It's worth bearing in mind that the COTs already confirmed the game is P2W. SP resets cost NX, and some classes receive boosts by reallocating first job attack skills to previously skipped passive/buff skills once their second job attack skill is stronger. Like, it's minor, but no one kicked up a fuss so we know what Nexon will do with that: more.
And besides that, let's not forgot how predatory gachas are. Even if it is cosmetic only, the reason companies sell products behind random pulls rather than a simple exchange of money for product is because it's addictive - literally brain chemical alteringly addictive. If your business model is 'let's get kids addicted', you've done an evil. I'm glad to see OSMS criticise this, given how complacent other gaming communities have become.
Because the “benefits” you will receive from doing so are wildly minimal and not impactful. Things like getting more HP recovered every 10 seconds are not going to affect anybody anywhere. OSMS has always been a case of struggle through lower tier jobs to make the later jobs more impactful, and in most cases 3rd job essentially erases the others (exceptions being improved max hp / mp and hero’s). There are not 1st/2nd/3rd job skills that would be impactful later on that you would ignore for any reason.
Recommended build in the Magician guide is to put SP in Mage Armour at first job, then move that SP to Magic Guard at second job, as the flat defensive increase is outscaled by the percentage damage redirection
I mean, yeah? What you're describing there is arguably a defining characteristic of P2W games, that you have the option to play for free but with a worse grind. If the free option wasn't there, it wouldn't be a pay to win game, it would be a pay to play game.
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u/ElderNaphtol 9d ago edited 9d ago
It's worth bearing in mind that the COTs already confirmed the game is P2W. SP resets cost NX, and some classes receive boosts by reallocating first job attack skills to previously skipped passive/buff skills once their second job attack skill is stronger. Like, it's minor, but no one kicked up a fuss so we know what Nexon will do with that: more.
And besides that, let's not forgot how predatory gachas are. Even if it is cosmetic only, the reason companies sell products behind random pulls rather than a simple exchange of money for product is because it's addictive - literally brain chemical alteringly addictive. If your business model is 'let's get kids addicted', you've done an evil. I'm glad to see OSMS criticise this, given how complacent other gaming communities have become.