Putting My CreditCard under Lock&Key

Someone made the insightful comment that the new Amoria Hairstyle quest takes the five ugliest and least popular hairstyles and gives them to a bunch of suckers, so that we (suckers) then have to turn around and buy NX Cash to fix it.

I think they were right.

Even though I liked my default Edgy, I thought, “Oooh! Free hairstyle, why not?” and promptly received a Polly. That hairstyle is the fugliest thing to grace 2-D gaming since… well, since ever. It just looks bad. Regretting the stupid quest immediately, I whipped out the good old, over-used credit card and bought some NX Cash for the first time.

I’d put off buying NX Cash since I started Mapling last fall because of the rampant hacking. I mean, who wants to donate to a game over-run with botting on every channel? But since Nexon took charge recently and the GMs really started banning hackers, I decided it would be okay to spend some money on it. The ugly Polly on my head helped convince me, as well…

So I purchased $30 worth. Maybe a bit much for a first try, but I figured that it would last me for a while. Wrong. I quickly discovered that cute hairstyles don’t always stay cute once you put a helmet on. Take Miru, for example. It’s a pretty adorable look by itself, but once I put my neko mimi on it looked like a bowl cut gone wrong. So I tried an invisible hat and got along allright for a while… until my boyfriend commented that the Miru hairstyle made me look like that girl from Napoleon Dynamite. O_O

After rounds of experimenting (and purchasing another $15 worth of NX Cash), I’ve decided to stick with what I’ve got on. I survived just fine before I got NX, so why do I need it? It’s rather expensive, and why spend that much on a bunch of pixels when I can take myself out to dinner?

The credit card is going to a dark, dark place and I am not letting myself buy any more NX Cash… at least until the next billing cycle. Heh.

14 thoughts on “Putting My CreditCard under Lock&Key”

  1. At first, i thought your titles “CC” was “change channel”

    lol, i thought you were some illiterate noob.

  2. Yeah, I was worried people might think that, but “credit card” didn’t fit in the title, ^^;

  3. Entertaining.

    Are the hairstyle’s really fixed?
    If so, I really dont want to spend money on it,

    And what server do you play on? You might convince me to come back to MS. These changes seem to be nice.
    , Or I could introduce you to the dark arts off FlyFF. >:D

  4. gujju said: “That hiar quest ripped me off.
    I got my edgy, just in black -.-.”

    At least you didn’t get a hairstyle that you hate? But, yeah, that kind of sucks that it just changed colors.

    Ink said: “Are the hairstyle’s really fixed?
    If so, I really dont want to spend money on it,

    And what server do you play on? You might convince me to come back to MS. These changes seem to be nice.
    , Or I could introduce you to the dark arts off FlyFF. >:D”

    I would like to hope that the quest isn’t fixed ¬_¬ but you never know. I mean, it is a rather lucrative idea. I play on Khaini, (Don’t laugh, but it was the first world I saw on the list when I signed up, and I was in a hurry to start Mapling XD) I think MS global is really improving. The recent mass bannings have definitely raised the game in my opinion, and I’m hopeful about the new towns coming out soon.

    *runs from FlyFF* Noooooo! I have little enough free time as it is. 😀

  5. What’s to laugh about Khaini? It’s great. Except it has the 3rd most hackers after Bellocan and Broa. .

  6. Yay Khaini!

    Oh yeah, try haircuts that make you look like a monkey. Then you know you just got screwed over.

    ~~~~Pirkid~~~~

  7. “sappire8” said: “What’s to laugh about Khaini? It’s great. Except it has the 3rd most hackers after Bellocan and Broa. .”

    Yeah, it is great! I meant, don’t laugh at my method of choosing a server. ^^;

  8. Change your tittle to Credit Card under lock and key. It made me think of changing channels too.

  9. repty said: “Change your tittle to Credit Card under lock and key. It made me think of changing channels too.”

    Well, I tinkered with it a bit and I got something that both fits and captures the idea of what I was trying to convey. Yeah, I didn’t like CC too much either. It would be nice if they allowed longer titles,

  10. Lawl. That sucks. o.o; I use my mom’s credit card, but she refuses to pay for it nao. >.> So I’m using nx cards, but the lack of nx per week is horrible. *goes into withdrawel* Rawr. ;~;

Comments are closed.