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wtf you guys have such elaborate stories maple story has always been some mediocre game for me, I played for like a year and half in 7th/8th grade and henhoed around a bunch without any nx and I never got past level 50. High school started so I quit or at least I didn't care about playing anymore. Summer after 10th grade my friend asked me to start playing with her so I joined windia and we had a guild we made together. I remember walking with her to cvs a bunch and seeing her drop so many $20s to buy nx lol. I got to level 113 thanks to Big Bang making everything easy. perm nx was also very exciting when it came out for the first time. I quit again during my junior year of hs probably, my friend was still lugging around her laptop to school to play during class during our senior year lol. so it's been 4 years since I last really played and now I'm just in it to get cute and I still don't care about leveling up really. all I remember of maplestory is one big hazy image. Nothing particularly sticks out to me as being of great importance or excitement lol. I can barely even remember the friends I had on maple, the people that I met who were really cool were all the people I met here on basil...

Keep the thread alive boys

Oh boy... I initially started maplestory playing with my 2 brothers and fellow 3rd grade classmates. I recall vividly the Cash shop consisting of cool nx items to make your character look cool and w/e solely consisting of nx clothing, (paper planes stars, water balloons, etc.) I was a total noob, only played to talk with friends and socialize with maplers and to really have fun leveling my Ice Lightning mage by grinding drakes, Kerning PQ esp., etc. I've experienced some great times on Maple.. I recall once for Thanksgiving there was an event to earn 10k Maplepoints if you collected all of the letters of M-A-P-L-E or T-H-A-N-K-S-G-I-V-I-N-G, I forget; anyway, I was scammed and me being foolish I dropped the hardest letter to obtain--and the only letter that my sister needed left for the 10k maplepoints. Boy, was she angry at me I can recall her yelling at me vividly. I also remember I made a friend, not just any friend, she was one of my best maple friend--I'm sure you've all had one; the one that would spend hours talking through buddy chat, doing PQ's with, etc. After a year or so playing together, I was forced to quit MS because of my older brother. After a 3-6 month hiatus I joined back Maplestory only to find her absent, and unable to reach her ever again. Her IGN was RyukiRyuki and that name has never left me-- the countless days I spent looking her character up on the rankings to see if she was active. A year or 2 later she wasn't on the rankings anymore, though by that time I had lost all hope already. Also, my brother and I tried to kill "Barlog" (aka Balrog) at level 10 on the Orbis Ships, lmfao!

i made friends
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did u actually expect something?

The only reason I liked Broa and Marksmen was bc there was a guild called Marksmen. Owned by MercurySmile(surprised I still remember) but it was an awesome guild with only marksmen. However when the leader turned 200, he just left and I didnt know what happened. Only guild I actually went as an organized PQ. Also they even had their own Chat Server on Q3 or something like that and a website. Awesome guild but it deteriorated. Oh well, also one funny memory is that I purposely faked I was sick and stayed home from school. I hid my laptop underneath my bed and ALL DAY i was trying to do the Zakum Jump QUest. God that was stressful. I had my phone open for the tutorial video and I STILL SUCKED. Took like 3 3Hour sessions because I gave up...then motivated myself once again lmao. Good times, loved maple like that. Also henehoes were pretty cool. I remember officerBunny like some super high level beginner in broa..good stuff. Also one time in FM Ch1, there was a hacker who summoned Von Leon and it was just crazy animations everywhere. Think that's on youtube. As I'm writing little memories, more keep coming up. League of Legend Picks/Bans music on the background make it seem like im writing something amazing and it might be my last. Enough about me, tell me a time of you guys

Dang everyone started so young, I didn't start til I was 16. My best friend in middle school always tried to get me to play MMOs with him. Every week, he'd be on about a new one or cycle back to an older one, but he'd always message me on MSN like "omg you need to play ____ with me, it's soooo cute >w<!" Well it was like the beginning of 2006 and here he came with a new invitation, that space was filled with "MapleStory". Little did I know that I set myself on a path of total destruction. My friend, IG: Honumi, was an archer and I made a thief, Spinako. We were on Broa (heyooo!). Honumi didn't play as much as I did and I started to surpass him (well back then that was only like, 1 or 2 levels haha). I got bored with Spinako and decided to try something different- a cleric. I don't know what happened but I just got sucked in. The first day was actually 48 straight hours of MapleStory, no sleep or school, just getting up to pee and grab something eat. I got to level 17 (unheard of!) before I called it quits and ptfo. I just really really REALLY wanted to get that awesome Heal and all the buffs and then eventually be an amazing priest that everybody wants to be friends with...so I lost my mind. I started playing at school, in the computer lab off a flash drive, when I could. I didn't do homework, didn't study. I didn't even sleep and I'd stay up for days at a time just to play. I eventually flunked out of my fancy prep school. I still played.

I got another friend to start playing with me, Class5Mutant, and she was my partner in crime. I was in and out of guilds, blew tons of money on NX, had tons of friends, everyone wanted me for PQ. I really miss the community the most, because that's one of the biggest parts that sucked me in. It was also what made me quit the first time. I got into a huge fight with my guild leader over something stupid and it was such an awesome guild but he just had to start drama (faked his death and then came back like hey guys jk tee hee!) and disbanded. Then a couple days later, someone mistook me for a scammer (very similar name, I think it was like Rinry or something) and mass defamed me while I was just hanging out in FM. I kinda lost heart after that and quit for a year or two.

I came back with Class5Mutant during Anniversary 2010. This was also when I found Basil. I got really into selling my hoards of stuff sitting in 3 mules, made a guild for my friends, got my sister to start playing. So C5M and I were bored one day and made a couple twin characters together. I got the idea from people using i's for L's and username tricks, but we had exact twins named FACSIMILE. Even got some NX for them. Trolled Broa for a while, it was so funny. We'd be training on a map together and then someone would come in and be like "I'll get the top platform". And then they'd come over and see the other twin standing there and be like "?" Most people would laugh with us, and we got defamed and reported a couple times because people thought we were hacking, but it was great anyway. I didn't get as obsessed this time around and I think we all quit after a few months.

Ever since then, like clockwork, I've come back during the anniversary event. It's not on purpose, I'll just randomly remember MS and get a hankering to play. I play obsessively for a month and then, just as suddenly, lose interest, and completely forget MS exists for a year or two before the cycle starts again. Somehow, I always suddenly want to play at the beginning of the summer. This time around, it's been kinda boring from the get-go, though. Like Broa is completely dead and the only people I run into are bots (what's the point? the game is so easy now...). I did get to RJPQ for the first time though, which really made me nostalgic for the days I spent in Ludi.

So far, I've been up for 72 hours and I keep seeing flying things and I also did not mean to text wall sorry haha

Too long ago. I've played since BETA and after being on and off Maple for so long, I finally hit 200 yesterday :

I would give you a history, but because I've been on and off way too often, my memory is all jumbled. All I can say is, I constantly made new characters to do Jane's Wild Boar quest at lvel 25 to get a GFA scroll to sell for mesos. The good old days ;')

my f/p is actually a tranny

it was a cleric pre bb

When Beta came out, I made a STR Sindit called lilypod (how do I even remember this...). I remember buying a Panlid for 100k and that was pretty much my entire lifesavings. I had Icicle throwing stars and was super jealous of people who got Steelies from Fire Drakes and Ilbis from Jr. Balrog (or maybe it was a different monster). I managed to get to level 33 before they closed down Beta and I remember Perion channel 1 being the FM as well. When I made my GMS account, I made the ign Strength. Shortly after Orbis was released, I flew over there and I rage-deleted the character because I was too young to understand how to go back to Victoria Island. I had a Spearman in Bera named Spear1337Guy and it took years to get him to level 50. And by that time, Carnival PQ came out so I farmed coins, bought Gephart daggers that sold for 150k in NPC shops, and gathered enough money to go on a Zakum run for a helmet. I stayed at level 50 for a while just for the newbies to admire my helmet and I did get quite the praise. I was recruited into Asphyxiated, one of the many Zakum bossing guilds and sold services. Then Windia came out..

[quote=migman1077]please excuse my english
i remember when i went to my friends house after school i seen maplestory on.
I said "yo what the fvcck is that game loser"
He said " yo its pretty fun at first it looks dumb ,but its actually addictive"
I said " aight let me try it out make a new character for me"
He made me one and i remember rolling that dumb dice and i didnt really care what i got.
I remember killing my first snail at maple island at that moment i was hooked ommmmmg.
I proceeded to tell my older brother and my friends and we would all play together on mardia(I started playing when mardia came out)
DAMN ive made so many characters and so much memories. Like that one time i got scammed for my account,and when i first got level 70 on my hermit omffg the best feelings ever.
this game has something that makes it so great holy sht,but now none of my irl friends play and everyone on maplestory are salty nerds. So i dont play anymore ,but i still go around on chat island parts of the forum.[/quote]

DUDE IKR
The moment you kill your first snail you can't stop LOL.

please excuse my english
i remember when i went to my friends house after school i seen maplestory on.
I said "yo what the fvcck is that game loser"
He said " yo its pretty fun at first it looks dumb ,but its actually addictive"
I said " aight let me try it out make a new character for me"
He made me one and i remember rolling that dumb dice and i didnt really care what i got.
I remember killing my first snail at maple island at that moment i was hooked ommmmmg.
I proceeded to tell my older brother and my friends and we would all play together on mardia(I started playing when mardia came out)
DAMN ive made so many characters and so much memories. Like that one time i got scammed for my account,and when i first got level 70 on my hermit omffg the best feelings ever.
this game has something that makes it so great holy sht,but now none of my irl friends play and everyone on maplestory are salty nerds. So i dont play anymore ,but i still go around on chat island parts of the forum.

I should probably be studying for my psych final, but whatever.
This is probably going to be real cheesy & full of random rambling. Deal with it! (I'm going to regret this lmao)

Way back in 4th grade my cousin introduced me to Maplestory, but I was never able to play it because my parents wouldn't let me. Something about how video games can get you addicted or some blasphemy. As if that could ever happen... Pft.
Was real depressing though, b/c my cousins would always be talking about Maple at school and I'd always be left out.
One day I remember lying to them saying that I actually did download the game & they were like, yeah? (They didn't believe me) What job are you?
Me, knowing nothing about the game said, im a cop wassup. And they started busting up. LOL.

After 2 years of begging, my father bought me a disc that allowed me to download the game.
This was probably one of the best days of my entire life. Major happiness beyond words, trust me. I had the nexon game installer for 2 years, but never the Mushroom house icon.
I called my cousins over, and they helped me set it up.
I couldn't play the game properly because of defects in my computer, so I had to wait another few months to get another computer.
Anyway, I finally got into the game at age 11. I already made a character/account at my cousins house years ago, though.
It was a level 13 bowman, ign iChubb. Chub was like the "thing" back in the day. Don't ask why.
Maplestory was really fun, I had lots of noob friends who would do nothing but train all day. I remember exploring around leafre with my pro cousins, man that was scary.
One played a dexless sin (sounds familiar huh?) ign Dexles(s?)Baller. He'd take out the monsters in the maps ahead, and help me get through all the way to horntail.
Just standing outside the cave made me tremble, even though I knew that I'd never even be able to take out Zak LOOL.
I remember going through hours and hours of PQ's, whether it be moon bunny, kpq, or the most memorable- CPQ.
Those were good times. By this time I switched to a cleric, and once I hit level 43(?) big bang happened.

Not much to say about everything afterwards, other than all the cool people I met, and all the memories we shared.
Going on orbis rides, watching my cousin solo them rogs while I heal the crap out of him-- (honestly being a cleric wasn't my idea, I think those two convinced me to be their healing slave now that I think about it...)
It was fun. Really fun. PvP came out, and I changed to an I/L. ign xfinalfreeze. I met curryishott in one of the pvp games, actually. LOL.
I quit the leveling life after 155, and henehoed for months.
Kinda regret not leveling to 200, I could've easily beat my cousins, but who cares. I met some kickass people in hene market.

Unfortunately, I don't really see any of them logging in anymore. After summer of 2012, things went down. I believe 2012 was the best year for maple. Awesome stuff. The best part was the daily server disconnection events. Map crashes and everything. You really knew how to pull it off Nexon.

I've made new friends in Maplestory now, but it's not like it was before.
Now I have lots of active buddies that I don't really talk to. Kinda feels a bit like facebook.
My friends back in the day basically spammed buddy chat, including me. Lmao

Now we hit 2015. This year I told myself that I'd leave the life of the scrub, and surpass even my cousin's abilities.
See, I was always the scrub. Always dying, always needing to be carried through places. But that all changed.
My cousins quit the game, but the sin (db now) still logs in sometimes.
I had about 11 cousins who played Maplestory at once. Now it was my time.
I passed level 200, achieved 1m lines on my lumi, and I surpassed my goal. I wanted to be OP.
With the help of basilmarket, I believed that I could keep going. I worked really hard this entire year, switched over to F/P, and now I'm at 1m range, [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgDI22Ua4c0]hitting cap like its nothing.[/url]

Along the way, I started watching twitch streams. BasicBec & KyoWantsCute inspired me to do a bit more with Maplestory.
I started streaming, and recording videos for YouTube. I also tried going into the blogging business (like spadow) but that didn't go well so.
It was hard maintaining the stream/yt channel in the beginning, as things were a bit rough. But I had a few giveaways and now I'm doing much better.
I've met some really pro people along the way as well. It's a great experience I would recommend to anyone.

But all in all, that's pretty much it. Of course, there were ups and downs with this game. I've been scammed, hacked, and I've had to deal with a ton of drama.
It's just how the game works.
I've learned a ton of things from Maplestory too, though. It has taught me how to type quicker, taught me a ton about economics & how the market works, helped me get better with my scrub computer skills, and also inspired me to become a computer science major. Maplestory has been with me for around 8 years. I won't ever forget all the memories I've made with this game. I love it so much.
Yeah, I may not have been the best player, and I certainly am not the best right now, but it's still a game that I'm really passionate about. It's a game that changed my life.

With that, I'd like to say one last thing.
Thanks, everyone. Thanks for being amazing people who play this amazing game.
Thanks for making this website Mr. Basil. I wouldn't have met these fantastic players if it weren't for your website.
And finally, thanks for all the memories Nexon. You've made one of the best MMORPG's of all time-
Maplestory.
I guess this really is my story. LOL
If you've read all the way up to here, you're insane. o.o

I think I started playing around 2005/2006. I remember the first character I made was a thief, and I wanted to be an assassin, but since I didn't understand the AP system, I had points in Str, Dex, Int and Luk, thinking they would be useful later on Since then until a little later after Big Bang, I played with my friends and just took small pauses form the game fromo time to time (like 2-3 months at most). However, by the time I entered High-School, most of my friends hadquit Maple, so I ended playing alone. After that, I took longer pauses, one even lasting for a year and a half. I returnform time to time to see how stuff has changed, make a new character and see how far I can take him. Maple has been the game I've been playing for the longest time, and even if I keep taking big pauses, I don't think I'll ever completely quit.

Joined in early 2006 with some other girls, made a guild then we all left the guild due to inactivity, etc
i stopped playing maple for a while then i came back a few months before RED (2012-13) just to have a bit of fun before school started
i bought my first $50 karma koin for royals and stuff then stopped playing again
came back another year later because i felt like it after achieving diamond V in league of legends (OCE)
made a i/l mage, grinded through using previous guides from basil and got to level 150 in 3 days
then i just started to gain some reputation for myself with other players and joined a guild i really admired for awhile but sadly died in 2015
got scammed quite a lot because im naive still even though i turned 19 hahaha
now i just come online time to time to talk to people and nx gift people for (you know )
havent been online for around 2 months now but i do scroll around basil.

Played back when I was in 3rd grade (starting junior yr of Hs next yr)
I was lonely, no irl friends.
I miss dieing to a balrog at Ludi PQ

I play maplestory long time