That's not true actually, and you know it. Otherwise G16s2 would have been a lot more worse.
As people who give Nexon money and keep their entire company running, we have that right to demand they get their stuff together.
But I digress, we're a playerbase, in a world of billions, in a game that has millions why oh why would people think that the voice of a percentage couldn't get a goal accomplished. I know for a fact some of us have paid over one thousand dollars on this game and if one thousand of us that paid one thousand dollars had never paid that money because we were upset with nexon they would be missing one million dollars. Isn't that a significant threat to a Free-to-play game?
Since we actually talk to each other, spend years together, some love each other, some move to be with each other that it would be easy to amass the numbers we need? And get people to stop immediately white-knighting the game and all of Nexon's decisions.
The idealism is strong with this one. Millions of people? Hardly. Even "thousands of people" feels like a bloated stat.
NA Nexon pulls in minuscule profits compared to the other Mabinogi regions. A stunt like that would probably result in our version getting shut down because Koreans, man.
No.
I've seen it >_> I've even done it myself.
The friends and such I've made on Mabi i've had for nearing a decade.
But I digress, there are probably Millions of us (on JP, KR, NA and the likes + those who quit) And millions or not if a Percentage of the Entire playerbase just said "Nexon we want harder content, stop making new wings and work on the AI or we'll stop buying NX" I'm sure they'd listen.
But I guess it's impossible because obviously no one in the playerbase wants to be challenged and is simply content buying wings, reforges and pets and beating 90% of the game's content with 2% of the skills that you can get. I'll take my leave
[SPOILER=""]But wouldn't it be cool to get our asses kicked in a fair fight by mobs or be rewarded for over-coming difficult odds instead of mindlessly bashing Sheep Ai elite enemies and getting 500 fucking fire crystals[/SPOILER]
One person can't do shit, so I talk to the "community" to be a force to work together for a common goal. But I mean if you don't want a certain president to be in office, I'm sure you sit at home and gripe about it to yourself and tell everyone you didn't vote for him.
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No offence, but I know humans are quite powerful with the set but the purpose I was trying to make earlier was a comparison between smash and bash xD not just showing how powerful bash is. Even if smash did 5k and bash did 4k. it's still overpowered because bash stuns longer than smash ever will, and you can do around 8 bashes per smash
But I digress, there are probably Millions of us (on JP, KR, NA and the likes + those who quit) And millions or not if a Percentage of the Entire playerbase just said "Nexon we want harder content, stop making new wings and work on the AI or we'll stop buying NX" I'm sure they'd listen.
If I were running a business that was profitable and suddenly everyone decided to stop being a paying customer like that I would shut down the business before the profits were lost to operational expenses. The end result is no mabinogi for anyone.
Which is why widespread boycotts are a waste of time. Nexon doesn't give a crud about their player base. The only thing they care about is your wallet. If you aren't providing them money, then they'll just toss the game and start a new one. They are constantly getting new games, pending on which is more profitable.
I can't recall any situations where we've been able to pull Nexon into altering content from Korea.
I do agree with you that people will have to accept player nerfs before we can make any real progress concerning game balance.
If I were running a business that was profitable and suddenly everyone decided to stop being a paying customer like that I would shut down the business before the profits were lost to operational expenses. The end result is no mabinogi for anyone.
Which is why widespread boycotts are a waste of time. Nexon doesn't give a crud about their player base. The only thing they care about is your wallet. If you aren't providing them money, then they'll just toss the game and start a new one. They are constantly getting new games, pending on which is more profitable.
This too. And it's not like Nexon is a small company or that Mabinogi is their flagship game. We're more of a side game that they update and deliver.
Now, we're not saying you're wrong. I personally would love harder content, but boycotting Nexon would just be the downfall of the game (and it would be tough, if not nigh impossible, to organized a world wide bycott).
And if you want to go further with a possible scenario.
Let's say what if the boycott fails and they shut down Mabinogi?
Everyone will be sad but those who head the boycott won't say, "I'm sorry guys, I ruined the game and ended it, it'll be my fault."
No, they would haughtily stand on top and say, "Better the game be shut down for good now, instead of living like the trash zombie it has been for a while." then move to the next game only for the cycle to repeat itself without having learned anything.
Only for those who just supported the boycott to realize it was a bad idea to do that to a game that isn't a flagship nor as big as the other games the publishers host.
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Now let's try the reverse, Nexon listens and implements the desired update with everything you suggested.
What if it becomes unpopular? What if people hate it and end up quitting the game? Will you be responsible for it? No, you'll just go, "In the end, it was Nexon's decision to implement it, not me. They could have changed it a bit better to suit other players."
That is one of the biggest hurdles in MMO, will an update increase profit?
Yes, there have been updates in other MMOs that increased playerbase, but at the same time, some games that were so hard or changed too much in one go, they lost a lot of players and only dedicated players play it.
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I'm not saying your ideas are bad, it's just that it's unrealistic to us and even if you tell us in Mabination, "boycott" it would get us no where.
IF YOU WANT to make a difference, go post your game suggestion and we can translate it to Korea and set it off to the suggestion box using our Mabination Test Team's suggestion tickets. Some of the updates we had, the decision for renovation, etc. were because of player's request to "look at some of the older skill sets" and to "implement a raid system."
Heck even the charge skill was originally a user suggestion that became a real game skill, as some clothing designs were.
Instant Cast? A user suggestion that became real. Even mana recovery was a user suggestion. Oh and Arrow Revolver nerf was also that too.
If you want to make a difference, look beyond "world wide boycott" and look for ways to submit your ideas and wants in a better path.
They may not adhere to it, or even implement it, but they would see it. And the creators seeing it is much much better than it being here on nation where it reaches deaf ears.
Who knows? Maybe something may come out of it.