compensate. But they won't.
To me, this is the worst possible update they could have done for this series. Like you said, the random box costs more than a Philosopher's Book or Marvel, and gives out less items. And the NX clothes part is unacceptable. In other events, the items were from the series being promoted. But they just got greedy with this one, dismissed the fact JMS did what they normally do for this, and make us have to weed through the MVP box to get to the now going to be incredibly rare Re:Zero items. These are going to be the rarest clothes in the game, because even with the SAO and AoT event clothes being scarce now, they were at one point widely available. These will have never been widely available, so they're rare to start with.
I don't know why they changed it from what JMS had, other than greed. It worked before, why break a system that works?
I was hyped for this too, but they wrecked it. I guess we can't look forward to crossovers anymore, as they'll likely just do this again. I don't know how this will get anyone to watch the anime, we won't be seeing people wearing the clothes all the time, and Emilia being in game isn't enough to lure people to Crunchyroll to watch the anime. And it won't lure people who like the anime either, because they'll eventually learn they can't get the items from the anime this game is promoting. >_<
the thing is in JMS the clothes were not even direct buy. I'm pretty sure the items were also jumbled in the boxes with other non-event items if you read this but I cannot confirm because the page to see what other items were in the boxes is updated to what's in their current surprise style boxes but the message
I don't think a Decent "kishin" (would probably be Decent Monolith) would harm their CS sales as Decent all other skills have so far not hurt people selling DSE, DSI or other Decent nebs or potted items.
"Decent Kishin" would be MILES beyond what DSE, DSI or any/all nebs combined in value. Whether its a decent skill or monolith or whatever, there's no way in hell Nexon will release that. Not to mention that would make frenzy totems obsolete bcus why spend "thousands"of dollars when u can make do with a decent skill.
because people always want the best option if they can afford it, if they did release a Decent Monolith skill it would defiantly not be the full power of the monolith skill the totem has, even at max level, that we can agree on. So why would whales spend time and money on that skill when they could buy a better version with less effort to make it half as good. People can already use Kanna mules to get around paying for the totem or use friends with Kannas that are willing to use kishin while you train, it's not like the totem was ever the only way.
Kanna's skill is free and not as effective as the totem and while some people (who can't afford to buy the totem) still uses kishin mules or kanna friends, most of the whales are aiming for getting the totem whenever they can, and Decent monolith won't change that, just as DSI as a neb or pot line is still wanted over the core skill due to the shortcomings with the skill and the work that would need to be put in to make it equal.
all a Decent monolith skill would do is make people less inclined to use kanna mules. Just like if there was an item you could buy from marvel that gave a way better version of HS, whales would choose that over a Decent HS skill or an HS mule (Bish or Phant)
I understand what you're saying but I don't think you understand me
My point: Releasing a Decent Kishin skill will hurt Nexon. And Nexon was already criticized for nerfing Kanna's just to make $$$ off of Frenzy Totems and they just didn't care. They didn't even acknowledge the outrage(as far as I know). So what I'm trying to say is, they went that far to make more $$$ from Frenzy Totems, i don't think they will release a Decent Kishin skill as it will hurt their sales in a negative way.
And yes, people can use Kannas or even a friends kanna but after a certain point(lv200+) it becomes hard for most people to get a Kanna to Arcane maps. Let alone keep them alive with the mobs there.
BUT!!!! I sincerely wish that Nexon does add a Decent Kishin skill. I really really do because I'm not desperate enough to spend $1,000+ trying to get a Frenzy Totem. And I don't care if Decent Kishin would offer 60% less of the benefit, I would rather get the skill for free(less)
you are missing my point
I dont see how adding a skill that is, by default, inferior to what they are selling, will hurt nexon in profits from the item, unless you are saying the already unfunded or non-NX paying players will suddenly dump a ton of money just for the totem.
you are looking at it from the perspective of any non- heavy spender and to you it looks like they would lose money, but honestly it wouldn't because players in general want the best of everything if they can afford it, especially the "whales".
what I've noticed is that if most people see the best thing out there they compare to the best thing and say "they are losing out on X% " because they are not using the best items, this is how many of the "whales" look at it and players in general. A slightly better comparison would be 3% nebs to 4% nebs, simply due to that 1% more per neb they cost astronomically more because that's potentially 20% mainstat they are missing out on if they put a 4% on each equip. and sellers know that there are players that want the best on all their gear.
the same is said of the totem, not only do you not need a mule but it's tradable (meaning they can move it from character to character if they want to change mains or other) and gives a better effect on spawn than kishin.
the only real people that can afford the totem are the whales and the whales generally want the best of everything with what they spend. in the end not effecting nexon much.
I am of the unpopular belief that nexon botched the nerf they were suppose to do to kishin (one that was reported to come anyway) and the kishin break was a result of nexon messing up as usual (skills with kanna broke often enough before the totem) and the breaking of kishin has coincided with the totem release, not to say that accident didn't somewhat have a type of effect of boosting whales to go for broke on getting the totem, I just don't find nexon competent enough to have a plan like that, that and kanna had been having a string of bugs in the updates leading up to that nerf anyway. Them taking forever to fix the bug is also usual as the previous kanna bugs before that one had taken a while to fix (that's more bugs in general though)
the only real things they seem to spring into action for are mass disconnect issues and huge exploits, everything else sits on a waiting list for a week to months to maybe even years before a fix.
The kishin incident was only a big problem because so many people rely heavily on it (especially reboot) on top of the nerf that was meant to happen, but I would say not even half the amount of people rely on the other kanna skills that have been bugged (or bugs like the potion pot restoring "MANA" ) because they do not main or really care about the Kanna class
also in the same update didn't the Divinity ring or whatever it's called that gives heavens door come out, why would they not just break heavens door to make that ring sell as well. may as well nip that useful party skill to make some extra cash from that ring too if they are going to do it with kishin.
to the Event Hall in an attempt to resolve the lag players have been experiencing.
We're aware that last week's change did not fix the lag for players and we're currently working to find additional fixes, or revamp the Event Hall entirely.
Arwoooo~
If possible, could you instruct the people working on that to move the NPC's Maple Admin, Gaga, and Cassandra to their own maps within the event hall to see if that helps.
If they could just humor us with this request, just to see if those NPC's are the reason behind the lag and not any of the other stuff they have been looking into, it would be great. (less)
