Children in MapleStory are the biggest problem Children under 13 years of age should not be playing Maple, from here out I will refer to them simply as children. It is against the Terms of Service and it is a legal issue for Nexon (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act). The tipping point for me was the new profanity filter as well as a recent interaction with a belligerent child player. I feel, rather I [b]know[/b] that the current profanity filter caters to child players. I don't currently have the link to it, but on the maple site there was a forum post a short while ago about the recent change and there were dozens of comments containing "I'm 10 or 11 or 12 and I like filters" and "What about the 11 year olds that play