NEXON Q&A on basil in 30 minutes

Just got the tweet on my phone. GO GO GO GO GO

According to the Basil chat, the Q&A session won't start until 18:00 Basil time (Central US time).


There is far too much spam at the moment to even try reading anything. lol

Spam up in there. It's worse than last time.

It's ridiculous, the chat should honestly be moderated at all time. I'm actually happy Nexon's doing this again, though. Here's to hoping hackers don't ruin it for everyone.

Spam up in there. It's worse than last time.

inb4 crash

I can't even connect, as usual. >.> The chat itself times out.

>needs more chat filters.

I'm betting
-Nothing important gets answered
-To much spam to ask anything relevent
-Site Crash

I forgot I don't have good relations with one of the moderators in the chat. That'll be interesting.

Oh this is gonna be a doozie. Unfortunately, I only see Hime at the moment, so I don't know how much info we're getting out this session.

I'll post the whole thing when it's all said and done.

Oh this is gonna be a doozie. Unfortunately, I only see Hime at the moment, so I don't know how much info we're getting out this session.

I'll post the whole thing when it's all said and done.

Should still ask about content regardless

EVERYONE SPAM WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT VPQ, MASTERIA, AND DRPQ (I know this happened last time but do it again so they won't forget.)

Only things worth mentioning are when VPQ comes back and HT being fixed.

Spam them with "bring back monster book" pls. :c

EDIT: ^ That too.

Oh yeah, we all should mention about that broken skill. What was it again? Body Boost?

Oh yeah, we all should mention about that broken skill. What was it again? Body Boost?

The only reason I'm going onto this chat is to try to get a response to Body Boost being broken. >_>

i see nxhadza.

Its all quiet now

14:55 hime: Today we will only take casual questions and any operational questions you have for us. Sorry, everything else will not be answered today.
14:59 hime: Operations questions are like what we do etc. like the latest Dev Blog about maintenances.

hime: Hi folks and welcome to our second Dev Chat on Basil Market!
» I'm hime, the Nexon MapleStory forum rep and here to take your questions.
» Let's go ahead and have the team here with us introduce themselves!

15:05 nxhadza: Hi, I'm Hadza and I am the associate producer on MapleStory. You may have seen my posts in the forums from time to time. I work with Hime a lot to get a feel for the current hot topics in the forum

15:06 sabina: Hello everyone! I am Sabina, and am here to assist with taking questions! (newbie gm)
15:06 nxyadeera: Hello Maplers! I'm Yadeera and I am also an Associate Producer on MapleStory. I am looking forward to our second chat together =)
15:06 hime: Awesome!
» We also have 2 lovely moderators from Basil Market with us today as well... zora, ciel! Hello!
» And mrbasil, who help put this all together for us! Big thank you!
hime: As mentioned we will be taking only casual and operational questions today.
15:08 hime:
» Casual questions being fun and simple ones and operational question are more along the lines of what we do like the Dev Blog about maintenances.
Sabina and I will take questions through the Private Message system here through the chat. Please only message your question to either Sabina or I, not both.
Please only message your question to either Sabina or I, not both.
» We will then forward your questions to hadza and yadeera; they will be responding to them.
15:10 hime: Okay let's begin!
15:13 nxhadza: Chaos is coming soon, but we can't give an exact date. Expect some changes more dramatic than Big Bang.
» I usually have about 3 cups of coffee during the maintenance. But it all depends on how long it is and the time of night.
hime: Yes! I do play MapleStory and have a couple of characters I play on. I'm not telling what!
nxyadeera: Our favorite junk food is cupcakes, hands down. Though just the other day we had some delicious honey flavored sweet potato chips - delicious!
15:16 nxhadza: Monster book is on hold for now. We have no plans to bring it back. Maybe with more refinement to make the system better than it'll be worthwhile.
» MapleStory anniversary events are held in May. We're working hard on creating some original and cool content for you guys!
I became an Associate Producer because I love playing video games and getting paid for it
Von Leon is coming in March!
15:19 nxhadza: My favorite junk food is cheetos...what can I say I love glowing orange cheese powder.
nxyadeera: What does an Associate Producer do? Good question! The fact is, lots: every day is a new adventure. I work with our various internal teams such as Development, Marketing, etc
[COLOR="red"][SIZE="3"]15:20 nxhadza: We are planning to expand more channels bosses such as Zakum. So keep a lookout for an annoucement.
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nxyadeera: I became an Associate Producer on MapleStory so I can get sweet gear from the Cash Shop! =) Seriously, I've loved video games since I was a kid playing NES and arcade games.
15:22 nxhadza: We're patching less, which means we want to have a big patch with time released content. This schedule gives us more time to plan for better content.
» And we DO read the forums!!!
» =)
nxhadza: I haven't played fallout new vegas yet, but I loved fallout 3. But right now I'm hooked on Rift.
nxyadeera: My favorite TV show is Battlestar Galactica, the remake. Before that, Six Feet Under.
» I haven't played either of those Fallout games. Right now I'm playing lots of LoL.
15:24 nxhadza: I don't read many blogs but I do read a lot of the forum on all the fansites. This gives us a really great idea of what's going on in the game and address any issues.
Players are invaluable in providing leads on bugs, so thank you!
hime: Hey folks, I know many of you have questions about current issues but unfortunately we do not want to use the chat as the official means to discuss them.
Please understand we working with our developers to address many of your raised concerns. Thank you!
nxhadza: 2x compensations are based on the severity of the inconvenience to our players.
15:27 nxyadeera: It's hard to pick my favorite NES game, they are like children =) I really loved StarTropics, and of course the first Zelda.
15:29 nxhadza: I think if I met Justin Bieber I would be too star struck to say anything. And all i would hear is the lyrics, baby baby baby...(lame -_-)
15:30 nxhadza: Ultimate Explorers are coming out sooner than you'd think.
15:30 hime eats nxhadza. _-_ <<<lol (response to justin bieber comment)
15:31 nxyadeera: Yes, the whole Maple team plays MapleStory!
nxhadza: Large content updates takes months of planning. We get test clients that we tetst internally and basically a lot of time is spent in testing the game using test cases.
15:33 nxyadeera: My favorite basketball team is the New York Knicks. But I am a big fan of Steve Nash!
15:34 nxhadza: New Cash Shop items are designed by other MapleStory services. But our team comes up with proposals based on current pop culture items, trends in fashion. etc. There's a lot of research for it.
15:35 nxyadeera: In my spare time I like to bicycle, watch TV, and of course play video games. And eat...lots of eating.
[SIZE="4"]nxhadza: We have talked about expanding Masteria, but it's all in the planning stages right now. I feel personally responsible to have to make it awesome, so it'll take a bit of time.[/SIZE]
nxyadeera: When we integrate content from kMS or other MS services into gMS, we think carefully about how it will affect our game. Then we decide what features to include or not.
» We also localize & translate all text including item names.
15:38 nxhadza: Chaos update is huuuuge so it will require effort from everyone, community, marketing, QA, and of course the players. We'll be sure to open the test server when the time comes.
15:40 nxyadeera: Revenues collected from meso taxes go to Duey so he can enjoy his retirement }:>
15:40 nxhadza: Nexon headquarters is right by the beach...kidding actually it's a none descript office building overlooking an oil refinery.
15:41 hime: I happen to enjoy the view of the refinery.
15:41 nxyadeera: My favorite NFL team is the New York Giants. I was sad to see them not make the playoffs this year, but at least the #6 seed went to the eventual NFL champs!
nxhadza: We have limited plushy merchandise like Yetis and Pepe, but there are no plans to sell it. It's a good idea because the plushies look great!
15:45 nxhadza: Question: Do you have any people you work with that you hate? Or perhaps they're kinda smelly? We want gossip
» I like all my coworkers Especially Hime, she is a pleasure to work with.
15:46 hime: Thank you, hadza!
15:46 nxyadeera: We plan to continue holding more chats like this one on a regular basis.
[COLOR="red"]15:53 nxyadeera: Donald will only deliver packages from GMs to players. Package delivery between players is no longer supported, sorry!
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[COLOR="red"]15:57 nxhadza: Question: Is there any updates on what will be done for the elemental staffs/wands? Or will they be kept as they currently are?
» We took the feedback from players regarding elemental weapons and made changes, but it's being tested. We'll make an official annoucement when we are happy with the balance of the weapons.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="red"]15:54 nxhadza: Question: Do you have to say that you "make" the content?
» Our team doesn't do any of the programming or art. We mostly take feedback from players and propose new content to Nexon Korea. It's a very collaborative effort.[/COLOR]

k i'm done

Doesn't seem too bad right now. I'll try to ask a few questions myself about everything mentioned here.

Edit: Casual? Psh never mind.

wooow. They froze the chat with a link to a porn site RIGHT in the middle of the screen.

Now we can onlysee the mods talk.

17:56 hime: Today we will only take casual questions and any operational questions you have for us. Sorry, everything else will not be answered today.

B'aww.