Polantaris Wrote:I'll say it for the hundredth time. Tiny pieces of content here and there DO NOT excuse everything else.
Okay. Let's take a deep breath.
Now.
Before we begin, I think it's kind of ironic that SwordStaker would point out you and Link because you're two of the Southperricans that mainly play JMS, because Japan has a few little pieces of content (re: Sengoku Era) that don't exist anywhere else, whereas everyone's just feeding off the same (cash) cow.
New classes are content. For higher levels. Does that make sense? They allow you to experience the same pomegranate in a slightly different way. If you get lucky, the difference is bigger.
Now, I agree with you, so don't start pomegranateting yet. NexonKR has lost sight of actual content and focuses on the money. We all know this. And to be frank, actual pieces of content that contribute to the variety (or lack thereof) of things to do take time and money, but don't necessarily make a profit. That's why new classes are what's coming out of Korea so often. The cost of comfortably playing a new class is higher compared to the cost of exploring a new substantial area with a character that you've already buffed up and are ready to go with. You won't need to buy a new pet, with new pet equipment, and new Cash Shop clothes, and change your hairstyle if you don't like it. You won't have to get new equipment to use, buy more and more cubes for bigger numbers on that new equipment and spend more time getting to level 200. But it would be fun, yes?
Take Limgoon. He spends a pomegranateton of money on this game (or, I don't know, he has connections). He's probably the most funded anything here. All NexonKR has to do to get him to spend more money is to make a new class. A new area? He'd blaze through that easy. A new boss? Wait for the 1-second kill video.
Nexon does not work like Blizzard. Nexon doesn't work like ArenaNet. Nexon works more like Zynga in this respect. The ultimate goal: make as much money as you can and give the illusion that things are going well.
Let's compare. WoW has 11 classes. GW2 (while new right now) has eight professions. MapleStory has
I would love to do more things with the game. I'd love a new area that I can get into, especially if Angelic Buster's writing team was involved. But that's not going to make me want to spend more money on the game.
So play the game over again. Or don't. That's perfectly fine. But realize that until the right train of thought comes through the NexonKR management, this won't change.