Quit This Game For Good

I've been pondering on the same thing and I'm definitely quitting some time after my Phantom hits level 200, but I would say you have more reasons for quitting than I do. You seem to want to continue only out of obligation to some people but this isn't an issue as you know them in real life so why continue if your heart's not in it and your story that began years ago is essentially over?

I encourage you to quit or actually tell yourself if 200 is actually important. My dream was to reach 200 on at least one character, but I guess I'll never achieve that with all I'm experiencing at the moment. In fact, I flinch when I recall that as being a dream since that's not what dreams are supposed to be like anyways. It's just a self-serving accomplishment that leads no where.

Today, I spent my day offline going to see my nephews. I was ashamed that I haven't seem them more often and the "newborn" (who is 13 months old!) saw me for the first time and he had a fuzzy gaze and smiled/laughed/giggled at everyone else instead of me. Yeah, all that family time where did I spend them on. I am a compulsive gamer when it comes to maple, but that's only one of the bad experiences from this game.

My good friend always tells me to quit (SForStar) after he got hacked. He's talking to me right now, read my post and telling me "told you so". I shouldn't have spent all this surplus time on this game...

I agree with the "Maple is so time-consuming" bit. It all definitely adds up.

When I quit this game, I completely uninstalled it for reasons same as yours (way too busy - school, board member of a student organization, social life, and a relationship to juggle). Maybe that's one route you could take?

I still played other games I avidly loved (umm, Super Smash Brothers and Tetris tournaments, anyone?) but I realized Maple couldn't be one of them.

I deeply love League Of Legends and find the community amazing. Also, it's not just a game, it's a place where I can chill with some of my good friends and "solve" problems and stuff. It also has that fun aspect and less of that sense of striving to get better and better. I mean, my life is pretty much stable at the moment and I don't want it to get worse.

Like I said in the post above, I would do anything to spend more time with my nephews.

League Of Legends, there's not much of a commitment since there's no continual up-to-date necessary or stuff like that. I mean maplestory is fun to keep up to date as well, but with everything Nexon shoves at our face, it feels like we must always be there to experience the new content (or the Nexon-scam). Pokemon, Yugioh... all those childhood memories I still follow to some extent and not into them like I am with Maplestory. It should be just healthier if I quit this thing.

i play maple for funsies. Though i;m a frugal basterd who makes his own money and doesn't spend NX on the idea that if i really really want it, I'll spend my own money (but i usually just prioritize other wastes of money). I say stop trying to do more and just be content with what you have. In all honesty I have no idea why i play this game. it's not addicting, it's not the most fun in the world and i could spend much more time on time worthy games like LoL or SC2 (which could be lucrative considering how much time i spend on maple). I guess i use this more as a stress outlet than an actual game. When i'm on it's mostly to solo train and just to see what's up in game nothing more/nothing less. If i level i level, if my damage sucks, who cares? I just like the game for what it is and I've never really liked the who GIMME MONEY AND YOU'LL BE BETTER THAN EVERYONE (or been a fan of spending NX in general). I've had fun and I find my own ways of making fun in the game. Mostly that involves playing the new characters for fun, seeing how awesome i can make my character with cheap equips i get from events. I stop playing when there's school work obviously, but no real reason to quit the game. I'd rather be addicted to this than something like CoD. Sometimes its just a matter of playing something new. For example: my goal is to make my paladin, cannoneer, and mechanic all to level 140 in time for their respective hyper skills. But then i have seen tempest classes come out, so I'm playing those. My goal now is to get my angelic buster to 120 for the complete set and so i never have to fund (and by fund i use that very loosely because "fund" nowadays mean billions on billions of mesos while fund to me means "i can trade my equips to myself and reuse it) it ever again. I;d say, if you enjoy the game not for it's incompetent community, but for the game itself, the keep playing. If you're just fed up with everything, id say take a break from it and play other games. This game is not worth the frustration.

TL;DR: I play because i want to and for no other reason beyond making my own fun and that's the way it should be. IF you're not having fun, stop playing- Maple i not worth losing your hair over.

I refuse to read the TL;DR because you spent valuable time reading mine so I read it all. Maple is/was fun, but as the days goes by, it still feels like an empty shell since everything I achieved in Maple has been transmitted to real-life context. I don't like the game any more nor it's community. I play to play with my best friend and I thinkwe can find something else.

NX is stupid. Funding is stupid. NEXON is retarded.

dang i really have a similar maple past like you. one thing i realized is that guys like us feel like we can never quit(because of the social memories we have on maple and the nostalgia). So don't try to convince yourself you can. Instead, accept it and take it slowly. What I mean is just like you said that you 'derp' on maple, derp a little more instead of merching and start going on maple less and less. Once youre at the point of going on maplestory maybe once a week you will finally be able to live the life you want. You might be wondering 'if i only go on once a week whats the point of playing maple' but thats the point, you wanted to spend less time on maple and quit possibly. It will feel like you quit, and it wont matter that youre still playing maple since you play so little, and psychologically youre convincing yourself that you've quit maple.

I think the problem is that I'm taking it TOO slow. It's been 2 years that my other Best Friend got hacked and I feel nothing towards that. He has motivated me to quit, but I refused to listen to him. Now, he can't be more right than he ever is. At one point, I quitted maple, but I guess the feeling of having that icon on my desktop and telling myself "I still have all that funding" is poisonous to myself.

For example, I go on Neopets, not for what it brings, but for the memory as well. Lab Ray, stocks... I don't know why I spend 5 minutes of my day, everyday, for the past 5 years to click on a few buttons to "increase my pool of fund". There's no point in going back, that game died earlier than my pet hamster and there's no eventual future relationship between me and that game. I'm just funding to fund, or, like I said earlier, the game is just an empty shell. I'm not appreciating the game for what it is, but based on my ressources. I feel like I spent WAY too much and committed WAY too much to leave. The ideal, for me, would to get hacked. My friend said "no problem, I can do that", but that's not the way to go. I want to leave this lame game with a smile, not by grief. I want to be happy that I quit this game for the right reasons instead of losing everything for the wrong reasons.

I'll probably be quitting myself eventually, mostly due to the fact that Nexon America is just a greedy bunch of... pomegranates? Is that the slang we use? -new to perry- :3 I can understand what you're coming from and, ultimately, we'll all feel something similar in time. This game is dying slowly... I feel that I've done most the things available in this very limited game (traits, medals, levels, gears) and there's nothing much to keep you going after 200, except make another class just to repeat the process. It's become too much of a pay-to-win kind of game.

I feel like you should just quit and get it over with. Holding onto false obligations or past memories will just add onto the small rope you're holding. I say let the pretty memories stay pretty memories, instead of letting them die and becoming nothing but pain and regret. You've had a nice run!

Good luck and best wishes to you, my fellow mapler!

I am holding on to false obligations and I feel like this is exactly what I should be doing. I should be putting my hand on the stove for playing maple today, going on my mules to collect the Hot Time items. It's pointless, stupid and I'm not accomplishing anything. Everyday, I suffer more and more. This game lost its sense of accomplishment that it used to have and the community is summarized by independent soloing/leeching.

I hope your eventually is soon because I'm quitting today. Don't know how I'll manage even though I have given enough thought into this. Listening to good music now as I type my remaining traces in Maplestory.

I mean one day, I can't wait to chat with my best friend about useless things like "man those look like steelies" or "wish I can just Octopunch the pomegranate out of these people". I wait for that day with a smile.

You should do what I do now-a-days for MS. Come back for a few days after each patch, play it a bunch, then just stop playing again.

I honestly cannot find many reasons to keep playing anymore. I had to stream to nobody(no one ever shows up for my streams) to even give myself a reason to play my Kaiser in JMS. What is that reason? "Well, I want to stop playing, but I just started streaming, so I should keep playing a little longer." It's very hard for me to find a wish to play MS anymore. It's just not fun anymore. Then, on the off chance I find something fun about it, Nexon pineapples up so hard it's not even funny. Like the fact that it's been two weeks and I still cannot play my Kanna because it's LITERALLY broken. I equipped a medal, and now I cannot perform any actions besides jumping, moving, talking to NPCs, and going into the Cash Shop. Two weeks later it's still not fixed.

So whenever I look at that desktop icon for MapleStory, I ask myself, "Why should I continue to play this game when Nexon gives me every reason not to?" Somehow I still occasionally double click it.

The icon is my sin and the reason why I came back. It should have been gone long ago and I keep coming back and back. Every time I realize what I have in this game makes me return to it even though everything I have acquired has been transmitted to real life situations. This game is pretty much long gone and an empty shell used to burn my free time when I can be doing better things. It's sad that we sometimes play this game to fulfill our own predispositions without fully assessing how much fun we are actually having with this game. I don't know, just my 2 cents about this game. I won't regret this I am sure.

When it comes to Maplestory, quitting is always the right thing to do.

Quitting is the right thing to do and I think I have made a decision. However, what do I do with all of this? I don't want to doom someone else into having all my belongings and continuing since I wish that everyone would just move on from this trap hole.

I talked to a random person yesterday before I logged off, and, of course, he told me "CAN I HAVE YOUR THINGS?". I said I'll think about it. I honestly would give him everything, none of this has any meaning to me, all the money spent on this game is stupid. Perma Pet LOOT/POT... everything. All that 100$ spent on this game who was fun IN THE PAST. Now, it's filled of regret.

Anyways, I don't want to give him anything not only because he's a stranger because I don't want him to endure all of this. However, I don't want to keep this stuff since it'll never actually rot in my account if I know that these items are fairly accessible...



Let this be a small step and I hope I can help everyone quit this game for good.