2014-09-13, 12:57 PM
SaptaZapta Wrote:I understood that. But what I am trying to say is that it makes no sense for SAO to put that in the contract. It doesn't gain them any followers.
SAO wouldn't put something like that in the contract. SAO may gain something (e.g. some amount of increase in its fan-base) from this tie-up, but I don't think SAO needs to do anything at all in this tie-up. Making demands isn't strategic for SAO at all.
Instead, Nexon wouldn't want to dilute the impact of something that 1) the community chose and 2) Nexon think is some kind of big promising project that would attract lots of people, using other planned upcoming updates. As big as the BW and/or NW update is, it's more internal and kind of "expected", whereas this SAO thing would be something new and refreshing. Unfortunately, it doesn't look anywhere close to a marketable product that can give the success they're expecting. Maybe the $$$ numbers would prove me/us wrong and them right, but the way people spend money in Maple... it's very distorted.
Basically, I'm not impressed either. There's so little additional playing value or satisfaction derived from playing this new thing if it's just for those medals... it's so clear to us that it's out for us to spend NX. RLH becomes a grind eventually, for us spend money to level up or get the totems. Just... stop using old formulae and do new stuff, like radically new.
Hadriel