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Data Forward Legacy Power Gap Implementations

smashtonsmashton
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edited July 2025 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
Please take a data forward approach to the temporary badge issuance, using the timeframe to closely monitor and report on player clear times and boss crystal distribution for CTene & Grandis bosses. The playerbase wants to know that measures like the RoD2 temporary badge are being implemented not as a band-aid solution, but to analytically test the waters regarding how shipping such a combat boost to the entire playerbase would affect the metrics that matter most to you.

The decision to implement measures to close the legacy power gap caused by pottable badges is in Nexon's hands, and the only way forward to carry goodwill with the playerbase is to use the numbers and statistics from how this temporary badge affects player clear times to issue a transparent and objective decision regarding futurw implementation of GMS specific combat boosts.

This is a standard from recent KMS showcases (boss crystal adjustments) and would be fundamental in building player trust that future implementations to address our server's legacy power gap are being decided on the basis of numbers and statistics rather than expiration dates and fomo.

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  • happycowshappycows
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    edited July 2025
    I won't say no to more communication regarding data and testing, but tbh i don't even think that's what Nexon is doing or what they care about. Meaning, i don't think that they made these temporary in order to test anything.

    IMO its more likely that they are teasing everyone with it to entice future inclusion in Marvel / Philo. Just like they give people free expiring vac pets from time to time.

    I could see them releasing a PERM badge in Interactive and a TEMPORARY badge in Heroic. Of course there will be outrage. Of course there will be Heroic players screaming "P2W" - but as always, players will adjust, and enough money will be spent to validate Nexon. And its not just the whales. There are many many many "light" to "medium" spenders who will gladly support this. People will say "its not P2W because it expires!!"

    Disclaimer: I don't want any of the above to happen, but its what i could see Nexon doing