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5th Job Skill Alternate Name Poll
So today in the Official Maplestory Discord, Aru has sent out a poll to give players a choice in what their new skill names should be. I'd like to bring up that this is certainly not the best option to do when it comes to changing skill names. Firstly one major problem with this is that it is for only seven classes out of forty-four classes. That is such a low amount of classes to even bother with and it is very easy to call out on two or three classes that not a lot of people had a problem for the new skill name to begin with. The poll has several flaws already and another major issue is that I doubt that many maplers will take this poll seriously for there has already been comments saying "I'm going to vote for the worst names ever" and I'd like to think that'd be a joke but the reality is that it's not a joke. A part of me writing this has been because of disappointment with my own class skill name but the more that I think about it I'm not upset because of my own class won't get a chance anymore. I'm upset with the lack of communication and choices we are given. Most maplers will see the poll and when they don't see their class they'll just say "Way to go nexon..." and move on. It baffles my mind when we had a recent post about being more transparent and being more dedicated to give us the best experience but you don't want to maplers of all classes a chance to let their opinions be heard out? That's all I have to say about this poll, thanks for reading and I'd like to hear your guys opinion about this as well.
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As many of you saw on our website, the names were finalized for the most part, but we had both internal and saw external complaints regarding certain skill names.
Through feedback from our internal teams and feedback collected from our community, we created the poll with 7 upcoming 5th job skill names.
Okay, and what about the other classes...? F/P Mage skill makes absolutely no sense, and meanwhile there were classes that were perfectly fine being included in the poll.
The problem with your approach is that you cannot pick and choose certain classes and completely disregard others. If you didn't plan on addressing the concerns of all the classes, you shouldn't have picked any at all. All this has done is open up a bigger can of worms and make the classes that are being screwed over by not having their voices heard become even more disenfranchised and salty about the situation.
Adding on to what Mira said, I understand what you're trying to do but ultimately how most people see this even on the official Maplestory Discord is that this poll is a joke and you should vote for the most hated name rather than what was expected. There are many ways of handling this issue regarding skill names but Aru this certainly wasn't the best way possible in handling this situation. I see this poll and can't stop thinking that this was basically favoritism which is weird because there were classes that not a lot of people play these days on the poll but somehow they got recognition to be in the poll. It's steps and directions like these that makes the community always think "wow, it's nexon anyways so it doesn't matter."