[News] Tespia is coming!

Another contention against new Masteria content (as much as I'm dying to see more): I doubt they'd release a huge amount of GMS-exclusive content NOW, with the Big Bang patch looming on the horizon. Doesn't sound like a lot of fun to create a whole bunch of stuff, release it, and then have to reformat it to work with the new systems.

That being said, here's another contention FOR Masteria: WITH the Big Bang patch looming, it could spark the ingenious creativity of Nexon America to incorporate new Masteria content with the patch, and that would be affected by the storyline or something, yet in the end give them a chance to revitalize and revolutionize a GMS-specific Big Bang with new exclusive content.

Though knowing Nexon America's fabulous copypastaing skills (laughingman.jpg), I think the latter is more of a stretch than the former.

I personally don't mind it when NexonAM copy-pastes content from Nexon Korea. I feel like Nexon Korea for the most part knows what they are doing, and when NexonAM releases new content it just ends up being buggy and not so great. I remember when NLC first came out, and I was excited, but it ended up being disappointing. Same went for all of the other Masteria content:

The map layouts are odd and some very inconvenient, some of the monsters don't even fit the area (I.M. Robots or whatever they are called), very little quests and the few that there are often have low drop rates of items and some of the monsters are harder to find (It was either the blue or purple elephants. Don't know what they are called), some areas are very hard to navigate (Mansion and Crimsonwood Forest. Some of you may say that it is easy to navigate once you've gotten used to it, but it should be easy to navigate in the *first* place, not a chore).

The only positive things I can really say about Masteria content is that EXP is good and the rewards for the quests are decent.

I just feel like Nexon Korea thinks out their areas better and fine-tunes them more. Their content is generally just more aesthetically-pleasing. I'd take the art (and the quests) of Ariant, Time Temple or Leafre over Masteria any day. And honestly, they just have more experience making content, no one can argue that.