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NEWS NCsoft decided to disclose all the probability of'probability-type items' in games such as Lineage “We are in a hurry to prepare for the release in the first half of the year.” Kim Jae-seop, Senior Reporter, The Hankyoreh March 14, 2021 at 14:31 KST NCsoft office building in Pangyo, Gyeonggi-do PROVIDED BY NCSOFT NCsoft office building in Pangyo, Gyeonggi-do NCsoft has decided to disclose the probabilities of all probabilistic item products, including the so-called'Double Draw' (Complete Gacha), within the first half of the year. Nexon revealed the probability of the probability item product in the Maple Story game, using expressions that did not fit the user's eye level, such as'random' and'equal', and blocked some of the grades that could be achieved with the probability item product. 'Or'fraud' is an action that came amid controversy. It is noteworthy whether the demand for regulation of probable item products in the game, which is growing due to the so-called'Maple Story Incident', can be silenced. It attracts attention as to whether other game companies such as Netmarble will follow and how it will affect the overall game industry. “Everything that has not been disclosed in the meantime is disclosed” At a meeting with the <Hankyoreh> on the 14th, an executive of NCsoft said, “Of the probability of probabilistic item products in all games such as Lineage and Blade and Soul, the combination of paid and free, paid and paid, etc. He said, “We are in a hurry to prepare work with the aim of revealing it within the first half of the year,” he said. The official said, “The probability manipulation and fraud controversy triggered by the Maple Story crisis has grown to a point where it is difficult to respond. He explained the background of the decision to disclose by revealing the probability of the decision. Another official of NCsoft said, "As a result of the internal review, it was found that there was no subject for manipulation or controversy about fraud. However, I am worried that I will receive criticism that the probability was set too low." Until now, NCsoft game users have mainly pointed out that "the probability of probabilistic item products seems to be too low." In response, NCsoft said, “The probability is relative depending on the type of game and the user's ability to use the game. Fun, difficulty, and impact on sales are tailored to a balance (balancing). The low probability doesn't mean it's only viewed as bad.” Like giving out 10 years of game development know-how? In the game, probabilistic item products are simply made and sold in the form of a'lucky box'. It is a business model that maximizes sales while adding a so-called'drawing' format to make users feel more thrilled. It was introduced in the mid-2000s and is now adopted in almost all multi-access role playing games (MMORPG). In the beginning, controversy arose because the probability of each item being selected was not disclosed. In accordance with the guidelines of the Game Autonomy Organization consisting of game companies, the probability of paid items has been disclosed since 2015. Suspicions such as “the same” were also constant. In addition, the voice of regulation of probability-type items has also increased. Since then, the government and the politicians are trying to strengthen regulations on probability-type items and game companies have continued to hide and seek. Laws to regulate probabilistic item products as speculative or gambling behavior have been proposed one after another. A method of maximizing sales has been sought by adding additional products in the form of a double draw in which a probability-type option is added to a probability-type item product. This means that probabilistic item products have evolved into higher-order equations driven by strengthening regulations. Domestic game companies have been protesting against the request for complete disclosure of probability-type item probability, saying, "It is the same as to disclose 10 years of game development know-how and secrets." The probability figure is a point and environment where the game's fun and sales can be maximized at the same time, and it is said to be the crystal of the game development know-how. We are also concerned about the possibility of'fake' service providers who abuse the published probability figures. Kim Taek-jin, founder and CEO of NCsoft, also attended as a witness to the state administration in 2018, commenting on the criticism of driving probabilistic item product games into speculative games. Spectrality refers to a game where money can be obtained through luck. However, Lineage doesn't get any money for a fluke. Do not bet. What users get is a game item. It is wrong to compare it with lottery tickets,” he publicly refuted. “It could be an opportunity to diversify and popularize the game market” The target and scope of additional disclosure of probabilistic item products in the game, which are known to be in preparation by NCsoft, exceeds industry expectations. Previously, Nexon announced a schedule for additional disclosure of probability-type item products only for MapleStory, and did not include some products, such as adding free to the fee. Foreign games do not even follow the guidelines of the Game Autonomous Policy Organization. On the background of changing the policy toward full disclosure, an NCsoft executive said, “I decided that by holding on, I could lose something bigger. "We will find a way to prevent the game's fun and sales from diminishing through probability disclosure." In the game industry, concerns have been raised that the ``payment cap'', which had been previously introduced due to the Maple Story incident and was eased in 2019, may be reinforced or regulations such as ``game addiction disease'' may be introduced. There is also an analysis that sees the strengthening of regulations on probabilistic item products as the process of popularizing the game industry. A former game company chief executive said, “Game users are rapidly spreading to all classes, including their 50s and 60s, mothers and housewives. In the course of the Corona 19 pandemic, this trend has been further strengthened. According to this, the communication target and eye level of game and game companies should change, and NCsoft is one step ahead,” he evaluated. Some point out that the domestic game industry, which is focused on PC and mobile games, can be an opportunity to diversify into console games. In a talk with the <Hankyoreh>, the team leader of a large game company said, “Game companies have mid- to long-term growth plans to expand their fish-mobile-oriented game business to console games. It is to make it possible to enjoy cart riders and lineages with the X(X) box and the Playstation. This can be accelerated.” In fact, unlike Korea and Southeast Asia, console games are more popular in the US, Japan, and Europe, and the global console game market is larger than fish and mobile games. Senior Reporter Kim Jae

40 eop amd not even a lvl 5 after update

"Awesome" post from from an "awesome" team! I saw Juji also used up his post for this week not saying anything on a different topic. It honestly looks like this company is ran out of China. No US mentality or values. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves!

@Juji @Hime Do you think that is a fair use of over $700? You should turn yourselves in to the FBI for stealing from ppl not just across the USA bur WW. This is not even greed anymore, it is a scam pure and simple. Jesus Christ!

and where do you log all 30?

They are being ddosed for a year now? Hime said ilegitimate game traffic, that can mean those bots scanning auctin house, or the bots loging on each spot of the sv every few seconds to scam fo chests, or the radars a big no of "top" chars are using, or those macros to auto scan and port to greedy chest location to kill it.. you know.. bots they do not do anything about

so is it safe to say we have lag and disconnects bcs of your inability to ban 3rd party program users? Maybe next time someone submits a ticket about a program user you actually read it?

@Hime No Hero Coins for the packs?

I think their support team is in India using notepad copy/paste responses. I also cannot create new accounts but that is fine. I can create account and play on the european version. They do everything they can to kill this game and that is a pitty. If they want to ban boots they just need to camp greedy chest repawns and catch the ppl automatically getting invite and jumping to location or auto getting pm notification and instantly jumping with mytp to kill them. They will easily find top players doing this and my bet is they choose not to ban their cash cows just making it look like they are doing their jobs. This company managed to have issues with their online game no other company has... amazing! If money and protecting cash cows is their goal they should maybe use models from other games and create auction house for real money. If they take commision from all currently shady transactions they will tripple their revenue And they do happen, there are countles youtube videos on Youtube of ppls quitting Instead of going after those they prevent new/returning players fron creating accounts..

Hello Juji, Has your team calculated how mamy months a normal player needs for an accessory that should be common placed in ppl inventories? 6-12? Also, have you started adding all the stuff missing from the lousy NA version? For example jewel boxes @ Mammon? or an actual non tens of thousands of dollars way to get dragon weapons, or dragon claws @ Mammon, non-nerfed free events, or anything really that would actually make this game fun? Thank you for ignoring, as always the real questions!

so? how is the "keeping an eye on the situation" going? you geniuses can't fix this, can you?

how are you keeping an eye on it? by not looking? game is unplayable! ppl pay you huge ammounts of dollars to play this game and they cannot.

Same stuff different day, disconnect, relog, wait for queue, disconnect do it qll qggain. NC west quality at it's best

Hello @Karma2020, I used to play melee an of of if not the best archer on the server at the time was kind enough to teach me to set up an effective archer. There are 2 few key principles first of all: 1. hardest hit an archer can make is with skill when that skil crits 2. If your $ spend is not unlimited you need to do the most with limited adena. With those 2 in mind of your skill does not. rit you cand have 600k patk, you will not hit hard so: boost anything that makes ypur skills crit (p skill crit rate and dex that gives p skill crit rate) and that skill crit damage (not p crit damage, that is useless for yull) and p skill power. so gear short term, low adena ammount: talisman longing, tali abundance lvl 1 high grade, talisman venir 12, +15 dex from dyes, damage skills + 10 on skill crit rate, radiant circlet of authority +4 or +5, elmore cloak +7, artifact book lvl 2 with full non enchanted artifacts more expensive: get the 110 bow, 150 extra element is important. also at lvl 110 you can get a more powerfull augment that you can get on r99. that aug should be p skill power 15% or p skill crit damage 20% on your weapon you should put 2 kain cry lvl 8 or higher) one for p skill cd and one for p skill crit rate and one shillen lvl 4 or higher on p skill cd awesome cloak would be elmore +15 wit 2 aug 1 p skill cd 7.5% and one with p skill power +15% talisman insanity and seven signs (there are more but long list) set you need to have +8(forskill refresh) or +10 endgame bloody. best ia 110 as your elem def can be 180 per elem per poece instead of 120 on r99 i hac. e focused on pve gear for1 simple reason: you need at least lvl 110. at 110 you get new skills and existing get better you can upgrade a bloody bow r99 to bloody r110 and you lose 2 lvls but you cannot upgrade r 99 armor to r110, keep that in mind idealy you would buy a rare acc pack untill you get money for perma boss or god jewells and a bloody rune 30 days. your brocch jewells, ideally ruby 4 or higher, red cat eye 4 or higher, emeral4 4+ betrer gear than this you will become aware of as you progress my 2 cents.. i made my archer effective with just spending real $ on prestige and destiny, i farmed adena for the rest best adena on 110 and lower is isle of souls and storm isle

Thank you for this extensive reply that touched on all the questions, concerns and requests in the past period! With this post, telling us your crappy server is up, you made it very clear to everyone they should stop paying your salaries.

so? have you done your job or was too busy with the adena nerfs?

how do you log 7 toons?

I have never seen a business putting so much effort into auto destruction! It is sad really, but i will not log in just to buy stuff from nc store! It is pointless. And even if you do make improvements next week to xp, there will be no place left to make adena. You have wrongly nerfed ios before and ppl were nit that upset bcs plunderous plains existed. You "fixed" that too.. this is so dissapointing, will deff not put in one single $ jnto this crappy game with crappy strategy and leadership. gl with your unemployment this Christmas!

well, with that awesome logic you posses NC West should hire you, you would fit right in! we actually had the nerf months before, and wrongly so.

Juji has refferenced l2wiki before and i know that appears on the known issues thread but the only issue here is incompetence of NC West

Helo @Juji @Hime l2wiki was refferenced multiple times so i am also going to do it now. as per that website, the adena ammount drop rate for ios mobs is 100.000 to 120000 adena per mob and that is exactly what we have now. what some of us also pay for is prestige pack. the prestige rune increases adena ammount by 300% so if we take the 120k per mob example we will ger120k + 300% x 120k = 480k per mob In ios there is also a trigger buff that increases the adena ammount per mob 2x so keeping the example above it is 480k x 2 = 960k per mob. This is EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE NOW so the adena ammount drop ammounts in ios are correct. Any modification NC West does is to alter the game design and make it harder for people to get adena in game. WHATNC WESTSHOULD DO IS COMPENSATE THE PLAYERS THAT FARMED IOS WITH NERF WRONGLY APPLIED FOR MONTHS. TENS OF BILLIONS WORTH PER PLAYER

i had dd and iss farming and another char in town. saw that char got 1 gm buff and went there but nothing. no announcement in game either. so game engaged player had no idea about the buff

by also using the same webpage l2wiki the current amount of adena in ios is correct. NC West forgot they introduced prestige to milk $$ from players.

I also got mostly bssr on non mage char. They made rewards untradable so low people cannot get some gear unless they buy ncoin. good event made crappy by NC West