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There's both a lot and not much to be said about Maplestory. There is a ton of content in the game, but has a lot of problems. The general philosophy is to make new content which completely leaves all the old content in the dust, but then go back and update the old content after -maybe- 6-12 months and have it be popular until the next big thing.

Don't expect much for story. Most of the classes have a premise to play them up in importance, but after the first 15 or so minutes the game becomes the same for every class with a little story bit at certain milestones.

Having a good friend or two to level with makes the game much more tolerable. There is a lot of monotonous grinding. I imagine it will be enjoyable your first time, since the content is still new, but it really gets stale after the fifth goddamn time (there's a lot of classes to try, which was the appeal for me).

Sorry about going all out on a misplaced thread Cake, I'm bored and reporting spam threads has lost some of its joy as of late.

Oh boy, I could go on for ages about how I've witnessed MapleStory going from a good MMO to an absolute trainwreck.

What's good about the game is that there are a ton of jobs/characters to choose from, though many of them are just derivatives of the game's five main classes (Warrior, Magician, Bowman, Thief, and Pirate,) but it does add quite a bit of depth to the game.

What's bad about is nearly everything else in the game's current state. The job balancing is messed up (EVERYTHING has a Flash Jump-type skill now that they learn at first job or so, thus, completely defeating the purpose of mounts,) the grind is not nearly as bad as it was back in the day, but it still feels very tedious later on, the economy is garbage, the optimization is horrible, the security sucks (hackers everywhere and economy-breaking glitches/exploits are found at least once a month, usually resulting in server rollbacks,) the community is almost on par with League of Legends' in terms of toxicity, saltiness, and pure idiocy, and it's pretty much turned into a pay-to-win game.

I'd suggest waiting for MapleStory 2 to launch internationally, but to be honest, I'm not sure if that's gonna be a whole lot better.

Even at level 120+, it still felt pretty tedious. Yet, I was able to get one character from 1 - 100 in like, three days.



That is true, but the MOBA genre is the worst when it comes to bad communities.



Oh yeah, I remember seeing a bunch of hackers back in 05/06. At some point of time, they were surprisingly rare for me, but last time I played, Edelstein was full of Demon Slayers warping around the maps in like, every channel.



Sure as hell felt like every month.



But the cube fragments have a low drop rate, don't they? And I think you can only fight bosses so many times a day.



...Reboot server?



I played on Windia.

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in Kradia so MYBCKN world alliance