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Waiting Rider
The terrible state of the game at the start of the 1st season. There is no selection of players in GP, players spin the car in the lobby for several hours a day.
Terrible distribution on the connection, players from Asia get together with players from the European region, it is simply impossible to play with such a distribution.
It's a completely idiotic decision to introduce a restriction on the countries where the game will be presented.
The project is not of interest to new players who are just trying to enter the Kartrider universe. They play a little with bots, get into a game with players and stop playing because of the high ping.
If you do not want to see the death of your game at the start, you must solve these problems indicated in this post. It's time to do something about servers, regional restrictions, GP recruitment and voice chat in the game, which practically does not work normally. Take as an example the parallel game Kartrider Rush+ in which all these problems are solved. We have been waiting for so long, passed CBT, passed Pre-season, waited for March 8 and new modes as a holiday. Don't kill our favorite game and we won't let you down with in-game purchases.
Hit me up when you back from vacation.
We have asked questions in this thread to be answered, stop clowning us.
Meanwhile whoever you left in charge of the latest patch needs to go.
They need to acknowledge that the Feb 16th patch ruined the game and tell us if they plan on doing anything about it.
The game will for the foreseeable future be a Korea/Taiwan/Japan/Far East centric game. There is no doubt. And if you pair with any player from Asia you will get high pings and flying karts. The ping is how physics works and flying karts is always the result in any version of the game (original, Rush+, Drift).
You must understand Nexon. The game was literally number 1 in its markets during its heyday 10-15 years ago, but had been on steady decline in the last few years. It was difficult to find matches in Taiwan too in the last few years. The KartRider client was literally stuck in Windows XP era, Direct X 9, and Nexon tried impressively hard to keep it alive for close to 20 years. KartRider Drift (known as KartRider 2 in Asia) is their attempt to bring the game back to the heydays, and it would be stupid for Nexon to not focus on their best chance on the markets that it know it can succeed (Korea, Taiwan, etc.). They have run KartRider Rush+ for the past few years globally and they know the statistics. They are not stupid, or at least I hope. They can spend markerting effort in the West, but it will be a waste of effort, at least in its current state.
I am grateful that Nexon made the business decision to renew the title rather than killing it off or leaving it for a painful slow death (which was looking likely honestly). As someone in the West, I am grateful that Nexon made this a global game, and I can at least play it. I hope the game will succeed in the East, and I have no expectation for it in the West other than hoping they will keep allow us to play at all (rather than like the original KartRider which was killed in America). With better Internet today, I hope there is no reason for them to divide the servers anymore like 15 years ago.
Enough rant... So my suggestion to the Western players is simple. Give up GP in the West. Make matchmaking "Balanced" or "Unlimited" (I have been able to match quite quickly lately, but mostly below my skill level).
My suggestion to Nexon is also simple: I don't expect you to spend huge markerting dollars in the West to buy billboards, etc, but keep advertising on app stores. Make it obvious that people should attempt the licenses and upgrade their karts. There are things that long term players in Asia knows but not new Western players. Look into your own stats and help players improve in the game.