A Jew came to the Rabbi, begging for advice.
"Rabbi, my life is unbearable. I work hard all day but we are very poor. My wife and I and our six children all live in a one-room shack. Our clothes are threadbare, we hardly have food, what shall we do?"
The Rabbi pondered and then gave the man a coin from the charity box, and said, "Buy a goat."
"You mean, so we can have free milk?"
The Rabbi nodded.
"But Rabbi, even if we could afford a goat, we don't have a barn or even a yard to keep a goat in."
"So keep it in the house with you."
The man was puzzled, but there was no questioning the wisdom of the Rabbi. He went and bought a goat and took it home.
A week later he came back to the Rabbi.
"Oh Rabbi! I really don't want to sound ungrateful for your advice, but life is horrible! My wife and I and our six children and the goat are really really crowded in our little home. The noise, the stench! The goat eats our food and our clothes! Please help!"
The Rabbi pondered some more, and said, "Sell the goat."
After two days the Jew came back.
"Oh Rabbi! You are so wise! I sold the goat like you told me, and now life is wonderful! So much space in our peaceful home! So wonderful to have clothes and food not disappear on us! Thank you so much!"
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And why is this story in the Maplestory Discussion section?
Because Nexon uses the Rabbi's tactic all the time. Things are bad, the players complain, so Nexon makes things even worse. The players shift to complaining about the new horrible thing, so Nexon restores things to how they were (or almost so), and the players fall all over themselves thanking Nexon for fixing the unbearable situation. For "removing the goat", as we say in Hebrew. The players completely forget their previous complaints, or feel that it's "too much to ask". "I mean they already gave us this very important thing we asked for, we shouldn't be greedy for even more".
The latest goat is the change to UTC.
It's utterly ridiculous and I can't imagine anyone there actually thought it would be a good idea to run their North American game servers on UTC time. They're only now "looking into" rescheduling events so the majority of players (which are still in America) can participate.
I expect that they will shortly revert this change and then expect us to forget about all the other things wrong with the game, and all the other complaints that go unheard, for a while.
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