An open letter to Nexon and MapleStory players

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.

First, I would like to publicly apologize to you. I had a rough all night, and I acted like a complete and utter pineapplehead. For that, I am sorry, however I don't imagine you as a brute.

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.

I apologize, I definitely meant to ask whether it ever existed in GMS, though I suppose I knew it was there at one point. I really shouldn't have been posting last night.

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

Eh, it's not quite what I meant though, going back to the whole shouldn't have posted last night thing. What I was getting at is that they cannot be faulted more than any other company/organization for the fact that their code can be tampered with. I shouldn't have said they were at no fault, but we cannot have them shoulder the entire blame.

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.

I suppose thats true. However I still believe thats the grounds that free2play came on. Theres no such thing as free, someones gotta be paid for their work, and if f2p was doomed to very little profit(say, if the cash shop only had the equip tab?) that they'd be better off spending their time on a pay2play game. You and I have the luxury to enjoy an MMO for free, the fact that some others can't seem to accomplish this is what Nexon put their money on nearly a decade ago. Good investment?

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 worked for a smalltime programming company for 2 years, so I probably overestimated things, however I was making some sort of sarcastic joke about Nexon's insane profit margin, nothing more. That said, I'd like to see a breakdown of Nexon's budgets before I go into this sorta thing. I think Nexon does a bit more than we realize, though admittedly not likely enough. I'd like to see a bit more expansion in the depth of the game, also a bit more advertising(smart advertising mind you).

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 missed my point, I was comparing the two(even though I said it shouldn't be done, wonderful contradiction by me ONCE AGAIN). Blizzard works harder and generates less revenue, doesn't seem too appealing if I'm Nexon. However I suppose if I worked for Nexon, nothing that required too much effort would seem appealing. Also, maybe their employees would do a better job at their function if some of this revenue WAS put towards individual employees. I would be content to earn 15/hour for the rest of my life if all I had to do was chase down little kids using their scripts and ruin their day. Ohhhhh yes, relish the thought.

Also, I may be the only one in this, but I think Nexon's maintenance crew has gotten MUCH better as of late, probably should happen less often, but at least they don't get extended by 2-3 hours regularly anymore.

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.

Don't count me so naive. I am well aware of the economic ramifications that comes with a reputation, be it good or bad. However what puzzles me is how Nexon tends to avoid the trend, makings other companies look like groups of little trolls working for each dime while they rake in millions by sitting on their asses. Also, I still have to disagree. Overall, Nexon continues to gain more and more money, so obviously they're doing something right, and believe me, NexonAM has been around for 6 years now, and they aren't going anywhere.