‘Truck demonstration’ held in front of Nexon office building in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do. Online community
Nexon releases item probability information for all games. It is interpreted as a measure to block the spread of negative public opinion arising from the suspicion of manipulating the probability of extraction of’probability-type items’. Recently, Nexon game users came to the front of Nexon headquarters and held demonstrations, followed by political movements, and it seems to be a problem that emerged as a result of regulatory movements.
Nexon “All Game Odds Revealed” on Political Regulation Blade
Nexon CEO Lee Jeong-heon said through an in-house announcement on the 5th, “We will disclose information on probability items of games that Nexon is servicing from today.” Representative Lee apologized, “There is a lot of controversy about the probability-type items in our game.” .
On the 18th of last month, Nexon’s’Maple Story’ announced through a notice that “we will modify the additional options given to items to be given with the same probability.” Until now, Nexon has announced that it is a’random’ method in the item description section, but users have constantly raised suspicions. Through this announcement, it was revealed that Nexon was giving options with high probability for unnecessary performance and low probability for important performance.
Accordingly, MapleStory users held a’Truck Demonstration’ in front of Nexon headquarters, and conducted a’limit 0 won challenge’, which sets the limit for in-game cash recharge to 0 won online, and rebelled fiercely. Truck demonstration is a new demonstration method in which trucks with large billboards are sent to the headquarters to deliver messages.
After even users rebelled against this behavior of game companies, the National Assembly is preparing a regulatory bill. Until now, the game industry has operated’self-regulation’ to disclose the acquisition rate of paid probability items by itself, but some game companies, such as NCsoft, neutralized self-regulation by creating double-structured probability items in the form of a combination of paid and free items. did. Accordingly, the National Assembly’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee is discussing a’game industry promotion law amendment’ that requires disclosure of acquisition probabilities of not only paid probabilistic items but also double structure probabilities.
NC, Netmarble “We will open the probability of review”
In this announcement by Nexon, the attention of game users is directed to other game companies such as NCsoft and Netmarble. This is because the probability-type item is the main profit model of most game companies in Korea, including Nexon. Representative Ha Tae-kyung of the People’s Power is a probabilistic business that earned unfair profits with NCsoft’s’Lineage M’,’Lineage 2M’, Nexon’s’Maple Story’,’Dungeon & Fighter’,’Mabinogi’, and Netmarble’s’Marble of all’ It also announced a plan to designate it as’the five evil games’ and request the developers of these games to be investigated by the Fair Trade Commission.
An NCsoft official said, “We plan to review while collecting opinions with users.” An official from Netmarble also said, “We plan to carefully review and collect user opinions and actively reflect them.”
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