2013-03-04, 07:33 AM
VerrKol Wrote:[MENTION=922]Alloy[/MENTION]; Well yes it's lame that they didn't expand the max number of slots until after the free expansions expired.
No one is realistically going to spend $110 on slots. They know that. We know that. But you don't need all the slots. It's there as a convenience/feature. If you really want to play more than 3 characters, you can go out and make another account for free. There's no denying Nexon is money hungry, but that's the F2P model which pretty much describes any MMO.
You can't really compare MS to Valve or steam packs. That's like comparing asparagus and gum balls. Obviously the gum balls are less expensive and taste better, but that doesn't make them a vegetable. My point is the people that want a 2D side scrolling MMO have Maple and that's it. There isn't a realistic competitor in that category. Nexon isn't in any kind of competition with Valve whatsoever.
That does also depend on how you want to get your revenue though. Correct me if I'm wrong about this since I don't play many MMORPGs, but I would say that Nexon's model counts more on people playing a class enough to fund it which is why a lot more of focus is put towards developing new classes than balancing all of the old ones. In that sense making people pay for more characters hurts their model since the class you delete is now considered a monetary loss instead of being a mere inconvenience so people might not want to take that dive even if one character slot costs much less than building it.
Making another account is also not a real option because of Yet Another Annoying Dickery: Untradeable items. Not everyone can get two computers to transfer the tradeable items back and forth between accounts so things start to pile up quickly and other than some things like circulators it really wouldn't kill Nexon to just make currently untradeable things like event scrolls solely account-tradeable so that you can fill your mules up and it doesn't get manipulated by rich people. But no, like all of the other annoying things they do for more cash they have to implement this!
It's kind of sad that I can't find another 2D MMORPG I like since it even takes cash to make cash thanks to things like SoKs and PSoKs and the people paying for my items still bought cash for it, thus ruining my gloating that I gimped the system.
