2009-10-01, 10:33 AM
FrozNlite Wrote:Quick calculations for people still breaking the bank trying to get a permanent Pink Bean:
The pet is out in MSEA, as seen in another thread, and (hoping someone brilliant in other versions can confirm) most likely out in other versions as a normal pet that dries up every three months and needs to be revived with a Water of Life.
The pet costs 9.6k NX to buy and lasts for 3 months, while the Water of Life costs 3k NX and ensures vitality in your animated pixel creature for another three months.
To make the math easy, and to reinforce the concept behind this point even more, let's just say you're going to play MS for a whopping 10 years of your life, and use your lovely Pink Bean pet the whole time. To have a live Pink Bean that entire time, you must first buy the pet (9.6k NX for 3 months) and then buy 39 Water of Lifes every 3 months, totaling to 40 x 3 = 120 months of life (120 months / 12 = 10 years).
Total cost to keep that pet alive for 10 years: 126.6k NX
So what does this mean? If you've spent over 126k NX on CS Box Surprises trying to get Pink Bean and have yet to receive your wonderful pet, you have already wasted the money required to keep one alive for 10 years. Now I know some of you may go, "Hey, MapleStory is my life man! I'll be playing this for a super long time - no matter how old I get!" then you're doing fine, keep wasting your paychecks and hopefully you'll break even in the long run.
LESSON OF THE DAY? Be smart with how much you spend. If you're only looking to play this game for, say, another year or two, why spend more than 19k-31k (the price to buy the pet and keep it alive that long) on CS Box Surprises, if your only goal is to get the pet?
You can tell everyone the exact calculations of how much it would be worth spending, you can tell them the *smart* way to spend nx, you can give out lessons for what people should do, but people are still gonna spend their money, on what they want, on what makes them happy. Spending money to buy mass amounts of nx isn't very much different than spending money to buy a big tv, or an xbox/ps3/wii, its in terms of whats entertaining for them, would you really say someone wasted their money if they bought an xbox and it entertained them, because they would say it was worth it.
If you're mad people are spending so much on nexon, its pointless, they'll make their money whether you find peoples nx spending ridiculous or not, because although they may lose your business nx wise, the fact is they have a gimmick that will still rake them in plenty of money.