2013-10-16, 01:51 PM
CarrionCrow Wrote:Complaints are valid because this would take resources from Nexon better spent elswhere.
A handful of people might love this and no life themselves to death forever and ever, but most will burst with nostalgic hype for a few days and then ask themselves what the hell they really thought they'd do with it.
And those that are not veteran players would puke blood all over it because of how grindy and content lacking it is compared to the modern incarnation.
I think the term anticlimatic best describes how this would end up.
Obviously this type of thing wouldn't be spontaneously launched with no market research from Nexon. If you remember when Runescape lauched their "Old School" service, they released a petition to gauge the support/want for such a service. Depending on how many people signed the petition the level of service from Runescape changed. For example, had the support only been something like 100k users, they would simply launch an older version of the game with no support, updates etc. where as if 700k+ users signed they would support in game moderation and updates for the service. Additionally, the resources needed to run such a service would most likely be negligible for Nexon; the content is already made, the servers already exist or can be rented/purchases for next to nothing considering, and the GM service would literally be the same as any other server.
Like you said, some people would play for nostalgic sake and may quit soon after because they're not used to it anymore, but you also need to consider the plethora of players who no longer play this game because of the aforementioned changes would have the change to play the game again they way they liked it. I believe that user base is great enough to support some form of old school service.