Greetings, Adventurers.

As we previously touched upon in the announcement regarding the temporary suspension of the Central Market on Wednesday, June 2, we would like to share with you the latest information regarding our direction for the investigation and improvement of the Central Market to combat improper trades.

Before we go into the details, we want to let you know that we are currently taking steps so that you will be able to buy and sell Main/Awakening/Sub Weapons that are valued at 10 billion silver or higher on the Central Market after next week’s maintenance (June 16th). Once again, we apologize for the inconvenience caused by this temporary measure. 

Furthermore, next week’s maintenance on June 16th will bring improvements to the Central Market. The details regarding these improvements are as follows: 

Details Regarding the Central Market Update 

We believe this update will grant all Adventurers a fairer opportunity to be able to buy difficult-to-purchase items such as the PEN(V): Blackstar items. We also expect this update to help prevent cases where so-called, “empty silver accounts,” are used to manipulate pre-orders to facilitate a transaction to a specific person. 

Please refer to next maintenance’s Update Details for more detail about these improvements. 

Additionally, we’re currently reviewing the transaction records of important items such as PEN (V): Blackstar items. As this isn’t simply an investigation into the sale/purchase records of items through the Central Market, but a comprehensive review of all the game data before and after the transaction, we ask for your understanding as these investigations are expected to take some time.  

We will share with you the results once we complete our in-depth investigations, and we will make sure to take the appropriate actions against the accounts that are confirmed to been involved with improper transactions in accordance with our Operational Policy. We are also investigating other possible improper transactions using the Central Market, which includes the use of real money to trade in-game items. 

Unfortunately, there is no denying the fact that it is not easy to verify the evidence of real money transactions through in-game data. Since the majority of real money transactions involve communities outside of our game, there is a real possibility of manipulation for any outside evidence that exists, and there is also difficultly in verifying the personal identity of those involved. All this resulting in circumstances that make it incredibly difficult for us to impose account penalties appropriately. 

In order to ensure a fair gameplay environment for all our Adventurers, we will do our best to investigate any abnormal/improper gameplay and continue to look into what can be improved beyond what was updated above. 

Thank you for your support and understanding.