RDal Wrote:I don't see the part where people HAVE to leech.
The idea of have to or not have to is a moral sense.
The practicality is an objective sense. They either quit the game or they keep playing. After working for what may seem a long time, people who choose not to quit will attempt to continue in this game. But if Nexon did any research on human boredom tolerance and attention span, they'd have kept more customers from quitting and away from WoW to begin with. Only recently now do they realize how much customers they have lost out...read on.
I mean...don't you find the irony that MapleStory has the following:
1. One of the largest hacking/cheating community.
2. One of the most imbalanced set of classes.
3. One of the longest grinds.
And also the *coincidence?* of Nexon's latest development with trying to get users back:
1. Curving down the EXP and reducing it by 20%
2. More 2x Events
3. Brazil MS having a whole different EXP table.
4. KMS changing skills for almost all classes, with emphasis of buffing the underdog classes.
5. With 1-3 above, Nexon's constant newsletters to try to get old players back, also along with free 2x cards for them.
If it's not the grind that's killing our community, I really don't see what is. You can't just put the blame of leeching by pointing to the people who leeches. That's like where a teacher puts all the exam answers on the actual exam, make the actual exam 2 grade levels above the class material, then telling people not to look at the answers when attempting the exam.