2009-02-04, 06:41 PM
KajitiSouls Wrote:What I find that irks me in the system is how Nexon sorta forces incentives onto you to buy their CS stuff. As of lately, even some events require NX to participate in.
While it's true there are some events that require NX -- the mansion, the mini dungeons, Gacha-boxes -- these don't necessarily hinder your access to the game or necessarily degrade the quality of your game experience. They enrich it, yes, and they cost real $, but you have no obligation to participate and oftentimes they do not give out items that are absolutely essential to your Mapling career. Really, from what I've seen, most of these just offer useless things (i.e., weapons/equipment that may or may not make your character better, though I am not all that impressed by a few extra attack points, AND these items can be later bought with in-game money). There are also non-NX events (GM games!) and quests (Lunchbox Quest -- it was EXCELLENT for heroes, and free) that I think benefit you more than the occasional NX events...
Just my two cents, though. I just raise my eyebrows when we have one or two NX events and people cry out...yet look at all the pretty good stuff we've had that's free. =)
KajitiSouls Wrote:I live on a sort of philosophy, "Don't tell me how to live life, just live life your way and I'll live mine my way." The only morals I'm concerned with when it comes to me and MapleStory is that as long as I don't spend any money on the game itself, I'm fine. Because if I do spend money, then it's a sunk cost, and what's worse is if you lose your character/account to some h4x0r or account hijacker, then you don't have the benefits either. Not to mention it's VIRTUAL game property. This is what I believe, and nothing's going to change my opinion on any of this (except the community), unless Nexon decides to pull a corporate scam or something.
Maple is one of my hobbies, I don't mind putting money into that I won't see later--it offers me entertainment, that's good enough for me. Really, I rather compare it to spending $20 at the movie theater. Some people take it too far and put hundreds, thousands of dollars into it, and that may be pushing it (I wouldn't spend thousands of dollars on entertainment, unless it was an excellent vacation to somewhere distant)... =)