User blog comment:BlueChoco/I'm Ashamed Of Nexon../@comment-4260367-20111117194419

I don't really think Nexon thinks CA is a dying game. If they did they probably would have made Combat Arms Zombies its own series and wouldn't have made it related to CA since people would feel uneasy about buying things from the the mobile version if they see Nexon burn the PC version to the ground (assuming the mobile version has a NX black market instead of being a pay game). Even if Nexon thinks CA is a dying game I don't think the contents of the Black Friday sale would be all that different than if they think CA is a really prosperous game.

Originally I thought that Sudden Attack would suck in a lot of the CA players but I couldn't stand playing 20 minutes of Sudden Attack and now I think Nexon actually wants to suck in Sudden Attack's playerbase instead of the other way around. Sudden attack is/has pretty much everything that players have been begging for in Combat Arms at the expense of everything else. There are no hackers (the game has been out for only a few hours anyway), lighting settings (DX7 at best instead of fixed DX8 lighting in CA), no OP weapons (stat differences don't equate to as much than in CA), much better performance (since the graphics are worse than CS:S), less recoil than REC rules, you can shoot through some types of walls (I'm not so sure. If you can't though then that means that there really are hacks and people were already hacking the game two hours after they opened the servers), doesn't run on game guard (probably due to some contracts by Game HI), no emods and no specs. All of this at the expense of graphics/graphics settings (the maximum resolution for the game is slightly higher than MapleStory's max resolution), no attachable scopes, suppressors or magazines, server lag, enemy footsteps are quieter than your own (at least they seemed so while I was playing), the map layouts are crap and encourage camping and bottle-necking, no versatility since you can only have 1 primary weapon that you can only swap out at the respawn area, a penalty for leaving a game which will make hackers even more nightmarish than they have ever been in CA, misleading cross-hairs (compared to CA), crappy glitching textures and a crappy low resolution UI to name a few. In my opinion Sudden Attack is nothing more than Nexon's war trophy from GameHI and Nexon is just keeping SA around to suck as much NX out of SA players as possible before they swap to CA.