2009-02-04, 03:36 PM
I lol at this thread. Nexon hasn't exactly been on the ball about some things, but we HAVE been getting excellent updates recently and I'm sure it takes a fair amount of manpower to achieve them. So what if they are trying to make money? They are a company. A lot of their players play the way you do--not giving money into the system, because they either choose not to or are unable to. And that's fine.
But what's wrong with them trying to make money? They ARE a free2play game, so customer service isn't one of the top things you should be considering (if you want that, go join a p2p game). They specialize in microtransactions in order to keep their company going and all of their GMs, programmers, etc hired. I don't get why people are always so happy to fault Nexon for their moneygrubbing ways. Sorry, but if you were running a company as large as theirs I think you would make some of the same decisions. Hardware is expensive, so are full-time salaries (including benefits, etc). From what I see they make majority of the community at least satisfied (SP.net and SW.net aren't exactly representative of a good chunk of the community), and so majority of the community puts money into this game.
I'm not a Nexon cheerleader (really, unless they totally kill my character I could care less) but, geez, this is silly. If you don't want to support Nexon financially, fine. But then you have NO right to complain when things go downhill because they aren't making the $ necessary to upkeep.
Also, putting into the MTS (if you are selling useless etc items, whatever) is not giving money to Nexon. As someone stated earlier, the money is already in the MTS and you aren't contributing to that. At this point I'm pretty sure it's just a transfer of wealth; ex, you sell etc items for small amounts, someone else buys them with their cash they made by selling other useless items, you eventually save up enough to buy $100 weapons and so on. So there's no need to feel guilty about supporting devil-Nexon; the trade will go on with or without you.
But what's wrong with them trying to make money? They ARE a free2play game, so customer service isn't one of the top things you should be considering (if you want that, go join a p2p game). They specialize in microtransactions in order to keep their company going and all of their GMs, programmers, etc hired. I don't get why people are always so happy to fault Nexon for their moneygrubbing ways. Sorry, but if you were running a company as large as theirs I think you would make some of the same decisions. Hardware is expensive, so are full-time salaries (including benefits, etc). From what I see they make majority of the community at least satisfied (SP.net and SW.net aren't exactly representative of a good chunk of the community), and so majority of the community puts money into this game.
I'm not a Nexon cheerleader (really, unless they totally kill my character I could care less) but, geez, this is silly. If you don't want to support Nexon financially, fine. But then you have NO right to complain when things go downhill because they aren't making the $ necessary to upkeep.
Also, putting into the MTS (if you are selling useless etc items, whatever) is not giving money to Nexon. As someone stated earlier, the money is already in the MTS and you aren't contributing to that. At this point I'm pretty sure it's just a transfer of wealth; ex, you sell etc items for small amounts, someone else buys them with their cash they made by selling other useless items, you eventually save up enough to buy $100 weapons and so on. So there's no need to feel guilty about supporting devil-Nexon; the trade will go on with or without you.