Big Bang Is In the Air

I also think it is a mistake for Nexon to start hyping BB 4 months before it will be released. If they knew that they didnt have a release date(and they still dont as of the blog post) then all I see is things turning negative and against them. One month would have been plenty of time for them to hype BB, 4 months and the excitement could turn to frustration, anger or apathy, plus a lot have already stopped playing in anticipation of BB...thats got to have some effect on Nexon's revenue.

That's already happening. Everyone is nitpicking the blog and finding certain wording to be a little worrisome. Now rather than looking forward to Big Bang, users are starting to dread it. And that's not including the minority that don't want Big Bang to arrive. Hyping something up too early is just as foolish as delaying something. Polyphony Digital can tell you all about that.

This blog could not be any more damaging for Nexon in the way it is structured. Who's going to be leveling now? Who's going to be buying NX? If the big update will make life easier in the digital aspect, why charge NX now? I certainly won't put a few bucks down for 2x exp. Yes it will always be easier to level, and leveling, as Fiel sorta pointed out, follows a similar pattern to Moore's law. However, this update is on the horizon, so a lot of people aren't going to be leveling or charging NX because the update and the teasers are so close. It's just dumb marketing at the most crucial time of the year. I'd fire some people over this.

On top of hyping BB up so soon (and in the worst way possible [hint: don't mention changes to exp curves]) that's a problem, it's also not releasing it in time.

Do not want :-(

That's what I've been saying. The technical people are not always able to deliver the goods when the marketing people want them out the door. Rayhovite has been talking as if BB is done and Nexon can launch it whenever the market is best, but the fact is, it's not ready. I really hope missing the optimal launch window will mean they take their time and do it right, including keeping Tespia open for a good long while and actually fixing what it finds.

On another note, I'm glad to hear Big Bang includes changes to the infrastructure. I hope they really are getting rid of the fundamental design flaws, although it doesn't sound quite that deep.

WRONG. i have been talking as if Nexon SHOULD launch Big Bang as soon as possible. I have already shown graphs and explanations about why that should be the case. This blog serves more as damage control rather than an explanation of why they are launching this update so late. How long had KMS finished with a decent version of Big Bang? You can't argue that Nexon had to wait for each test version's continuous changes since they plan on making their own changes, so they could have grabbed any variety of the later code.

My question is: what took so ****ing long? How did you miss such an important time target? You can't even get a release date down? Are you ****ing kidding me? If you had concerns at all, at least once, over the release time interval, why didn't you hire more programmers? All the other MMOs are getting their sh!t together and barely making their schedules on 3D games, so what the hell is your excuse with a 2D game? Why should you not be fired? Pretty sure I'd be fired if I missed such giant milestones in my line of work!

Let me make that clearer. Everyone is bringing their big guns to the fight this holiday. Nexon doesn't even have a switch blade. They say it needs more testing to see if it will pierce butter. If I were an MMO publisher, I would put Nexon as the laughing stock of the year. While other companies are putting up notices detailing their major updates which are arriving on time, Nexon gives you, the Maple community, a blog that basically tells you they can't get it done on time and they want your pity. Oh you want me to test and report teh bugs?

Lol. Go **** yourself. I'll be playing Black Ops while you should be doing your ****ing job. Seriously, how much of an insult is that? While all the big games and entertainment come flooding in, Nexon wants YOU the gamer to do their work for them, all in the name of releasing an update they should have already finished months ago. This deserves a major:



Is it a mere coincidence that this blog appears a day after Blizzard releases a giant patch on schedule which revamps much of the WoW game? Is this a pathetic attempt to diverge people's attention away from a super MMO that has just been made a lot easier and more fun for casuals? I'd say it's pretty inexcusable they couldn't get this patch out the door in time. Consumers don't want to hear excuses. Whether you're marketing or technical or executive, it doesn't matter. Think about it. The name of the game is differentiation. Maplestory was among the first successful MMOs, right? While that is awesome, it will look terrible for Nexon to release Big Bang after WoW Cataclysm because now Nexon looks like it's playing catch up, and is late to the party at that. "Oh, Maplestory is revamping everything? But WoW did that already, and FFXIV is doing that too. What's so special about that?" The last thing you want to do is make yourself look like an imitator (let's forget all the crap they stole from Ragnarok Online for a second!), because it makes it all that much harder to grab market share.

All I can do is shake my head Nexon's way because they will have completely skipped over the best time of the year to make a good buck. But hey, not my portfolio. I'm glad my fellow Maplers have discussed much of Big Bang with me, whether they believe I am right, wrong, or confused. I'm glad they have educated themselves just a bit more.

By the time they get BB out the door, I'll have dabbled in WoW, Assassin's Creed, Black Ops (definitely!), and gotten some new tech goodies like the new AMD 6xxx graphics cards. I imagine many of my fellow peers will have the same story to tell. A lot of that money could have gone to Nexon, but, can't say the same now.

Southperry is full of some of the brightest folks in the Maple community. You can't fool them. Nexon might not be the most transparent company, but the wonderful thing is that it has made the brilliant Maple community figure them out through extractions and excellent deductive reasoning. With all that in mind, pretty sure most people see this as an inexcusable blog post for what ultimately reveals yet another chapter in Nexon's journey through incompetence.