2012-04-07, 06:54 AM
Fiel Wrote:Have you seen the absolute spike of games switching to the F2P model over the past year? Before, Maplestory (and most Nexon games) were one of the few, especially in 2009. Now you can play what was once premium games at no charge. DCUO, Evercrack 2, D&D Online... The age of the P2P MMO is behind us. It would seem that WoW stands alone as the last bastion of P2P profitability.
The other issue is that there are TOO MANY DAMN REVAMPS. Every three months there's a new revamp of a revamp or new classes. THIS IS NOT CONTENT. This is constant rehashing of old content so much I don't even know what the current fighter skills are anymore. In my opinion, the last true content for Maplestory was ToT/Pink Bean and Big Bang (of course I'm talking about KMS - not GMS). And even the classes and stuff that they revamp are NEVER balanced. EVER. They always screw it up and create bandwagon classes which the community does not like because it leads to massive price speculation, overpopulated classes, and imbalanced parties. I don't think they play with the numbers enough.
Hey guys. I bet I know what's coming in the next patch. IT'S A NEW CLASS AND A REVAMP. HOLY S'HIT, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT.
I couldn't agree more here. In fact, this is what I've been saying for the last year or so. Like I said in some other thread, it seems Nexon ran out of ideas. They simply don't know what they could add in anymore. That, or it's easier and more profitable for them to make new classes, because of that 10% that are dumb enough to invest a fortune for funding every single new class that comes out.
But seriously, Mikhail class? That was the final straw. That idea seems like something Nexon America would come up with while on a binge. How I wish it would have been a bad april fools joke. I was expecting that they would release Pirate legend, but that they are going to add cygnus instructors that basically have same skills as cygnus classes with 2-3 new, but unoriginal skills?
Nexon must be trying to kill original MS, before the release of MS2.