane and even attack people in their PQ teams. I just made level 51, and graduated from the Abandoned Tower PQ academy. I train at the Maze now, but, garsh, everyone gets so pissed nowadays if you get lost in there. We had a chief bandit beat the living crap out of a 51 spearman all because he got lost. it’s insane!”

Others beg to differ. A level 45 wizard claims its not the tickets that are causing the problems, but the people using them…
“I can remember a time when people just trained at their own pace. No tickets, nothing. Everyone had respect for eachother, and we all looked up to the elite levelled folk like they were legends. Ever since the tickets came out, people just lose it, and now it becomes a race to the top. They are not training honestly, they are using steroids, the tickets, they go after hackers, they’ll do whatever it takes to get to the top. And the people who can’t or don’t use those things are completely spit on and regarded as inferior. We take alot of s### from people now. My ex friend was level 40 last week, and now he is 70. How messed up is that?!”

So everyone is using these tickets without any in depth thought or regard. They are like sheep now chasing the Maple Dream like there is now tomorrow.

But even now, as the court case progresses, the controversy, and future of the tickets hangs in the air.
If the AWA legal team win their lawsuit, we may just lose our right to use non-hack boosters when it comes to levelling- a conservative moral assault on our rights and freedoms, as we will be subject to abuse by everyone.
If the lawsuit is dismissed, there will still be review on the tickets’ legitimacy in the government, and we will have to show Orbis that we want to keep the tickets, and out right to use them.

The 2xp ticket is indeed the ticket to controversy.
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please dont shoot me for this!!!