First off on a bright note, I'm happy to see that an intermediate solution has been introduced on the crafting, that Mug seems to work on more regular events and that you could technically say that there are plenty of extra permanent quests in Tangun (cross your fingers for more mid/high-end questing). Seems the main points of this poll have been adressed in some way or another, maybe not to satisfaction for everybody but it shows someone listens to what people want most and works on it. Well the main points except for one
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I just want to explain this to you guys; "Banning all bought/sold/traded/shared accounts and 3rd party program users" You all talk about how easy it would be just to do that, you don't know how it works. They would be losing SO many customers... 150 atleast that use things like Macros, Bots for Woodcutting, Selling characters, etc.
KRU doesn't really CARE about those things anymore, all they do is jail people anymore, but on rare occasions if a particular group of individuals start ticketing kru, they'll get banned for 2weeks.
1,500 dollars is too much money to kru to start banning people.
I too wish they would catch people.. Fright for one, got caught using an auto-poet-bot by a damn archon and was he banned? No.
I have heard this argument over and over again, but aside from people who play more then they should for their own mental and physical health, I barely know anyone who sells their character or uses bots. I'm not talking about buyers but their numbers will go down as prices and risks involved go up.
But lets take a few counter arguments on this "Kru will lose money".
- In return I know plenty people that have quit because illegal practices aren't being adressed. A part of honest players would return to Nexus to compensate for at least a part of that loss.
- A second problem with not adressing the problem is that "cheaters" reach the end of content in the game faster, thus they get bored faster and quit sooner which makes them lose out on future registration fees.
- Part of them would keep playing Nexus, the job is only to ban the accounts or reset characters to lvl 1, make them lose the efforts they put in, not lose the people who pay for the accounts.
- The final motivation to handle the problem of cheaters now, is because they're going to lose a good part of those accounts anyways if Nexon Korea or Kru doesn't handle the counter engineering project before it's finished with multiple emulated servers out and about.
If they didn't care for it to happen it would not be in their rules, they would organise it themselves and MAKE MONEY out of it. The issue is cost-effectiveness to go against cheaters when you let it spread for as long as they did in Nexus. It would probably cost a full time job for a few months to fight the cheaters right now (investigating the claims), that is where they would lose money, not from account income. It may be a short term loss, but certainly not a long term one. Sure it's a risk to take but in my opinion well worth it. They are already losing more money and more potential future money over not adressing this problem. I'm not imagining it will go away completely some day, but it will probably and most likely make people who invest their time to provide a service to others (in many cases for free) to make the game easier think twice.
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Plenty of people use bots, sell their characters, share(I know ALLLLLL you guys who preach "OMG BAN CHAR SHARERS RESET TO LVL 1" are going to get personally really close with someone, and you can't make it to a carnage or elixir one day and you ask them to go and enter you; you are character sharing.)
I would like to see the percentage of the total game population when you talk of plenty. I'ld estimate it at roughly 250 people good for about 150 permanent accounts/year (12*9,95$) out of a minimum of about 3.000 people with about 2.000 active permanent accounts/year. That would be around critical mass (7%), they're dispensable if you make a tough decision. Above that, those same people are busy working on a project to play nexus without paying. The total number is a rough guess counting the characters who have a character page (can be evaluated on stataddict, roughly 4.000 characters if I remember correctly and looking at the percentage of characters who display that page in the top user lists), for the other number, another source, some more guesswork and the evaluation that those who share/sell in Nexus generally don't keep on auto.
And finally, no, I will not let the control of my characters to someone else, not even to go to santa mhul to collect the giftbox. It's not because you did something that a majority of people would do it. And I do believe that that is enough of a reason to give you a punishment, after all you're breaking a rule when you leave the control to someone else.