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[Official] Vindictus In-Game Cosplay Thread

PrettyPrincess

May 12, 2019

Some of the stuff here is pretty impressive!

Here's Aya Brea from the Parasite Eve series... or should we say "Eira Brea"? I'm guessing the name is already taken.
Credit to ArchWizard on the SA forums.
U.S bill to ban loot boxes, your thoughts?

PrettyPrincess

May 12, 2019

I doubt this will really do anything. For one, the bill is targeted specifically at kids, and most "whales" are presumably adults, so it doesn't really even protect adults from this rather predatory practice. Even if a kid does somehow drop thousands on a game, they had to get the credit card from someone else.

Even if this law does somehow include actual specific and realistically enforceable language that does manage to potentially change something, all games really need to do is just say "you need to be 18+ to sign up" -- which many games already do, and the EULA usually shrugs off all responsibility of sign-up fraud to the end user. 18+ game selling lockboxes = not selling lockboxes to kids = Nexon continuing business as usual.

While it'd be nice if gamers were smart enough to just stop buying this junk, I'll be very impressed if this law actually does anything other than become another tax-draining overhead burden on the already byzantine legal system. But hey, I bet it'll be a great career move for this previously-unknown senator!
Post your Eira screenshots!

PrettyPrincess

May 1, 2019

It took me a surprisingly long time to notice the design on these guns.

Bone Spiked Revolvers:

(Okusama wa Joshikousei)

Here's the "Darkside" guns:

I'm not very far along in the story; anyone else find some neat gun designs? I think I'll have to save a pair of the cat guns for future use...
Post your Eira screenshots!

PrettyPrincess

May 1, 2019

Eira, blowing hot loads with the force of a thousand suns:

Eira, like, decided that Colhen was ridic drab and boring, so she went to this totally chic little mercenary bargain store, and it turns out all you need to do to turn a dumpy old veteran uniform into a super fetch tunic top is to just take your pants off! Avant-gaaaaarde!

I'm beating bears, bitches!

Starry Inner and Mermaid hair is surprisingly faaaabulous. Who wants to take bets on how many posts it'll be before someone posts a pic of Eira actually wearing pants? I'm going to be bold and say at least 2 pages.

e: actually, I'm not sure if there even are any decent pants.
Should we be concerned?

PrettyPrincess

April 17, 2019

Ugh, to be at the mercy of capitalist overlords...

Nexon is one thing but Disney is probably more cutthroat and ruthless despite their smiling exterior, kinda like Martha Stewart, maybe.

I don't really know how much influence they'd have over Nexon, but they wouldn't hesitate to shut down a game without warning, like they did with Marvel Heroes. All it'd take is one too many quarters not meeting revenue expectations or someone like K*taku running an outrage article about sexism, and boom... no more Vindictus. Or even worse, the game stays but they censor a bunch of stuff.

That site loads really slowly for me so here's the text if anyone else has the same problem. At least as far as I can tell, it's Nexon approaching Disney as a proposal rather than Disney showing interest, which I suppose is a good thing. I can't really see why Disney would want to inherit any reputation from Nexon's properties.

Disney offered controlling stake of Nexon: report
By Lim Jeong-yeo

Published : Apr 17, 2019 - 13:47
Updated : Apr 17, 2019 - 17:15

The controlling stake in South Korea’s biggest game company Nexon may end up in the hands of Walt Disney Co., a report suggested Wednesday.

The anticipated price for the stake to go on sale is 15 trillion won ($13.2 billion), with premiums for business management rights on top of the Nexon Japan share price, which closed up slightly at 1,681 yen ($15) Tuesday, but slid to 1,558 yen as of 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo quoted the international banking industry as saying that NXC Chairman Kim Jung-ju personally approached a high-ranking Disney representative to discuss acquisition matters.

Kim Jung-ju (NXC)

In early January, Kim announced the intention to sell his and his wife’s 98.64 percent majority stake in NXC, the holding company of Nexon Japan with a 47.02 percent stake. Nexon Japan completely owns Nexon Korea.

By March, shortlisted in the Nexon bid were Kakao, MBK Partners with Netmarble, Tencent, Bain Capital and an undisclosed foreign establishment.

But Disney reportedly has a special place in Kim’s heart.

“What I envy the most about Disney is that they do not force money out of kids ... (consumers) gladly pay Disney. Nexon has a long way to go. Some people hate Nexon to death,” Kim Jung-ju was quoted as saying in an anecdote in Nexon’s foundation story, “Play,” published in 2015. He was referring to the common practice of effectively requiring players to make in-game purchases.

Nexon was founded in Seoul in 1994. It posted its own record of 2.5 trillion won revenue in 2018. Nexon Japan had roughly 2.5 trillion won in cash reserves as of end-2018. Nexon’s new high-end mobile game “Traha” has garnered over 4.1 million advance sign-ups in Korea alone, hinting at another revenue boost for the company.

Disney was unable to comment at the time of writing. Nexon and NXC also could not offer comments.