1. Hardware
   Seems Nexon grossly underestimated the enthusiasm for this new world.
   Even on normal days it's choked and laggy and difficult to even log in to, much less stay connected. On 2x it becomes impossible.
   While it's to be expected that enthusiasm will wane and the population will drop, failing to allocate sufficient resources from the start means that people are not enjoying Reboot as much as they could, and may well leave because of that, and not because the world itself can't hold their interest. Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy there.
   They did add a bit of hardware a few days after release, but that hardly made a difference. They keep having maintenances for "back end modifications to the servers" to address their stability, but those don't help at all.
   
   And then, when you manage to get on and stay on, every boss map and every good training map is full, ks'ing and tracking and all manner of harassment, just like in the good old days...
   
   
   
2. Cash Shop contents
   This server is supposed to support itself through cosmetics alone.
   You'd expect it to have the most extensive selection of equipment covers, effects, cosmetic coupons, and so on, to encourage people to part with their NX.
   And yet it doesn't. No VIP or REG hair/face coupons, pitiful selection of pets and equipment covers, everything expires, it's just sad.
   So unless their devious plan is to make people buy barely-decent clothes first, and then release better ones and have people spend NX all over again, they're just shooting themselves in the foot here.
   
   
   
3. Pay to Win, aka "advantage to paying players."
   As soon as we saw the promo video, we asked about pets.
   In KMS, pets and their skills can be purchased with Mileage (Reward Points), but here they can't. A looting pet is, if not essential, then a huge advantage, especially in a server where all you have is what you're able to loot. Making pets, as well as their skills and water of life, only available through NX (except for the 5-hour snail and the rare Hilla drop Blackheart), is a definite advantage to paying customers. Reboot doesn't even have Tot's, for a free 7-day pet that would help one get strong enough to defeat Hilla.
   It's true that this advantage can be had at a fixed low cost of about $10 for the initial outlay and then another $10 a year for water of life, unlike Cubes that can run into tens of thousands in open-ended gambling, it still runs against the principle of "no advantage to paying players" and it turns a lot of people away from the server. People don't like being forced to pay, even just $5, on a nominally "free" server.
   
   And then there was the Meso Sack fiasco.
   They tried putting those in at release, but the public outcry made them realize people will just flat-out refuse to play the server. So they withdrew them, but with a notice that definitely leaves them the option of re-adding them at a later date. That doesn't sound good.
   
   The whole Meso Sack mess did serve to draw fire away from the pet issue, though. People are now all, "Aren't you ever satisfied? They took away the Meso Sacks, now you want pets for free too? You expect the server to run on air? Nexon deserves at least some money. If you can't afford $5 go mow your neighbor's lawn or shovel snow from their driveway or something." And Artasi finally responded to the pet issue, saying essentially, "Pets are only cosmetic."
   
   
   
4. Bugs and changes
   There was the stupid Cash Shop overflow issue that gave people unlimited cubes and meso.
   I hear rumours of other exploits that have yet to be patched.
   And of course the same botting, hacking, and vaccing tools that work in the regular servers still work in Reboot.
   Some of the gear being smega'ed in Reboot certainly looks like it took way more cubes than anyone could have legitimately collected in the time the server was open. Some people could get lucky, of course. But the same person getting lucky on a dozen pieces of gear, and coincidentally being an NX-user with plenty of money for smegas? That does make one wonder.
   
   Nexon changed the drop tables in the entire game, apparently copying them from KMS. The purpose is not entirely clear, although it might have been to prevent low-level gear from dropping from high-level mobs. Why this was necessary is unclear. It just makes it much harder to use the transfer hammer to get decent gear in Reboot.
   Unintended(?) side-effects of this change, that make life unnecessarily hard in Reboot: (Recall that Reboot isn't supposed to be a "hardcore" server. It's the same as the normal servers, just without trading or pay2win)
   - Familiars and Codex cards don't drop. Some classes guzzle MP potions. Everybody loses out on Leafre set Ignore DEF.
   - Purple Senior equipment doesn't drop in MPE. The guaranteed Epic potential on those, along with the transfer hammer, would have made it much easier to get decent gear in Reboot.
   - Equipment drop rate is much lower everywhere. This, especially with the Sizzling Santa event making people level 3x as fast, makes it so you're unlikely to get a full set of gear before you outlevel the mobs that drop it. And of course it means a lot less meso by NPC'ing gear.
   
   
   
5. Reboot Coin Shop
   First, they neglected to put Epic potential scrolls and potential stamps from this shop's Reboot World version. No reason given. Just to make things harder on Rebooters.
   
   But ok, the shop still has some really good things, like cheap inventory expansions and nice rings.
   
   Then they sharply nerfed the coin rate from Shining Santa Boxes, not just instating a cap of 90 coins a day, but actually replacing multi-coin options with Rudolph Noses, the single worst item in the box. Besides being a sadistic quality-of-life punishment (because of how the noses fill your inventory and are hard to discard), it makes it nearly impossible to get any of the good things in the shop. People who were happy to farm the boxes and participate in the event for various goodies before, are now royally pissed off.
   
   This change affects all servers. But it's worse in Reboot, because everybody is new there, and needs all the items in the shop. In the established servers, many people just wanted inventory expansions for mules, or chairs and damage skins for fun. Not being able to get those isn't nearly as infuriating as being unable to get decent rings, or inventory expansions for one's main.
   

Quote:And then there was the Meso Sack fiasco.
They tried putting those in at release, but the public outcry made them realize people will just flat-out refuse to play the server. So they withdrew them, but with a notice that definitely leaves them the option of re-adding them at a later date. That doesn't sound good.

The whole Meso Sack mess did serve to draw fire away from the pet issue, though. People are now all, "Aren't you ever satisfied? They took away the Meso Sacks, now you want pets for free too? You expect the server to run on air? Nexon deserves at least some money. If you can't afford $5 go mow your neighbor's lawn or shovel snow from their driveway or something."

Quote: However, all these seemingly unrelated issues that add up to a less-than-happy experience with Reboot, are they truly accidental? Or did NexonNA only give us Reboot because Korea made them do it, and they are subtly (or not so subtly) trying to make it fail so they can be justified in closing it?

xparasite9 Wrote:I wouldn't put it past Owen "Mo' Money" Mahoney to do it. They seemed to be really averse to making a "Classic MS" server. Maybe by adopting a "Classic MS" business model in a modern server, and stacking it to lose, they can force it to fail and then whenever anyone brings the subject up again in the future, they can point to this failure as a reason why they will never ever attempt anything like it again.

Untradeable Wrote:Maybe i'm just jaded, but I'm still having fun with reboot.

xparasite9 Wrote:I uh...are you sure you are using the correct word there?

SaptaZapta Wrote:But it seems to be working fine in KMS.

Untradeable Wrote:I more meant jaded as in, I have more tolerance for nexon's shenanigans. Perhaps not the correct word.

Thorr Wrote:Jaded means just the opposite. A person who is jaded would more quickly assume that Nexon is out to get them. Jaded means you more naturally assume the negative because you've been burned before.

KhainiWest Wrote:Pretty sure he meant it in the context of apathy

Well I'd like to say I told you so, but I didn't even expect this. I don't know what they are trying to do, besides exploit the player base, I don't even play and I'm kind of insulted. They had one thing that worked, and it worked well, and they pomegranate all over it because they thought they could make it better for profit.

Maplestory it's on the cliffside being held up by nostalgia and it's so pineappleing pathetic because it needs so little maintenance to be successful. It's a game with one of the best communication systems out there, with simplicity that requires little to no processing power, they should exploit the ever living fu`ck out of it. It's sad to see something with so much potential just go down because of some stooges in office. We really need someone not afraid to lose their job and tell it like it is to these people.

B>Rights to maplestory to frelcking fix the game.

maplefreak26 Wrote:I'd really like to think that NexonNA is incompetent and that these issues are purely just them being out of touch with what the players want.
JMS didn't get Reboot world. I'm waiting to see if CMS/TWMS will get Reboot world before I assume whether or not Reboot world was pushed by Korea onto NxA or it was NxA that pushed for Reboot because it wasn't originally in the plans. They know we have a bunch of nostalgic folks on their servers, otherwise, they wouldn't have done the Back to Old Maple events.

As for the Cash Shop, they're just being lazy when it comes to the NX equip covers. Nexon hasn't updated the Cash Shop with new items in years. They've been dumping new CS equips items as limited time packages or dumping them into RNG boxes. They haven't added new items in separately in forever. The equips in the CS has existed since almost the beginning of time.

Justin Wrote:Have you looked at the reboot cash shop? It has not even a 15th the selection of the regular servers. It seriously is extremely limited right now. You can't even change your hair without buying royal coupons. For being so reliant on cosmetics to make the money roll in it sure is flopping all over the damn place on it.

xparasite9 Wrote:They probably want to say that it's a financial failure and that they NEED to put in all the pay to win stuff to make it successful. In their next boardroom meeting.

KhainiWest Wrote:I'd like to think it's not as simple as "Dear Korea, the server is a failure because reasons, we should put cubes back in for those who want to cube"

SaptaZapta Wrote:Or did NexonNA only give us Reboot because Korea made them do it, and they are subtly (or not so subtly) trying to make it fail so they can be justified in closing it?