Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds charges you extra money just to log in
Level-5 and Netmarble’s Ni No Kuni online multiplayer game was already controversial at launch and its reputation has only got worse since.
Chances are if you’ve heard of the Ni No Kuni online multiplayer role-playing game, Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds, it’s only because of the controversy surrounding it.
Even before it launched, its decision to implement blockchain technology and cryptocurrency (with NFTs to follow later this year) was met with disdain and disappointment.
Actual players, meanwhile, are struggling to even log in and play because of crypto bots flooding the servers, resulting in lengthy log-in queues. What’s worse is that the only solution developer Netmarble seems to offer is to pay real money to bypass the queues.
While other free-to-play online multiplayer games often offer a paid subscription or battle pass, they’re usually designed merely to provide players extra content, like additional items and in-game currency.
However, with how dire the log-in issues are, Ni No Kuni: Cross World’s subscription is almost needed just to play it, effectively not making it free-to-play anymore.
Word of this spread across social media when Josh Torres, senior staff writer at RPGSite, mentioned it on Twitter, adding that the Daily Adventurer’s Pass, as it’s called, costs $7.99 (£6.50).
This naturally led to assumptions that players are being charged $7.99 every day and that Netmarble introduced it to deal with the log-in issues, although this is apparently inaccurate.
Those claiming to play the game themselves say that the pass has been available since launch and is a monthly payment, not daily, since the bypassing queues feature was attached to the regular monthly subscription.
Still, outsiders are less than impressed, with
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