2014-04-13, 08:35 PM
Dark Zero Wrote:They could start with that then ¬¬ Is far cheaper than constantly doing USC.
That would mean less attention to content updates and would cause the updates to suffer which would lead to an even deeper loss in profits.
Before the Big Bang patch was announced, I felt that they were running out of content to release before the Big Bang and I remember very clearly that they said there would be a big update in March. There wasn't, it was just a PQ and an updated login screen. Then came the potential system and Dual Blade. I felt that the Potential system/Dual Blade and login screen were meant to be released in the Big Bang patch but they were running out of content and couldn't possibly make up something without more testing and more fragmentation between the Big Bang version that is in development or the live version. So they grabbed a few things that were meant to be in Big Bang, changed it so it fits with pre-Big Bang and called it a day.
This game was built to run with more than 10 year old tech in mind. Of course the game feels dated, the development for this game probably started in 2001 or 2000 before it's beta in 2002. There shouldn't be one complete overhaul of the game's backend. There should be multiple stages planned and executed every couple of months.
Let's look at APB Reloaded, sometime last year they decided to do an Unreal Engine 3 upgrade a more fairly recent version (they were running on a 2008 build). They anticipated to be done last quarter or so if I recall correctly but they still aren't done and even then, they still seem to have a ton of work ahead. This is super time consuming and will definitely lead to a drop in profits making MapleStory a less viable game for Nexon to run. It's not a good investment for Nexon to start upgrading the backend of MapleStory, it takes a lot of time and probably a truckload of money. And who knows? Maybe MapleStory will die before they have finally completely upgraded the game and it'll just waste everyone's time. Maybe MapleStory 2's popularity explodes into the sky and it eats into the profit of MapleStory. The future is hard to predict in this industry and it's even harder to predict how well a game will do when it has been hyped for so long.