2012-04-04, 12:39 PM
IImaplers Wrote:While, yes, I think the players are the ones directly responsible for the degradation of the game, I think equal blame needs to be placed on the company controlling the game, or lack thereof.
Nexon is like the primordial "cat lady hoarder". The cat lady hoards so much cats (analogous to unfixed and ignored problems, in Nexon's case) that their disruptive nature becomes the norm (disconnects, hacks, glitches, no customer service, ...list goes on) and this becomes so uncontrollable that the cat lady needs intervention and to move out before she's buried in the mess of cats that she is 100% responsible for. But the more cats the cat lady has, the happier she is; just like the more problems Nexon has, the more they ignore them until their profits start dipping. The question is: where's Nexon's intervention?
...This analogy is really weird. I get it, but I feel like you presented it wrong. I don't think Nexon is happy with having more problems and glitches, like the cat lady is happy with more cats. I think we, the players, are Nexon's cats. Animal hoarders want more and more animals, until eventually there are so many they cannot keep up with them. The animals end up running the place down and living in their own filth because the owner cannot keep up with maintaining so many. It is eventually deemed inhumane and the government steps in and takes them all away, etc.
We, the players, are the cats. Nexon wants more and more players, because more players=more money. They, however, don't have (or want to bother paying for) the resources to 'clean up' after us while still constantly trying to acquire more and more players. So we, too, live in our own filth (glitches, hacks, disconnects, no customer service) because there are too many players for Nexon to keep up with, given their current resources for Maple.