2016-01-17, 01:08 PM
Grey Wrote:Sacrifice makes sense, no? It's a viable strategy; all actions don't have to lead to positive results in order for you to have an overall positive gain. Having Reboot fail would be definitely bad for Reboot, but it's not an outcome that would necessarily be bad as a whole for Nexon. The faster Reboot fails, the faster Nexon can say that they tried and use it as evidence that it just isn't viable, and most importantly, they don't have to continue expending resources on the server.
But Reboot has a ton of players, including tons of returning players and players who would otherwise not play Maple because of its pay2win reputation, and if Reboot shuts down, they either move to the regular servers, which could be a gain, or they quit. But the thing here is, Nexon probably already expects that people who play on Reboot aren't the whales thet they can make most of their money on, so even if they quit, it's no big loss. It might even be a gain, most players have at least bought a pet already, so they've already made some money off those players, and if they don't intend on continuing to pay, it's better just to let them go instead of having them continue to use up resources.
It's not necessarily the best strategy, but this way, they can then easily move back into the monetization strategy that they've been comfortable with in the past few years, with, hopefully, some turnover from Reboot.
Of course we don't know, no one's saying that we do, it's speculation.
Well I understand the thought process and the argument. I just keep imagining a meeting at the HQ and them discussing "how to kill Reboot and make as much money as we can while we doing it". It's literally insane as a business strategy, and I refuse to believe the company operates like that. It's interesting how one is even able to come up with a business strategy as insane as this one. It's so outrageous I can't follow it without laughing a little bit on the inside.
I am able to criticize Nexon, but this is just too much for me I guess.