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Closed KR gets another VIP update...
KR gets
yet another VIP update (while we keep getting neglected). This must be the 3rd update (that I am aware of).
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http://mabinogi.nexon.com/page/news/notice_view.asp?id=4885533&edit-text=
SIGH...How much longer NA? I just don't get it. KR gives their customers so much cool stuff. But for these last couple of years you just won't update your services. Why? For the love of god can you please tell us why you won't update our services? As I said a few weeks ago, when my current VIP service expires I will not purchase VIP until you guys finally update your services. Many people I know are jumping on this bandwagon because we're fed up. Our current VIP service just plain sucks in comparison to KR's services.
Please give it to us or tell why you can't.
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Honestly they should really replace whoever is in charge of making such decisions at Nexon NA with someone who has more business sense. Because apparently they must somehow believe Nexon is getting more profits off of offering a super obsolete outdated VIP service model. Even though anyone with even half a brain could tell that more people would be willing to pay for the revamped service model.
I'm hoping this since it appears echo stones are affected by this update.
Maybe so. But profit is profit. I mean hell they have absolutely nothing to lose by giving us the revamped VIP service and everything to gain. So there's really no good reason not to implement it.
Why?
Because Got-ya-pon whales keep the lights on, pay salaries, and quarterly bonuses. VIP members only pay for the chips and dip at the Christmas party.
I feel as though it would also genuinely make the game more fun to play. I have my own feelings about gachas but keeping them separate I still feel this way. I'd like things to feel more stable.
If they can still make money from gacha and need it, I don't even mind still having gacha. Although better rates would be nice.
I do think limited time items are useful in their own right, as well. I think seasonal things are nice.
Unfortunately, Gacha does make more money than VIP. A single Gacha stack costs more than VIP, and enough people buy enough of those packs to outdo any possible boost that can come from VIP.
And without Gacha, where will new items come from? VIP-only? That's more pay-2-play-ish in my opinion. Obviously, the answer would either be "in-game events", or "in cash shop" where each item can be bought separately, but still; while I do hate Gacha with a burning passion, it seems to be the most cost-effective way (for Nexon, definitely not for us) to release enw stuff.
Also, I don't know how true this is, but I think I heard from Sabina, back when she worked here, that KR makes all these kinds of decisions. As in, Korea decides what we get in our Premium Service.
I mean, I don't propose to get rid of gacha although it's be nice to have a flat payment for an item. Simply making VIP services more worth will net them more cash along with the money they get from whales. If they do however gather a large amount of people paying for monthly VIP, that makes it so they don't have to rely on the whales and can either make their rates better for more overall sales and consumer quality of life, or have clothing boxes to make people even happier. I think that way many people would find more enjoyment from the game.
And I have heard that as well. It seems Nexon KR really couldn't give two hoots about Nexon NA, but it seems Nexon NA doesn't have the authority to implement things themselves. Which is dumb because you can clearly tell KR doesn't give as much care to us at all. It'd be better to have an NA team that can make their own decisions and listen to the playerbase. I believe this is one of the reasons that has contributed to people quitting. They don't feel heard. But it's not exactly NA's fault, if what I've heard is true.
So essentially a much more expensive style tab. I might as well just buy pon for the same service.
If it was updated to these newer models I would actually have a reason to buy it.
This isn't new, and you should know it isn't considering you made the thread talking about it when it actually was new.
http://forums.mabinogi.nexon.net/discussion/comment/33383/
You even posted the same exact link, that leads to a time-stamped page, "2017.05.11 10:59".
tl;dr: KEEP THE WHALES HAPPY, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
LOL. Nice one. Seems like i wasn't wrong in my head when i thought that this link/topic was already posted by her.
I'm sorry, I had completely forgotten about that thread. I think I might have early onset Alzheimer's. Even looking at that thread feels foreign to me, it's so weird. I guess I thought it was new because they made it one of their main features on the website recently.
This shouldn't invalidate the thread though. NA really does need to finally update our services.
When I broke it down with our last gacha the people asking for outfit bags I essentially came up with that. In all truth what like 5-10 people someone knew mentioned spent on the last gacha it would require 500 players to buy the $5 outfit bags.
It is the same with this as long as the whales continue to feed nexon nothing will change, but with how companies think instead of changing they would probably just shut the game down as they would see a profit drop instead of looking as to why it dropped.