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Patetic... You giving $ to this garbage gam

There's really no purpose of spending money into something like this. Buying equip covers, cubes, or just mild stuff in general won't come along when you leave the game.

Granted that can be said for a lot of things, but this book will stay with you (Assuming you didn't lose it) till the very end. While MMOs will eventually disappear and become nothing but a memory.

Still Maple has been around for slightly over a decade already which is nice, but at this point my interest has long gone out the door. Family, writing, and just enjoying outside is my primary focus these days.

@smartbored: lmfao. All that was implemented to counteract the very things that people cried about P2W. The time when Maplestory was the least P2W was the beginning 2005 - Big Bang, when there was only EXP and DROP boosts from Cash Shop. No cubes, no whitescrolls, potentials, CSS, Starforce system.

Back then it was just pure RNG. With people buying 60% Glove ATK scrolls for a few mill and scrolling it on plain work gloves. Praying to the gods that every 10% glove ATK worked. Or whatever stat on bathrobes.

@zcrimsyn: There's a good amount of botters, but for the most part Reboot's pace on leveling and damage progression has kept most on the legit road. I'm not sure how things will be as a result of Kishin's nerf/fix, but we'll definitely see more botters. I'm still optimistic about people on Reboot though.

I spent $0 on range yet I almost have 2m-2m range. Know other people who haven't spent much and have a much higher range too.

@terrorface: Well after the first month of the cube glitch going on it isn't surprising that many people think that Reboot is for illegits. Last time I played there though all I seen was botters in most maps I trained at. That was awhile ago though when Reboot was still beginning. Not to mention the top players that reached maxed level or got very high range early on were hackers/botters as well. It's easy to tell that getting 2m range right off the bat when the server was released abused the cube glitch in which case made them just as bad as hackers themselves.

@vimi: totally. Maple became my only mmorpg for years, then u picked up FFXIV. My opinion of Maple has changed big time. I don't hate the game anymore, but there are far better uses for my time and money than MapleStory. I still play Maple and I love the game but I don't really play for endgame because you can get far more enjoyment out of other things.

But it is fun playing Reboot. I like to grind characters to 180-200 and see how far I can find and push their damage by then, and then move on to a different class. Fun casual experience is all the game is worth to me now.

@zcrimsyn: "Farm from botters" or botting isn't necessary on Reboot. Majority of botters may be on Reboot (I wouldn't know, I don't count), but seems a majority of legit players are also on Reboot as well these days.

Playing legit on Reboot isn't hard and the progression from just bossing daily is very good. The top Dawn Warrior for Dojo on Reboot never farms. He just bosses on his DW and all his mules to get there. So when people assume Reboot is just botting, I don't think they really know how well players progress on it just being legit.

@modsaredumb: Yes instead you farm from botters or bot yourself. Majority of the botters are in Reboot instead of normal servers.

Your perspective on the game really changes when you try a completely different game. After you play a game that isn't p2w but still manages to be REALLY fun without you having to grind away days of your life to get anywhere, you realize how pointless it is to stress over Maple when it's not gonna change its ways.

@rtyu: Would be really hard to make Reboot obsolete. Let's say a player wanted to make a new character and get it to Lvl 210'ish and powerful enough to do bosses like CRA, HMag, etc. On non-Reboot, there are some players who can do it really quickly with the resources they already have, how efficient they are with their time, etc. But for most players, attaining something like that is far easier on Reboot, especially if they do not want to spend any real money doing so. In other words, Reboot gives most players more for their time spent playing, and that is its greatest appeal. Even if beating bosses like Lotus, Damien, and future very difficult bosses seems to be a far ways for Reboot, remember that CRA was once deemed impossible by critics of the server.

@smartbored: And way before that, in 2006 (OP's time) the only way you could upgrade your gear was actually through physical scrolls (only 10%, 60% and 100% - not even 30% and 70%). 2x EXP coupons did not exist. None of what you mentioned existed. Pets costed about the same as they do now - except you also had to buy the Item Pouch to automatically collect items, and the Meso Magnet for mesos respectively. Overall this costed more NX, and given that there were fewer items that existed back then, and hence fewer items that dropped from monsters as a result, the time-savings and efficiency were not so discrepant.

Now that was REALLY when MapleStory was almost not P2W at all. So I understand where OP and others in this thread are coming from: in order to keep up, you really do need to spend a lot of money or a lot of time on the game. However, as someone who has played both the Maple of old and this newer one, I think there's pros and cons to both versions. The grind to 200 was not as humongous as it used to be, and there's plenty of features in the current Maple that are fun, unique and interesting that were not in the MapleStory of old.

That's why they have Reboot. Haven't spent any NX aside from cosmetics and a pet and I've got multiple legendaries and tons of uniques with a few weeks. Also it's a lot easier to find a party for stuff since a lot of people are struggling as well because you can't xfer equips.

It's frustrating with all the new bosses coming out. Only recently have I been able to handle CRA/Hellux relatively well, despite years after its initial release. I imagine the steps for future upgrades will just get steeper, considering the difficulty and HP of the new bosses (Lotus, Damien, Lucid).

Meanwhile, I still cannot believe bonus potential cubes aren't added into the reward points shop yet. I think the effort and time I put into the game should warrant more upgrades than the ones available currently. There's only so much you can get out of regular potential and I've hit a brick wall. The pace of the game just isn't appropriate for non-paying players anymore and hasn't been for a long time -- it's just accelerating ahead faster and faster. It's no surprise why this game is diminishing faster than it should be.

I know Nexon needs paying players, but I have a feeling many players will more likely spend small amounts of money onto the game in a steadier stream over a longer period of time if the gameplay was a bit more fair. Don't take my word for it (I'm not an expert), but it seems closer to how Nexon's model back when MapleStory was more profitable.

Play Runescape

That's the point of reboot world.

@neveraddaplayer lol touche

>spending money on this game
they already won