The North American Kart Rider version has been down for about 4 months. NEXON America has repeatedly ignored the question and sometimes given a small response on NEXON forums shrugging it off.
No, it’s not gone.
As we said before, we are working on getting everything together so that it can be as good as everybody hopes it can be.
Funny thing is, while it was up everybody complained about lack of content. We take it down so that we can invest some time in getting that for you, and then everybody freaks.
The purpose of a beta is to get a game in the state that the players will have the most enjoyment we can provide. The time in between beta stages is dedicated to provide that.
We have nothing to gain by telling you a lie and saying it is going to come back if we weren’t planning on bringing it back. Any assumption that Kartrider is not coming back is an assumption and nothing more.
But what is taking them so long? MapleStory never went down for months at a time. So why Kart Rider? The response to the Global version of Kart Rider was anything but explosive. Could that be a explanation why NEXON has taken Kart Rider offline? Obviously the GM’s aren’t telling us anything. This is just adding the flaming mound of distrust NEXON America players feel toward the company.
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I really don’t see a reason that this should be a big deal. Yeah MapleStory hasn’t had a downtime this long, but what about before it was released? Think of the beginning stages. I’m pretty sure that developing an online game could take an EXTREMELY long long time.
Another thing, Nexon probably regret releasing it at the time they did. And probably felt that it was necessary to take it down. Thus I find their response reasonable. They didn’t say yes it will be gone for good, nor did they say it’ be up any time soon. Also, if people complained about the “lack of content” while it was up, so why are they complaining still? Make up your minds. Would you rather have more content or less? Wouldn’t it be more fun if there was more content?
Let me tell you something..a little history about the “beta” stages of KartRider.
Released on May,1st, 2007 for Closed Beta
Closed on June 1st, 2007 for Closed Beta
No information what’s so ever for a few months
Released on October 1st, 2007 for Open Beta
1 or 2 new things added, nothing more. (That’s a long time)
Closed on March 2Xth for Closed Beta
DELAYED the closing at a later date in March.(!!??)
Through out the whole Open beta, barely any development happened.
See, it’s really funny how people talk about this when really, they don’t know the whole history behind it.
It’s been so long that it doesn’t matter whether or not we have content, We KNOW we won’t get ANY at all.
2ndly, Early stages? Really hard to develop? Is that so? The Beta period in Korea was 1 week. in China, it was nearly that time too. Why does America take Nearly a year? To remind, Korea was the first one to develop the game, Nexon America doesn’t have to develop anymore, all they need to do is translate and do some other coding which to my knowledge wouldn’t need 1 year now would it?
Third, Read the following thread
http://forum.nexon.net/KART/forums/thread/1433287.aspx
MapleStory turned out to be a direct hit. So why close down that for a long time?
But KartRider… Just didnt turn out so well. Which a beta version shouldnt. Because the whole point of a beta version is for other people to test the game and get response out of it.
Its like i would call my editor a full application.
http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh168/Q9R42/?action=view¤t=BetaV10.png
I’m pretty sure tons of people played.
You have no facts to back that off, Nexon didn’t release any statistics at all.
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Consider this, even though it’s not in the same continent.
KartRider is the only game so far that has beaten StarCraft in the # of people that played it.
It’s Nexon’s biggest game.