[quote=“Watsyurdeal;c-220518”]I think that Splash at this point has no more excuses except for time, team size, etc
Nexon isn’t behind the scenes pulling strings anymore, Splash Damage can make this game realize it’s full potential, and I fully believe they can do it.
I understand where you’re coming from Amerika, but I think they can do this. So yes, I am fairly hyped. XD[/quote]
Oh I am not saying don’t be excited for the future. Just asking that people to remain classy with their excitement.
SD knew they fucked up signing with Nexon shortly after and considering Nexon’s track record, it’s actually amazing they did. I felt like Nexon was the reason behind slowly drip feeding us mercs from closed beta and the snails pace for the new content, but it takes two to tango as they say. I guess at the end of the day SD needed Nexon to get Dirty Bomb public and it certainly helped with that, whether or not it was the best presentation is debatable.
Whatever happens next, I’m grateful that Nexon didn’t force SD into a shit pay to win model and I’ll still probably check out Lawbreakers with the hopes that they take a similar direction with the games micro-transaction model.
[quote=“Kelben;c-220480”]@Nail I assume, you mean this
"lol, too bad you missed the ACTUAL IMPORTANT part:
“What I can say is it’s not quite true that’s it’s our game and we can do what we want right now, but we have something big to announce very shortly that will change all that.”"
well, it isnt so far fetched, that this post meant the split from Nexon. But your arrogance to claim [quote=“Nail;c-220430”]they even announced it then, but I seemed to be the only one to notice even after I pointed it out. it is to LOL[/quote] is almost laughable. I know you are close with SD, so I dont know if you had additional information. But for people just reading this statement it is first of all just one of many “soons”. Because this is what most announcements of SD are: Just “soons” with no follow up.
I guess a lot of people made the connection of SD splitting from Nexon. But there was no way for knowing it as a fact. Especially when there was a rumor that there was some other company still owning parts from really early days of DB (before Nexon).
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thing is, they said it in plain ENGLISH, not vague w/e
ie:
" it’s not quite true that’s it’s our game and we can do what we want" “very shortly that will change”
possibly you had difficulty translating
btw, SD isn’t all that fond of me either 
THIS IS GREAT NEWS, we wont be a limited fund no priority step child, only short term interest money grab!
Just because the publisher is changing doesn’t mean that you can just start breaking the current forum rules. Please do not dodge the filters. Also, this is still a Nexon forum until the transition and all of their rules still apply.
I haven’t been this excited for DB ever, I don’t think. This is great news, and I can’t wait for the transfer or power to complete.
I don’t know much about the relationship between developer and publisher, so I have a question. I understand that SD will be free to make their own choices now, and everybody is happy about it.
But doesn’t it also mean less money for the game, thus a slower developing pace?
But doesn’t it also mean less money for the game, thus a slower developing pace?
Nah, I’ve heard that Chicken Company is quite rich
I shall briefly end my lengthy period of lurking to say:
Oh. That’s cool!
[quote=“Ecureuil_Chatoyant;c-220596”]I don’t know much about the relationship between developer and publisher, so I have a question. I understand that SD will be free to make their own choices now, and everybody is happy about it.
But doesn’t it also mean less money for the game, thus a slower developing pace?[/quote]
i thought if you dont need to pay for publisher that mean more money for the game if someone buys an expert case
I’m giddy with excitement this is GREAT news, congrats SD employees and DB Nation! Ignore the negative thinkers, we are going to MAKE DIRTY BOMB GREAT AGAIN!
[quote=“Ecureuil_Chatoyant;c-220596”]I don’t know much about the relationship between developer and publisher, so I have a question. I understand that SD will be free to make their own choices now, and everybody is happy about it.
But doesn’t it also mean less money for the game, thus a slower developing pace?[/quote]
i thought if you dont need to pay for publisher that mean more money for the game if someone buys an expert case[/quote]
True, the developer would get a larger portion of any profits now that Nexon is not involved, but now SD has to pay for server upkeep, a customer support team and their new anti-cheat as well as any marketing/advertising. Nexon covered that before in addition to another QA team separate from the SD QA team.
Those are immediate costs that need to be paid sooner rather than later after additional content is released. That means additional staff and funding could simply mean adding the support staff needed to cover those roles Nexon formerly handled, rather than additional development. However now that Nexon will not be receiving any portions of the profits SD may feel more compelled to invest in development. As mpod said,
[quote=“Ecureuil_Chatoyant;c-220596”]I don’t know much about the relationship between developer and publisher, so I have a question. I understand that SD will be free to make their own choices now, and everybody is happy about it.
But doesn’t it also mean less money for the game, thus a slower developing pace?[/quote]
i thought if you dont need to pay for publisher that mean more money for the game if someone buys an expert case[/quote]
True, the developer would get a larger portion of any profits now that Nexon is not involved, but now SD has to pay for server upkeep, a customer support team and their new anti-cheat as well as any marketing/advertising. Nexon covered that before in addition to another QA team separate from the SD QA team.
Those are immediate costs that need to be paid sooner rather than later after additional content is released. That means additional staff and funding could simply mean adding the support staff needed to cover those roles Nexon formerly handled, rather than additional development. However now that Nexon will not be receiving any portions of the profits SD may feel more compelled to invest in development. As mpod said,
Arent you now breaking rules with that FUD statement?
When the deal with nexon was signed we always heard that SD would hold the “full creative control” over the game. Little did we know or ask the right question that Nexon would have the financial control and only fund a skeleton crew to publish and maintain what of DB was already produced/existing during closed alpha/beta. We could call this DB v1.0.
Nexon basically crippled any further develoment by allowing only minimal manhours on the project. Milking the project to a certain degree, granted their efforts Ardez posted above. With the announcement SD is now able to put serious manpower behind the project and develop DB v2 with new features and content the community has asked for since its early days. The only problem i see is that it will take a good while to get the new manpower up to speed.
@FireWorks My statement above was a possible rational explanation using the evidence currently available to us combined with a question posed by mpod. I have no insight on what the agreement was between Nexon & SD in regards to Dirty Bomb. You seem to take my attempts to rationalize the situation as a free pass to start claiming Nexon did something to prevent development at any point, when hampering development would actually do more harm to Nexon and not help them. The statement was and still is that SD had full creative control and could have released additional content at any time they had it ready to go. The best way to generate revenue & maintain a playerbase in a f2p game is consistent content updates. Why would Nexon do anything to prevent that as you suggest they did?