2011-01-17, 05:56 AM
Fiel Wrote:That was because the site's code was based on NexonKR's webpage which, to this day, still requires MSIE. NexAM never hated FF/Chrome/whathaveyou, they just copied from the source like they always do. They then went down for a day to fix their code so it would work for Firefox as well as other browsers since Americans tend to use stuff other than MSIE.
Despite South Korea being the global front of eSports, they are the most computer illiterate people you will ever meet. They don't care as much about how fast a computer runs. That's why you see all of these Korean MMOs that can run on just about anything because people there never upgrade their computers. South Koreans feel a desktop computer is limiting since you have to be at home to use it. Also, Koreans tend to prefer PC Bangs (some might prefer to call it a "LAN gaming center") to go play games since it's a lot more social than being at home. They much prefer smartphones which lets them be on the run and keep everything with them. That's why they have 95%+ acceptance rate of smartphones - far more than the United States. In South Korea, if you don't have a smartphone people look at you very weirdly.
The bolded part doesn't quite make sense...if you don't care about how fast or slow a computer runs, your code should not be very compatible/robust/efficient to allow it to run on just about anything, no?
Or do you mean that the users are illiterate...and the developers have to cater to that fact? But if you do mean that...then wouldn't NexonKR be such an odd-ball out? Yet...they're successful?