I think the Black Mage could be good

The way I read his idea, it's not about the Black Mage being good for Maple World. It's about the Black Mage being good for MapleStory, the game. This isn't fan fiction, or game lore. It's meta-game. As in, "The only thing that will save MapleStory is if Nexon uses the Black Mage as an excuse to scrap all the bad new things (like potential) and restore the game to the way it was back in the golden age."

I suppose that's a possibility, but at the same time, I don't think that's any direction that'll ever happen at this point. MapleStory brought in too much revenue to go back to the way it used to be. I logged into the game recently to see how things are and to check out the new Hayato and Kanna revamps, but the way they changed the game is just disgusting. Almost every map is party play (not a bad idea, but in the condition MapleStory is now, it's not feasible), bosses like Zakum are absolutely NOTHING compared to what they used to be, most of the classes are homogenized, and things are just beyond repair.

Even if Nexon were to get rid of things like potential, they would have to completely restructure the game to resemble what it used to be.