2011-05-10, 09:25 PM
Apologies accepted for those earlier bits.
Some small things though. It's probably misleading that I said Blizzard generates less percentile revenue, where in fact, they generate more revenue than Nexon, just in smaller percentages comparatively to a whole solid number figure. Though despite this, Blizzard has a number of around 3,000 staff members that attribute to the overall operations (ie management, customer service, administration, game coordination, development, etc.). That's huge comparatively since if numbers tally up right, the average worth of each employee yields 0.033% roughly to the company excess revenue (the calculative process is actually more complex than I care to go in depth for so I'm just gonna leave it here at this number). The yield ratio for each Nexon employee is probably a lot higher, however, I'm unable to get an accurate tally as there's no information I can acquire out about Nexon's staff size. This is a number you usually want lower than higher, especially for corporations.
Though I don't know the exact number figure per staff and I imagine them to be different per case and category, I do recall reading somewhere on this forum that the average pay for the standard Nexon GM is $9 an hour (I would like a correction if wrong). That isn't a whole lot at all! In the state of Georgia, in the city of Atlanta, flipping burgers and salting fries nets you $8.50-ish an hour. It's almost no wonder there aren't any sightings of GM's nor does it feel like they exist.
This goes back to what you said about pouring money into the staff. They need to increase pay and they need to hire more staff. Though I'm sure there are many like Shikage out there who would be glad to work for free, I want to mention that it was tried and done. If any of you remember the MapleWatch Leaf Brigade? They were a group of volunteers personally selected by Nexon who selfless aim at and combat versus hackers. Sounds all fine and dandy to have people who are willing to work for free (with zero reward) for the betterment of a game, but it was ultimately one of the biggest failures. The MWLB died, Nexon never revived it, and even during its existence, the amount of hackers changed very little.
Edit: Small correction on number figure.
Some small things though. It's probably misleading that I said Blizzard generates less percentile revenue, where in fact, they generate more revenue than Nexon, just in smaller percentages comparatively to a whole solid number figure. Though despite this, Blizzard has a number of around 3,000 staff members that attribute to the overall operations (ie management, customer service, administration, game coordination, development, etc.). That's huge comparatively since if numbers tally up right, the average worth of each employee yields 0.033% roughly to the company excess revenue (the calculative process is actually more complex than I care to go in depth for so I'm just gonna leave it here at this number). The yield ratio for each Nexon employee is probably a lot higher, however, I'm unable to get an accurate tally as there's no information I can acquire out about Nexon's staff size. This is a number you usually want lower than higher, especially for corporations.
Though I don't know the exact number figure per staff and I imagine them to be different per case and category, I do recall reading somewhere on this forum that the average pay for the standard Nexon GM is $9 an hour (I would like a correction if wrong). That isn't a whole lot at all! In the state of Georgia, in the city of Atlanta, flipping burgers and salting fries nets you $8.50-ish an hour. It's almost no wonder there aren't any sightings of GM's nor does it feel like they exist.
This goes back to what you said about pouring money into the staff. They need to increase pay and they need to hire more staff. Though I'm sure there are many like Shikage out there who would be glad to work for free, I want to mention that it was tried and done. If any of you remember the MapleWatch Leaf Brigade? They were a group of volunteers personally selected by Nexon who selfless aim at and combat versus hackers. Sounds all fine and dandy to have people who are willing to work for free (with zero reward) for the betterment of a game, but it was ultimately one of the biggest failures. The MWLB died, Nexon never revived it, and even during its existence, the amount of hackers changed very little.
Edit: Small correction on number figure.