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Will a MapleStory Player Council Ever Return?
I feel like (when he was still a part of the MapleStory community) Artasi organizing a group of people extremely skilled in each class to represent the class as a whole on the forums was a very good idea. I know people abused the trust given to them as part of the council in regards to leaking proposed changes without given express permission to do so unfortunately last time.
I wish something like this still existed though, as we keep getting changes to classes that many of us do not agree with. We need someone that will be asked first for their input and suggestions about the classes (that will actually be listened to) not just automatically do whatever KMS does (or for example the Jett changes always seem to do something wrong). Why can't we bring this back but just don't share information before it's ready to be revealed this time?
I put this post in general because while this may sound like a suggestion it's more of me just wishing something like this still existed. I tried to see if I could bring something like this back once myself before but I didn't find enough people interested in it (since it wasn't an official thing).
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Weird though a lot of the supposed breach of NDA from the Maple Player Council was content KMS or KMST (but KMST isn't secretive, anyone can find out what's going on in KMST before it goes live on KMS) already had, so they weren't exactly exposing something we didn't see coming.
Upset the established order, and everything becomes.....CHAOS!! I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know a thing about chaos??
It's fair
It's best not to ask
If the MLC were to ever come back, it'd need to have more sway and more transparency than last time. A smaller group of people would also be more beneficial, as half the full council were inactive. It's also easier to keep things that shouldn't get out from getting out to the public. The MLC ultimately should've been the voice of the players, taking their suggestions and formulating them into cohesive thoughts to submit to Nexon.
Even though there's a part of me that would love another chance at the mlc, I know that Nexon just doesn't have the capabilities to utilize it properly.
I think the only thing you guys ever actually accomplished was staving off the rnj exp nerf for a bit longer.
Players make suggestions and offer feedback all the time. On these forums, on reddit, and even on Discord. The Community Team (CM and VFMs) collects these suggestions and feedback, and forwards them to the decision-makers at Nexon. Artasi had thought that a more formal arrangement, of a council with thoroughly discussed resolutions officially presented to Nexon, would work better. In reality, it didn't seem the decision-makers treated the MLC resolutions more seriously than they treat random suggestion threads we forward them. It was, sadly, a waste of everyone's time.
The suggestion section of these forums sometimes seems pointless if only occasionally will our opinions ever actually be even considered or seen (never mind actually implemented). I know the moderators of the forum can't change anything about that, but I wish Nexon would. Why give us a suggestion and feedback section on the forums if our posts there are generally ignored, or rather than a direct response months or even years later a note is posted on the main website.
To be fair, a lot of suggestions posted are dumb as hell.
There's still some ideas that get quite a few other forum members to agree are a good idea but many times they don't get the attention they deserve from Nexon while people still hold out hoping it will happen.