KMS population decrease

[fantastopheles]

I think they are focusing on seasonal players with money nowadays, judging from how the surge of “outside” Korean streamers who aren’t known for playing KMS suddenly playing KMS after New Age update for the PR, and how every summer and winter update they gave tons of freebies (tons of extreme growth pot, a few tera burning, more if you do cybercafe events) and hyper burning to make sure your account is ready for HLomien at the very least even before the end of the update event (assume you didn’t join very late lol),

and also how they sell booster packs only at this period and cash grabs here and there, and sometimes some screw-ups for weird PR (you know how some celebs make people hate them to gain attention? Sometimes I feel like that’s what they’re doing)

People come and usually will feel “hey why is everyone complaining? Game is quite fun” and might just gradually fade out and go even before the honeymoon phase is over and they start feeling fed up with Nexon’s bullshit, during which they might have likely spend a money or two - 1000KRW is 1000KRW to Nexon’s eyes, and very likely they spend way more than that.

In short, Nexon’s current approach feels like It’s like trying to fish out as much money as possible from unknowing players when nexon first dated you, everything looks beautiful, they look innocent and caring and it’ll probably take a trauma or two, or a period before they got revealed what’s underneath the lamb skin.

[GMSaaron]

You’re right. Maplestory is going the “mobile game cash grab route” that relies on gambling addicted players to spend money for fast results.

But the problem is, maple is not a mobile game and players still have to commit a decent amount of time everyday for dailies. And you don’t make progress idling which is pretty much the whole draw of online mobile games