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Reboot's Reward Shop is in an Unacceptable State
I am perfectly fine with taking away Wild Totems, but you cannot just take away and not have anything to replace it in some fashion. Reboot's Reward Shop was already very lackluster with the Wild Totems and now it is in an unacceptable state currently without them.
I, and probably a lot of others feel the same way, of being mistreated by Nexon and get frustrated with things like their lack of hindsight and proactive moves to keep the player base, which are your customers by the way, happy. Which leads to people being frustrated, annoyed, and way too often angry (and I am not talking about the people on Reddit and such that always just whine and complain about everything).
Big hype patch with Hyper Burning and Cygnus Remaster? Probably should have immediately expanded Reboot to 40 channels because you KNEW 100% that there will be a huge influx of active concurrent players! You just need some hindsight for stuff like this (and this is just one example).
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Reboot Reward Shop Additions and Improvements:
~ Increase the Water of Life per month to 3 (three) from 1 (one) so that players can actually revive their triple pets on their characters.
--- This move would help increase your sales with NX purchases because players go from thinking "Why buy a new pet when it will just expire and I cannot revive it?" to thinking "That is a cute pet set! Let me go buy them since the reward shop will let me revive all 3 pets after they dry up."
~ Add in 20 Maple Tour Tickets per month (just like the Monster Park Tickets).
--- Since Wild Totems are removed, this would help out new and returning players with mesos. It will also give them a taste for 7 run Maple Tour life and the mesos that brings in which would help increase Maple Point run sales, and thus more revenue.
Increase Red Cubes and Black Cubes quantity per month to 20 (twenty) from 5 (five).
Cut the Reward Points price on the Cubes in half.
--- More things to spend reward points on. The Reward Shop Cubes have always been overpriced for Reboot.
Add in every Pet Skill available for purchase with only reward points up to 1 (one) of each per month.
--- Being able to fully deck out 1 pet every month will promote players to buy a new cute pet every month, coupled with more water of life quantity increase. Be good to the customer and the customer will be good to you, this is why groceries stores give out free samples of certain food products, it causes them to sell more products overall.
Add in 1 (one) Pet Snack per month.
--- Why sell 1 pet when you can sell 3 pets!
Add in 20 (twenty) per month 30-minutes 2x EXP coupons and 20 (twenty) per month 30-minutes 2x Drop coupons.
--- Promotes playing the game more.
Create and add in an item that turns an expiring cash outfit item into permanent duration, up to 3 (three) per month.
(I rather all the items to always be permanent duration, but Nexon loves their FOMO way too much.)
--- Encourages players to buy all of those 90-days cash outfits that they are currently not buying because they are 90-days with a FOMO per month system gets players to buy more items than they even want to add to their collection.
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If you come off as greedy, which you 100% do come off as greedy, it will turn people away from pulling out their wallets to spend money. If you appear as generous, then people are more likely to spend money on your products.
Comments
What you want or don't like?
Not really that I don't like or want these, but I'd just go with a few different options first.
For example I'd like some way for free players to be able to get cash stuff too.
Something like a PSSB but a temp version in limited quantity. Maybe we get a preselected set of items that last 90 days each month.
A method for buying maple points would be nice as well since not all of us have spare cash to throw at nexon.
I think it also would give a taste test of the CS and encourage people to spend "a little more" to get what they want, as well.
If reg players can earn point by using the meso market, I think Reboot should be able to earn them somehow as well.
That one is probably abusable, but not like players don't already abuse the free MP Nexon gives out anyway.
KMS can straight up buy certain cash outfits with reward points with no NX needed, pet snack with reward points, I think water of life can be bought with reward points, pet skills with reward points, very specific reward point pets. All of the outfits are permanent duration on KMS as well.
I don't think KMS even has a reward shop, just benefits that reward points can be used on for certain items. Even just these quality of life functions for GMS be nice.
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Maple Points is basically just NX, but exclusive to MapleStory. They need to make money still.