[url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=67024&page=2&p=1144383#post1144383]She was transparent.[/url]

[url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=66782&p=1139111#post1139111]She updated us on issues with the game.[/url]

[url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=66560&page=2&p=1133979&viewfull=1#post1133979]She was attentive to problems of individual players, and often contacted individual players to provide a solution.[/url]

[url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=66316&p=1128885&viewfull=1#post1128885]She hinted at things to come.[/url]

[url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=67336&p=1151596&viewfull=1#post1151596]She made the Gachapon reward list much more fair.[/url]

[url=http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=67723&p=1158343&viewfull=1#post1158343]She made the latest Marvel Machine win list better than previous ones, so players would get more bang for their buck than usual[/url]



Prior to it, the Marvel Machine's 2x drop rate, which was supposed to last a day only, ended with no warning before the end of the day;

Girasol lost her Nexon employee badge on the Nexon forums right away. Hime, who has left Nexon a while ago, still has her badge



Warning: this is a rant, and it is text-heavy.A while ago, when I felt like quitting Maple Story for good, I wanted to make one last set of topics for the general section here, describing what I liked about the game and what I think could improve. With every passing day though, I was becoming more and more out of touch with the game, and at some point I felt like I was no longer qualified to assess anything.As basilers like to say, you can never really quit Maple. I still lurked SouthPerry for news on a regular basis and I still frequented Basil (though mostly the Chat section). A Nexon employee named Girasol started becoming an active member of the SouthPerry community. She was always honest and transparent with people, she cared about players and about making the game fun and fair, and she seemed like a very open and fun person to talk to. She was the essence of everything Maplers have been wanting out of Nexon all these years. She gave me hope that even a terrible company like Nexon might be able to change for the better. I don't lurk nearly enough topics to know all of her contributions to the Maple community, but here is what I did observe (and an example for each):I've always believed that business is a two-way street, and that the best way to do business is in a way where everyone wins. Treat your customers well, and you will prosper. No matter how Nexon acknowledged their problems and how much they've vowed to change, they've never really managed to establish that bridge until Girasol started playing an active role. With her around representing the company, I thought Nexon of America finally got it. I enjoyed Girasol's presence in the Maple community so much that I even started playing casually again. I made a Hayato and continued my new mage (KonnoMakoto), and for the first time since I started Maple, I felt like the game was worth my time. I liked where Nexon of America was going.Or so I thought. Yesterday, Girasol left Nexon for her own reasons. Due to the lack of information, everything from this point forward is based entirely on a guess.Here's what we know surrounding Girasol's withdrawal from Nexon:With this, I have concluded that Girasol disagreed with Nexon and voluntarily left. I do not believe she was fired, but truth be told, it doesn't really make any difference if she was. The point is that, in my mind, her leaving almost certainly means there was a conflict between her and Nexon. Girasol's farewell post on the official forums turned out to be a fake, and the lack of an official farewell message from her also has me worried.If someone who has done so much good for the Maple community managed to have a conflict with the higher-ups, that could only mean one thing: Nexon is the antagonist of Maple Story. If Girasol had the interests of the players in mind, then Nexon didn't. As far as I'm concerned, this is Nexon telling us that all they're interested in is milking its customers for all their worth. "Good customer service? Transparency? Fairness? To hell with all of that." That's how I see it. If you have no standards whatsoever, you can go ahead and defend them by saying that's what a good business should do. For me, Nexon has burned that bridge and has crossed that final line. Both the game and the company are now beyond redemption, and it's about time I stopped caring for good.