Re quotI spend Nx and therefore I should have advantagequot
Title: Re: "I spend NX and therefore I should have advantage"
To those who say they should have advantage if they are paying users, they already have a ton of advantages:
-Faster leveling speed and higher drop rate: 2x EXP/drop rate coupons, or even 3x coupon from marvel machine to make it 6x EXP
-Instant travelling: hyper teleport rock
-Perfecting weapons and equips with protection/shield scrolls
-An entire cash shop with cosmetics
-Getting end-game equips like tyrants and RA equips from gacha and marvel machine
-Shop permits are the only ways to sell things in FM
-Inventory and storage expansion which makes life much more convenient
-Owl that can find items for you in the FM
-Many more you can list here
But buying power (especially cubes) should never be one of the advantages.
Let's be honest, most people would want to do bosses especially the hard ones. You train so hard slaying the same monsters to get to high level, and you will want to fight those end-game bosses to test your strength (or defeat the evil for our Maple World), right?
Selling power (cubes, many kinds) breaks the the balance between heavy NX spenders and the others. Unleashed Update further enlarges the gap by making most end-game bosses (including mulung dojo which many people are used to be able to beat) impossible to beat unless you have the very best equips, which forces players to buy power, a lot of power aka cubes, etc. This greatly splits the community apart. People who buy power get more powerful and people who don't buy power stay the same (or much weaker due to bosses being greatly buffed).
Nexon is actually losing money because many people no longer play the game because they know if they don't spend thousands of dollars they will never be able to get to fight any end-game bosses (This goes back to my previous point, bossing is many, if not, most people's goal in this game.). (Random person's argument: but it's possible make my own perfect 90% bossing weapon by spending 5 years to farm event items, merching and making 60 bil and converting it to NX eventually." Sure, if you have that MUCH TIME).
Lastly I have two good videos to show:
-[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syIUn8gZ1r8]How pay-to-win and unaffordable Maple has become[/url]
-[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXA559KNopI]Microtransactions 101, selling power forces players to pay to play[/url]
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@bravepotato this is basically what happened. I spent 50k on marvel and got nothing but a ton of quest penguins and smegas. I refuse to put anymore money into this unless this changes. I don't mind spending money because it does help keep the game up, but i do hate how you HAVE to spend money just to get anywhere. I have little issues with cubes existing, but i do not want to pay 25$ for 6% accuracy >.< it is very discouraging to nx buyers because they feel like you have wasted 25$ on garbage that could've easily went to something else.
I do want to say at this point, I did buy nx so i believed i should've gotten some kind of break and not gotten 100% trash. I do not think i'm above people that don't buy nx but if i'm paying I should at least not be paying real money for worthless stuff in game. I'm not saying i should get tyrants across the board, but smegas from marvel? COME ON! >.< >.< >.< >.<
[quote=Rimkii]I did enjoy the videos they provided some great points but as an ex-NX spender, i don't mind buying things but the fact that there is ZERO methods of obtaining the same items in game is awful. Removing empress/tyrants/RA equips and making them CS items was a LOW move. And if cubes are to exist, fine. But they need to be an in game method for them too since it caused this horrible divide in the first place. I just wish for cubing they took out the trash potentials like 3% to recover 53 hp I would buy more nx if i wasn't constantly discouraged by results.[/quote]I'm glad you like the videos
Right. The trash potentials make players frustrated because even they spend $50~$200 on cubes, they can still end up with rare or epic potentials that are useless. Sooner or later they realize they are being taken advantage of and don't feel like spending another dollar on the game.
I did enjoy the videos they provided some great points but as an ex-NX spender, i don't mind buying things but the fact that there is ZERO methods of obtaining the same items in game is awful. Removing empress/tyrants/RA equips and making them CS items was a LOW move. And if cubes are to exist, fine. But they need to be an in game method for them too since it caused this horrible divide in the first place. I just wish for cubing they took out the trash potentials like 3% to recover 53 hp I would buy more nx if i wasn't constantly discouraged by results.
@BravePotato: Well I NEVER craft anything else. I'm hoping that cubes will be easy to craft so they'll be cheap in the FM.
[quote=fradddd]Are the "comment tools (I guess you could call them that" messed up for anyone else?
BTW, in RED we are gonna be able to make cubes through the Profession system, so we'll see how good those cubes actually are and if they can change the game a bit.[/quote]I typed the quotation marks for my tile. I guess that messed it up.
I think Nexon is trying to restore the power balance (a bit) by introducing those cubes. Let's hope the materials to craft the cubes won't require weeks or even months of playing time to get. We should see.
Are the "comment tools (I guess you could call them that" messed up for anyone else?
BTW, in RED we are gonna be able to make cubes through the Profession system, so we'll see how good those cubes actually are and if they can change the game a bit.
I commend you for posting an Extra Credits video. They are brilliant, and all the argument we could ever say is said ever so eloquently by them.