2012-11-10, 10:18 AM
Stereo Wrote:100% main stat isn't even close to enough to start farming Empress equips (well except for ABs perhaps? I don't know if their brokenness extends to Empress), if they're available at all it's because people in every server have ridiculous-ass gear, and they're only cheap because so many people have it.
Getting 100% stat is just a matter of a few hundred dollars in cubes, which over the 2+ years they've been available isn't that much by MMO standards. There's no bar for entry where you need to have $2000 of gear already to even obtain them yourself, like the 140+ equips have.
I'd guess typical for GMS is more like 20-30% but those people aren't buying empress capes/weapons either.
How can you possibly say that 100% stat is only a few hundred dollars in cubes? A few weeks ago I spent $75 and got 9% (3% on 3 pieces). None of them went Epic at all, which means the best I had a chance for was 9% per piece, which requires an excessive amount of luck (something that will never happen for me, because I don't have any).
Even putting that aside, if you already spent $2000 on cubes, you should automatically have free trade for said gear. Asking people to spend EVEN MORE is adding insult to injury. It's not a matter of "You spent $2000 already so what's a little more?" it's a matter of "I spent $2000 on you and you want EVEN MORE so I can properly use it?" It's like they purposely want to fuuck everyone in the ass who's actually keeping them alive.
Above even our complaints, it deters players from wanting to cube at all, because most of the time when people end up spending $200+, it's on impulse, and not an intention. I'm victim of this myself. I didn't intend to spend $75 the other day, I stupidly went, "Well if I can just get 3% more..." Is it my fault? Absolutely. But with this additional fee on the first fee, then the result is people not spending money at all because of it. They aren't thinking in thousands when they buy cubes to begin with, at least most people are not. They're thinking in tens and sometimes hundreds. Adding even more to that just deters people, especially, above all else, the fact that you have to scissor EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO TRANSFER. So if you play a lot of characters, you're not spending $40 once...or twice....or even three times. You're spending it tens of times if you truly want to play all of your characters. When you're thinking of it that way, why would you even bother making the gear worth trading in the first place? Then they lose money because of their stupidity in the trading mechanics.
Meanwhile, I shouldn't get more ass rapeage because I might want to use gear I bought, pathetic by GMS standards or otherwise on my other mages, even if it's just one trade.
In the end, Nexon's money hungry ways is starting to hurt them and we can even see this now.