2009-02-02, 05:24 PM
Takebacker Wrote:Gee i wonder why. Maybe because they actually care about the state of their game contrary to what everyone else thinks. If something like this hit GMS no doubt they would immediatly fix it with a RB and a public announcement/compensation. The last time they RB'd was some time ago and since it was RB'd a few days before they gave 2x exp for the entire weekend. 48 hours. Granted that was almost a year ago, but nothing RB worthy has happened since then. Sound like something AS is planning on doing though? Probably not. If they haven't done anything already they probably aren't going to.
What i don't understand is why they insist on events that flush money into the economy. What they should be doing in any version is making events that take mesos OUT. Especially in JMS and KMS. Hell, GMS could use it. If we had the kind of meso sinks that JMS has (though on a much smaller scale) and they actually were successful, we can keep our precious NLC pots while potentially lowering the amount of ultimate use in high level maps. That kind of effect would probably mean deletion of 70% of all mesos in the servers though.
Still, it's this push and pull crap that screws themselves over. What they plan on when they make these is that they're giving money to the poor, which allows them to afford pots/buy equips/get by somehow. In the long run of a month though, they end up putting a ton more mesos into the economy, which is very bad. Especially if they screw up like KMS did.
NLC was a bit of a wierd thing for us though. it's initial effect was that it fixed out wildly out of control economy cause by the hacker era when they moved the servers from the east coast to the west coast. it decreased the prices on ilbis and glove attacks massively within the first week.
conversely, with 4th job out, NLC slowly raised the prices due to ultimate abuse - however, they've been pretty stable since then. 10 atk wg's were what, 35m last january? they're 55m now?
as noted in the quote, GMS cares about our economy - the GM's are VERY aware of how the actual gameplay is, mostly because North Americans are VERY vocal when they find something wrong or able to go wrong quickly. it's more on a related note that this is why we have a hacking problem - gm's are more occupied with keeping our servers stable, keeping the economy in check, as well as providing new content. most of the new content and events is either due to their screw ups (they acknowledge them pretty fast and deal with them appropriately, and imo, pretty fairly), while new GMS exclusive content keeps us unique and DOESN'T repeat the mistakes of the other versions.
we get stuff slower and have a hacker problem (cause north americans are also pretty lazy...). i'd take that over a screwed up economy any day.