People have been experiencing more and more game crashes recently and there has been some severe server lag on channels as well.
Issues like this you got to fix soon before people get really mad and best idea is to create a public Pink Bean Bulletin to let everyone know you are actively working on the issues. Get ahead of the problem before it creates a bigger problem and you get people threatening to boycott and stuff like before.
Halloween Shopping will automatically cancel itself which makes it impossible to actually get the shopping done.
Also, the event should be 28 days, not 14 days because it is impossible to get the items with 14 days even hard focused on only a certain type of shopping.
APQ (Amoria Party Quest) is pretty outdated at this point and can definitely have changes done to it to bring it up to modern MapleStory, including its prizes.
Requirements: Minimum Level for Entry increased to level 200 and you must be Maple-Married!
The other requirement is that you must enter as a party of 2, 4, or 6 instead of only a 6-man party (no separated couples allowed!, but of course you don't have to enter with your spouse's character).
Rewards at the end will be client side since this is always a more than one person thing to do everyday.
Also, the limit will be changed from every 6-hours to once per day clear.
The quest will have a complete overhaul where when you enter you will be placed in a room with four portals.
One will lead to the boss directly, which is the most important bit, the other three will each lead to a puzzle-type of room in some way with a maximum of 2 players at a time in each room (so a 6-man party can do all 3 puzzles at the same time).
Each time you clear a puzzle room, the difficulty of the boss goes down by 1-stage, decreasing the difficulty and HP, but also the rewards at the end. So this works like Gollux with the four difficulties of Easy, Normal, Hard, and Hell.
The prize box at the end will drop Love Coins, increasing the amount based on the boss' difficulty and drop rate of the individual. With a chance to drop Onyx Apples that increase in chance with boss difficulty only and a very rare chance for a couples chair that can seat up to a total of 2-characters on it.
The prizes you can redeem with Love Coins in a special shop will be things like (examples):
~ Level 200 Badge (Cannot have potential. Cannot have starforce.)
~ Level 200 Medal ((Cannot have potential. Cannot have starforce.)
~ Level 200 Pocket Item (Cannot have potential. Cannot have starforce.)
~ Level 200 Ring (Can have potential. Starforce up to 25 stars.)
~ Level 200 Face Accessory (Can have potential. Starforce up to 25 stars.)
~ Level 200 Eye Accessory (Can have potential. Starforce up to 25 stars.)
~ Onyx Apple
~ Special Chair 1 (Seats up to 2 characters)
~ Special Chair 2 (Seats up to 2 characters)
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Hat
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Overall
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Gloves (Bracelet)
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Cape
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Weapon
~ Special "Cash" Outfit Shoes
These items will have their own and very powerful set bonus as well!
Examples for set bonus rewards:
~ 2 Set: +5000 HP/MP and +50 All Stats
~ 3 Set: +25 All Stats and +30 Weapon/Magic Att
~ 4 Set: +20 Weapon/Magic Att and +10% Boss Damage
~ 5 Set: +10% Boss Damage and +30% Ignore Enemy Defense
~ 6 Set: +10% Boss Damage and +5% Critical Damage
~ 7 Set: Be in a party with your Spouse for +5% Critical Damage
(Clarity: Need to have the full equipment set and be in an active party with your Spouse's character for an additional +5% Critical Damage.)
If you have the complete Special "Cash" Outfit set equipped, you have a special effect when near your spouse-character.
I have long thought that Nexon needs a better system than MVP Gold/Diamond/Whatever and that a subscription method with lower bar for entry would be a better system so while I might not entirely agree with this idea I do think it is something Nexon could experiment with again.
We actually had a battlepass event a few years back and I wonder if it would be worth Nexon's time to see if doing this more regularly would be better for player's wallets and Nexon's income.
A battle pass needs to keep free players coming in every day to create player interactivity which helps boost players to spend money on the game, plus time investment to a game usually nets some kind of real money purchase from players that normally would spend nothing.
This is the importance of a free track.
