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This seems a bit petty imo, MapleStory already has such little viewer count.
Personally I'll take any public awareness generated for the game.
It can potentially take away from MapleStory, but I'd say the numbers are low.
Since AKradian suggests reporting them, I'd say Nexon does indeed care, so have at it. Since the official Twitch has decent viewership, are there any plans in the works to incorporate more regular players into the stream?
I know ZeroByDivide has been featured in the past, as well as there was a "Learn this class" type video series which I think featured regular players.

MarkTahmazov wrote: »

idk i dont have anylags at all i think its a good idea

I honestly believe the Bera server is located in an extremely weird location with very poor servers in general.
Either that or the hacker issues has just completely destroyed the game's ability to update at a reasonable speed.
I've played games from far less successful companies with more players and yet, less lag.
No other server lags like Bera does. Every attempt I've tried in the past to check it out results in just instant lag fest.
Care to let us know your general location and/or internet connection?

I'm able to grab it on alts, though the only one I've tried on is a level 202.
So I'm not sure if you're bugged or not.

Edit: I wasn't able to grab it on a level 130 character that hasn't been doing the event.
Nor was I able to grab it on a level 181 character that had started the event before.
I am however able to see it on all my 200+ characters. I don't have one that wasn't already on the event.
I should note that one of them did not have it appear in the event menu on the left side of the screen, but I was able to accept the quest.
So even if this is only 200+ characters, it's still slightly buggy.

SlicedTime wrote: »

AFAIK MapleStory relies too much on software libraries and technologies exclusive to Windows for it to be run on any other platform, even if Wine or Play on Linux was used. OS X isn't a suitable choice for gaming nowadays anyway.

I believe at this point it's mostly due to anti-cheat. Proton (Steam fork of wine) works pretty well with a lot of games now, however anything with anti-cheat is still out of the question.

However, if you really want to play using your Macbook, I'm pretty sure you could do so by installing Windows aside your pre-existing macOS via Boot Camp. That way you can switch between Windows and macOS whenever you need by restarting your machine. Then you could install MapleStory on the Windows partition of your machine.

I dual boot into Linux/Windows and have no problems running Maplestory, I don't see why they would have any issue with Mac/Windows.

MigiSouthpaw wrote: »

Indeed they can improve on that. While it is not exactly centered, you can't miss it on the nexon launcher as it is right there. Its also silly that the news/update feeds on the launcher were being completely ignored. The person attempts to launch the game, gets the maintenance message, then ignores the feeds which is just right there, then go on their browser instead.

Be careful with those assumptions. The steam version does none of these things.
No news about maint, no warning that the game is under maint. No maint message on the front page.
Point is, what OP suggests is a good idea. You might call it spoonfeeding, I call it good business practice.