2011-07-16, 01:51 PM
Combattente Wrote:Seeing the game's state right now, and how they started not putting any effort to make it a better place, I don't know what to expect from them anymore.While I agree with this almost 100% there is something I would like to point out I'm sure many who saw it remember. When Prose was on SP for a limited time he said 'Masteria isn't going the way I had initionally planed but that's common in MMORPG content.' I've noticed NEXONS seems to be meh w.e right now but, while there was a massive influx of bugs when Chaos first started NEXON still sort of jumped on the problem almost immediatly. I will argue that -maybe- they're just busy on the 5th part to worry about harmless bugs or even the dc hack that affected ardentmill andfrom what I read the hakshield error HAS stopped the script kiddies.(Tempo ofcourse but it is a start). As to the comment on the story sure, it hasn't been anywhere as good Prose left anyone could see that. Thats because Masteria is Prose's baby just like if Nintendo sold Mario and Pokemon it probably wouldn't be the same.While it defenatly isn't Prose's stories the HH2 story wasn't THAT bad and the fact it wasn't a permenant story I don't see why any effort should be put into it. I mean yeah you could if you wanted to make it enjoyable but it would only be there for a little while. As for the visitor event that wasn't bad. I mean the tory was pretty damn good, the maps in the future were VERY nice, and re cube pq was defenatly different. It always changed the path and it was Sorta like a maze.Don't get me wrong I hated th visitor event because well..mostly the Aliens. I mean if they put then in PRIVATE maps the whole thing would have been A LOT better, but I still didn't like it. Now the story was actually pretty good and really the whole thing showed what NEXONNA can do with exclusive content. Sure you can argue they worked with the Thailand team but my point still stands. This is defenatly a wait and see development and I do hope it IS worthwhile. Its hard to believe ANY company would just drop a project that has so much potential and so much, well everything. I think if they really did make a good Masteria expansion and actually changed the land, put the raven weapons and others into smithing, and actually make it what it should have been post-bb(still keeping it better then training areas but not to the point that it COMPLETLY destroys them) then I can see some players get really interested again knowing that an area that both new and old players have wanted for so long, I can see some players coming back with a slight shimmer of hope.
Sure, this is content we're talking about, but if they can't even manage to make their servers work right, how can we expect them to make quality exclusive content for our version?
Though, if it's still true that they only make concept art and ideas and send them to Nexon Korea for the making, then it might be another story.
Either way, most of the exclusive content since Prose quitted pretty much sucked, so I'm not really expecting much from this. I don't really think they will ever be able to find a worthy replacement of him, even because I doubt they'd even put effort in trying to do that, seeing how they don't even care of making their game playable.
So yeah. Masteria content? Maybe. Will the quests be as good as before? I don't think so. But I don't want to be too negative so I'll give them a chance on that. Afterall, we don't even know what's been going on about Masteria in the past years (great communication between company and users is great!), so we can't really say anything. They could've worked hard about making quality content just like they could have put really little effort in it and done a rushed thing such as Episode 1 and stuff.
What I'm hoping is, like someone else posted, that Prose left some notes for them to be able to continue the storyline and the whole Masteria in a DECENT way (unless he didn't have a real plan about the whole story, which I doubt is the case).
We'll see what will come out of this. I'm still a great fan of Masteria, and hoping for something good to be released as an expansion, sooner or later.
P.S I typed this on my phone so my apologies for any spelling and major grammatical errors.

