Big bang was justified / Big bang was not justified

Eureka!

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I have completed the calculations, rounded the decimals and added up the remainders. As of today, October 2015, I can state with a straight face, that Post Big bang Maple is an even match for Pre Big bang Maple.

The breakdown is as follows:
Pre BB
Biggest Pro - The best part about past Maplestory was that lots of people played it. (We may never know how or why this happened)
Biggest Con - Very challenging EXP curve.

Post BB (Only counting up to the present)
Biggest Pro - Large variety of classes. (meaning that nearly anyone can probably find at least 1 job that they really like)
Biggest Con - Lack of a unified game direction. (I guess you could say that the original formula got diluted a bit. (However one chooses to interpret that) Nx cash is included here but not by itself as it only played something of an indirect role. This is not the same as saying the game has no direction but that its different parts do not cooperate as well)

I am sure that everyone's list will vary slightly but this is how I see the results tallied up. If you are wondering what helped dig Post BB out of its hole, (in my book) it is simply that Maple did not get some of its "best" features until after it survived some of its worst miss steps. There were also a couple of little positive things that had a good impact. I did not make my statement open ended because the future could turn out to be anything. So rather than waiting for the game to get much better or for it to crash and burn, I will just consider the rest to be part of a new era.

*note, my thoughts for post BB is including content from other Maple versions like KMS, that might not have arrived in GMS yet.