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If they're doing it, why not Vindi?
If BnS is upgrading their engine from UE3 to UE4, why can't Vindi upgrade their engine to Source 2? Both games are almost the same age.
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Bns treats their players with respect and actually know how to balance their game better
It's hard to say if it would bring new players. For such a niche game and small population as vindi it doesn't make sense to pour hundreds of man hours on a project that isn't guaranteed to make them money. I'm surprised they even redid perilous because functionally people only see it for the first like 30mins of playtime. This game doesn't even get advertising so no one would even know if they did such an upgrade.
Yeah but the similarities between Vindictus and BnS end there.
TLDR; Vindi doesn't bring in all that much either here or in KR. Maple Story, MS2, Mabinogi Mobile, Dungeon & Fighter in China, AxE, and other games are a priority.
http://pdf.irpocket.com/C3659/axM2/oYEi/jPQz.pdf
You can look at the latest financials there and google if you want more in-depth info.
http://www.pixelberrystudios.com/ -Nexon's major growth contributor for the NA region. Is it any surprise community interaction here has gone to zero? Vindi is on life support so they're milking it while they can since the whales just can't say no.
Nexon realized games like black desert online is their superior despite releasing crappy patches recently and lacking in pve. It's only a matter of time before vindictus dies out ent irely.
Mabinogi also faces the same issue. Our game is outdated . Peria Chronicles feels more polished and up to date Mabinogi. Mobile games are popular and easy to run.One can guess how that will end..
I remember when Vindictus came out, it was just breath taking. The ability to push objects, grab an NPC and run their face across a wall, or crack their back like Dwayne Johnson during his WWF years. As dated as Vindictus is, I still get a sense of euphoria when I perform these moves, but unfortunately using a straight forward weapon just does more damage. Frankly I think this is a brilliant idea: why don't we scale the damage with the weapons? So that if you have a strong weapon, a grab effect will do severely more damage. Further, if you smash an opponent with an object and wield a powerful weapon, same effect plus more damage, so it becomes favorable. Basically more damage to compensate for the slower combat.
I'd lie if I said I didn't google if there was Vindictus 2 coming out or a game like it, but the truth is, there isn't one, and unfortunately there really isn't a game like this out there. Vindictus is unique, it's special, it's beautiful, it has fan service and fantasy, it has action and adventure, it's a game that stands alone on top of a mountain, defeating any copy cat out there.
Something that bugs me though, I just can't imagine why people would not welcome Vindictus 2. If you merge BDO with Vindictus, you'd truly have, what they call a "wow killer" in the industry.
BDO with meaningful PvE and minus the current wood chopping endgame is certainly something I'd play.
Though tbh as it stands I'd rather play Vindi - at least it has interesting things to fight instead of a good combat system wasted on endless trash grind, unplayable sieges, and PvP otherwise plagued by desync that hasn't been properly addressed since the dawn of the game.
If the playerbase petitioned to Nexon Korea for a sequel, I bet it could happen. Tbh, Vindi deserves a sequel.
If Vindi 2 launches it will just be more of the same, and we likely won't see the good fixes like the better version of the Seal Shop that was able to be implemented by NA/EU first. Would I play Vindi 2? Yes. Would I ever spend a dollar on it? No. Even in KR Mabi Heroes is out of the Top 50 because of the choices that have been made. It's not profitable like it was, and the director keeps doubling down on bad decisions. Looking at financial data from it, I can't image Nexon green lighting a second iteration of a title that's completely gone to crap, especially when they have so many others that are either ridiculously easy to maintain like mobile titles or that are still hugely successful and carrying that wave into the next launch like MapleStory into MapleStory 2.
It's certainly not impossible that we'll see Vindi 2, I just doubt it. I really doubt that what we want will be heard either way. NA/EU made up 56% of BDO's revenue last year, but the devs/publisher still lie to and ignore the western players. They even went so far as to have a summit, the feedback from which they ignored in its entirety. KR teams just don't seem to give a care as to what western players want no matter how much cash they put into the games. Sadder still is that western players keep spending no matter what, so why would they ever listen to us?
Back to the original topic, there's no way they do an engine update with a single season remaining.