The fatal flaw with the current business model.

There you go again spouting your childish rants, if you wanna be a troll do it with someone else, no one else but you is acting like a spoilt kid, constantly insulting people and talking about credibility......really?. Nothing you have posted has given me any reason to believe anything about you other than you just like playing devil's advocate and trying to instigate rage. Why do you keep trying to attack everything i post, is what i'm saying bothering you that much? Here is a hint if you are so annoyed or w/e else you are going through, don't read it lol.

Then you aren't reading my posts. There are multiple reasons I have given you that you straight up ignored. If you don't like being wrong, then dont type an opinion that hasn't been researched.

On top of it your examples are really irrelevant to the points i'm making and still have an inherent flaw i've been pointing out to you again and again, if you can't get you head of out of your ass and respond properly then don't do it.

So now you're deflecting my own criticism of your crappy posts? There's no substance in your first two responses at all. There is a reason there is no one quoting and correcting me but are all over your sh`it. Instead of trying to save face, you should concede that the last two pages were of assumptions. You don't even understand how nexon's company format is set up for gods sake.

Take for instance the junk stats, you said how about making the stats actually do something.......uhh what? that's the whole point of removing junk stats, if you wanna spend time making EVERY single stat abundantly useful you are going to take away from the damage, there is no need to do back to that path because it complicates things adding to the already ever present tedium. Further more it will just making the game cluttered with useless junk that subtract from what people want, seeing monsters die faster and faster because of higher damage which is the whole point of cubing gear.

....Are you for real? You do realize most MMO's actually focus on skill cooldown rate right? Or that some classes originally had the benefits of avoidability and accuracy? You do realize that adding a depth to the game just increases the usefulness of each cube without inflating damage right? What if I want to kill monsters at a low level, I don't have enough accuracy, if I get accuracy potential gear for cheap, I can fight those stronger monsters I can't normally fight.

To be quite frank you just sound damage hungry and that's such a shallow want because it's only one direction you can go. Invincibility frames would be much more useful, then let's say, frekin 9% str. You are condoning the games short attention span and that's stupid. Just straight up stupid.

I'm telling you your ways are making aren't going to help bring in income in the least, that is what this thread is about right? A business model that excels at keeping customers while increasing revenue.

...I'll explain a 5th time for you in the most simple terms I can muster. Player A joins game, he makes an account, is told that pets are really useful and should invest time into it. He does so with the first 2 characters he makes. He gets tired of doing the quest as it takes a few hours to reach the requirement and requires a party and that requires socializing. He speeds up the process by buying the pet. If you limit the pet you can get then it becomes a aesthetic issue. As you can see with NX clothes, those sell really goddamn fast. Not only that but you can limit the time to one month, which forces them to repeat it once in awhile or save up tokens for a water of life.

If players are encouraged to play and shown that "cash shop" is in game accessible, they will essentially work for it, instead of just avoid it like you did. Then when they get tired of repeating the process, they will purchase the item. Considering how many classes they make during the year which have no transferable NX, this will become a pattern. You're just so goddamn so far up Nexons ass on blind faith alone that you can't accept these answers. Typical of an addict I suppose.

The game is losing it's originality and fun factor faster and faster because it's been around for years. There isn't much that can be done to make people go "omg so new i've never seen this before ever, i must try this out now", Perhaps that's the reason for the declines you are seeing?

That's idiotic. You're making up obnoxious excuses. If it lost its charm people wouldn't be swarming to private servers, people wouldn't come back to try out the new classes to get that "power" drug they get upon release, and if you notice the decline is followed with the release of super miracle cubes. You want to claim that's a coincidence, the most high spending unrewarding lottery item in the game? Then feel free to continue to be ignorant. You aren't fooling anyone with these fallacies.

You know you aren't even responding to the objects of my quotes, you start ranting about something completely different and each time you do and it's actually kinda amusing seeing you post. So i'll just ignore you from now on.

If you honestly believe that then you're simply illiterate. Everything I have said has been a response, people are reading, they are correcting you, not me, what magical excuse do you have for that?

So my question is why should we be allowed to enjoy anything without paying

Because it's a free to play game for gods sake.

, is it wrong for them to cut us off where they do when we hit the ceiling because we didn't pay money? That's why i posed the question earlier in the thread of where should the ceiling be that allows good access to alot of content while still forcing us to pay for content? As i said if everything can be done for free, 9 times out of 10 people will chose the free option, leaving you getting little to no revenue for your work, or ending up relying on a very small percentage of mass buyers, which is what is already happening now lol.

And I answered your pineappleing question 3 times. Go re-read it, I'm pretty sure you're just playing stupid at this point, I really can't fathom how you're missing all this information.

Just saw your post, fair enough i was responding what that kanye west person was saying. I notice one thing about all of this as well, and have been hearing it for years, the main company in Korea or where ever it's located decides everything. Is GMS just following orders and looking for an easy way out when it comes to patches and updates etc by just copying? That gives me the idea that headquarters don't seem to care much about what US does lol. Once they get it done eventually lawl.

Seems like a good read, i'll try to read it at work tmr.

LMFAO, YOU'RE TRYING TO ARGUE ABOUT THE COMPANY AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN AWARE HOW THE F`UCKING COMPANY WORKS. JUST GET OUT.