2009-03-17, 03:45 AM
Quantact Wrote:The really sad thing is if they spent more of their profits during the good times to cultivate customer loyalty, this wouldn't even be an issue.
Way back, Sega was producing consoles without producing enough games for them. Eventually this led Sega to ruin, and it was going to shut down. Its CEO pumped 800 million of his own money into the company. It converted from a full company like Sony and Nintendo, to a software company. It's still that way even now.
If Nexon cared more about its customers not getting hacked, scammed, or otherwise ripped off, I think its players would pump it full of money if there was a risk to the company, just like Sega CEO pumped his company full of money. This famous German restaurant Berghoff closed in Chicago some years ago, people literally flew in from all over the world to have one last meal there. With Nexon, many of its customers play the game because they are addicted, and a lot of them like the game and hate the company. All the time on Sleepywood and Southperry you see stuff like my Nexonazi flag or a derisive screenshot of a guy and a porcupine, with the porcupine saying "because we can and it's free."
A company dying means some jobs will be lost and those people will have to find a new job. North America Nexon serves America and Canada. I don't know if the company itself is going to go bankrupt, but central Nexon is not so stupid that they'll allow a cash cow like North America to fall to its competitors such as Blizzard. Put simply, America has more clients and they have more money than their counterparts in Korea or Japan. So yeah I think Maple itself will stay. As for Nexon America in its current form staying... well, to be honest, I really wouldn't mind seeing a change. The only Nexon in America that does a good job deals in asbestos removal.
God damn, if it means elimination of hackorz and stupid script kiddies/all-around stupidity, by all means let the Blizzard man take gMS from Nexon America. At least they know how to do it right.