Anyone else feel this game has gone downhill...

[UnknownFox]

Or am I alone in this? Granted this is coming from someone who played the game the first year of launch, back when Orbis was just talk and a dream. It just seems this game has gotten too flashy for its own good. The four classes made the game simple and it forced some people to team up for the best combination and while it did have its problems it still felt more alive.

Now all I see are low level, AoE spells from every single class it seems. Towns are crowded but its not by people but NPCs...so much that a lot of them don't even make sense in the location. I understand the desire to bring in new people with more classes but it seems they also could have done it another way. Hell I just tried it for the giggles a month ago and it seems all the "less" players are no longer exist as items and gear only have 1 stat they rely on as opposed to warriors needing both Str and Dex, its only Str, Mages only need Int versus the +3 Luck of Level.

Eh...feels like rambling but seems like all players are now OP, its turned into a Solo game. =/

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*HACKED*Triforceofcourage2 の投稿を引用：

it's not that bad... is it?

No it's not, I just have different amibitions and taste for games. You might like it more then anybody but someone else wouldn't think that, it's your decision what you like best or not. You can just try it if you'd like, my computer I can download this stuff at 5.0-19MBs per second so if you had my computer it would download as fast as a demo. If you have that kind of connection/computer then would be a great idea to try it for yourself ;) And it's free

[Doko]

I agree, maple isn't really fun anymore, even with the new content. I actually liked maple before the Big Bang update.

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Kuro の投稿を引用：

I agree, maple isn't really fun anymore, even with the new content. I actually liked maple before the Big Bang update.

MapleStory was ok.. still one thing i like about it, is that if you reach a certain level you have tons of things to do but when your lower level... that makes it hard for you to do anything fun
Im talking about the current which gone completely downhill

[Rokku]

Finally, I've found someone who feels the same way as me!

[QuackZack]

This is very true.
I remeber being level 50 a praise or a miracle even. But since the "Level-Easy" update, everything crashed into an explosive bomb that set off a few months later and destroyed the social contact and worth in MapleStory. Level 50 is now not even an achievement, and is actually concerned as an easy start. Level 200 was concered as a "Congrats, must've took you a long time!", now it's just "Eh, nice!". Then new explorers that were certainly over-powered joined the arena and made mages and other classes before 2011 seem worthless. I remember 1 million mesos being actually payable, now it's just a small achievement...
Good job for ruining one of your most sparkling games, ( Sarcastically )
To Nexon.

[ShadowsEve]

I've been playing maplestory for years now. Since the time of when there were only 4 explorers. And when I look at this, I just can not help but sigh in sadness. I mean really, look at the classes, and all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spamming that goes around with the higher level skills for the more "OP" classes. Truthfully, no one ever plays explorer anymore. Its become such a bad class choice in comparison to the newer ones that have come out, and the balance in the game itself is now horrible. All you have to do is grind on an empty map that is around your level to jump up 10 levels.

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Bleedin'Skull の投稿を引用：

This is very true.
I remeber being level 50 a praise or a miracle even. But since the "Level-Easy" update, everything crashed into an explosive bomb that set off a few months later and destroyed the social contact and worth in MapleStory. Level 50 is now not even an achievement, and is actually concerned as an easy start. Level 200 was concered as a "Congrats, must've took you a long time!", now it's just "Eh, nice!". Then new explorers that were certainly over-powered joined the arena and made mages and other classes before 2011 seem worthless. I remember 1 million mesos being actually payable, now it's just a small achievement...
Good job for ruining one of your most sparkling games, ( Sarcastically )
To Nexon.

Exactly...

[Vexenity]

Dude I've gotten into my Angelic Buster to level 100 in only 2 days. It's insane how much this game has changed. I mean, the game is now coming in for newcomers of the game. Doing all these assisting things and tutorials. Back then, I had to figure all this crap out myself and explore every single speck of Victoria Island myself. I'm awaiting for the Maplestory RED update to come out so that they finally revamp the Explorers.
PS - Kerning Square is a piece of sh-
PSS - The game needs WAAAYY less NPCs

[Vexenity]

I'd also pay money to get Maple the way it was before.

[UnknownFox]

Ah well, it was a fun game while it lasted, might give La Tale (if that is what I recall) or one of the other side scroller MMOs a shot. Personally if I do go back to maplestory it would have to be on a private server dedicated to going back to the old ways (with maybe a x2/3 exp increase)

[Cousin Billy]

Still fun

[Hɪɢʜᴡᴀʏ Tᴇʀʀᴏʀɪsᴛ]

What's this talk of fun, simple "back in the day (beta)?" Perion was pretty much the only town available then and the highest damage would have been below 50 damage. Boring! I hate hackers but Nexon's not doing anything to stop them. So what's the benefit to you? A cheaper economy; more items at less cost to you. Or would you rather camp at Perion trying to buy a GFA Scroll for an amount of money that was really hard to obtain like 25m? The one dude said he could get to 67 in a week. I'd quit if it took me that long. Suppose what I'm saying is you just need to polish your knowledge system on the game a little. June 5th to the 18th they'll be bringing back the Red High school so getting to 170+ will be a breeze. Why wouldn't you want flashy? High damage? To solo everything? You could help your guildies out or fund other toons. MapleStory is the only game I've played for a really long time (and still do) because I DON'T have to spend an eternity getting to end-game content. Most of us have lives and a job, I'm sure you do too!

Please don't take this to be some sort of rant or as offensive in any way. I'm simply giving my two cents.

[Alive Soft]

Well considering it used to be grinding for 10 hours just to get from level 65 to 66, I think it's much better now. It's relatively easy to get to level ~140 ish, and then its a bit hard to get to 200 from there. So I do like it now but I am nostalgic for when it was a lot simpler. There are way too many maps and quests now its hard to do them all.

[UnknownFox]

Personally the only thing I wish they would do is remove all the OP classes, the ones that basically clear an entire map and being only level 50, which was something only a level 80+ magic class could really do, but now it seems everyone can.

Why I basically mentioned private server would be my ideal location now if I do go back to this game. I had a lot of great times here and I do agree the grinding of levels was a pain in the tail. Even with glitches (I admit, I did the Orbis PQ glitch, still took hours on hours to get to 70). Just to me, going back to a simpler time, with an increased EXP boost.

[Hlopok]

NightsoulMS is a v55 private server that has 1/1/1 rates and I would highly reccomend it

http://www.nightsoulms.net/?nsms=main