Posts by Agrel

Quote from Rastekkel

It all depends on the definitition of "working" I guess. If we talk about shor-term financial gains then yes, it sure is working.

If we're talking about customer satisfaction and longterm healthy playerbases (I'd say the pillar of any MMORPG) it's failing miserably.

Indeed, but they still get away with it somehow and some are defending them on reddit and their forums. "You poor,gtfo!" They already pay sub hello?

The other thing I "like" is: " You speculate, baseless accusations." and "You stopid you didn't play back then." and when you say you did they just call you something rude or shout like they are hurt or something and chant their "truth" over and over etc.. We are kinda doomed sadly.

Ofc it works, they are having a profit with all combined (mobile, old ips etc..) even if it was decreasing to Q to Q as they overmilked their audience. You have to analyze the big picture + korean giant companies are supported by their State too.

Look up how their economy works South Koreas, few families and vassals keeping everything under control. Many of the companies are top quality and are successful, even on the global scene, but nothing will change until their own government "cracks down" on them and the (online) gaming gamble industry for real. Gaming ones face no resistance or big enough rivals, their base is secure unlike their tech giants, those think long term.

There were talks about sanctioning mobile games and enact new law because parents of the kids noticed whats going on aka its gambling.

So where did they turn too as a fast cashgrab? Yea you guessed right, old ips like Lineage etc.. Nc-s higher ups live on a different plane since a long time ago, its all about profit,profit,profit or it always were, just the methods were a bit more humane.

I think they wont support classic (real paches I mean, itemshop yes they will update that 100% and ofc koean classic is a different subject altogether) and shut it down instantly when its not delivering the $$$, be it from whales or players they dont care. Its a mistery to me how that contients (Murica) retail is still not shut down with those numbers. Its like a walking corpse sadly. EU retail beats their retail easily in numbers.

Maybe its influenced by the fact, they dont have a new flagship and ppl like Aion in korea still or something. + it is like a joker card so they can pull something like "classic". "Remember this game?" we support it still, you can trust us.

Its not even about siege or pvp, you could just farm guards and spam the fort instances for AP and turn in relics. Old AP system is bad and totally not for the West and even koreans faced the problem, which is -as people mentioned- when it was cemented then you couldn't do anything not even as a pvper and old sub.

The nolifers could just take a break and even then you couldn't reach them not to mention take their throne. Generals and above were carried by their team/legion and feed with ap + when not in a serious battle they had to hid behind guards or skip Reshanta altogether, if not for the activities above. Even at 4-Star ap loss was annoying (I had to face hunting parties as one in the Eye) and just small 1-Stars were like a big red cross-hair, the diff is with rank the zerg become bigger and bigger.

Honor is ok ,but these systems always problematic, because the dpsing guards/deity mechanic it is disadvantageous to support classes or early tank as temp was, you cant outperform a geared nuke dps.

Well about the shop on Classic, keep dreaming they are profit oriented their hunger cant be satisfied with a simple sub and whales pay bigger, if the income is like what you can get now (imagine it to be huge for a time), maybe there is not even long term for a classic (esp Aions).

The whale stuff just works here in the West too, sadly and the borders were pushed out on what is acceptable. Just read Aion reddit some are defending p2w + sub + f2p/trial + pass there.

NC Korea is the dev and if they want to push for p2w shop in pair with p2w mechanics, rng then you cant challenge them nor the publishers. If the game is developed in a cash grab sentiment then the only way is to quit, if you dont like it because their HQ is not here. Feedback was given, but they even ignored their korean fanbase and sometimes their whales too.