Tuba

It's sticking that way. They even indirectly announced as much here in the paragraph after the first set of bullet points:

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/18598/maple-memo-global-migration-complete

If it's sticking that way I'm not sure why they would then make a poll on the forums asking us what time zone we want after a lot of people got mad at them for changing the time zone to a UTC time zone out of the blue. And the option on the poll that got the most votes was,
"Use PST for the North American server and Central European Time (CET) for the European server."
47% (250 votes), as this should have been done in the first place as adjusting the time zones to each region makes more sense than putting the Europe AND North American server in UTC time. So since they asked us how we want the time zones and majority of the players wants this change, I'm not so sure why the changes haven't been made in the maintenance today.

Tuba, why do you keep name-dropping Rich Williams? Is the guitarist for the band Kansas and/or the CEO of Groupon going to be of any use in this situation?

He is president at Nexon America that's why I keep "name-dropping" him. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-williams-86a53948
Why would I use someone's name who is apart of a band? Work on your searching skills because just a slice of advice from me to you, it would probably help to type the company they work for next to their name. It's not like there's a bunch of Rich Williams in the world that believe it or not don't all work at Nexon lmao..

Okay. So why do you keep name-dropping him like you and him are buddy-buddy, that you could go "hey bro, can this guy he's a jerk"?

No I'm "name-dropping" him because he's one of the first high ranking Nexon employee's I had found while looking up names online lmao. Am I supposed to know him personally to talk to him about how people in his company are neglecting the game? Also what were you trying to say in the quotes? Did you choke on a xanax pill and forget to finish your sentence lol

Attention Maplers,

Something seems to be missing. The missing letter holds the key to the future.

H	C	L	M	Z
A	Q	D	G	J
N	P	W	I	F
O	Y	B	E	S
U	T	K	X	R

You're a complete JOKE. I want you and all the other incompetent college kids who have done this game complete injustice decimated from the company. I'm about to call Rich Williams and tell him how much you and all the other imbeciles are murdering this game. And if I can't contact him I will make sure to contact someone that is just as high up there as he is. My tickets have been ignored, the bugs aren't being fixed, players aren't being helped, your priories are in the WRONG place, you guys are incredibly UNPROFESSIONAL, and the ego of some of your staff needs to get in check because I'm really getting tired of this.

Nice to see you dedicate your day to what's really important: creating hype for the next patch, which we've known about for nearly six months.

Way more fun and exciting than trying to wade through the forums and the subreddit to find all the things wrong with the current patch, make sure the team is working on fixing them, and letting us know that Nexon is aware of those issues and they'll be fixed shortly.

Here, let me help you:

1. Many people still unable to log in, either because the client crashes before they can, or because of "having trouble logging in."

2. Luna's "Empress Road: Knights Chamber" map is bugged, so that the client crashes when it tries to load it. This means any character entering this map (for example, after being teleported to Neinheart for a quest) becomes unusable. Any attempt to log it in results in a crash. Customer Support is apparently unable to warp characters out of there, either.

3. "Crimson Sky Dock" map, in all worlds, is bugged and causes disconnects. If one somehow gets through it, one disconnects inside the Dragon Rider PQ.

4. Jewelcrafting event NPC is hiding in Event Hall, which is too laggy for many of us to enter or be able to do anything in.

5. Haunted Mansion event is still bugged for many.

6. Timezone issue. You ran a poll, that's nice. Its results are very clear. Will they be implemented?

7. Star Force enhancing is costing twice what it should. If not enough meso is available, it always fails, but doesn't reduce stars. People are also reporting increased failure rates of scrolls and increased costs of cubing (revealing) and lower rank-up rates. This issue is not entirely clear and needs researching.

8. Skills that reflect damage (like Rage, Foxfire, and Vengeance), together with "% chance to ignore damage" potential lines, trigger "disconnect for the HACK reason".

I think that will do for now.

I agree with EVERYTHING AKradian has said, but what he/she said is just a summary of some of the issues that are going on. The game is in such a horrific state I'm starting to not even want to log on because for one the time zones are messed up so I miss most of my boss runs anyways, but it's just so buggy it's not fun anymore. The longest I stay logged in as of now is about 15 to 20 minuets, if it's longer that's because I'm afking. Honestly like I said above I'm going to contact Rich Williams because I have his contact information and I just don't want to deal with these people anymore.

The fact the time zones were randomly changed a week ago without notice and there's still no word from anyone at nexon whether they will adjust them to each server accordingly, like it should have been done in the first place really pisses me off. I'm really getting tired of the lack of communication.

Hey Maplers!

We are very curious how you felt about our Halloween and other recently added content, so we would greatly appreciate it if you could answer the following questions

• What are your favorite parts of MapleStory’s last few content updates (For example: QoL changes, class rebalancing, Haunted Mansion, Secret Stories, Afterlands or MMF)?
• Do you enjoy story-driven content like Heroes of Maple and Secret Stories? If so, what are your thoughts on our newest story content?
• To you as a player, what is MapleStory’s biggest draw?
• What are your expectations for the quality of MapleStory’s localization?
• Does the localization of recent content fall short of, meet, or exceed those expectations?
• In recent updates, what do you feel we have handled well?
• What could we have handled better?

Thank you very much!

So I'm going to respond to the questions slightly out of order in a long paragraph. Just a disclaimer I'm not trying to attack anyone, and I have respect for Sabina as he/she has helped me before on here (I can never tell the gender of nexon employees lol). Although some other mod might find a way to give me another warning with some really 'reaching' reason, as OneLetter gave me, which I'm not going to into detail, but it was honestly just a low blow lol. And the private chat I had with OneLetter a week or two ago was really eye opening of how some of these employees operate.
But now with that being said, I can't tell you what to do improve or better the game other than get better or more knowledgeable employees/employees that aren't lazy and will do their job. I say this since Nexon employees have still failed to fix the haunted mansion quests, and at this point probably won't before the event is over, so the players who have the bugged quest preventing them from finishing the questline will miss out on the content. This is really frustrating because this event was working for some people and it was bugged for a bunch of other people, and I was told the issue was being looked into but I doubt it ever was looked into because fixing 1 quest shouldn't take several weeks. I'm not sure if the Afterlands quests are fixed either, but Afterlands has FANTASTIC music and a pretty cool storyline and the land of contemplation was my favorite. So I did like the concept of the Afterlands, although that was also bugged and I couldn't complete it with the 2 locks I had left, and when I logged on to try to see if it was fixed or not, all my locks were back and I would have to restart the whole thing. But the one thing I did enjoy were the Secret Stories quests. It was really cool to see how each story played out, and being able to pick different scenario to change the story up. The music was really awesome as well. But one thing I think you should do is I really think you should test content multiple times and make sure it's perfect before putting it out. I know bugs happen, but I'm an old player and I don't remember content being as bugged as it is currently. Almost everything you are putting out has some kind of bug, like it's not being tested before releasing. There's so many bugs not just with new quests, but with older features in the game, like the crusader codex, as some monsters don't seem to drop their card anymore. And with this migration coming up who knows how buggy things will get.

EDIT** Added additional stuff to avoid 'double posting'

• To you as a player, what is MapleStory’s biggest draw?
You guys have a good core game, but constantly fail to meet expectations. Potentials there poor execution.

• Does the localization of recent content fall short of, meet, or exceed those expectations?
Falls short

• In recent updates, what do you feel we have handled well?
Nothing, stop banning legit players and get a better customer service, and actually ban the botters that infest this game. The game has even more lag,, the filler patches are terrible, events are rehashed, maybe revamp content that people enjoyed, like guild pq? make party quests more fun, worth doing? Make harder content?

• What could we have handled better?
You never handle anything correctly, our voices aren't heard you guys do whatever you like and hope we enjoy it.

I think what you said in your reply really hits home, and my post doesn't even being to explain the amount of issues this game has acquired over the years of constantly hiring terrible employees, and no one saying anything about some of the terrible staff really makes it worse.
I was talking to the mod who gave me a warning, and we were discussing the warning, and after I called him out for the reaching excuse, literally the way he didn't even bother to reply to what I had said because he knows its true is TELL TALE. And regardless of it being 'justified' which it wasn't, calling what someone's ideas idiotic are not the same thing as calling THEM idiotic. We have the forums for a reason, and that is to express our different view points. I'm not sure how to share pictures as they have changed the forums up once again so here's the link of the chat I had with him recently.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/3puL2Jn.png[/img]