2014-09-05, 01:55 AM
byakugan Wrote:Maybe that should be the real topic of this thread, why companies believe it is more profitable to make a game that feeds off whales intead of a game that feeds off all their players.
Because players that don't pay at all, or pay only a little, don't cover the server resources they use up.
Even this video doesn't claim they do. What it says it that they're necessary as "content" for the whales.
And I believe Nexon (both Korea and NA) have realized this. With the "Better Maple" changes, the various new scrolling and enhancement methods, the in-game ways to obtain cash shop items (such as cubes and protection scrolls), the mileage, the auction house, etc, they are trying to make the game more attractive to people who don't spend a lot (or anything), while still keeping the motivation for big spenders to continue to spend big.