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My thoughts on the new violet cube

A wise old man once said, "I gonna drop 100 bands on violet this Sunday."
I asked, "Wtf, really? On cubes man?"
he replied, "No young padawan, not cubes, violet from the str1p club....."

Apparently, there's a huge debating on this "str1pper" cube so I decided to come and put in my perspective on the release of the "str1pper" cubes. As an old "super funded" player, I came to just mention that all of the negative cons that people are using to petition the cubes already exist so violet cubes won't do any significant damage to something that's already critically damaged. For example, based on sample evidence, after "better maple" was launched, using red cubes or black cubes results in godly stats relative to the past cubing experiences prior to the "better maple" With better tier ups and easier stat gains, the item values basically crashed (as you can see, you can find a 30% int tattoo for less than 10b).

In terms of tiering up, I am pretty sure people will still use the tradition ways (red and black cubes) and then use the violet cubes (presuming that these cubes will come up all the time in the future). Even though probability shows that violet cubes are far better than the red cubes, probability is still based on correlation and correlation does not imply causation. There will be people who will get lucky with these violet cubes and there are people who will be unlucky (possibly spending more on these cubes than red cubes for same stats).

In addition, there are bonus cubes.... Basically, nexon is being strategically smart and using the positive correlation psychology and gambler's fallacy to increase profit from cubes. I am not saying everyone will do it but there will be good amount of people who will have a pseudo OCD effect where having a perfect normal pot and a cr4ppy bonus pot will bother them, subliminally making them wanting to cube it for better stats, assuming that 'since I have a godly stat on my normal, it shouldnt be that bad to obtain decent bonus pot without excessive spending.' However, bonus cubes are the most costly things on an item (if you ever tried to use bonus cubes on a weapon, you know how this sh** go) and this is where nexon is likely to trap those hesitant spenders who can spend but won't until a trap like this. This will possibly skew the item value towards bonus pots and maybe create a stigma that just godly normal pot is not enough in majority of the players.

Although this is just a speculation through observation and trend and spewing out personal distorted perspective (so the points aren't exactly correct), I believe the ideology is somewhat correct if you can see beyond what is present. I am pretty sure a lot of people will disagree with me but this is just my opinion so don't take any offense.

In conclusion, everything is already done. (profitability of bosses, crash of godly items, and etc) The release of cube will devalue equips but not by a lot (relative to the current prices). Furthermore, this cube will not only help out the less funded, but also the perfectionists and godly funded because the slope of the possible decrease in cube spending and the speculated devalued equips won't be that huge.

Stance: I am for this cube (although I don't cube anymore), it will not only help out the less funded, but ease the cost of overall population cubing spree, and prospectively help with nexon's quarterly reports.

tl;dr: idc, dr

-J