2012-03-21, 08:17 PM
Takebacker Wrote:The point of giving it away for free is so that people use it and then buy more because they'll realize how amazing it is.
If it worked like shielding wards, where it can be applied permanently until the next cube is used, then they would have a lot more people saying "wow, this item is pretty cool, i should give Nexon money because i want to use these more". Rather now they have people scrambling to charge NX in the next 24 hours if they weren't lucky to already have saved NX, maplepoints, or pre-bought cubes in order to actually use this. This as you can imagine is pretty distasteful for the vast majority of people.
The fact that you lose nothing by not using it doesn't excuse the lengths needed to do the opposite, and it works against Nexon to boot.
Massive reEDITing action: I need coffee...
I can see the skeptic's side of viewing this: as a (bad) marketing ploy.
Giving out a free item that only some people can use isn't screwing people who make them money since no one is entitled to have anything for free anyway; it would be an entirely different issue if people actually paid for these items and unknowingly fell into a situation where they had to spend more money to make any use out of it and/or did not work as intended (Shielding Wards glitch is a great example).
If this was our compensation for something Nexon owes us, then I would be pretty pissed... but it's just a freebie ;o.