2015-12-31, 07:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-31, 08:21 AM by SaptaZapta.)
GameMX Wrote:I will agree that the Cash Shop is lacking content, but a company wanting their product to be a failure is extremely cynical. If we were talking about a government of some sort I could understand more, but a company is trying to make profit. Lets be honest, Maplestory hasn't seen this much activity in a long time. Hell, I have a guild again and my friends are playing again. Granted we're all in our mid-late twenties now and can't spend 12 hours a day like we have done in the past, but it has revived quite a damn bit. I'm enjoying the content Reboot is offering. Does it have problems? Yes, yes it does. Nothing is perfect but it is a lot better then what it has been. I'm so glad scrolling is gone. That pomegranate made me want to quit multiple times.
Yes, but are you buying NX?
The company doesn't just want you playing and using up their resources (of which they allocated way too few to Reboot). They want you buying NX. And if they don't put anything in the Cash Shop that you want to buy, you won't be doing much of that.
GameMX Wrote:The nice thing about reboot is that the impact hackers/botters have is a much smaller magnitude. You can't hack/bot for mesos to sell because there is no trading and no Free Market. There is no benefits to hacking Reboot accounts/characters because you can't gain any sort of real income due to the previous example. The only thing it truly has an impact on is the rankings. And lets be honest, rankings is bullpomegranate. It's just a penis measuring contest in "who has the most time to waste".
Wrong.
People are botting up accounts for sale. For some real-world dollars you can buy an account with several - or many - billion meso on it.
Maybe if they completely disabled storage in Reboot that would slow that business down (not everybody wants to main random-named Blaze Wizard character, no matter how "funded").
People are also selling boss carries and meso-botting leech, both for real-world money.
I daresay hackers are making more $$$ off Reboot right now than Nexon is.
Furthermore, it has an effect on player motivation.
People who aren't competitive don't mind playing in the existing servers, for the most part. The fact that others can just plunk down a few thousand dollars and instantly beat CRA or Hellux doesn't bother them. In fact, they're glad to have someone to carry them through bosses or sell them best-in-slot gear for a low meso cost.
Competitive people, however, wanted Reboot for the "level playing field" aspect. To know that with hard work they can be "the best."
If the server is cheat2win rather than pay2win, it's no better, and in some ways much worse, than the normal ones.