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XtremeTop100 Contacted By NEXON?

Posted by Savage On May - 31 - 2009

UPDATE: It is confirmed that XtremeTop100 was contacted by NEXON America.

XtremeTop100.com, a popular top site listing for private servers like that of MapleStory, has caused another uproar among private server players and owners. Every website listed on the MapleStory rankings page now re-directs to nexon.net. Sending out over 15,000,000 hits monthly and generating 600,000 hits daily, XTremeTop100 has helped many servers gain thousands of users and made them known to the private server community.

There has been no official statement by XTremeTop100 or NEXON. It is likely that they were contacted by NEXON.

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41 Responses so far
  1. KIEL Said,

    Now they put their sites link on descriptions.

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 12:31 am

  2. Mateo Said,

    Lol this is beyond what the law covers Nexon under. This is just harrasment.

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 1:20 am

  3. Troy Said,

    EVERY single site?

    oh gosh. they are crazy.

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 8:47 am

  4. Unknownfox Said,

    @Mateo
    Its not really harasment if they are trying to get what is rightfully thiers.

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 2:07 pm

  5. RiiNooh Said,

    Shamefull tactics… Nexon wont ever learn will they.

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 2:35 pm

  6. RiiNooh Said,

    Also, how will this help them gain players? I think greed is messing with their minds :x

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 2:39 pm

  7. Savage Said,

    I don’t think the goal is to gain more players.

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 3:10 pm

  8. Mateo Said,

    No it is harassment. Xtreme-Top 100 isn’t breaking any laws or breaking any copyright laws. This is just retarded

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 6:28 pm

  9. Kdoobay713@gmail.com Said,

    6. OWNERSHIP, LICENSING AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE.

    6.1

    Ownership. Except for the personal information and content submitted by users of the Service, the Service and Software and all content included therein (including without limitation graphics, artwork, music, choreography, characters, character IDs, Forum IDs, account IDs, Cash Items and/or other items acquired or created in the Service, including through the Cash Shop) are owned by Nexon America or its licensors, and are protected by United States and other international intellectual property laws. You may not use our trademarks and trade dress in connection with any product or service that is not ours, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers or subscribers, or in any manner that disparages us. Except as expressly provided herein, we and our licensors do not grant you any express or implied rights, and all rights, title and interest that we have in and to the Service that are not expressly granted by us to you are retained by us.

    6.2

    Your License from Nexon America. Subject to the terms of this Agreement and so long as you remain compliant with such Agreement, Nexon America grants you a non-exclusive, limited, fully revocable license to use the Service, and the content contained therein in conjunction with the Service. You may not modify, publish, transmit, transfer, sell, reproduce, upload, post, distribute, perform, display, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit such content, except as Nexon America expressly permits in this Agreement or the Service. Your use of such content for any purpose other than as expressly permitted in this Agreement or the Service is a violation of the intellectual property rights and other proprietary rights of Nexon America and may subject you to civil liability and/or criminal prosecution under applicable laws.

    6.3

    Your License to Nexon America. When you provide content to or create content using the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable right throughout the world to exercise all copyright, publicity, and other rights you have in the content in any media known now or in the future. Such rights include, without limitation, all rights you have in use, distribution, reproduction, modification, adaptation, creation of derivative works, translation, public performance and public display of the content. You also hereby waive any moral rights you may have in such content under the laws of any jurisdiction. You hereby appoint us as your agent with full power to enter into and execute any document and/or do any act we may consider appropriate to confirm the grant of rights, consents, agreements, assignments and waivers set forth in these Terms of Use. We reserve the right to remove or modify any content you provide to us or otherwise post on the Site at our sole discretion and without prior notice or any liability to you. You represent, warrant and agree that none of the content you provide to or create using the Service violates any third party’s intellectual property or other rights or is subject to any obligation, whether of confidentiality, attribution or otherwise, on our part and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure thereof.

    6.4 Software.

    Use or downloading of the Software is conditioned on your acceptance of the terms and conditions of our End User License Agreement and any license agreements relating to such Software, including all third party agreements. By using the Software, you agree to all of the terms and conditions set forth in such agreements.

    6.1 Is very good to help your support expect for Not Expressively Granted By Us To You

    i don’t want to reread in rite now cause i’m in tabs but if you have some interest in helping me redeem private server rights (though they’ll change their terms and conditions) just e-mail me.

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 7:11 pm

  10. Savage Said,

    I’m sure XtremeTop100 could have refused to change the links, but they probably realized it wasn’t worth the trouble.

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 8:32 pm

  11. Tharticus Said,

    Hmm… Nexon war on private MapleStory servers? To make the old players come back?

    Posted on June 1st, 2009 at 10:58 pm

  12. DragonDraco Said,

    OMG LLOYD KORN!!!!11

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 am

  13. Natalina Eat Balls Said,

    i seriously love lloyd korn man.

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 3:57 am

  14. Stupid Natalina Said,

    i seriously love lloyd korn man .

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 3:58 am

  15. mapleboy555 Said,

    Now, i’m not much on blaspheming, but Nexon, seriously, made me rofled. What a shameful company. Too desperate to earn back their lost players(money).
    They might even sent a scare letter and scared the hell out of XT100 staffs.

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 7:36 am

  16. Aaron Said,

    well… the guy kdooby who posted up parts of the EULA or is that the ToU/ToS? well anyway, whatever argument he may have is shot down entirely.

    6.1

    Ownership. Except for the personal information and content submitted by users of the Service, the Service and Software and all content included therein (including without limitation graphics, artwork, music, choreography, characters, character IDs, Forum IDs, account IDs, Cash Items and/or other items acquired or created in the Service, including through the Cash Shop) are owned by Nexon America or its licensors, and are protected by United States and other international intellectual property laws. You may not use our trademarks and trade dress in connection with any product or service that is not ours, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers or subscribers, or in any manner that disparages us. Except as expressly provided herein, we and our licensors do not grant you any express or implied rights, and all rights, title and interest that we have in and to the Service that are not expressly granted by us to you are retained by us.

    right there, that says that you cannot use ANY items from the game for any product or service that is not theirs, thus private servers are breaking intellectual property laws. And dont go on thinking im some hard core nexon fanatic, i run my own private server, frankly i dont care and ill close it down if they ask me to, but its certainly not legal at the moment, however if a deal goes down with Disney, and nexon gets bought by ‘em, the war on private servers will end. Disney doesn’t sue the kids who make these servers, and i say kids because its always kids who make/play them, almost always. If not, eventually Nexon will give up, just like Blizzard. it is impossible for one company to beat an entire community of over 9000. (hahahah its over nine thooooooooousaaaaaand!)

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:25 pm

  17. Jdizzy Said,

    but dey aint serious! the law allows them to have what is theirs but it doesnt allow them to mess with other peoples sites i hope dey know that! IF I PAY TO HAVE A SITE I WOULDNT WANT FAGGOTS E-MAILING ME TO CLOSE IT DOWN! I WOULD CALL THE POLICE AND SAY I HAVE A STALKER !

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 3:42 pm

  18. Tristan Said,

    this doesn’t really do anything … it’s just now people have to copy and paste the pserver’s website-name as the URL to get to their site….

    @savage .. what do YOU THINK nexon’s goal is?
    @aaron ;] I COMPLETELY AGREE! I hope nexon joins with disney … then these these pathetic attempts to stop private servers will come to an end… like seriously? — I remember when people kept saying it’s the end of private servers after a few popular ones went down … now what? a few months later and nothing much changes, there are still private servers
    @unknownfox … do you mean that nexon owns xtremetop 100? O.o …
    @RiiNooh & @mapleboy555 … totally agree *high five*

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 5:21 pm

  19. smiles Said,

    Wow… Nexon now rivals the RIAA.

    Whatever, but I think Nexon actually hurt themselves by doing this (if they did). Even though it might temporarily slow private server growth, doing this allow private servers to effectively hide themselves.

    I think Nexon stopped contacting private server owners because Lloyd probably found out private server owners began avoiding the DMCA by hosting servers outside of America :/

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 pm

  20. mastrali Said,

    always use to go to this site. it was only a matter of time.

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 7:50 pm

  21. leafboy Said,

    Anyone think that when Nexon posts not to join private servers bad kids will join private servers I just think it might be hurting maplestory

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 8:17 pm

  22. Mateo Said,

    Whats with little kids and the ToS. I toilet paper is printed pages of Nexon’s ToS. It’s all bullshit. ToS is just an agreement between you and the company for when they provide a service while you use that service, you agree to those terms. Normally people playing private servers aren’t even affected by Nexon’s ToS since they no longer use Nexon’s services to play MapleStory. If it was as easy as that then Blizzard would be doing the same thing, but Blizzard has common sense. You kids need to catch up more on your law

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm

  23. Mario Said,

    Mateo, I’m pretty sure that Nexon paid Xtremetop100 to seal the deal.

    Posted on June 3rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm

  24. Mario Said,

    Uh shit, I accidently clicked post when I needed to add more. Anyways, I also agree with you (Mateo) on saying that this is harassment and that kids need to grow up about the ToS you mentioned.

    Posted on June 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm

  25. JJ Said,

    Their goal is to get players back so they can make more money.
    If they wanted to make money they would take the Private Server developer’s ideas and put them in to Global.

    Posted on June 4th, 2009 at 1:46 pm

  26. JJ Said,

    EDIT: Their goal is to get players back so they can make more money.
    If they wanted to make us happy they would take the Private Server developer’s ideas and put them in to Global.

    Posted on June 4th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

  27. fck Said,

    dude, dont talk shit. if you were the owner of the nexon how would you feel seeing people playing private servers? gosh dont try to live life easy while others are working hard to improve the game

    Posted on June 6th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

  28. Life Said,

    Nexon has gone over there Terms and is now breaching them and no one will fight back because its private servers
    Million Dollar company
    $35 kid
    Who would win?
    Fucking Nexon bastards Id so trip them if they were to walk past and me I’d yell
    FLAVORRRRRRRRR FLAVVVVVV
    YEAHHHHHHHH BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

    Posted on June 6th, 2009 at 11:23 pm

  29. TehCake Said,

    Dude the owner of Nexon makes 400mil a year, why would he fucking care about people talking about private servers. And the coders working on GMS, suck ass.
    hard working my way fck. They barely even listen to players.
    They can’t even code the ITCG right, they also copy .wz files from KMS, onto GMS.
    If your gonna call Nexon hard-working, think again.

    Posted on June 6th, 2009 at 11:25 pm

  30. GRR its trevor Said,

    mateo didnt you used to run a pserever i think i played on it =]

    Posted on June 8th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

  31. make Said,

    man.. i love korns meatballs

    Posted on June 9th, 2009 at 6:15 pm

  32. make Said,

    lol mateo ran vidams wich got pwnt (THANKS TO ME!!! XDD)

    Posted on June 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

  33. Vivian Ng Said,

    Lol, who carez.

    Posted on June 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

  34. Slayer Said,

    Wow I think nexon completely shut down xtremetop100 now. Everyone try going to it. Error -_-

    Posted on June 10th, 2009 at 9:56 pm

  35. Meh Said,

    I do not see any issue here. Nexon has the right to defend it’s intellectual property.
    But. I for one enjoy private servers, I like them. I’m sure many people will agree, and those that don’t… Well, why should you care? I am entitled to play whatever I want. :P

    On another note, I’m impressed with the modding capacity for Maplestory, Nexon should consider something like hosting “modding” servers (basically private servers).
    Owners can rent them directly from Nexon. Would this not be a good idea? The profit would be substantial. The owners could change the source and promote MapleStory, pay Nexon a fee every month, and people would be happy. Not everyone wants low rates. Modding is amazing, it turns games like Bethesda’s Oblivion or Egosoft’s X3 into very long lasting and fun games.
    Besides, MapleStory as we know it will not last forever. All games fade and die. You must change your policies to survive.

    Posted on June 10th, 2009 at 10:16 pm

  36. Slayer Said,

    Yeah but still.. Do they desere the right to shutdown the entire xtremetop100 site? I mean there’s other things on that site besides just maplestory. Nexon can’t go aroung shutting down all the voting sites. It’s just not right.

    Posted on June 10th, 2009 at 10:27 pm

  37. Meh Said,

    By the way, xtremetop100 has plenty more enemies then Nexon. What makes you think Nexon has anything to do with this?
    There are private servers on there for a number of games. Some of those companies are much, MUCH bigger than Nexon and also dislike the idea of private servers.
    Anyways, no big deal in general. There are literally hundreds of pages like xtremetop100, you just haven’t heard of them. When one service goes down, another fills the void. Just like when one private server goes down, many more step up to the plate.

    Posted on June 10th, 2009 at 10:40 pm

  38. Finalsora Said,

    wow Nexon i think actually completely shut down xtremetop100.com … Now im not sure … but i don’t think they can shut down the ENTIRE site right?

    Posted on June 10th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

  39. Pissedmapler Said,

    Hello?

    Nexon is really retarded if they think all the crap they’re pulling is going to make me come back to global.

    What WOULD make me come back is reducing grind (PERMANENTLY, NOT FRIGGIN’ EVENTS OR ANY OF THAT SHIT), better GMs, and better support (think AsiaSoft).

    Posted on June 26th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

  40. Pissedmapler Said,

    @Meh

    Sure they do, but they shouldn’t. I wouldn’t expect any of you to understand.

    FSF and EFF 4EVAR!

    Posted on June 26th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

  41. Rhapshady Said,

    nexon is just greedy they know the game sucks but their too selfish and lazy to improve it why? cuz their too busy stealing little childrens money who ever says its better than wow or silkroad or maybe latale i dont care u sir are stupid their community SUCKS and the company does too btw…if u look at the private servers THEY ARE MORE ADVANCED then nexon theirs rebirth, PVP, and the chiken trade (by sydney MS) oh any monster modding which i think nxon already can d. nexon is just ruthless and greedy

    Posted on July 8th, 2009 at 10:18 am

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