2011-07-15, 12:37 AM
By the way, if you're wondering "how can Nexon America even not have enough money to pay their customers after earning so much money through NX?", remember that, even if, for example, $500.000 might seem a lot to you, it probably isn't that much for a company who has to maintain such an huge and popular game.
What I'm saying is, yeah, there still are several people buying NX. Yeah, they probably still have high incomes. BUT they MIGHT not be enough, as you should remember that they probably have over 40 (probably several more) very powerful computers active all the time, and that, plus the maintaining costs, electricity, high-speed internet connections, developer staff who addresses major bugs as soon as possible and takes decisions (such as having to rollback) during major game screw-ups, and a lot of other things, cost Nexon America a lot of money. There are probably many other things which I forgot to mention as I'm not experienced in game managing, but you get the idea.
Now, I don't want to sound like the one who justifies them, but I just can't think that they actually don't give a pomegranate about their biggest money-making game. Unless the company's CEO decided that he earned enough money from all this and that he didn't want to spend more than what's necessary to keep their games playable anymore. But I really doubt this is the case, even because, according to some people, they do a decent job with other games.
Conclusion: They haven't released Pam's Song in the Cash Shop for 7 months. If they released that, plus Shielding Wards, plus Cash Shop Surprises, all in a short amount of time between each other, it might NOT be a case, and it might be that they need more money. Afterall, it's not so unbelievable, seeing how many customers quitted because of frustration.
What I'm saying is, yeah, there still are several people buying NX. Yeah, they probably still have high incomes. BUT they MIGHT not be enough, as you should remember that they probably have over 40 (probably several more) very powerful computers active all the time, and that, plus the maintaining costs, electricity, high-speed internet connections, developer staff who addresses major bugs as soon as possible and takes decisions (such as having to rollback) during major game screw-ups, and a lot of other things, cost Nexon America a lot of money. There are probably many other things which I forgot to mention as I'm not experienced in game managing, but you get the idea.
Now, I don't want to sound like the one who justifies them, but I just can't think that they actually don't give a pomegranate about their biggest money-making game. Unless the company's CEO decided that he earned enough money from all this and that he didn't want to spend more than what's necessary to keep their games playable anymore. But I really doubt this is the case, even because, according to some people, they do a decent job with other games.
Conclusion: They haven't released Pam's Song in the Cash Shop for 7 months. If they released that, plus Shielding Wards, plus Cash Shop Surprises, all in a short amount of time between each other, it might NOT be a case, and it might be that they need more money. Afterall, it's not so unbelievable, seeing how many customers quitted because of frustration.