Digimon Masters unleashes bevy of improvements

Joymax have announced today the start of a series of new content and changes inspired by and based on player feedback for its online massive multiplayer title, Digimon Masters. The first of several patches which is now available includes functional game changes as well as new Mercenary Digimon.

"We set in place a number of measures in order to limit the negative impact of real-money trade and botting on Digimon Masters, but quickly came to the realization while these were effective in deterring RMT, they were also overly punitive to our players." said Joymax CEO, Nam-chul Kim. "The player's voices have been heard on this issue and others, and we're committed to addressing their concerns in a timely manner."

The first part of the update, which launched on November 1st, addressed player requests that were related to experience point (XP) deductions and low drop-hatch rates: the XP penalty for extended game play has been removed, and the drop-hatch rates have been increased. These improvementswere widely lauded as a positive step forward for the publisher. In addition, several new Digi-Eggs were added to the cash shop: Keramon, Hawkmon, and Petimeramon.

Future content updates, that are due out in November and December, will include an expanded cash shop with more payment methods, a new game server named Lucemon, two special Digivolutions for Beelzemon and MetalGarurumon, eight new Digimon including Agumon and Tentomon, and last but not least, three new map.