is a long time ago, it would be more foolish for me to assume that they've been playing for that long.
Quite a lot of have and I feel like a large part of players these days play just because they always have played. I'm sad to say but I don't think Maple is a very attractive game for newcomers.
Yes, but thats EMS. EMS is more active than GMS. And yes I would love that population of EMS. the creation of new worlds are splitting the player base into small sections tbh. SInce, there are just so many choices to choose.
but the event hall never lagged until the "optimization patch". I do appreciate that they fixed guild + buddy chat delays, but what exactly did they really optimize?