Maplestory is not dying, it is already deceased

Fine maybe, I just wanted to showcase other regions are doing well, and the game overall is doing very well, which lead to the GMS discussion although it was gonna go there sooner or later .

No one asked how well the other MapleStory versions are doing. You cannot be so oblivious that you think this has ever been about Maple as a whole. First, this is, first and foremost, by user base, a GMS forum, we didn't have KMS extractions here because of our rich KMS playing user base, it's always been about prepping for the future in GMS. Second, Pikamemnon, who literally always makes these threads, doesn't play the other Maple versions, and he always talks about GMS. It's perfectly valid under this context to talk about GMS solely under "MapleStory", as well as being wildly inappropriate to assume that it refers to any other Maple version. Frankly, it's irrelevant to bring up the other versions of Maple in this discussion. Hell, the way it looks in your first post, you only brought up KMS to begin with just to state how amazing the view is from your ivory tower.

And are you seriously surprised that GMS doesn't take to the content we're provided as well as KMS does? Not only that, you bring up the success of the other Asian markets as evidence that Maple is doing well? Do you really think the players in the other Asian countries are so wildly different from the Koreans as the Western market is such that the success of Maple there would be any indication of how successful Maple should be in the West? I'm pretty sure we already had this conversation last year. Let's take, for example, the forty something classes we have. I, personally, was pretty happy with all the classes up until, well I'm still pretty happy, but most people got tired of the "Let's release new classes every 6 months" thing pretty early on in GMS, tired of the new link skills that they had to get, tired of the character cards, level up events. On the other side, I believe I heard KMS was still pretty into getting new classes for quite a while after that. Getting more stuff from KMS isn't going to automatically fix the problems people have with GMS. And by the way, as far as it appears, the progression in KMS is only marginally better, unless you think having the option of training in dark, evil forest for about forty levels instead of just having robot junkyard wasteland is a huge improvement. Scrapyard and the Corrupted World Tree are just about the laziest excuses for content I have ever seen and are so obviously just designed so that people would stop complaining about having nothing aimed at 210 to 250.

By your logic, Microsoft's Xbox does really well in the US and it does pretty well in Europe too, so as a whole it does really well. It doesn't matter that it doesn't sell super well in Japan, I mean there must be something wrong with them right? Like, what's wrong with Japan, how dare they not like the Xbox as much as the people in its home country of America do? It's like the pineappleing second coming of Jesus Christ, how dare they not like it?