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1. Nope. It's pretty much soloplestory, aside from really hard bosses.
2. Still the case, and always will be the case.
3. Theres a reason why this game is notoriously known for p2w. Probably need to spend couple hundred bucks if u want to be relevant (able to beat normal damien/lotus who are top middle bosses). There's a world called reboot, where trade between players doesn't exist. In this world you grind your life away, instead of money, to get stronger.
4. There are endgame bosses that you can try when you reach certain level. As you level up, you can unlock new regions where end game bosses are. But level doesn't mean jack squat if you dont have good enough range to take on the bosses. If you want to beat those top endgame bosses, invest couple thousand bucks and look for people who also spent that much to party with

HuskyDM wrote: »

Fuhreak wrote: »

luna02 wrote: »

where are now those who have an idea that the nexon company is now doing things well in the maplestory game, many are right ... maplestory is slowly losing essence, each time they are killing the game, to enter the game it takes time a lot in loading, the crash in the game with the lag and now they are slowly removing essential things that help those who have no money in the game, who is deciding these things in the company? the game programmer? the executive director? If you only think about money, this game will not have much time to go to the abyss for bad ideas, because staff this is a bad idea as well as some events that do not help at all but whether to spend money and in quantity or not

The overall direction of the content, story, character, etc feels good.
The way the company manages stuff outside of this, player interaction, player involvement, F2P vs P2W, does not.
If only some of that production value actually went towards keeping GMS happy.

Story, character, general gameplay. MapleStory is not a bad game by any means. Its GMS that keeps screwing it up somehow. If they just decided to make people happy, being transparent about their decisions and just show they actually care people wouldn't mind. Most of the disgust is directed towards the management for good reason and it is a shame because its sinking a really good game. How do they keep on with stupid decisions that make them no money is beyond me at this point.

MS game management in general is complete utter failure.
Aside from this stupid deletion of perm 3 BF/day, the entire game management system is failing. I can actually prove this. Time for some ranting.
Take a recent HS nerf for an example. The reason for the nerf is because there were macro HS sellers in KMS. Were they not able to solve this issue because macro sellers are spread across the entire map? No, the only place macro HS sellers do business is at ez cygnus map. They pretty much deleted HS, one of the oldest and most beloved skills by players, because they didn't even want to bother with simply monitoring a single map. To top it off, GMS team simply copy&pasted the nerf patch even though there's no problem of macro HS seller in gms. They simply didn't want to bother with changing the patch codes a little to take out HS nerf. As result, player base is suffering for their laziness.
And this is only a tip of the iceberg when it comes to their massive failures. They "nerfed" DA's nether shield couple patches ago by making it disappear pretty much instantly when there's no mobs around. They say the shields staying for awhile when there's no mobs around was a bug. Riiiight. It's been like that for over a year and a half, and they just noticed this "bug"? Literally everyone knew nether shields stayed for awhile because DA is must raise job due its link and legion effects. Actually, I'm convinced that nexon did just notice DA "bug," because they simply don't do their jobs properly. They didn't even notice WA's howling gale # of hit bugs which was there since the 5th job was introduced. And the best kicker is that they only noticed it because PF's raven tempest (copy and pasted skill of howling gale) had the same bug carried over when they copy and pasted skill's coding. I just simply do not understand how they didn't notice this # of hit bugs. When they release new skills, competent team would test out skill with battle analysis turned on and make sure that it's working properly. Dev team not noticing # of hit bugs until new job had the same problem tells me that they simply don't do any testings on new skills.
Another fun story of their huge fk up involves Papulatus bug. A few months ago, they did unschedule maint to fix the problem of papulatus bug where you can summon chaos papulatus with hp of ez papulatus outside the boss map infinitely and get infinite chaos pap crystals. The thing is that kms user who noticed people abusing this bug for infinite meso farming reported the bug to the support center multiple times. Every report he made was shrugged off and status of those reports were checked "completed." It was only when he posted this bug on inven (biggest kms community site) and exploded that they took it seriously and did emergency maint to fix the bug. This was "game-breaking" level bug that even gms fixed immediately without waiting for 6 months. Their excuse for basically ignoring official bug report on customer service is that support staffs, not knowing seriousness of the bug, marked the bug report as "low severity." One staff member making this mistake is completely understandable. But this bug report was made MULTIPLE TIMES with multiple staffs reviewing it. This means that entire customer support department is failing. Enforcement department, who couldn't even bother to monitor a single map to prevent abuse and resorted to nerfing a skill to oblivion, is failing. GMS dev team, who couldn't even bother to change patch to fit it to gms environment, is failing. Bug/Error detection department, who didn't even notice huge skill bugs/errors for years, is failing. The entire MS game management is failing. All of this, along with this bs expiration date on BF, leads to a conclusion that they actually don't care, and probably never will.

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Kuronekonova wrote: »

nexon hates f2p and they want to make it harder for them so that they get more money but in reality we will just quit.

Then do it. Everyone threatens to quit and walk away when nexon does something like this, but they keep playing anyway. Why should they care about people threatening to quit when the threats are as empty as their promises of transparency?

lol no they don't, they actually do quit. I'm not sure if u noticed but the number of players in this game is dwindling and is keep getting lower. I've seen posts saying good byes on forum and on my guild discord. Several of my friends have quit when their limits for nexon's bs were reached. So it's not an "empty threat." It's an useless threat cause nexon just doesn't give a crap whether players leave or not. Even if some leave, there will always be some who will sell their souls to this game no matter what. They can throw stuffs like DMT or teraburning and existing playerbase will simply eat that sh@t up.

I collect the drops needed for the skills, and when it's charged, I can't use the skill immediately. I press down on the skill key and rows of "can't use skill cause i'm short on nature fragment" appear and about solid 6-7 seconds later, skill goes off. What is this bs?

Powerguy wrote: »

Hi I'm new to Maple and I just want to know what's the best server to join and is f2p

Thx

Reboot is where you grind your lifespan into rather than money. So go to reboot if u want f2p