2012-11-26, 06:00 AM
Dudewitbow Wrote:it would put an odd schedule on nexon on giving out certain prizes.
They would have to odd schedule hot times for the classes(assume kaiser and AB were released on the same day). Both Kaiser and AB would have their Hot times scheduled on the same day, meaning that people wouldn't have the ability to get both helms for both classes(as nexon would want people to use the character slot coupons they hand out in order for link skills, which was partially the intention of link skills in the first place, to convince others to try a new class, and with unique link skills each, their intention is for users to try ALL of the new jobs with enough time to play all of them without missing key events, changing the character in world cap from 15 > 18 more or less is indicative of possibly allowing room for conspicuously "3" new characters, which coincide with the number of new jobs/link skills).
ANYWAYS, on release of the legends patch, DS was one of the top harassers/damage dealers as well at the time. Albeit AB brought the gap to a larger level, its no different from previous releases.
Well, there's two ways of looking at it. I was surprised to hear that GMS was getting Tempest so quickly because there was three jobs involved and AB's release would be past a Christmas sale if they did it even somewhat like KMS so it's possible that they'll bank on Luminous and Kaiser instead with Kaiser being the 'Christmas sale' class. On the other hand it is not out of the question that they'd schedule Hot Days for both of the helms that the two classes are supposed to get and once that's out of the way there isn't really a key event that relies on playing one of the characters.
Fair point about DS, but Mercedes was also a class that could bring in a lot of revenue and she was released in MSEA at a time when most people didn't have holidays. It just so happened that it coincided with MSEA's major patch times (May is one...I forgot what was the other).