maplestory is a guilty indulgence I rather not share with my buddy list on steam lol.
in the end I had to uninstall everything and reinstall so two days later (my isp is potato so 10gb takes most a day to donwload) and it's working again.
Honestly "uninstall & redownload" shouldn't be a sole fix for this since the bulk of the files are on the computer already.
Super desperate for any help, doesn't have to be nexon since tickets have gotten no where.
ISSUE
Every.Single.Patch in 2017 my launcher verifies my files then starts to re-download the entire 10GB game. Never happened prior to 2017 but something this year has caused this and frankly I don't have the time nor internet plan to always be downloading 10GB of data (family member works from home and is in multi media so just one file can be over 90GB+ and so I don't like chewing up our data plan when the game is already on my system), honestly I go into the folders and it's all just sitting there, all that needs to be added is the new patch, not the whole game.... @#%$#^!!
THIS IS WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR TRYING TO PREVENT THIS
Made sure drivers are always updated
made sure anti-virus and anti-malware are not blocking maplestory
temporarily turned off firewalls
repaired installation
uninstalled and reinstalled launcher
did all that Msconfig crap to troubleshoot
released/renewed IP
flushed dns
ticketed nexon support and went through weeks of back and forth where I had to do things like DXdiag reports, traceroutes, rpocess lists etc etc - stalemate no one can help, best advice was to just let the game redownload which is not a solution at all since the game files are there on my computer, it's launcher that isn't noticing them.
So I need help, how do I get this launcher to read the game files already on my computer??? I honestly don't understand, it happens every patch.
In the past my work around was make a few back up copies of all folders and save to my external drive and when the launcher tries to redownload I would delete the entire game and launcher files on the computer and open the game up on the backup file, once the game loads then make a fresh copy and move it back to my C:// and start again but today those are not even working, it is just so unreasonable since perfectly fine files are right there, looking back at me. OMG so frustrating I was only in the game yesterday lol >.< stupid blind launcher
Help? anyone?
EDIT:
So because i actually like playing this game (even though you make it hard some days with junk like being forced to redownload the game all the time), yet again, I downloaded the full game and when I went to log in.... yep
forever hopeful you will add the tangy top hair back into rotation....
Item type (Hair/Face/NX Item/Pet): Hair
Item name (English/Korean): Tangy Top Hair
Website link (where the item was seen, including previous cash shop rotation link): last seen 2015 http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/5610/cash-shop-specials-12-23-12-29
Image of item:
oh please oh please consider bringing back pudding and pie hair too, last seen november 2016
Item type (Hair/Face/NX Item/Pet): Hair
Item name (English/Korean): Pudding Hair & Pie hair
Website link (where the item was seen, including previous cash shop rotation link): last seen 2016http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/18465/cash-shop-update-11-16
Image of item: ( first two styles, Pudding first then Pie second... the face used makes it look a bit meh but trust me very cute hairstyles)
Item type (Hair/Face/NX Item/Pet): Hair
Item name (English/Korean): Sugar Girl Hair***
Website link (where the item was seen, including previous cash shop rotation link):
Image of item:
EDIT: THANKYOU for adding Sugar girl hair in the latest rotation! very cool, thank you.
Item type (Hair/Face/NX Item/Pet): Hair Item name (English/Korean): Multi Hair*** Website link (where the item was seen, including previous cash shop rotation link): https://maplestory.design/ Image of item:
***I would love love love these hair styles too pretty please!!
Also for girls:
Item type (Hair/Face/NX Item/Pet): Hair
Item name (English/Korean): "innocent hair"
Website link (where the item was seen, including previous cash shop rotation link): saw this hair on weebly, said it was last used jan 2017 unsure if that was kms or gms sorry
Image of item:
For the boys: please oh please oh please!!
Item type (Hair/Face/NX Item/Pet): Hair
Item name (English/Korean): "narician hair"
Website link (where the item was seen, including previous cash shop rotation link):saw this hair on weebly, said it was last used in April 2017 (royal hair coupon) unsure if that was gms or kms sorry
Image of item:
on a side note I keep seeing "Banana milk chair" pop up from time to time over on KMS and I love all things maplestory food so could you please consider adding that chair to gacha or something please? Never seen it GMS
Could you also add one or two long hair male hairstyles in the next rotation please? My zero only has very feminine NX items and when I tag to Alpha he just looks weird with the short hair
EDIT: THANKYOU for adding the white kinesis pack!!!
EDIT: THANKYOU for adding the giant candy cat chair and halloween kitty damage skin... unfortunately on a low pop realm I'll never get it but still thanks for adding it!!
Suggestion & Request : Merging Broni MYBCKN & GRAZED (and it sounds like Windia too, sorry I didn't add your logo to original line) but instead of ending up with a stupid long acronym create a world with a new world name and logo. Decide that name + logo by hosting a competition for players to enter where they submit either a name or a world logo (or both), nexon picks the finalists and then players vote. The most popular name + logo wins and that's the new world name that Broni MYBCKN & GRAZED (+ windia) gets merged into.
Once the merge is complete those in the new world who log into it for the first time get a "[NEW WORLD NAME] Pride" medal just like the last time we all merged. It's not a high stat medal more memento of the merge and it displays the new logo plus name & it allows us to feel pride in our new bold world (because let's face it, those of us who are remaining in these dying worlds will be an exciting mix of staunch eccentrics so world pride is important.)
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