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If MapleStory closes

Hey guys, quick question.

Nexon could pull the plug on maintaining the servers and Maple can be over at any moment right? So if I invested a couple hundred, or a thousand or so USD on this game (cubing and such), if they decided to shut it down all that money would be gone, right?

November 10, 2014

18 Comments • Newest first

savgestarz

[quote=ksilsu]The only thing you might get back is unspent Nx.
This is different from an iPhone because when you buy an Nx item, they usually have a expiration date. Like food.
You don't get to keep it forever[/quote]

I referred to cubing items.

Reply November 12, 2014
ksilsu

The only thing you might get back is unspent Nx.
This is different from an iPhone because when you buy an Nx item, they usually have a expiration date. Like food.
You don't get to keep it forever

Reply November 10, 2014
Dominating

well as long as they profit ... why would they shut it down?
But yes ,I guess that would be a very sad day ...

Reply November 10, 2014
xxSab

If MS closes, many peoples lives will have no meaning...

..including me

Reply November 10, 2014
Dominion

@AlwaysTrying I feel like that would break the other games, that is if they are pay2win too.
@johnny17710 well I wouldn't say zero right to be upset....

Reply November 10, 2014
AlwaysTrying

i dunno, my friend played krazy kart rider or whatever it was and spent $75 on nx. after it got shut down monttttthhhssssssss later nexon gave him $75 worth of maple points / whatever isn't prepaid in other games and he spent it on MS. Who knows, maybe nexon will give us the thousands of dollars we spent on the game. or maybe half.

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
johnny17710

[quote=savgestarz]I spend money expecting that whatever I buy will last until I decide I longer want it. If you bought a new iPhone, wouldn't you be upset if one day Apple decided to prevent your iPhone from working. You completely lost what you paid for. [/quote]

That's not what this is like at all. You don't own your character and you don't own the NX. Nexon does. If Nexon decides to take it all back and not give you anything you have zero right to be upset because you didn't own it in the first place.

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
savgestarz

[quote=ksilsu]Do you spend money expecting to get it back o_o...[/quote]

I spend money expecting that whatever I buy will last until I decide I longer want it. If you bought a new iPhone, wouldn't you be upset if one day Apple decided to prevent your iPhone from working. You completely lost what you paid for.

The concept seemed similar to me, not sure if it's a concrete analogy but hopefully you get where I'm coming form. I just don't want the money I spend on this game to disappear at a whim.

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
BobR

@savgestarz Like it says in the Terms of Use, all sales are final and not refundable, so consider anything you put into the game as a "sunk cost", meaning it's gone and you'll never see it again.

But actually I think I remember that when DFO closed they gave people who had bought NX recently some kind of compensation they could use in other Nexon games.
So if you want to play Mabinogi or whatever, you might get a few maplepoints (or whatever they use in the other games) to get you started spending money on those games too.

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
ksilsu

Do you spend money expecting to get it back o_o...

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
savgestarz

[quote=KnuckleBrown]Nah they'll give it back to you.[/quote]

pretty words make things better

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
KnuckleBrown

Nah they'll give it back to you.

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BridgeJump

The day maple shuts down is the day I kill myself. Don't do it, Nexi

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
savgestarz

[quote=SANbounty]It MS closes we would have less threads like this one.[/quote]

haha look at this guy - I didn't know I'd receive haters on this!

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
Chros

They'd probably give you ~10k nx in compensation for spending money on the game.
"Now go play our other games so that you can use that NX!"

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
MeerCats

Considering they're just selling pixels on a video game, yes, and also add in the fact NX cash expires, yes.

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
iChosenDream

Nexon would rather leave the game up and make more money off us.

Reply November 10, 2014 - edited
Albums

Wouldn't be considered an investment, that's for sure.

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