Upcoming Winter Update

I don't know why people are disappointed by this update already.

At least from my perspective, all they're doing is sugar-coating problems in the game, but not actually fixing said problems.

Using examples from Max's blog:

Miracle Cubes and other Cash Shop enhancing items will be more easily attainable in-game.

This is a step in the right direction, but unless the drop rate is decent / moderate, it won't fix the P2W problem.

It has been determined that the current upgrading system is very complicated and difficult for users. One change is that there will be less chance of your item being destroyed when failing a scroll.

Why is the "Boom" mechanic even still a thing in the game to begin with?

In addition, the many different types of scrolls will be condensed into a smaller amount. I think this means that they’re making more ‘general’ scrolls instead of specific ones.

The problem is they've been doing this for years with the anniversary scrolls. "Scroll for One-Handed Weapon", "Scroll for Two-Handed Weapon", "Scroll for Armor". Only positive is instead of having these types of scrolls be event limited, they'll be around all the time.

Cash item share. It’s temporary sharing of Cash items between characters in your account.

It's already been mentioned that players have been wanting to share their CS stuff with other classes on their account, but instead of going the way JMS did and just unifying all inventories into one, they're adding a system to "temporary" share said CS stuff with other classes.


Maybe I'm just grumpy or I expected too much from Nexon. They want the game to be "Super less P2W" and the changes they're proposing doesn't seem to aim in that direction and instead only slightly reduce the gap once again, or accidentally widen it even more.
Obviously it's only my first impressions so things can / may change as we get more information.