2013-09-17, 04:53 PM
Jazeon Wrote:Do you think they would be able to maintain the game if it was indeed like that and turn out a reasonable profit to pay all of their employees and profit enough to re-invest?
As in there was nothing you could not attain or do in the game without the use of money, and it just quickens the process as you outlined. Sounds like a completely free game that would fall in a couple months with everyone getting quite bored as things would ultimately be alot cheaper for everyone and not much hassle to aquire anything, making it quite easy. They would have to have some serious content to keep players there for that extended period when they have accomplished everything imo.
Another question what is the appeal of maplestory to older/new players?
For me being a long time player it's slowly building up my main character using links and random gains from other characters on my main to get to the range i desire to solo the next possible boss for me. In this case pink bean. If it was alot easier i probably would get bored and moved on ages ago.
If it takes day to accumulate enough NX to purchase a pack of cubes, people are going to start mass purchasing to save themselves the effort. Not to mention emergency NX purchases for Karma of scissors or in general purchasing. A lot of maplestory private servers, have survived years by copying the entire game, exp rates, everything, and adding an NX function. You do a party quest you get 300-500 nx, the most generous being 800 nx. Considering that super cubes are 1.2k nx or something, that requires two pq's which take about 10 minutes each. If you could complete dojo it was like 1.5k-2k they had to fiddle with this one, but again, the rates were the same as the official server.
Granted, you have to play around with the major bosses to make it somewhat challenging yet not over run with death, but buffing hp? If some 17 year old can do it, I'm sure a late 20's programmer can manage.