2014-01-11, 11:32 PM
Vanderlust Wrote:All I'm going to say is: I got 400, yes 400 empress equips on runs today. CRA? 30 equips. Income from those bosses is basically going to be nothing now relative to those who are funded enough to do them. If you can do empress, less than 10m per equip is not going to cut it for you, especially when you'll have a hard time selling it at 10m per. If you can do croot, you spend hundreds of K of nx per item...KMS's 50m levels of pay for each equip is not going to cut it either.
What does that mean? The game is more pay to win, not less. What does a noob have to look forward to when defeating new bosses besides just beating it. He's worked all this time to get strong enough to FINALLY kill empress/cra, and what happens? His income stays the same and he gets minimal reward. How do you make money off of boss drops when there are 6x as many of them in an already saturated fm? How does he further improve himself after coming all this way so that he can take the next step and beat another boss ? Really, it's very difficult and really, there's no point in doing it because he doesn't even get more income to work towards that new tier.
Like @Outrightliar said, The majority of what you spend and the effectiveness on an equip is NOT the clean equip. It's the scrolling and cubing.
The point of the game is to get rewards from EFFORT YOU PUT IN. What this does is rewards effort LESS , and therefore rewards spending MORE on NX.
It was already a problem for lower level bosses, which didn't drop anything of value, but now it's extended to the ridiculous bosses too. Basically there's no way to make good money off boss drops anymore besides gollux. The effort required vs reward is so skewed that I don't know why anyone would work to get stronger anymore. It does help the lower level players VERY slightly, but at the price of the end game players (which is what lower level players are usually striving for...). Not worth it.
As for party players: you didn't get any increased income because the equips will deflate massively, proportional to the drop rate increase. Most solo'ers will just bring in 5 looters.
There was a problem with this game, but doing this only made it worse, it didn't fix anything.
This is a problem yes but we already have it stacked on how over-inflated our items already are. They've come to ridiculous prices where there's a price gap between empress and the next higher gear being nearly 1000x as much. That
shouldn't be how it works. Yes I understand that you have to make money, and empress is now dropping in both value and somewhat in necessity, it's still ridiculous in pricing. This is the pure reason I've stopped upgrading and am having a
hard time finding actual enjoyment in playing this. While another fault is content, why can't I have the ability to upgrade my equipment even higher than it is now? and not be able to reach the highest I can go? Because we have a broken economy full of greedy people. The reason empress is falling in value is due to the fact that EVERYONE HAS IT it's not because no one wants it, so what do the people do that have access to the equipment higher? Oh how about make it a price where no one can reach because nothing below it has any actual value. Either way we go someone has to spend a ridiculous amount of money getting perfect gear to sell just to make even more perfect gear. What Nexon and it's players has done is made a humongous bridge that we're all aware of that make it p2w, and we're just helping them out. Even if RA drops in price then something else will skyrocket, and if it regains it's price the other items become what they once were and nothing has changed. While yes Nexon has made the game slightly less p2w the large majority of the game is still and always will be this. If the effort I need to put in is breaking my entire bank account and just pouring in hundreds and thousands of dollars just for very little gain, then I never want to put in any effort. THis may make your effort that you put in less, but the gain from your effort is already too small, you've already fallen into Nexon's ploy, those who've put in this much effort into the game just to be able to solo these bosses have already lost.
tl;dr Basically if you've already gotten to the point that you can solo these bosses without the help of others then you've payed way too much money for very little gain. Also the system pretty broken already to have to put this much effort in.