2012-08-05, 12:13 PM
anondesu9000 Wrote:That video is just...awesome. Although, if it says anything about Nexon, it's the exact opposite of what you're saying. Nexon is focusing entirely on releasing new classes in order to accelerate power creep and increase the monetization of it. Ever since the cash shop started selling game altering items, profiting from power creep has been their modus operandi. They're never trying to stall it, because stalling it means less money for them due to the current status quo of more powerful items and abilities going hand in hand with cash shop items.
Although, if NexAm continues to be less profitable than the less greedy overseas versions where Evans aren't pay to play, then that video is absolutely right about power creep being detrimental to business. Personally, I'm licking my chops in anticipation for the day GMS gets hoist by its own money grubbing petard.
Sorry but liking it alone didn't seem enough. This.
anondesu9000 Wrote:Actually, new classes are pretty damn cool. It's not just doing the same thing over again, it's doing the same thing over again differently, and with new abilities.
If the theories of that video were taken into consideration, all new classes would have different mechanics to the old ones, not just look different, and that alone would be appealing enough to lure out new players instead of making them stronger than every class released previously, which is what they do right now. The only original mechanism that Angelic Burster brings into the game that no other class has is the hovering spinning monsters, which isn't more than monsters diying in a different way.
Polantaris Wrote:When have they added later content?
Actually Nexon has released new content, prolly not at the rate one would want or the kind some want but its still there, being Aswan the last one of it. My main complaint game-design-wise is the addition of more and more classes that simply do nothing but what others already did, with a different animation.

