2010-03-01, 04:56 PM
Spoiler
Basically, after playing a series of other MMOs, i've really begun to see the age in Maple Story, from the imbalance in stat usefulness and oft-times unrewarding party system to the severe lack of 120+ content in the game.
I believe Nexon never really planned for the game to last much longer, which would logically explain the lack of developing 120+ content: So many games that actually do have grind have been out in less time than MS yet have content that reaches much higher levels. I never found it unusal untill i tried other MMOs. (Maple was my first and only for a very long time) But now looking back, i now realize it may have just been a bad sign.
Numerous gacha and cash-shop expansions and lower level PQs constantly being added also point at that for me. There's even a series of classes that stop dead at 120, something that would be useless to a dedicated player, UNLESS, all content with a point really does stop at 120. Now a class that's pay to play? It's really beginning to seem like Maple's focus is just making content that grabs cash fast, without making a money flow that will last.
Which sounds like the perfect strategy to fund a Maple Story 2 project.
Personally i do hope Maple dies, and drives the player base to try new MMOs so they can learn just how broken, dated and... well bad, so many aspects of the game were and are. and i really do apologize if that makes me sound like a troll, i actually like MS a lot and love the time spent and friends made playing the game.
Its just that there's a few games that I like that could really use the money from the player base Nexon has had a chokehold on to make them even better. heh!
But really, i think if this hacking continues the way it has and hurting the dedicated playerbase and nexon continues to make such monumental errors, it's going to go the way of the dodo, and it really seems intentional, as Nexon DOES have a lot more games than they used to, and by what i hear those games are really making some good money. Perhaps there's been a shift in focus in manpower per game at nexon; the GM that got hacked didn't really seem like much of a "pro" going by impressions...
And regarding the often repeated arguement of "more players will just come"... Maple has been around for a very long time, and the # of MMO players in north america is not infinite, eventually everyone who would take interest in MS will have had their shot at it. Potential customers DO run out, and as for new generations... if their older brothers and sisters are playing something else, odds are they won't be trailblazing it to MS logically.
Here's to hoping Maple Story 2 can handle the current trends in MMO gaming. (and be more secure at that...)