some players wish to discuss their political opinions

[Gamerzone]

MapleStory 2 is an MMO full of bright primary colours and cute player characters. In the MapleStory 2 Mesos game, players may create items and upload them into a shop where players may buy them, known as the Meret Shop. While the game bans certain words, including"trump" and"porn," some players have found ways to get around the bans and upload items with political slogans or sexual references.

The MapleStory 2 team explained the procedure in its full announcement to Kotaku:"All the items under the'Design Shop' are created by gamers, not Nexon. Our policy is to let gamers create, but we examine and prohibit players and content based on ToS and reports of offensive content.

We actively track the Design Shop for offensive material as well as have a reporting system so that players can record content that they find offensive through built in tools. Based on the report, we tightly review every single thing and remove the item from the shop, and from the list of those players who purchased, and ban player accounts. Content comprising hateful, racist, sexual or other items are flagged greater in priority for elimination. Players that post offensive items or images are subject to being banned permanently from the sport. We have been acting quickly and ask that if players visit these items in the store to report immediately using the accounts button.

We are trying our very best to continue to decrease the gap and speed up the response time to make a much better game and maintain a respectful community." If you hunt"MAGA" in the Meret Market, you will instantly locate a car with President Trump's face on it, as well as an image of"NPC Wojak," a reference to the dehumanizing NPC meme.

When some players wish to discuss their political opinions, others just wish to get sex-related content in there. Other players are less subtle: wearching"waifu" will show you pornographic pictures of anime characters.More stressing are the explicit references to white supremacy.

1 participant who desired to remain anonymous told Kotaku which they have seen items such as this about the Meret Market on October 10 since the game's official release. "It's really overt," they said. "Individuals will market in world chat stations to purchase their new Official MapleStory 2 Wiki, and its often a MAGA hat or something. Along with the players placing up these designs for sale are rewarded using sport money." On the MapleStory 2 subreddit, players have shared images of figures wearing MAGA hats and Trump masks as far back as three months past.