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A) KR makes like 500 times what NA does.
B) NA's profits have been slipping already. *Anything* that reduces income from hereonin will probably be the final nail in the coffin for NA.
NA Nexon's profits have been slipping, we don't know if that's Mabi or other games causing the slippage. Seeing that Mabi's playerbase has at least doubled since the IP block was dropped, it's difficult to imagine that Mabi's profit is going down.
C) I know a hellva lot more people that rebirth weekly then people who spend on Gacha. Those 3-4 people per server that really NX spam will still spend the same regardless, just everyone else pays less.
I guess that just confirms Tarlach and Alexina have wildly different playerbases. Here's the thing though - Alexina is way bigger.
Exactly.
We're saying that KR makes a shitton of money because everyone and their mum over there uses 100x on cash shop items every month then the average player uses in a year over here.
And my point is that Nexon was having money problems, they'd be making more services paid, not less (ignore VIP farming, that was an anti-bot measure, seeing farming is a noob trap.) Furthermore, they've gone a long way towards undercutting the need for weekly RB to begin with - AP events, double rainbows, 3x AP months, daily AP. A struggling game would squeeze the players more -
they're doing exactly the opposite.
I wasn't playing in 2011.
Hackers =| Permanently nerfing your income.
The point is that Nexon NA most likely suffered severe profit losses from the game's instability, due to an exodus of players. Yet that did not kill the game.
Wanna see what a game that was on the brink of death looked like? Dig up some threads from late 2011/early 2012. Or hell, early 2011 when we found out Alexina was only using 2 server machines to run the whole thing.
Because it was all lost in the cries of people going "YAY NOW WE CAN PAY FOR EVEN LESS, WE GET WHAT WE DESERVE DESPITE NOT PAYING ANYTHING AND BEING GRET LEECHS TY NEXON WE LOAF YOU FOR 1.5 WEEKS THEN GO BACK 2 HATING ON PPL WHO SPEND ON NX TO KEEP THIS GAME RUNNING".
Well, thanks for giving it away. You pay NX so you feel entitled and superior for "keeping the game running". Game, set, match. Yes, I know the payers keep the game running. Now buy reforges and shut up.
If people like you had had your way this game would already be dead. Because people bitched when G4 was implemented and we got gens and free 3 week RB, for the exact same reasons.
Perhaps this is a Tarlach thing, but I know very few people who actually reforge their stuff more then once or twice, and most people who do buy it off those 3-4 gacha spammer people with ingame money.
In Alexina, there's so much reforged stuff around you could get an ele 6 HLC for 5-7m if you put up a party.
Like it or not, I think that free weekly rebirth is unlikely/ unreasonable for mabiNA. I would love it, but I would hate it if it caused mabiNA to go under, which it very well COULD cause.
Pure paranoia, and if MabiNA implemented this, you'd assume they had a good business decision to do so.
It would allow new players to quicken up their advancement on a skillset, and allow them to play with older players much more quickly. I can understand that, and for that reason, I can understand why mabiNA WOULD release this. And, well, the more players you attract, the higher chance of increasing the income from mabinogi, and therefore mabinogi's worth.
Exactly the reason I stated. Unless you assume that all weekly RBers stop paying period, attracting and keeping new players will eventually trump this.
So, really no point in using speculation and how much you THINK nexon makes to make an argument, unless you actually somehow know how much mabinogi makes nexon, and how much of that money comes from character cards.
To an extent it's speculation, but my experience in Alexina tells me that the number of people who weekly RB is a relatively small percentage. But then, there's a lot more new and casual players in Alexina. Still, I really doubt it's a high percentage, never mind the assumption that it's lost profit as opposed to redirected profit.