Important Announcement Star Planet Closing Down
Star planet is being closed down when the patch arrives. Below is the official announcement from Nexon
Second, with the Strange Stories update this week we are planning to close down Star Planet. While we were initially excited about the introduction of Star Planet as an additional way for players to play mini-games with each other, the participation was not as high as we had hoped. When looking at the daily number of players who accessed Star Planet, we only saw less than 1% enter Star Planet from all worlds. We also know many of you expressed concern about losing an avenue to obtain reward points, so we looked into those concerns as well. We found that out of all the Maple Reward point rewards, less than 5% of them were obtained in Star Planet. This told us that players weren't really accessing Star Planet as much as we hoped and that players were finding Maple Reward points from other sources much more efficient to obtain. We understand that closing Star Planet will eliminate an additional source of Maple Reward points, so we plan to increase the amount of Reward points awarded during events in the future.
I can't believe they are taking it down, it was a great way to earn Reward Points and have fun instead of just grinding all day.
What do you guys think of this?
Source: http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/17776/maple-memo-a-better-maple-update
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Less and less players went to Star Planet after they nerfed the Reward Points, they kinda ruined it themself, but it was fun while it lasted. Few weeks ago I played some mini games there with 2 friends because we knew it was going to get shutdown. At least we got to play for the last time and say goodbye to the games for now.
They better be porting the app for America so we can still do the games for reward points.
Bye to all my Yut homies
it was fun while it lasted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
;c i'll be sad to see one card go but its true all there was were bots that played and the occasional few regulars that were there
RIP! So much for my idea of implementing Texas Hold Em' on to Star Planet.
I just hope they make other ways, I am burnt out on doing all the boss runs each day. =[
and nothing of value was lost
@xmaplelegend: bosses dont require high range to be defeated.. you can easily kill bosses with low range as long as you have control over your class.. Obviously, it is easier with a higher range, but not necessary
I'm honestly gonna miss One Card so much.
Oh well. I stopped going to star planet since legends return is just terrible for latency. I already make so much RP every day that I don't even bother now.
Everyone collect mobs, send them to explore. Easy ones are the Magnus row and Ephinea row. These 2 are worth 190~250 RP when they finish their 24 hour exploration.
Thank goodness I became a Shining Star and obtained my mixed dye coupon one week before it closed down. (':
I use the reward points from star planet to buy the 1day merchant
@lamato: Star planet allows any players Level 33 and over to get Reward Points. Star Planet was fair because damage does not matter and everyone has a fair chance to get Reward Points.
With bosses, higher level players with better damage range has the advantage in getting Reward Points. Just doubling the reward points for bosses only make the gap between unfunded and funded even higher and it not fair.
Star planet was fair.
If a replacement is to be given, it has to be something where more damage doesn't mean getting RP easier.
We are getting some form of compensation with events that will give us additional (probably 2x) the amount of RP gained from other methods. Also with the removal of Star Planet, and thus, Mix-Dye coupons, I'm sure they will put Mix-Dye coupons in the Cash Shop/Reward shop soon.
@nitsua2789: Just because KMS did something doesn't mean GMS has to as well. KMS has Star Planet mobile app so they can still play it on their phone to get Reward Points but we didn't get the app.
I agree with nitsua2789
Star Planet has been the source of like 10 major exploits in the last 6 months, I'm not really surprised it's being closed. KMS closed theirs as well, so this didn't really sneak up on us or anything.
It a good thing that it closing star planet since most people in game are macro or bot and just farming point
WHAT!? What will I do now without playin 1 card with random strangers?!