VerrKol Wrote:No one is realistically going to spend $110 on slots. They know that. We know that. But you don't need all the slots. It's there as a convenience/feature. If you really want to play more than 3 characters, you can go out and make another account for free. There's no denying Nexon is money hungry, but that's the F2P model which pretty much describes any MMO.
You can't really compare MS to Valve or steam packs. That's like comparing asparagus and gum balls. Obviously the gum balls are less expensive and taste better, but that doesn't make them a vegetable. My point is the people that want a 2D side scrolling MMO have Maple and that's it. There isn't a realistic competitor in that category. Nexon isn't in any kind of competition with Valve whatsoever.
Well, Maplestory is on Steam. All those games I listed under 5$ are indeed cometition. New players coming from Steam willing to spend 5$ will have to pick, don't you think? As for the new account thing...
danielcatu Wrote:people is really feeling like it's nexon's obligation to give us a free coupon everytime a new class is released
when a new character comes and they dont give you a slot... what you do? create a new account that's all(you don't even need the same account to try and like a character it's just for her/his link skill)...
You both seem to forget a pair of things, first, it's not only link skills, even if you want to make a new character, your old link skills can't transfer, and so does your character card deck. That you can't fully fill unless you have at least 6 slots, 9 soon. That's a lot of stats being denied to new players... Unless they dish out 21$ per deck. Yeah, I know who's not coming back. It would be different if they knew they could eventually earn those by playing the new classes, and buy more if they wanted to go ahead. It's almost like setting a level limit that you can only bypass with NX. Because I'm quite sure the deck gives more benefits than leveling past the 200 cap (at the moment at least, this is just an example).
The other thing is mainly personal. See that flag over my lame avatar? Yeah, that means I'm European. It means I can only play accounts made before the regional lock, and therefore, can't create a new one. So my only chances at this are either: Delete character, or pay 5.5/6.9$ just to be able to try it alone. Not even including link skills or not in my case.
I'm not even trying to justify myself, I'm just letting you know about what I think people would do if they get treated like crap... Because with Unlimited it can VERY easily go like this:
[COLOR="#696969"](DISCLAIMER: Something tells me these changes have something bigger behind, because it'd make sense to make some change to make people not end like this fatalist scenario)[/COLOR]
- First, with the bosses ultra buffed, only the funded can kill them. Therefore, a lot of people knowing they won't reach that level unless they spend copious ammounts of money will leave. Not being able to access all link skills without paying silly ammounts of money won't help either, making the gap even bigger.
-Then, there would only be the ultra funded and the not funded at all, and very few averages. Well, the ultra funded can make nice runs... But there is almost nobody left to sell. Or boast to. Interest declines, most end up leaving, and the biggest income starts going down the drain.
-Without the ultra funded, the game suddenly feels incredibly hard, requiring incredible ammounts of money to start playing. And therefore, new people leave. By this point, population in the game is pretty low.
I don't know, it feels quite like that from my point of view, and the game's main idea is nice by itself, it'd be a shame to see such an original game go down the toilet in such a pityful way.
EDIT: @IImaplers, Evans, good point, but still this flaw: If the class is really like that, remember that then it's pay to win, and on the other hand, that hypers narrow down that difference. Evans get a summon, and mages get HELL FOR EVERYONE. And even then, we have luminous, beating Evan to a pulp.