2011-03-23, 01:42 PM
By making things like this limited time it increases sales. If you know you can get something in a month than you're less likely to run out and buy NX. They'll continue making sales like this in cycles because it creates a lot more demand and therefore revenue. Though I wouldn't count on another perma pet event until after a new job comes out.
Anyway, assuming Maple Story 2 comes out and is successful, Maple Story will continue to operate until it is no longer profitable. I'm betting they'll do parallel patches (june: ms 1 patch, july: ms 2 patch) to try and get the same players to play and invest in both games but in order to do that MS2 would need to pretty different from MS1 while still appealing to the same audience.
Anyway, assuming Maple Story 2 comes out and is successful, Maple Story will continue to operate until it is no longer profitable. I'm betting they'll do parallel patches (june: ms 1 patch, july: ms 2 patch) to try and get the same players to play and invest in both games but in order to do that MS2 would need to pretty different from MS1 while still appealing to the same audience.