Debate A new worldserver with No Nx
I had a random thought, what if Maplestory had a new world that disabled the Cash Shop completely? Characters made in that server cannot access Cash shop.
Would we see a lot of players in that server? Or would it be deserted? Would you like to play in a world like that?
Discuss
June 20, 2015
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KMS is getting the reboot server which will have a Cash Shop but I think that it will be strictly limited to beauty/appearance.
[quote=turtlebear]Wouldn't this be a good thing? Now being high leveled actually means something (just like preBB) and taking down otherwise-easy bosses such as Zak actually meant something. Items that are dropped by monsters would be worth using, 9% stat items would be considered the ultra-rare and 3% would be the average? Bosses such as pink bean mag and gollux would actually require highly coordinated and organized guilds to kill instead of soloable. This is what the game should be no?[/quote]
Taking down easy bosses meant something the first few times and then it became whatever. Let us not forget that we were all hooked watching BSCULA spend three hours soloing Zakum. I just don't think that a majority of players that have already experienced being able to go beyond Zakum and Horntail, which are some of the most bland bosses ever created, would enjoy Reboot as much. I mean that in a sort of sustained sense. Sure, there might be a group that comes back to play together and then once they beat the big baddies (Zakum, Horntail, Pink Bean; you're kidding yourself if you think with middling levels of %stat and negligible %boss and %defense ignore people will be able to fight other bosses, even in groups), they move on.
As I've said before, everyone loves to talk about how amazing pre-BB (or pre-potential, who knows) was. However this is all from a post-BB standpoint where you can be all "yeah I personally loved grinding for 18 hours on 19x for .000002% pre-BB," and then log-on and enjoy not having to do that. I would be willing to bet that if you stuck a group of these people in a pre-BB (or pre-potential) server, having already played significant amounts of post-BB, they would enjoy it for a while and then quit. That's what I see happening with Reboot. Either that or it's an infinitely more "casual" server where people go after they've done they're dailies or are bored on the regular servers. Not to mention we really have no idea what Nexon is going to do. We can assume what they mean by "less cash dependency," but we have to concrete information so it could all be for naught anyways.
[quote=bloodIsShed]if the cash shop is disabled, we'd no longer have overpowered items obtainable from mass-cubing
this would result in items and equipment that are significantly weaker than those found in other worlds.
9% stat items or better would basically be non-existant (except for maybe a few, which would be selling for max mesos or more)
6% stat item would be considered "end-game" potential, with many settling for 3%.
people would no longer be able to easily defeat certain bosses, such as Pink Bean, hard Magnus, hard gollux, etc
the lack of 2x exp coupon would result in a slower leveling, though exp coupons obtainable from other means might help a little.
some items that can only be obtained from gacha or random reward would simply not exist in this world, including:
several chairs, mounts, and equipment (elemental stave)
on the plus side:
no more obnoxious smegas [/quote]
Wouldn't this be a good thing? Now being high leveled actually means something (just like preBB) and taking down otherwise-easy bosses such as Zak actually meant something. Items that are dropped by monsters would be worth using, 9% stat items would be considered the ultra-rare and 3% would be the average? Bosses such as pink bean mag and gollux would actually require highly coordinated and organized guilds to kill instead of soloable. This is what the game should be no?
[quote=Momijii]It would probably start out popular and then people would quit. Just like Supreme![/quote]
To be fair, Supreme got closed because it was poorly executed. If Nexon had put some more time and resources into it it would've been viable for a lot of people to have as a main server.
A world with just NX.
if the cash shop is disabled, we'd no longer have overpowered items obtainable from mass-cubing
this would result in items and equipment that are significantly weaker than those found in other worlds.
9% stat items or better would basically be non-existant (except for maybe a few, which would be selling for max mesos or more)
6% stat item would be considered "end-game" potential, with many settling for 3%.
people would no longer be able to easily defeat certain bosses, such as Pink Bean, hard Magnus, hard gollux, etc
the lack of 2x exp coupon would result in a slower leveling, though exp coupons obtainable from other means might help a little.
some items that can only be obtained from gacha or random reward would simply not exist in this world, including:
several chairs, mounts, and equipment (elemental stave)
on the plus side:
no more obnoxious smegas
[quote=Flamepc]Won't be popular. Can't look cute = won't play.[/quote]
Wouldn't you sacrafice the need to look cute to avoid having access to imbalanced items such as cubes?
it might, when nexon really runs out of ideas
and they are getting there
[quote=Momijii]It would probably start out popular and then people would quit. Just like Supreme![/quote]
I agree that the world would probably start off popular than evenutually "diminish" because even though NX costs $$ and no one really wants to spend $$ on a game, ppl usually like "style" and normal equips (non-nx) that costs only mesos don't really give you the chance to make a "nice/cute/cool" appearance.
maplestory's default non-nx items are so ugly though </3
Won't be popular. Can't look cute = won't play.
Wouldn't.. Nexon lose money then lol
It would probably start out popular and then people would quit. Just like Supreme!