Maplestory Should Have Subscription Plans

xMrMeow

I'm not suggesting Maplestory goes Pay-to-play

These would be Optional Yearly Subscription services at a variety of price points that offer a variety of items/services at a reduced bundle price.

Example Plans:

Basic Maple Sub: $200/yr
- Vac Pet Water of Life
- Extra Vac Pet Water of Life items purchased will have a 33% discount
- Erda Pass
- 4 Complete Daily Skip Passes: Usable for 1 day each, these passes would let you instantly Skip any Arcane River/Grandis Daily quests and receive full XP and Symbols, as well as Monster Park Extreme, and Event Daily Check-ins (allows dedicated players to take a vacation day from Maple every now and then, or several days in a row if they have an IRL vacation or just a busy week ahead of them, but don't want to miss out on daily rewards)
- Once Per Month, Per Boss, you can claim a Boss Clear Reset Ticket for a boss you haven't cleared last week (miss a week of weekly bosses? this lets you catch up)

Super Pass Bundle: $300/yr
- All above
- Includes all Event bonus passes for the year

Fashionstory Bundle: $500/yr
- All above
- 10 Hair/Face slot coupons instantly
- Expanded Cash Outfit Inventory
- Cash Outfit Presets 3->10
- Cash Shop Transfer Year Round
- 11 PSSB Boxes / mo
- 1 Royal Face and Royal Hair coupon / mo
- All cash outfits are permanent when purchased with this plan


I think plans like these would be very successful as offering yearly subscription versions of existing features in the game at a reduced cost would encourage more players to get these services. Keeping the cost for the bundles lower than the cost of the individual monthly cost of the items is essential to making the high upfront cost feel like a really good deal, and having any of these plans will keep players invested in the game year-round.

The added convenience feature of a few Daily Skip Passes per month would also help prevent burnout when players who aren't used to playing every day all year are encouraged to do so, as well as allow players who already do play every day to be able to take a vacation in real life without worrying about missing daily quests or weekly bosses.

The fashion pass especially would encourage a lot of players who are already spending on various outfits year-round to spend more as they'd get access to more convenient usage/storage of their outfits, as well as some boxes / coupons each month will encourage them to keep up-to-date with what outfits are in rotation and keep their foot in the door with rolling for the ones they want each month.

Stacona

I was thinking more like:

Pay 30,000 NX for a pass for 30-days to gain infinite access to all of the cash shop outfits as long as you have this pass active.

This could even include just selecting outfits from Surprise Style Boxes, but of course if you don't buy the boxes directly then you lose access to the outfits when the Surprise Style Boxes rotate to new outfit selections.

Maybe throw in 1 Water of Life for Vacuum Pets as a bonus, this would add value to players for Nexon to get more money out of the vacuum pet monthly tax with having unlimited outfit usage while "subscribed".

This is in addition to making all of the cash shop outfits from 90-days only to choice between 90-days or permanent duration for direct purchase.

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What you suggest exactly will make things messy.