2016-01-17, 11:38 AM
Invulgo Wrote:"Is Nexon intentionally trying set their product up for failure from the beginning?"
That's very outrageous, no company wants their newly implemented content to fail intentionally. I assume there will be more ways to monetize the reboot server without implementing pay2win features, for instance more cosmetic stuff. Also the majority of us aren't marketing expert that have access to analytical data, these speculations can't lead to anything productive in my opinion.
I don't know how much of the thread you've read, but some theories have been offered as to why a company might want its product to fail.
1. It's not "their product." Mama Korea forced it on them, and they're being passive-aggressive about it in an attempt to show Korea that "this concept can't work in GMS."
2. They think they're smarter than KMS. For example, the meso sacks they thought they could put in. For example, the pets (that in KMS can all be bought with Mileage). They plan to put the meso sacks, or other pay2win items, back in the Reboot shop, because "it can't break even otherwise." And maybe then add all the good cosmetics, so that they can have the income from both that and p2w items.
3. They believe that once Reboot shuts down (because the community abused it, hence "we can't have nice things") all the people who returned to Maple for Reboot will go to the paying servers because they'll have become addicted again.
Conspiracy theories? Yeah, maybe.
And maybe they're incompetent.
Or maybe they're as clever as you think.
For now, though, the Reboot population is dropping. The population bars during 2x this AM were not even full. First time I saw that happen during 2x, except while the server was crashing. Maybe the lack of Burning Characters made people go back and burn a link mule on their old non-reboot server? And maybe they've quit.
We'll wait and see.