2012-04-19, 01:30 PM
Honestly, this disgusts me. Not the lawsuit, I'm all for them having to answer to the law for profiting with copyrighted material, but the amount Nexon wanted in the first place was completely ridiculous. Specially if you take into account that a lot of people who play in a private server either have an account on MS as well, or only play the PS because of the perks (100x exp or whatever, free NX items, active GMs, events), and wouldn't play MS on the official servers anyway. I'm all for Nexon closing down private servers, but i have a feeling they're doing it for all the wrong reasons, and I have a feeling they just saw this as an opportunity to take down competition and make a lot of money in the process.
I wish this would make them take a look at the things that are making people choose the private servers over them and try to fix this. Remember back when GMs banned hackers almost daily and announced it in game? Remember events with nice rewards like turkey pet, lunchbox, and even more recently, Time Traveler medal? The option for perma NX items? Now GMs log once every 2 months if we're lucky, talk about liking pie, and ignore any serious requests, questions or comments. Now every event is the same: collect 200 of x item or log in for x time during x days and get an expiring item that isn't that good to begin with. I think that if Nexon worked on these (and all the other) shortcomings, it would help secure the loyalty of their players.
/end rant
I wish this would make them take a look at the things that are making people choose the private servers over them and try to fix this. Remember back when GMs banned hackers almost daily and announced it in game? Remember events with nice rewards like turkey pet, lunchbox, and even more recently, Time Traveler medal? The option for perma NX items? Now GMs log once every 2 months if we're lucky, talk about liking pie, and ignore any serious requests, questions or comments. Now every event is the same: collect 200 of x item or log in for x time during x days and get an expiring item that isn't that good to begin with. I think that if Nexon worked on these (and all the other) shortcomings, it would help secure the loyalty of their players.
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