2013-06-25, 01:28 AM
You have to remember that nothing in the game has a dollar value.
Nexon strictly disallows trading game items for money or even NX.
So if you cube your item and it gets weaker, that is not a loss of real world money.
Similarly, whatever you get out of gachapon is equally worthless, whether it is a potion or the latest overpowered weapon.
It is like, say, buying a movie ticket. It lets you into the theatre and promises the movie will be shown. It doesn't give you money, or an object you can later sell off. So you can't say that if you didn't like the movie you "lost money" but if you liked it you "won". I mean, you can say that, but in cold hard cash terms, there is no difference between the situations. There is no "gambling".
Similarly, you buy the NX, and there is no gamble there. $10 for 10,000 NX. That is the transaction.
Whether that NX turns out to give you enjoyment or frustration doesn't change the fact that you already paid your $10 and you are not expecting to get any money back.
Nexon strictly disallows trading game items for money or even NX.
So if you cube your item and it gets weaker, that is not a loss of real world money.
Similarly, whatever you get out of gachapon is equally worthless, whether it is a potion or the latest overpowered weapon.
It is like, say, buying a movie ticket. It lets you into the theatre and promises the movie will be shown. It doesn't give you money, or an object you can later sell off. So you can't say that if you didn't like the movie you "lost money" but if you liked it you "won". I mean, you can say that, but in cold hard cash terms, there is no difference between the situations. There is no "gambling".
Similarly, you buy the NX, and there is no gamble there. $10 for 10,000 NX. That is the transaction.
Whether that NX turns out to give you enjoyment or frustration doesn't change the fact that you already paid your $10 and you are not expecting to get any money back.