2012-07-22, 04:43 AM
Leaves Wrote:Should these ever get answers, we will be getting PR'd. Meaning, they will be very politically correct, which is useless to us. This is not a company that has ever shown initiative to be transparent with its playerbase, I don't think this will change at all. It has gotten a tad better at the BASIC level (ex. day-to-day operations), but in terms of the high-arching questions such as the ones you've chosen, you shouldn't expect any proper answers.
Sad to say, but you are probably right.
Just to everyone who submitted a question and has commented in this thread: We had a limited amount of questions so we did the best we could to take into account the highest voted questions (I believe 9/10 if not all of them were all questions that received the highest votes, with some slight editing on our part of course). I know everyone is skeptical- and so very, very rightly so.
Whether or not these honest and direct questions receive honest and direct answers is not the entire point of this interview. Yes, in a perfect world we would love for Nexon to be candid with us but that probably will not happen. I think it is important that these questions be asked...that someone at least has the balls in the MapleStory community to ask these questions and to at least give all of you guys who really care about the game a chance to feel like some of the issues with the game are being acknowledged or at the very least brought up directly to Nexon.
I'm a honest guy and anyone who has read Maple-News over the past five years or knows me knows that. I've tried to remain pretty transparent with you all about this whole process and I am hoping that Nexon sees that these questions are not attacks and that by answering them honestly they will not be hurting their business but rather acknowledging that they do care about the future of this game and its community. Do I expect that to happen? The pessimist in me says no. The smart thing would've been to throw softball questions just like Basil Market or any other fan site who would be given this opportunity and I can tell you Im already paying for it. But, I wasn't about to do that and neither were any of you here at Southperry.
I hope we all get the answers we're looking for.
Thanks for everyone's participation and thanks to Eos for making this happen.