Endgame says:

First of all, Grand Chase died because KOG pulled the plug. Go read up on it. The Taiwan publisher confirmed that KOG didn’t want to renew the contract while they wanted to. The Brazil publisher tried everything in their power to keep the game alive. Including buying the rights from KOG and developing it themselves. And then there was the Long Live the Chase fan campaign where Grand Chase players rallied together to show they want the game to live on. Only the NA version was really dead at the time they announced shutting the game down.

Even you can’t believe that the Elsword fanbase would get a movement even half as big when they announce the game is shutting down.

Second, every game has glitches. Yes, we know this.

But when we have shit like one NA exclusive update where Ara went crosseyed or that one KR update causing the actions of Z and X to be reversed on the other player’s screen in PVP resulting in Eves being able to spam >>ZZ quickly to instarape the opponent….. it’s pretty clear the code of the game is fucked up beyond belief since the game has gone through three different teams with different coders. The Void Elsword team has commented on it. KOG is incompetent as fuck.

Third….. there are games with more characters than Elsword but better balance. There are things that have gone live that never should have gotten off of test servers. (As soon as I saw Add’s original ^^, I just knew it was going to be used to cheese PVP maps like the Sander one with the tornado lift thingies.) KOG is uniquely terrible at what they do. They had a great team once. It was pretty much a fluke. And now they’ve left to make a rival game.

KOG fucked up. KOG is continuing to fuck up.

If you want to say KOG is competent, then explain to me how they’ve had more chances and more games than most Korean developers ever get (Wizet developed Maple Story, the all time most successful kMMO worldwide. And THEY couldn’t even get a second game past CBT. It’s rare for Korean studios to develop more than one game at all.) and out of the four games they’ve had to even get a publisher, three of them are now dead? The newest one only lasting 14 months?

Qij says:

“almost every single mmo can get the concept of balance right”

“stop being delusional and see it for what it is”

You’re serious. You are… actually serious. Okay. Yup. Balance issues and complaints about them are unique to Elsword apparently! Every other MMO out there is completely fair and balanced and nobody complains about them at all! You heard it here folks.

“i guess so are youtubers when that happens to them”

Uh, yes? You actually think most of them are found by accident? Wow okay. By any chance, would you like to buy this snake oil I happen to have?

Zetgeist says:

for as questionable as the arguments are, they still have a point – tardkyn is an imbecile who can’t seem to get his head out of kog`’s ass. he’ll defend anything kog` does. as if he thinks he’s gonna get brownie points from them for rabidly defending them on a blog they most likely couldn’t manage to care less about.

balancing is hard, yes. some devs suck at it more than others. and in kog`’s case you all have to remember that by their own words, the actual balance is irrelevant to their “balancing” “effort”s; they have admitted they buff and nerf entirely based on popularity. I’ve seen that shit elsewhere – it never does anything good.

and if you guys really think every person recording their gameplay on the tubes is seriously trying to trigger every bug ever on purpose, you’re just as stupid as he is. some of them certainly are trying to make shit obvious, but the very implication that nobody encounters bugs in games without actively seeking them… is pants-on-head retarded.

every game has bugs, even the actually good ones out there, yes… at the same time, those good games, if they’re online, -usually- have someone actually test shit before it goes to the “live” servers so that the main population doesn’t wind up with gamebreaking bullshit; that’s especially a big deal to PVPers, and kog` keeps thinking elsword’s PVP is good, yet they manage to fail to prevent shit like what endykins is babbling about like that Z/X thing, among other stupidity.
and while I’m on the subject of kog`’s bad code and PVP, remember when they announced f.gunner? as the “n-no, please d-don’t leave!” thing that actually made most of the people at their offline event leave, since they were already pissed about how there was supposed to be a PVP tournament, but kog`’s shitty netcode couldn’t even keep stable within the venue and the tourney had been delayed for like, two hours or something because the computers that were basically all next to eachother couldn’t stay connected to eachother? yeah. how the shit do they make online games for a living and still fail at netcode?

and as for the grandchase thing, yeah. endgame summarizes well enough. companies were willing to pay kog` loadsamoney to keep the game alive, but kog` wanted it gone. they came out with some excuse about it’d be “like selling their son”… so I guess they’re the kind of parents that would sooner kill their children than put them up for adoption. there’s some perspective to be gleaned from a mindset of “better dead than in living someone else’s family”.