Would you play an official old school v62 server?

[Hiscules]

Yes, there are private servers like MapleRoyals, but their events are pretty bad and a lot of features still don't work, such as the beloved Carnival PQ, Ariant PQ (lv20-30 PQ that was the most fun I've had on Maple) and even Amoria PQ (don't think weddings or even friendship rings work either).

A lot of other games have been making classic servers, including World of Warcraft and Ragnarok Online, so why not make a revamped v62 MapleStory server?

The current MapleStory isn't the same game anymore; it feels like a single-player game now.

Thoughts on a non-P2W official v62 server?

PS: I also HATE how all the v62 private servers are filled with royals faces and hairstyles. They make characters look like they're imported from a different game

[Jamillia]

I would play on a v62 with 1/1/1 (1x mesos, 1x drop rates, 1x exp rates) only if there were all the current characters in the game available, and link skills were a thing. That is to say if I can even get high enough to use my link skill...

[Hiscules]

引用自 Jamillia：

I would play on a v62 with 1/1/1 (1x mesos, 1x drop rates, 1x exp rates) only if there were all the current characters in the game available, and link skills were a thing. That is to say if I can even get high enough to use my link skill...

I don't know if I'd wanna see all the newer classes in a 1x server, but that would be an interesting experience for sure. Link skills sounds like an amazing feature for an old school server, though

[CherryKakyoin]

Why would i? a lot of people are so driven by nostalgia that they don't realize the horrible design the game had back then, play mapleroyals and you'll see.

What made old maplestory great, was it's community and the fact that you could explore the whole game as soon as you got to lv 10.

Even with nostalgia servers, the feeling is not the same, you can't recreate how it felt when playing for the very first time.

[Hiscules]

引用自 CherryKakyoin：

Why would i? a lot of people are so driven by nostalgia that they don't realize the horrible design the game had back then, play mapleroyals and you'll see.

What made old maplestory great, was it's community and the fact that you could explore the whole game as soon as you got to lv 10.

Even with nostalgia servers, the feeling is not the same, you can't recreate how it felt when playing for the very first time.

I've played MapleRoyals and I enjoy it more than the current Maple, but private servers are always broken and development on them feels almost non-existent.

MapleRoyals has ~1.5k players on at all times. Steam version of MapleStory has ~800, not including the people running from the launcher, which probably isn't a high number anyway.

It's clear that there's still an old-school playerbase, and I think Nexon could do a better job at developing a v62 server if they wanted to.

I'd be willing to bet a revamped v62 server with fully-working PQs, 1-2x exp rates and no P2W would have as many players as current Maple if not more.

[CherryKakyoin]

You enjoy it out of pure nostalgia, but the game is poorly designed, nostalgia servers try their best to fix it, but it's still a horrible mess, v62 MS is based of hp washing, back then in the official server, this was a NX ONLY feature, and it was required to do bosses, so in fact, v62 was a truly p2w version of the game (you could of course, do bossing without doing this, but you had to wait until 180 or something, unless you were a warrior)

And it had a serious lack of content, the 2 endgame areas were leafre and ToT and you could get there at 100, meaning that you were not going to see any other content for the other 100 levels, and the monsters gave exp that was ideal for lv 100 people, leveling became such a tedious chore.

4th job was also a mess, mastery books had Success%, so, if you hardly worked for a book, you still had to cross your fingers for it to work, it wasn't fun to pay 1b (which for that time was a lot) for a book that would simply fail.

As i said, the game was good because of the community and because we were exploring a whole new world, even with 10k people in royals, it wouldn't be the same, everyone would already know how things work, there would be no more exploring whatsoever.

[Hiscules]

引用自 CherryKakyoin：

You enjoy it out of pure nostalgia, but the game is poorly designed, nostalgia servers try their best to fix it, but it's still a horrible mess, v62 MS is based of hp washing, back then in the official server, this was a NX ONLY feature, and it was required to do bosses, so in fact, v62 was a truly p2w version of the game (you could of course, do bossing without doing this, but you had to wait until 180 or something, unless you were a warrior)

And it had a serious lack of content, the 2 endgame areas were leafre and ToT and you could get there at 100, meaning that you were not going to see any other content for the other 100 levels, and the monsters gave exp that was ideal for lv 100 people, leveling became such a tedious chore.

4th job was also a mess, mastery books had Success%, so, if you hardly worked for a book, you still had to cross your fingers for it to work, it wasn't fun to pay 1b (which for that time was a lot) for a book that would simply fail.

As i said, the game was good because of the community and because we were exploring a whole new world, even with 10k people in royals, it wouldn't be the same, everyone would already know how things work, there would be no more exploring whatsoever.

I know it wouldn't be the same, but I would still enjoy it out of pure nostalgia. There are people who say the same thing as you about World of Warcraft classic servers, and now that Blizzard has recently announced it, many, many players are super hyped about it... based on pure nostalgia.

[GreenSoap]

The childish wonder and excitement I experienced as a kid playing it obviously isn't there anymore, so I don't think an old school server would do much for me at all. Maybe as a novelty at best, because the old maple really gets old quick as an adult.

If they would make a new modern game which kept the old Maple style, charm and atmosphere, then I'd play it. If they added a fkton of cool awesome quests, PQs and Guild PQs then I'd definitely play it.

[Stickerface]

The biggest appeal for early MS was the sense of community. You had to party for triaining, PQs, and Bosses. It really isnt like it used to be in that sense. To this day i still dont agree with the potential system either but that isnt changing.

[CherryKakyoin]

引用自 Melnok：

The biggest appeal for early MS was the sense of community. You had to party for triaining, PQs, and Bosses. It really isnt like it used to be in that sense. To this day i still dont agree with the potential system either but that isnt changing.

At least cubes can be farmed now, the bonus potential system is still nx only which sucks massive balls, back then cubes were nx only.

[Zaphael]

MapleLegends is probably the closest you can get for the best v.62 server.

[Hiscules]

引用自 Zaph：

MapleLegends is probably the closest you can get for the best v.62 server.

nah kimberly wont implement CPQ so maplelegends sucks

[JaredX7]

Don't know, maybe? Kinda miss the old days of Maple actually.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1218335677