Nexon America has announced a new nerf to kannas and the reward point-counterpart, the now called Wild Totem. This will affect everyone as it is well know that having a Kanna is almost a requirement to be able to do anything in this game, from leveling up to farming anything be it mesos, coins or whatever. There has been an influx of new players these last months for reasons we all know yet instead of taking opportunity to improve the game, Nexon America and their harbinger of doom, Anna, have taken to themselves to make an onslaught on their loyal player base. First they make that horrible Masteria whatever, whoever designed that atrocious starforce system would fit right in a slave camp, whoever came up with the idea should be fired on the spot, they have no regards for the player base. Then Hell Gollux became inaccesible for anyone under 20,000,000 range and those like me, in the 3,000,000 and up range have to conform to a single piece of the superior set every FORTY days, the new prices are stupidly high and locking ALL of the sets behind the Hellux-and-Hardlux-only Gollux Coins is just malicious, the Cracked and Solid set should be purchable with Gollux Pennies, how else is a earlygame player, someone that maybe is able to kill Empress is going to obtain a set? Wait a whole month for the ring to drop? If ever? Of course, they wouldnt understand what Im talking about because they are out of touch with the game, they dont know how a player progress nor care apparently. Then they botch the familiar update taking it away for God knows how long, presumably they will enable the system back again in July but thats taking their word, I know and a lot of people do too now that they dont really care about the players, they said July but since they have shown they dont know how the avergae player plays their game nor they care I know their word is not a guarantee of anything.
And now this, Kishin and Totem nerf. The game have moved in a direction where the players can easily clear entire maps with their skills, mobility is a given now with previously slow as a snail classes like Warrios or Pirates jumping around with flash jump and grappling hooks, Kanna and the Totems complement that kind of gameplay, not only that, the game revolves around that, the concept of "kill as fast as possible", with things like events coins that are behind thousands and thousands of monsters kills, in this current event I take at least and hour and a half to accumulate the 500 coins cap. Kishin and the Fury Totem cuts that by almost half, every farming activity relies on these two, in regular servers you have people farming things like nodestones and droplets, well, their rates have gone under by a quarter with this nerf, and what about people in Reboot? A server built around farming? Why would you make a server built around farming and then make farming slower and slower? When you nerf these two, Kishin and the rewards points-totem, you go against the very concept the game have been expanding to, the game became much more accesible with BigBang and now is it going backwards? Instead of going backwards why not expand the game with those core skills that the community have grown accustomed to? That way the game would be moving foward without upseting the playerbase. I dont understand the decision of taking away, Nexon America should build upon it.
These new players will take much longer to reach milestones like lv 200 and their first kill of whatever boss, the returning players will find themselves having to put much more hours to catch up and those who never left are stuck with a nerf and 20% slower everthing. Will this game survive one the pandemic is over and most people return to their dailies activities? People wont have hours upon hours to throw at the game, a game Nexon America is making harder and harder and slower, and unstable, is ridicoulous how frequently the client crashes and the lag spikes that are so annoying. Will this game have the appeal to keep the player baser, well, playing? Before the pandemic numbers werent so hot, in Scania I just trained whatever map I went because there were no people, now I have found myself channel surfing a lot more often. With these new changes that make the game much slower, once the pandemic is over, will we return to pre pandemic levels or will those changes make the even less populated? They want us to move to a game more like KMS? an excruciatingly slow game? With people like Anna just trowing nerfs instead of contributing anything useful? I, for myself, would quit.
