NEXON wants your opinion on 'Old vs. New MapleStory'

Thread: http://maplestory.nexon.net/community#/showthread.php?1520044-OLD-MAPLE-vs-CURRENT-MAPLE&p=12403729#

Probably in light of the immense popularity of the Reboot server, NEXON NA now wants your feedback regarding the whole 'old vs. new' debate. So go get your voices heard people!

 

There's no need, you got this server right here.

 

Spoiler

Fuck Nexon.

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^lmfao
Seriously though, maple still has alot of potential. it only needs to get rid of the pay2win system.
remove cubes, make levels count just like it used to be pre bigbang. getting to 200 in a week aint no fun! Even worse when you're being outdamaged by a low-level player just because he/she paid for his/her item.

Make the game partybased also! Everyone rushing to solo everything, forcing people to work together was one of the reason why people enjoyed maplestory, it gave them the opportunity to meet new people and have fun together! I personally think most people who join pre-bb servers do it because of the memories they once had WITH other people, the social aspect is real strong in pre-bb as pq is very rewarding and bossing requires a team for a decent time.

As a player who quit gms before v62 I don't play this server for the nostalgia, but mainly because I don't have to dump money into my character for him to reach full potential. And I think many people here do too. V62 is dope, but it does lack content >.< and I think if nexon bring back these features that we once had pre-bb, mix them up with the current stuff that they have. Maple could make a comeback! or atleast I would consider rejoining haha

I know people might have different opinion to this^

 

hey greensoap. check out ur YT and saw u like megaman and HxH. Subbed~

 

This will NEVER happen. Because you know. $.

 

Reboot is probably the better server now, but what made the old maplestory so fun was the trading and the merching. that experience was hard to copy. It's a part of the experience.

Merching in general just got destroyed and less fun when they added 2nd tiers with hidden potentials and legendary slots.

There where multiple ways to play maplestory in the past, you either grinded like a madman, paid real money for expensive gear, or where a god merchant and just lvled up by bossing with op gear.

Early pot scrolls wasn't pay to win yet, everything was easily accesible on the market. and most spenders didnt get to far and usually fell below the normal crowd and the people who grinded.

But with all the extra upgrade slots it became really pay to win. servers became less active less group activity more solobased except for some of the end bosses.

Still. reboot is probably not for me, Because I was the godlike mercher back in the day and less of a grinder except for bossing for my exp needs.

Heck i'd even say you could have enjoyed the game by just going only merching. old maple and the trading and merching was something else on those original servers.

Overall atmosphere aswell people just talking to eachother randomly on the way. I'd argue if they kept it just at regular hidden slots with unique 3lines and stopped there the game would have been fine.

Additions like von leon, mu lung dojo akarium empress boss, them chaos bosses where fun. Party activities where in an abudance. only the top 1% could solo them chaos bosses wich where either the people that paid big or the god merchants. Funny stuff like crowded ships and balrog happened during those times aswell. if where talking 2ish years past big bang.

Removing trade and merching from the game definitely removes some of the soul from the game. However with the ridiculous weapon potential slots these days it's for the better, to much pay to win. in the past even with early pot slots. paying players rarely got the better end of the deal. but that changed when more and more stuff was added. aside from party activities being less and less thanks to inflated numbers and massive buffs for weaker players to cheese past bosses that where hard.

Spending money didn't guarantee someone to become good, it was mostly just for visuals. spending 20$ and selling the NX would result in like 200M wich is nothing for a good merchant. in some ways owls and hired merchants costing money made it way harder for people to keep track of the market aside from way more people being active. It was all just normal stores except for the best fm spots. it costed to much ingame money to justfiy tons of owl or hired merchant usage.

I don't think I'll ever return to original maplestory though. reboot or normal server. The game looks totally different more solo merching and bossing ain't as fun. also them numbers being super inflated nowadays with tons of skills. It's more flash than actual content. it's to extreme nowadays.