I hate that this server takes forever to fix critical issues. 1. This game fucking crashes at the worst time for no fucking reason. And they have yet to fix it. And they refuse to compensate for any in-game losses. And the responsibility is now on the players to "try not to crash ok bro? like, we can't fix it so, u try not to crash bruh." dude. 2. This game has a lot of bugs, errors and broken gameplay. Out of a thousand Imma talk about the biggest issue I have now: the fucking snowman event. Me as a BM still have problem with missing damage on snowman (cuz of Mortal Blow) and I was told "drop the arrows so you will stop missing". Jesus fuck, how is that MY RESPONSIBLITY AGAIN when the game itself is broken. I drop my arrows, and I have to go back to showa town each time to repurchased my red arrow. And yes, I can just store it in Storage NPC, but seriously, when Channel 1 map gets full so quickly, who tf has the time to do that? So same thing, the responsibility is now on the fucking players again just to avoid some goddamn minor bug. 3. The Library has been missing / incomplete / outdated for years. How many times do we have to KEEP TELLING YALL TO REOPEN THE LIBRARY AND UPDATE IT!? 4. The extremely slow to non-existent player growth. In these 6 years of playing MapleRoyals, I don't see the staffs or the owner itself is actually trying to get the player population to grow. In fact, they have been handling player issue the worst possible way. Banning players permanently that could've been solved other wise, handling ban appeals terribly, leaving up feedbacks for years, zero active GM to handle in-game issues (hacking, DCing in bosses, scamming). After 6 years, SIX YEARS AND YOU STILL HAVE LESS THAN TWO THOUSAND PLAYERS. You have no fucking idea how happy I was when the population rose to 3.5k when covid-19 hit. I was so damn happy to see we finally have more players and the market is much more lively. Too bad it only lasted 2 months. 5. The lack of number in staffs. Where are the staffs? Are they even here? If you need more staffs or even devs, at least read the damn staff posts people put up for. I've never seen a server that takes more than a month to reply to a staff application. God damn. What's even funny is "After you've posted don't bother us about it". Do you even want new staffs????? So let's say you need to hire a Dev and you need some money. Just ASK FROM THE COMMUNITY. I'M SURE SOME TYCOON PLAY MAPLEROYALS AND WOULDN'T MIND GIVING SOME HELP FOR YALL TO RUN THIS GAME. 6. Many fucking more problems that I've been tolerating for years. But I'm sure no staffs gonna care, understand, or even read this post. I'm just too disappointed.
I don't see how anyone can like a comment that basically is structured in any semblance of "I was so happy when covid-19 hit"
You misunderstood. "You have no fucking idea how happy I was when the population rose to 3.5k when covid-19 hit. " What made me happy was the population rising, it doesn't matter what reason that made it rise. As long as we can have more players I'll be damned happy.
Mule meta Random dc VERY high barrier to entry (hundreds of hours of playing a mage before you can even start playing the game)
The short reason as to why I've stopped playing: Things are bland, expensive and doesn't change. It does not resemble the Maple I used to like back in the days. It was quirky, chaotic, unbalanced, hard and fun. As much as I appreciate the work Matt and many others put into the server, I still can't say I'm having fun when all events basically are the same thing, just reskinned, and with a very robotic (and dare I say toxic?) view on HP washing. And the oh so slow progression. I just got bored. The new additions to the game didn't add much that I enjoy, but I don't judge others if they do, so I quit.
Its the same reason people got bored of classic wow. We were all idiots with shitty computers who's first game was wow/maplestory/runescape etc in a time where google had absolutely no information and we had to figure out everything ourselves (2005-2007). Even the most casual player in 2020 knows how to google 'hero guide' and know not to put INT on their warrior just to 'make him smart'. These same players have grown up and have a goal-oriented mindset to everything they do otherwise its a waste of time. Does it take the fun away? Yes and no. It takes the fun away because we all know what the orbis-ellinia ship is like, we all know how awesome the slime tree was, we all know how awesome HHG1 was and those nostalgic places serve no purpose towards most people's goals in the game. It doesnt take the fun away because cubes and potential & other P2W doesnt exist & Lord TimK hardcucks any RWT'ers so the meritocratic system of royals still serves a purpose to that goal-oriented mindset
love hate relationship with royals, love the nostalgic it brings me, hates how inactive this game is getting with lesser players. out of 1500 players, probably only 500 base players with 2 mules. I personally online at least 3-5 characters at a time..
bosses being so heaavily farmed is something i dislike, or maybe their extremely long respawns. wanna kill snackbar/zombie mushmom/blue mushmom etc? tough luck just remove their nx rewards, we already get so much nx anyway from stuff like pap,zak, ht etc
hate the cpq2 nerf, which lets face it is another indirect buff to leeching, why there are fewer players? because new players left this game after realizing they can't afford leech.
How empty PQs are. I’ve made so many friends in pqs and now so many of these pqs are dead. For a game that has a lot of online players, it somehow feels less social than before.
Im in the same boat. Meanwhile my friend told me "it doesnt affect anyone, no one does this pq for fun"
I do hate to see how they handle some ban appeals and how they don't believe in second chances for people that keeps coming after 1, 2, 3 years of perma ban for account sharing between brothers or partners on the same house, players that voted 7 times on 2 charactes and got "an advantage" of 56k nx (to get some garbage on gacha) or even some players that got banned when "offesive language" could get you perm ban, like @DomoLovesPie who recently tried to appeal after a few years of an unfair ban (at least to me and some others) and they didn't even bother to considering it. I believe that ip ban is unnecesary unless it is a RWT or hacker, a perma account ban on all characters should be enough, that's why there are so many people ban evading.
How dead the server has seemed become over the past years. How hard it is to find a PQ or even certain boss runs (if you're not in a guild or have decent range you're kinda screwed) How there isn't an autoban system for almost 4 years
for a fact i know, there is definitely a decrease in number of hackers compared to last year. I use to remember when i just join the server which was 2 years back, i can see mobs flying to hackers in certain deserted maps which nobody goes to train. However, during the recent golden mushroom event, when i roam around those maps i hardly see any hackers ( like a 75% decreased at least ). Not sure if you guys find hacker in a frequent basis or what but that wasnt the case for me. So i acknowledge admin and GMs' hard work at keeping the server hacker free.
If you don't follow the meta, you're screwed, sorta. I've stopped actively playing, nowadays I just vote for a month or two, log in, spam gacha, and vote for another two months LOL.
