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Nexon Reddit Ama Questions and Answers

http://www.reddit.com/r/Maplestory/comments/14gtfu/official_nexon_amaa_thread/

Compiling the questions here for ease. I did miss out one or two questions that were not very relevent.
The two Nexon employees were Hime and Waltzing, as indicated by (W) and (H)

[b]Starting with the biggest answer[/b]
Q - One question, although I have not been able to play GMS Luminous yet, (Due to computer issues) I have played the KNS version and the whole light dark system was pretty cool. Dark didn't do or hit as much as light but costed no mp, meanwhile light was Mana Pot massacre but with amazing skills and damage. Although I yet to formulate my own opinion, what was your thought behind changing the system to the way it is now? Will you be tweaking the Dragon Sustem or recharge sustem as well? Thank you Hime, know this is a sensitive subject for you so since you've been recieving too much hate. I'm not hatin', just asking.
A - (W) The Luminous change was actually a decision made by our development team's management, but I can relay what was conveyed to us. They said that KMS players were excited about the light vs. dark choice in lower levels, but that the story and the gameplay did not pan out as well as they expected as they progressed. The unified story and new gameplay mechanics were what the team at the developers came up with for GMS and possibly other services.
Kaiser's Command System has been modified for similar reasons. The same team as above said that the original mechanics of it did not function as well as they had hoped and that some of the key combinations were cumbersome, which discouraged many players from fully utilizing the system. The mechanics have been improved and many of the key combinations have been simplified and/or made straightforward, allowing players to better make full use of the system.

Q - Is Cody really from Wizet?
A - (H) We have yet to figure out who this Cody really is.

Q - Would there be any way to purge IGNs for characters that, say, are under level 30 and haven't been accessed for a year? Something like that. It's getting harder and harder to come up with unique IGNs.
A - (W) Because of the exact reason you mentioned, things along these lines have been discussed to determine their technical feasibility, but due to the hurdles involved, there are no plans to go forward with it at this time.
A2 - (H) If we were to implement such a feature, for any player on hiatus, we wouldn't delete a name without warning.

Q - Hime, what is your favorite class to play?
A - (H) For any game, I like bowman-based classes. My main is a Wind Archer but I do also enjoy playing Mihile and Luminous.
A2 - (W) I am an anomaly in that I play as everything. Most of my co-workers have particular preferences, though. For example, one loves Dual Blades, another prefers Jett, and my boss is enjoying Luminous right now.

Q - Any plans for other, non-KMS, awesome classes to come to GMS, like Hayato or Kanna from JMS?
A - (W) It would be really awesome if we could get that content at some point. JMS' Sengoku Era updates looked great!

Q - hi, hime. what are nexon's plans, if any, about about adding actual relevant content for high leveled players to explore, instead of adding new classes?
currently, the only worthwhile content for 160+ players is the stronghold area and looking at future content coming from kms, magnus is the only interesting thing being released in gms for high leveled players soon. besides that, it's all just new classes and no relevant high level content for the future 6 or 7 months it seems.
A - (W) We are definitely interested in releasing more content for high level characters, but the implementation thereof is dependent upon our developers' resources amidst our schedule of releasing KMS content, seasonal events, and general events and content for a broad range of levels, amongst other things.

Q - When are you going to release the Eric class?
A - (W) I don't want to give away too much, but maybe more information will be released on April 1.

Q - Will name changes make a come back in the cash shop?
A - (W) There are currently no plans to implement the old system unless it can be clearly improved, since the old system was slow and generated more errors than with which we or many players were comfortable.

Q - Maplemas or Versalmas?
A - (W) Maplemas. Ssiws Cheese looks sketchy.

Q - What intelectual involvement do you guys have regarding development of MapleStory? Do you take part in the decision making of new classes, bosses, items, events?
A - (W) While we submit proposals from time to time for content, events, and items, and we have some discussion with our developers regarding modifications to content being released in GMS, the vast majority of the generation of plans and of course their implementation comes from our development team, the larger team that they are a part of, and the development teams for the other MapleStory services (especially KMS, of course).

Q - Will you ever bring world transfers back? I would really love to move to a new world as I started in Scania when it wasn't extremely populated like 3 or 4 years ago.
A - (W) Similar to the name change system, there are no plans for us to bring world transfers back at this time, due to issues with the old system and considerable improvements needing to be made to that system.

Q - Do Nexon workers get free unlimited mesos/NX/coffee mugs? can I have some?
A - (H) With any work place, there are a couple of perks. We have a coffee machine that runs 24/7. Naturally, every morning there is a line to get coffee.
P.S. No perks unlimited NX or Mesos.

Q - Hime, is that you in the MapleWorld World: Rise Against Update and what do you think of Luis Reyes?
I'd like to propose a Luis Reyes hair style in Maplestory.
A - (H) I am not in the newer MapleStory videos. and I'm not sure how much I like Luis because he tends to get me killed in videos...
If you have anything to propose, I highly recommend coming up with a concept and posting it in our fan creation section.