General

A nexon related question

Okay this thread is probably pointless, but I felt I had to make it because this kind of stuff annoys me to death. When people say things like "oh we won't get the cube crafting in RED" or such things like that (trust me i've heard some pretty stupid stuff before, but then again this is basil so I should expect no less.) disregarding for a moment that doing such a thing would be total suicide even from a business perspective.

In short: why do people try to use nexon america's greed as a measurement of us not getting certain things, when with a FEW exceptions (marvel being the most notable one I can think of) literally everything we get thats a cash grab, comes from KMS, which would mean they are therefore just as "greedy" as nexon america*

*Please note I am speaking about PRE-RED nexon korea, not brand new free cubes for everyone nexon korea who has seemingly changed its ways. Don't misunderstand either, im not saying Nexon America isn't greedy, simply that Nexon Korea is almost EQUALLY greedy, and therefore you can't use NA's greed as a defining factor in us getting things.

Who wants to bet I get flamed for asking an honest question!

Discuss.

Edit: doing this preemptively before someone says KMS doesn't have gachapon, they have Pigmy which is very similar =P

July 10, 2013

13 Comments • Newest first

infinteZero

@lazershock: shut down due to lack of players priceing nx priceing wise it was bad...everything was 2x~5x more then what the item cost in other dfo

and its player base died due to the fact all the items were so expensive,lack of fixes pvp system kept it going on the other areas dfo were ours had glitches most hackers in dfo were unchecked, then them not updating the game finished off most of the player base

Reply July 10, 2013
rythendevil

@lazershock: they did it to promote getting equips easier... also buying maplepoints

Reply July 10, 2013
lazershock

[quote=UrHedsOnFire]@lazershock and no human GMs, because nobody answers tickets. My only real biff with NA is that they have horrible, HORRIBLE customer service[/quote]

This I can very much agree on. Though they have improved SOMEWHAT as of late, they need to do better in terms of communication with players. I'll tell you what they really need, people who get paid to just sit there, ALL DAY and read the forums to take note of bugs and such! There was word going around about some sort of revamped MLWB too, but I didn't read about it much.

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
UrHedsOnFire

@lazershock and no human GMs, because nobody answers tickets. My only real biff with NA is that they have horrible, HORRIBLE customer service

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
lazershock

[quote=rythendevil]no higher drop rate, no perm nx clothes[/quote]

I should point out the permanent NX clothes are something ONLY kms has to my knowledge, so basically every other version is guilty of that =P
As for the drop rate change, didn't KMS get that to promote additional options? (which of course we don't have)

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
rythendevil

[quote=lazershock]Please feel free to elaborate =O
Theres quite a few things I can think of that help out your average consumer like events (I mean hell, if you played smart you were able to basically perfect anything you want for no money what so ever) I think theres even a free 90 day pet with all the equips on it that you get when you make a new account.[/quote]

no higher drop rate, no perm nx clothes

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
lazershock

[quote=rythendevil]usually nexon america skips out on things that help consumers[/quote]

Please feel free to elaborate =O
Theres quite a few things I can think of that help out your average consumer like events (I mean hell, if you played smart you were able to basically perfect anything you want for no money what so ever) I think theres even a free 90 day pet with all the equips on it that you get when you make a new account.

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
rythendevil

usually nexon america skips out on things that help consumers

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
lazershock

[quote=infinteZero]i dont think even the prices of such things are determined by nexon America

most of our updates,cs sales, items
are determined by kms/what they put it for in other maplestorys just to have one world wide price that stays the same no matter how mini times you exchange your money
you will more then almost always get the same amount on the dollar for nx and most time prices of the cs items will be exact same nx amounts

but yeah only greedy one that you could point out was DFO vs koreas dfo and xbox DFO was said to be ran by same people as our dfo
with it closing it said the xbox game will be still updated and what not as its ran by nexon Korea o.o[/quote]

I didn't play DFO so im largely unaware of exactly what happened but didn't it just shut down due to a lack of updates or something?

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
infinteZero

i dont think even the prices of such things are determined by nexon America

most of our updates,cs sales, items
are determined by kms/what they put it for in other maplestorys just to have one world wide price that stays the same no matter how mini times you exchange your money
you will more then almost always get the same amount on the dollar for nx and most time prices of the cs items will be exact same nx amounts

but yeah only greedy one that you could point out was DFO vs koreas dfo and xbox DFO was said to be ran by same people as our dfo
with it closing it said the xbox game will be still updated and what not as its ran by nexon Korea o.o

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
lazershock

[quote=jstn]the only thing i can contribute to this thread because i dont know anything about it is that nexon korea's nx is always permament.[/quote]

This is true, thats another one of those exceptions, however clothing is of little value from a gameplay perspective so thats less of a pay2win thing. I should add by the way that JMS has the ability to share your CS inventory between ALL your characters (at least I THINK its JMS?) but no other version has that, so thats neither here nor there.

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
jstn

the only thing i can contribute to this thread because i dont know anything about this is that nexon korea's nx is always permament.
that might help them just a bit

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited
icemage11

People just love to hate on Nexon America when they don't get everything their way.

Reply July 10, 2013 - edited