2012-08-19, 10:05 AM
Nexon America just uses way too many gimmicks for quick cash which only further disconnects the players from the game. You never want to make your players feel pressured to buy something because that only makes them uncomfortable, or even frustrated, over time. This isn't good practice for long-term success.
They say they give us enough events to have access to some ''premium'' items, yet usually when we do get these events they have a large number of restrictions that follow. If your premium content wasn't as game breaking as it is you wouldn't feel the need to implement so many restrictions for the non-paying player in the first place. And what is this premium content but just another version of gachapon? Most of these items don't even guarantee the player anything even remotely valuable these days; heck, whether they got it for free or not. And like others have pointed out; they keep making all of your ''rewards'' untradeable, making it harder to even make use of the damn things. When you give a player something timed, or untradeable, etc, then you pretty much guarantee that the player feels totally unrewarded in the end. They jumped through your hoops just to be given some chicken feed.
I honestly believe that if they didn't show us how desperate they are for money that they would actually make more money. The way they manage Maple right now just puts people off if anything because we're constantly bombarded with, ''Hey, buy this!'', ''Please buy this!'', ''If you buy this you get this item of lesser value for free!'', ''Hey, you know these are still available for purchase, right? But who knows for how long~ So please buy them...!?''. They seem to be more interested in what ways they can make a quick buck than legitimate content for us, and further proving this with our exclusive Jett class, which has the worst link skill in the game because of their greedy influence. Not only are the stats random, but they allow you to use cash shop items to attempt at bettering them, and keep them for longer (Though of course they run out so they're hoping you'll go ahead and repeat the process).
I feel like they're hoping they can win people over with their attacks against hackers (Which took years to start), and that the players will ignore their terrible business practices because of it. gMS was known for hacking, but Nexon America has always been known as a crooked company. I would appreciate them working on the business practices more than the hackers to be honest, as those are the real issues.
There's this thick air of cynicism toward anything Nexon America does because they've showed us for years how terrible they are. Nexon America is like an abusive boyfriend: Sure, he may tell you he loves you right now, but that doesn't take away the fact that he's been whooping your ass all week.
Nexon America can't know what we as players want when they don't even know what they want themselves, or what they need, rather. I think what we as players need by now is a hell of a good therapist though.
They say they give us enough events to have access to some ''premium'' items, yet usually when we do get these events they have a large number of restrictions that follow. If your premium content wasn't as game breaking as it is you wouldn't feel the need to implement so many restrictions for the non-paying player in the first place. And what is this premium content but just another version of gachapon? Most of these items don't even guarantee the player anything even remotely valuable these days; heck, whether they got it for free or not. And like others have pointed out; they keep making all of your ''rewards'' untradeable, making it harder to even make use of the damn things. When you give a player something timed, or untradeable, etc, then you pretty much guarantee that the player feels totally unrewarded in the end. They jumped through your hoops just to be given some chicken feed.
I honestly believe that if they didn't show us how desperate they are for money that they would actually make more money. The way they manage Maple right now just puts people off if anything because we're constantly bombarded with, ''Hey, buy this!'', ''Please buy this!'', ''If you buy this you get this item of lesser value for free!'', ''Hey, you know these are still available for purchase, right? But who knows for how long~ So please buy them...!?''. They seem to be more interested in what ways they can make a quick buck than legitimate content for us, and further proving this with our exclusive Jett class, which has the worst link skill in the game because of their greedy influence. Not only are the stats random, but they allow you to use cash shop items to attempt at bettering them, and keep them for longer (Though of course they run out so they're hoping you'll go ahead and repeat the process).
I feel like they're hoping they can win people over with their attacks against hackers (Which took years to start), and that the players will ignore their terrible business practices because of it. gMS was known for hacking, but Nexon America has always been known as a crooked company. I would appreciate them working on the business practices more than the hackers to be honest, as those are the real issues.
There's this thick air of cynicism toward anything Nexon America does because they've showed us for years how terrible they are. Nexon America is like an abusive boyfriend: Sure, he may tell you he loves you right now, but that doesn't take away the fact that he's been whooping your ass all week.
Nexon America can't know what we as players want when they don't even know what they want themselves, or what they need, rather. I think what we as players need by now is a hell of a good therapist though.