Recently, Nexon has been slapped with an ₩11.6 million fine by the Korea Fair Trade Commission for failing to inform players about possible changes to MapleStory’s in-game items.
Furthermore, this decision from the Korean Court makes Nexon have to pay the fine shortly. So, what are the details about this? Let’s see the review from Gamedaim below.
Nexon Fined $8.9M
As The Korea Economic Daily reported, this is the highest amount of fine for companies that violate the Consumer Protection Act on Electronic Commerce in South Korea.
South Korea’s animonopoly agency accused Nexon of lowering the percentage to obtain the in-game item Cubes, an item that players have to pay around $1.50 to draw without informing players of the change.
Furthermore, Nexon originally set the same probability for these items back in May 2010. However, they later changed it in September so that the popular Cubes appeared very rarely.
They changed these rules again between August 2011 and March 2021, which the KFTC says they did without notice to players Nexon. The publisher then published a notice in August 2011 that there were no changes to MapleStory’s probabilities.
We imposed the largest fine because Cube is MapleStory’s core product, the violation period is long and this is the second violation after Sudden Attack, said Kim Jung-ki, director of the KFTC’s market supervision department.
Nexon was previously fined ₩944.5 million ($722,189) for its Gacha practices in Shooter Sudden Attack in 2018, along with Netmarble which was fined ₩60 million ($45,877).
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