Fiel Wrote:How can people argue that anything is truly free? TINSTAAFL - you learn it in the first week of economics.
Am I the only naive one believing a loving world where free lunches are actually free?
As a matter of observation, I don't quite believe Nexon is at all incompetent, they just don't demonstrate competency in appropriate (or expected) areas we may well know of.
If I may ask you, how many times have new features to this game been deemed to be 'catastrophic'? Has any of them done any detrimental damage to Nexon's financial profits, either directly to NX purchase decline or indirectly via players' quitting?
No. Time and again, Nexon has unfailingly managed to nurture their golden-egg-laying goose and make sure more eggs keep rolling out of the hen house everyday. This could simply be due to the fact that Maple is addictive and our human nature to keep adapting to new situations, but it also reflects that Nexon isn't ignorant enough to ruin their own fortune, in my humble opinion. In fact, they have done a good job in psyching up their players' interest, since longer before than I can remember.
I believe the MapleStory team of Nexon America Corp. would be more than potential to do a much better job than what has been/is being demonstrated if they truly wished to be of service. But I empathize their money-making schemes on the other hand, greed is the one thing shared among men after all.
I'm just not exactly a fan of people who ignorantly keep defending themselves through defending Nexon and after a while not knowing who or what you are peaching to defend. It is clear as day (or white night) that Nexon wants money, so leave them be. You want the game, they want your money, I don't see the problem(s) here.
Because of above listed beliefs, it never fails to bring me a good chuckle whenever someone says: "You should be happy Nexon is doing YOU a favor and run this game.". No thanks, NEXON should be grateful that this game (and other games) are running. Without MapleStory, our grades will most likely go up, while in the same situations, Nexon's employees might as well end up fixing computers.
tl;dr: TANSTAAFL. MapleStory is not free, Nexon wants to milk everything they can out of it. Whatever positives they're performing are to help enhance their gain, and I personally don't complain about the good sides, so I tolerate the bad sides.
EDIT: On-topic: I don't think Nexon has ever ever been aware of HTP's issue here (if it even is an issue). The codes KMS wrote on HTPs allowed Dragon Stones to only work on the 3rd slot, and the codes GMS wrote for VH's slots are not at all relevant to the original 7 slot, hence the 'overlooking' case, I assume. Heck, if more than 2 VH's were to be allowed, it would be clear that Nexon simply failed to include HTP's case in their consideration before launching it into game. +10 HTP anyone?