An open letter to Nexon and MapleStory players

OH WOW. Where to begin. Dizzy if I still had long hair you would have me ripping it out of my skull.

I don't know what kind of image you perceived of me, but I'm hardly the brute you made me to be in your imagination.

1. Unless I've forgotten, a metaphor is used to describe something similar, in a symbolic kind of way. Well, technically, saying that IPv6 is faulty in America would be the same argument you're putting forward. The lie detector system may be faulty, but we never had it, so it you really can't fault Nexon for that. If some of the system ended up in game via Nexon's horrible copypasta, fine, but it's hardly a faulty system. Also, if we had it before, then when I asked you if we ever had it to begin with, why did you say no?

We had the lie detector. I provided PROOF of its existence in GMS. Plus, you were never questioning the existence of it, you asked if it worked. I don't know why you changed your initial question (to something that I didn't answer to), but here, I'll post the snip to help refresh your memory.

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Lie Detector System (no longer in game)
When the Lie Detector System existed, it would allow players to enter in the names of botting hackers. If the question is unanswered within a specified amount of time, the hacker is then sent to town. Three major problems exist with this. It costs mesos meaning a player without mesos is unable to report them. Two, it requires the player to know the name of the said hacker. With all the i's and L's out there, knowing the exact IGN of a hacker proves difficult. Third, if the player is successful in sending the hacker back to town, it does nothing. Furthermore, hackers made another work-around for this. They have hacks that let them teleport back to the map they were in before they were sent to town and they get to continue botting away.

Did this ever work in GMS? It's not super effective, but I've already addressed the whole meso thing.

It never did. That's why I listed it as a faulty system.

So than, IPv6 is a faulty system in America. Right?

2. Tykian is currently going through Marijuana withdrawal. It sucks, it's unpleasant, and it makes it really REALLY hard to focus. However, as I go back and read my posts prior, I have no trouble understanding what I meant. Furthermore. I didn't first say: "Nexon is not at fault" and so on. I said the same thing from the beginning, your failure to grasp that is hardly any contradiction on my part. Read my first post again. Get to the part you made bold earlier. Now bold the sentence in front of it as well and read. Thoughts are not split by sentence, generally they are split by paragraph.

Sure thing.

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What do you really hope to accomplish with that letter. Honestly?

There is no MMO out there that is safe from hacks, and the ones who do a decent job of preventing their usage just happen to be the ones with a plethora of active gamemasters. Wherever software is involved, it can be reverse engineered, and thus tampered with. Though you seem to think that this is Nexon's fault, it isn't. Want to blame someone, blame the hackers. Beyond hiring a pomegranateload of gamemasters and killing their profit margin, there is NOTHING they can do.

I'm still reading the same message here. You've still said Nexon isn't at fault.

3. Whether or not I read them makes no difference. The free2play platform has always functioned by not forcing you to pay anything to play, though generally if you want the full game experience, you may need to spend some cash. This is true of all f2p games. My individual experiences are simply proof that it can be played free. Whether or not the general populous chooses to spend money on this game is none of my concern, and certainly doesn't change the platform that the game falls under. Also, yes, I am definitely saying there is nothing wrong with a F2P game company making more revenue than Blizzard. In fact, Blizzard could learn a thing or two about profit from Nexon. Admittedly, theres a LOT Nexon could learn from Blizzard.

Actually, no, it does make a large difference. I've provided you an active example of how a FREE to play game company generates more revenues percentage-wise than a PAY to play game company. While yes, your individual game experiences (and mine as well) did not entail you to spend money on the game, you have to realize that we are the exception to the rule, not the rule itself. F2P games should not require players the need or require players to feel the need to spend money. MapleStory does exactly the latter, produces for the majority of its players the feeling to spend money and acquire NX.

Another thing.

Blizzard having less percentile revenue is not a fault. In fact, it's a very GOOD thing. This is one of the most fundamental ideas you learn in any finance class. Companies with large profit margins and too much liquidity (like Nexon) aren't making the most out of their funding. I'm going to be under the assumption you've never worked in or for a corporation before (judging by the statement you've made a few posts back about how Nexon staff members are enjoying their vacation with the excess revenue they've earned). Sorry to break your bubble, but that's not how excess revenue is handled. Instead, it just sits there as useless assets. This goes back to the fundamental ideas I've mentioned earlier. To many investors looking at a business's structure, high liquidity at the end of a term triggers a red flag. To them, this asks the question, "Why isn't this company investing, researching, or attempting to expand the company more?" High retained revenues in a company at the end of a term, quarter, period, etc. is often a sign that a company has stagnant growth and is doing very little to maximize their own potential. Sound familiar? That's right, it sounds like Nexon.

(I am not having difficulty grasping why your point of view would see MapleStory as P2P, that still doesn't make it right. Our difference comes down to the fact that I have little regard for other people, so I tend to think about them less than you likely do.)

Towards individual perception vs towards general perception. It's a no brainer which is the more accepted point of view. Unless of course, your argument happens to be the one targeted.

4th, and final point would be this. Why operate on the same scale as Blizzard? Work harder, earn less? For what? A reputation. Well pomegranate, Nexon has a terrible reputation. Hasn't hurt them.

Wrong. Nexon doesn't work harder. It's a corporation. Corporations aren't working units. Their staff members may be. However, this doesn't mean they have to work harder either. By simply hiring more people (GM's, customer service, debuggers, maintenance administrators, etc) this would actually ease out their work load in the long run to run the stream a whole lot more smoothly. Remember what I said, excess revenue generated does not get split into payments towards the individual employees (although gosh darn it it'd be a dream come true).

You did hit a nail on the head for reputation though. I won't dispute this. A company's reputation is an asset. In fact, for some companies, it determines a large percentage of its assets. However, reputation probably isn't what you perceive of it in the economic aspect of this argument so I'm going to make a call and say you got lucky on that one. But what you didn't hit the nail on the head on is that by not spending funds, Nexon hasn't hurt themselves. By not spending their earnings on improving the company, corporations falter and go extinct.