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★★ Allow Cash Items and RP to function like KMS ★★
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this hasn't been addressed in maple fest, but I would love to be have the ability to buy pets with RP as well as shop without having a limit on cubes and scrolls
also note that you can't buy cubes (from the cash shop, not the mileage/reward points shop) with 100% mileage/reward points, however you can even buy fusion anvils with 100% mileage/reward points (HOW Awesome is that!)
And having the ability to practically sell/trade ALL the cash items in the auction house or to other players is the best thing in this whole thread.
PLEASE NEXON AMERICA, GIVE US THE ABILITY TO TRADE/SELL ALL THE CASH ITEMS, AND TO BUY MOST, BUT NOT ALL OF THE ITEMS IN THE CASH SHOP USING 100% MILEAGE/REWARD POINTS, THIS WILL MAKE GMS' POPULARITY RAISE UP DRAMATICALLY, AND WOULD BE AN AMAZING S-QOL (SUPER QUALITY-OF-LIFE-UPDATE)
You're dealing with Nexon America, they'll just pump out more pay to win content, and they won't do that option because they'll lose out on NX sales.
It's just the way how Nexon America works, they want to make us KMS and every other server for NX purchases and how the game works. But when to comes to being consumer-friendly...
Goodluck.
Also this won't affect reboot at all either.
I disagree. The changes made with Improving Reward Points listed by PhantomMasterThief would allow Reboot players to afford cosmetics by simply doing bosses/elite mobs/monster collection and every other RP method not listed.
Sure Reboot may benefit a lot less, but saying there is no hope and dismissing it with the whole, "Nexon isn't gonna do crap", is good as being on the side of P2W content. A lot of us already know Nexon generates revenue through Marvel/DMT/Philo and other sales, but how much would it actually stop players from purchasing NX if more free-to-play methods are introduced? I think it would welcome current and new players as well.
Also if the game was more free-to-play I'd invest more NX into cosmetics like Surprise Style, Perm Sales rather than Marvel, DMT, Scroll Sales, Philo, or any other methods.
Never say never, look at Flames and 25★ (Nexon said they won't implement flames, but eventually they did And 25 stars along side it)
Nexon America, really started to improve GMS Bit-By-Bit although there are still MANY missing pieces, it really shows that they actually are trying now, so go ahead and suggest ideas, so nexon would look into them, and maybe try to implement them.
They even added Occult Cubes as boss drops (that sht helps a lot of F2P, New Players, or just for mules), a small thing that is a really nice QOL.
So i do believe that nexon cares, but GMS is bugged AF, and It's REALLY REALLY REALLLY hard to clean up all the mess that piled up over all of these years in the game's client, (the client has a ton of unused content like nebulites are still hogging resources for the game !?, and other untranslated stuff from all the other regions that is never used in GMS)
Hopefully a lot more suggestions and requests from the community would get implemented as time passes on
PS. KushyDragon lemme give you a tip, type: spoiler Quoted Text /spoiler (put both of the: spoiler and /spoiler in square brackets like this; [Example]) so you won't have those HUGE Walls of replies with just small bit of actual text.
Sadly, I've been around MapleStory 1 for about 15 years, and It's not getting any better.
Instead of keeping the nebs and flames like luna had and there was no issues with it... They took out easily obtainable damage such as the 50% bossing, etc. And they added another RNG based system. But they won't add flames and such to the cash shop?
I mean if you wanted another RNG option so badly, then just add them to the cash shop too.
You have to realize again this is Nexon America you're dealing with, and they've been doing bad business practices when it comes to micro-transactions for years. You'd think if they wanted to be fully KMS, we wouldn't have half of what we got in GMS in general.
So to ask Nexon America to completely change the way they do business by losing more revenue? It's not logical for them as a company.
Regardless of if Philo, DMT, and other things make nexon the money.
If they were to allow us the freedom to buy the coupons and other items with RP? Nexon would lose out on profits.
Trust me, I'm pretty anti P2W on gaming in general...but I had to learn to adapt to Nexon America's ways.
Any time I spoke out against Nexon America about p2w and so many other things, I'd end up getting the ban hammer, them calling me a "crusader" against them for trying to boycott NX sales until they fixed things.
This was over 5 years ago, and again It's just not improving.
What I'm trying to say overall, is that what you're asking is a farther long shot than you realize.
PS: Also if the game was more free-to-play I'd invest more NX into cosmetics like Surprise Style, Perm Sales rather than Marvel, DMT, Scroll Sales, Philo, or any other methods.
The game is free to PLAY, not free to get all the NX things you like without having to pay a dime to nexon. It's a KOREAN 2-D, Side-Scrolling, Platforming MMORPG. Not runescape.
And even in RuneScape, there's still membership, etc.
So there's going to be microtransactions in any game now. It's our fault as well for continuing to support the business practices, not all of us, but most.
In KMS you can choose to pay with 30% mileage or 100%. The latter will make the cash item unable to payback, trade or gift.
Items that cannot be purchased with Mileage:
- Limited items, discounted items and packages
- Power Elixirs, Monster Life related items ( Power Elixirs comes as a bonus when purchasing maple points coupon from the cash shop in the other regions )
- Gacha items (pandora box, royal etc) Royal hair, surprise style boxes, gachapon tickets, Cannot be purchased with 100% Reward Points, it can only get a 30% discount with reward points (like we currently have)
- Items with gift function like friendship rings
If Nexon wanted to they could make the reward points system better, aka; the EXACT same as KMS Mileage, they wouldn't lose revenue but even gain more, since a lot more people would play, and thus resulting in more money spent = everyone wins
I've never hit the monthly cap (does that even exist anymore?) but I'm all for more ways to get RP along with having more items to actually spend them on.
Also having a way to purchase bonus cubes I'm sure would be a huge plus for everyone.
P.s. Kushy - What you did and what OP is suggesting are completely different. Don't try and bunch them into the same category.
MapleStory Global has not improved for the past 12 years since the release? That's a pretty far stretch.
Permanent NX items. We use to have to live off to the standard that everything had a time limit from the Cash Shop.
Miracle Cubes use to be the only way to re-roll potential. That was changed by the additions of Reward Shop and Meister/Master Craftsman Cubes. Dark Scrolls, White Scrolls, GM Scrolls (10% stats with 100% success) use to only come through Gachapon. Those scrolls have been outdated since the Spell Trace system.
What about them not adding NX-purchasable mesos sacks to the Cash Shop to Reboot? Sure they probably benefit from Pet Boxes, but there are workarounds such as free event pets plus Water of Life in Reward Shop.
Lets be real. The Nebulite System at it's current state was a joke. Hardly anybody is going to fuse Nebulites with Fusion Tickets unless they already had [A] Nebulites from Marvel Machine, Gachaperriot or Maplehood Watch. A majority of them in Non-Reboot are duped as well which was more of a monopoly of goods sold at a price that most others couldn't compete.
In terms of, "encouraging boycotting sales", the forums is their property. They have guidelines of what you can/cannot do and that is one of them. If you can't play by their rules, why would they play by yours?
They don't have to follow the suggestions to the letter. They could increase the number of items in the Reward Shop. Free-to-play doesn't have to mean content locked behind NX forever. Nexon America could rotate from starting premium sales to then shifting to to be obtainable through other means. Comparing other games gets us nowhere if you're trying to say "MapleStory is this and that's all it'll ever be", that's just a half-truth to push onto others that things cannot change.
I will say this: Global MapleStory has changed and will continue to change for the past 12 years since it started service.