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Over the course of the time that you've played this game, i gotta ask, why do you still play it?
There has been constant lags, poor customer service, errors and bugs all around, hackers and botters, etc. What exactly makes you tick to want to play this game further? Or maybe you're contemplating leaving just like I am? v.188 made me lose all interest in playing until maybe cadena and illium. So what about you?
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But their compatibility is terrible now...
I shouldn't get lag spikes with a $1k rig...
I honestly think that Maplestory is a great game that need to get improved on lag and connectivity issues,
Theres more to lag than a 1k rig.
From someone that played when it took a couple days to get to level 30, grinding some more for extra nodes is nothing.
lol please KMS runs super smooth. The GMS client is poorly made..
For a company who claimed to be different, they sure act pretty samey to the very people they said they were different from.
KMS is usually local to the region, GMS hosts global players, there will be more traffic and interference, congestion etc
I don't play all the time, but every now and then. When it's working, I still find it fun to play, since I just play solo and don't play the auction house or try to buy the best weapon there ever is. I just level all of my characters and take my time. *shrugs* I've been lucky enough not to experience much lag or many bugs, so there's that, too.
Same, i got a really decent laptop , i can play without any problems games like world of warcraft and guild wars 2 that require much more space and without any lag and trouble at all yet this game that requires only 10GB, i believe ,i still have a lot of lag issues,dcing issues, takes years to start it and has tons of buggs tbh, and consider i have 300MB of internet connection and i still lag when a player comes to my channel, when i enter ursus and when i do bosses in party... , i keep playing the game because on one side its addicting and on the other side it remembers me of my childhood , i think i started playing it at 12-14, im 23 years now, i like to remember those days where i had no responsabilities i guess, but as days go by i keep asking y do i play this game? There are far better games that dont give me this much trouble when playing, who knows, unless things change and the service nexon offers us improves a lot, sooner or later i might just quit once and for all.
I played MMOs that shut down in 5 years time or less, this to me, is the only MMO I played that is still going strong. Sure there are others that are equally as long or longer, but I started Maple as my very first online game so I continue to play it. I also set goals to reach for myself to keep me motivated to play for a long time. So it is a nostalgia thing for me. That and a lot of my classes I picked to play are really enjoyable to play =D
I know this game has its flaws, everything in life does, and every single game does, nothing is ever perfect nor will it be in my lifetime so I keep hoping for the best and do my thing.
If things become out of our control, we can either rage at it or accept we can't change it and move forward with our life.
I'm not a hardcore gamer and I don't play many other things (mostly, The Sims), so I'm not a very experienced and talented player. I've always gotten very nervous, to the point where I'd almost get a panic attack from the tension, when dealing with bosses or stressful missions in most games and, so, I stopped actively playing and became a "watcher" of my sister while she plays a long time ago. But, for some reason, MapleStory was a game I dared to try myself, where I wanted to progress and achieve something on my own. So, I've stuck with it since the beginning, and tried my best to progress even though I can't afford to put money into it and I haven't made it all that far and, for the standards nowadays, all my characters are a big failure. :P
That discourages me sometimes, because I end up feeling like all these years have meant nothing, but then I remember how much I like my characters (for what they are and the stories I've imagined behind them, even if their damage sucks) and how sad it makes me to think they are stuck in the same level and left alone if I quit, so I come back and keep trying to progress and make something out of them even though I don't have an active guild anymore, all the people I knew and that played with me (both friends and family) have quit and even though there are many new things that are hard for me or that I don't like (like bosses!) or that I simply can't do because I don't have the monstrous damage or equips or whatever that is needed to do this or that. :P
So, yeah... Nostalgia of the good old times when my guild (the guild my sister and I made with a lot of effort) was alive, when my sister played and we lived adventures together in-game, when you had to struggle to get to lvl30 and it was kinda rewarding doing so, when there was a lot more people around and you had a chance to just train together for hours, while chatting or something; that's one of my reasons to play. The fact that I don't wanna leave my dear characters to die or to just be deleted someday, that's another. And the fact that this game provides me with a sense of adventure, of self-accomplishment, of "courage" that real life doesn't and that is kinda satisfactory (and fun, to feel like you can live another life through your character and do stuff you'll never be able to do in real life, like fight for a cause or do something epic or use magic or powers), that's another big reason why I keep playing. That adds to the fact that I've always loved the graphics of this game (I don't particularly like 3D games or most modern games, actually), the mechanics of it and all... Well. All that has kept me here, even though I feel more and more that I will never actually "succeed" in anything, I will never actually "accomplish" anything and every day gets harder to do something relatively worth it without having money to invest or friends to help me with anything. :P