2013-10-02, 03:41 PM
Stereo Wrote:For a lot of players that would come with "NX shared between all characters"; I don't mind buying pets in general, but for a new class I'll play for a week and then decide about, I'm not going to. (I'd be more likely to play them if they shared NX though)
Well honestly, I'd rather either have pets be free or the loot system revamped. Because if you look at how much NX is "worth" approximately in mesos, buying just the item pouch and meso magnet (assuming you have a pet already, seeing as how even I have a permanent pet on my Hayato from a past event) is like spending over 100m. How much do you have to play to actually make that back? Nexon would rather you look at it as "pay $5, have convenient looting for 3 months!", which doesn't sound inherently bad, but given what those same five bucks could get you if you somehow sold the NX in a legal fashion and compare that to what you earn by using the loot equips...the price is a horrible ripoff.
So what happens if you try to go without? You could just ignore drops altogether, except perhaps Medals of Honor (since you do want a decent inner ability, right?) and any really rare drop. But that only works if you're an established character with cash to spare. If you start a brand new character on a brand new account, you could easily go broke on potions if you don't loot at all and there's no helpful event going on. And even if you aren't broke, have fun with all those quest lines that ask you to collect monster drops.
Ultimately, it's a terrible move by Nexon to have monsters drop so much stuff and it's like, "Oh you want this? Swipe a credit card or spend all day holding an inefficient loot key." Like the market and other issues, it's hard to believe they've gotten away with it for so long.