Combattente Wrote:Seeing the game's state right now, and how they started not putting any effort to make it a better place, I don't know what to expect from them anymore.

Sure, this is content we're talking about, but if they can't even manage to make their servers work right, how can we expect them to make quality exclusive content for our version?

Though, if it's still true that they only make concept art and ideas and send them to Nexon Korea for the making, then it might be another story.

Either way, most of the exclusive content since Prose quitted pretty much sucked, so I'm not really expecting much from this. I don't really think they will ever be able to find a worthy replacement of him, even because I doubt they'd even put effort in trying to do that, seeing how they don't even care of making their game playable.

So yeah. Masteria content? Maybe. Will the quests be as good as before? I don't think so. But I don't want to be too negative so I'll give them a chance on that. Afterall, we don't even know what's been going on about Masteria in the past years (great communication between company and users is great!), so we can't really say anything. They could've worked hard about making quality content just like they could have put really little effort in it and done a rushed thing such as Episode 1 and stuff.

What I'm hoping is, like someone else posted, that Prose left some notes for them to be able to continue the storyline and the whole Masteria in a DECENT way (unless he didn't have a real plan about the whole story, which I doubt is the case).

We'll see what will come out of this. I'm still a great fan of Masteria, and hoping for something good to be released as an expansion, sooner or later.

Satellite Wrote:I've been thinking this...
Las Vegas, what also comes with a bunch of new minigames, that can be played for a BET.
On top off that, there would be an NPC selling White Scrolls for 150mil each, Mystery Cubes 10mil each, Chaos Scrolls 20mil each, Hammers 30mil each and SoKs for 30mil each. This would be for a limited time though.

You might ask, why? To drain mesos out of the market. With this, they could also double the fee of all trades (for limited time) to drink more cash out of the economy.

Gregory Wrote:i thought the skill was useless because its bugged for most wild hunters, theres like a 0.01% chance of making one that has the skill working [the summons attack]

Blades4hire Wrote:The summon is never supposed to attack
That's a hack

darkmonkey13 Wrote:Here's what I think:
something pomegranatey with mounts. Remember the issues with the Police mounts and the cake chairs, that were scheduled to be fixed in a later patch, scheduled for August 10th? That fits for the expected 5th part date. It will probably be an expansion of the WH's capture skill, and be able to let you ride it. Just because Nexon hates us all.

Dark Zero Wrote:Personally I am expecting 5 things:

1.- Actual Masteria Revamp.- Yeah, the whole continent suffers the Black Magician attack and gets totally revamped... the maps become more trainable, , the potions becomes cheaper and some of them suffers a drastical changes (the thief pot will give 100 acc and 120 avoid?), the levels of the mobs raises a lot (ex. street slime into level 40 , Wind Raider into level 90 and Crimsom Guard into level 110).

Some maps (maybe inside Crimsomwood Castle) will be like LHC maps until Monster Park. Masteria continent appears finally in the Maple World.

And the way to get to Masteria changes too (so no longer Kerning City Train). Haunted Mansion also gets a revamp... the maps are smaller and trainable, the mobs now appear for places and finally it's hard to say but it´s time to get rid of the Twister Jesters EXP... Maybe raising the levels and the damage of them will be the solution.

CWKPQ should be revamped... the bosses needs to be a little stronger. And the MoN should give slots now.

2.- New Masteria Expansions.- Definitaly we need more expansions.

2.a.- Krakia.- We told a lot of this place... I am expecting that it will be released in short time (if need some Designer Contest like the past one, this should be OK, there are a lot of people outside with lots of creativity to help you Nexon guys). This place needs to be a high level place (71-120) since the only mob released (Turkey Comando) was a hard guy for lower even for middle levels.

2.b.- Versal.- Yeah, there is a NPC talking about this and even with the X-Mas event with O-Pongo talking about his home, Versal.. so its time to release this place... personally I am expecting to see a mid level training place (51-90 and even 100) with some calm or even creepy music.

So this place has a lot to offer. And even from high level place to final training place (130+) and even have a PQ

2.c.- Bigger Ben .- It was told in the NPC's of Masteria. Maybe it can be a high level place (71-130) or has a lot of story explaining the true origin of Masteria, Krakia and even Versal.

And there will be more expansions. Masteria has a lot to offer.

3.- Amoria Revamp.- Time to revamp this place... even if it's a smal island has a forest and how about to make the forest a mid-high level training place? and how about a PQ revamped allowing to single players to enter and with more and better prizes but only to married players?

4.- Maple Story Episode 2 / Episode 1 revamp.- We got Episode 1 nearly 2 years ago. It's time to improve the quest and to improve the bosses to make more attractive. it would be excellent to fight against Amducias without using a bow and with all our power. And how about a lvl 30 + Astaroth PQ?

About Episode 2, maybe it's time to give more action for the level 35-70 Maplers who wants more about this quest chain (aburptly broken since Big Bang). Maybe it's time to release a really powerful boss to fight. (a PQ with 50 + maplers with the option of Hard (90 +) and Hell (120+) will change this).

5.- Exclusive GMS recipes and ITGC's finally drops.- Why I didn't told of reward before? Simply is to cover this point... it's time to make the difference with the recipes.

We had Android Gear a year ago and now isn't posible to make that because there is no Maker skill anymore. But with this new brand Proffesion skills we can make nearly anything. And this will be great because we can make recipes of Taru weapons or ITGC's items or even Android gear by only creating a recipe to doing that.

And even more. Actually we DON'T have any Eye Accesory Recipes to make, so we are forcing to use Spectum Googles or Broken ones. So we can get the exclusive way to make our propper Eye Accesory recipes to make them. Also we can make slotted rings (with our propper exclusive Decent Skill!) or face accesories.

Finally the ITGC's items right now is freaking hard to obtain since there is no more editions since the 5th edition. And the current codes are starting to scarce. So it's time to make them as a rare Gachapon prizes or even a CWKPQ ultra rare drop or even an Alchemist, Blacksmithing and Crafting (even an Herb or Mining) recipe! So it will be interesting to see that.

Dark Zero Wrote:Personally I am expecting 5 things:

1.- Actual Masteria Revamp.- Yeah, the whole continent suffers the Black Magician attack and gets totally revamped... the maps become more trainable, , the potions becomes cheaper and some of them suffers a drastical changes (the thief pot will give 100 acc and 120 avoid?), the levels of the mobs raises a lot (ex. street slime into level 40 , Wind Raider into level 90 and Crimsom Guard into level 110).

Some maps (maybe inside Crimsomwood Castle) will be like LHC maps until Monster Park. Masteria continent appears finally in the Maple World.

And the way to get to Masteria changes too (so no longer Kerning City Train). Haunted Mansion also gets a revamp... the maps are smaller and trainable, the mobs now appear for places and finally it's hard to say but it´s time to get rid of the Twister Jesters EXP... Maybe raising the levels and the damage of them will be the solution.

CWKPQ should be revamped... the bosses needs to be a little stronger. And the MoN should give slots now.

2.- New Masteria Expansions.- Definitaly we need more expansions.

2.a.- Krakia.- We told a lot of this place... I am expecting that it will be released in short time (if need some Designer Contest like the past one, this should be OK, there are a lot of people outside with lots of creativity to help you Nexon guys). This place needs to be a high level place (71-120) since the only mob released (Turkey Comando) was a hard guy for lower even for middle levels.

2.b.- Versal.- Yeah, there is a NPC talking about this and even with the X-Mas event with O-Pongo talking about his home, Versal.. so its time to release this place... personally I am expecting to see a mid level training place (51-90 and even 100) with some calm or even creepy music.

So this place has a lot to offer. And even from high level place to final training place (130+) and even have a PQ

2.c.- Bigger Ben .- It was told in the NPC's of Masteria. Maybe it can be a high level place (71-130) or has a lot of story explaining the true origin of Masteria, Krakia and even Versal.

And there will be more expansions. Masteria has a lot to offer.

3.- Amoria Revamp.- Time to revamp this place... even if it's a smal island has a forest and how about to make the forest a mid-high level training place? and how about a PQ revamped allowing to single players to enter and with more and better prizes but only to married players?

4.- Maple Story Episode 2 / Episode 1 revamp.- We got Episode 1 nearly 2 years ago. It's time to improve the quest and to improve the bosses to make more attractive. it would be excellent to fight against Amducias without using a bow and with all our power. And how about a lvl 30 + Astaroth PQ?

About Episode 2, maybe it's time to give more action for the level 35-70 Maplers who wants more about this quest chain (aburptly broken since Big Bang). Maybe it's time to release a really powerful boss to fight. (a PQ with 50 + maplers with the option of Hard (90 +) and Hell (120+) will change this).

5.- Exclusive GMS recipes and ITGC's finally drops.- Why I didn't told of reward before? Simply is to cover this point... it's time to make the difference with the recipes.

We had Android Gear a year ago and now isn't posible to make that because there is no Maker skill anymore. But with this new brand Proffesion skills we can make nearly anything. And this will be great because we can make recipes of Taru weapons or ITGC's items or even Android gear by only creating a recipe to doing that.

And even more. Actually we DON'T have any Eye Accesory Recipes to make, so we are forcing to use Spectum Googles or Broken ones. So we can get the exclusive way to make our propper Eye Accesory recipes to make them. Also we can make slotted rings (with our propper exclusive Decent Skill!) or face accesories.

Finally the ITGC's items right now is freaking hard to obtain since there is no more editions since the 5th edition. And the current codes are starting to scarce. So it's time to make them as a rare Gachapon prizes or even a CWKPQ ultra rare drop or even an Alchemist, Blacksmithing and Crafting (even an Herb or Mining) recipe! So it will be interesting to see that.

SwordStaker Wrote:While I agree with this almost 100% there is something I would like to point out I'm sure many who saw it remember. When Prose was on SP for a limited time he said 'Masteria isn't going the way I had initionally planed but that's common in MMORPG content.' I've noticed NEXONS seems to be meh w.e right now but, while there was a massive influx of bugs when Chaos first started NEXON still sort of jumped on the problem almost immediatly. I will argue that -maybe- they're just busy on the 5th part to worry about harmless bugs or even the dc hack that affected ardentmill andfrom what I read the hakshield error HAS stopped the script kiddies.(Tempo ofcourse but it is a start). As to the comment on the story sure, it hasn't been anywhere as good Prose left anyone could see that. Thats because Masteria is Prose's baby just like if Nintendo sold Mario and Pokemon it probably wouldn't be the same.While it defenatly isn't Prose's stories the HH2 story wasn't THAT bad and the fact it wasn't a permenant story I don't see why any effort should be put into it. I mean yeah you could if you wanted to make it enjoyable but it would only be there for a little while. As for the visitor event that wasn't bad. I mean the tory was pretty damn good, the maps in the future were VERY nice, and re cube pq was defenatly different. It always changed the path and it was Sorta like a maze.Don't get me wrong I hated th visitor event because well..mostly the Aliens. I mean if they put then in PRIVATE maps the whole thing would have been A LOT better, but I still didn't like it. Now the story was actually pretty good and really the whole thing showed what NEXONNA can do with exclusive content. Sure you can argue they worked with the Thailand team but my point still stands. This is defenatly a wait and see development and I do hope it IS worthwhile. Its hard to believe ANY company would just drop a project that has so much potential and so much, well everything. I think if they really did make a good Masteria expansion and actually changed the land, put the raven weapons and others into smithing, and actually make it what it should have been post-bb(still keeping it better then training areas but not to the point that it COMPLETLY destroys them) then I can see some players get really interested again knowing that an area that both new and old players have wanted for so long, I can see some players coming back with a slight shimmer of hope.

P.S I typed this on my phone so my apologies for any spelling and major grammatical errors.

Combattente Wrote:Both the HH2 and Visitor stories weren't that great, IMO, especially the first one (though it's true that it was temp so yeah). But that's just my opinion. Maybe I got too spoiled with Prose's masterpieces. He said he really loved writing, and he did it pretty well, too.

The stories made by Nexon after his quitting were not even far as complex and well-thought as the ones he wrote. But I must admit the Visitor one wasn't BAD either. It was pretty.. banal, compared to the Masteria ones. But what I hated the most about the event weren't even the aliens themselves. It was how poorly designed some maps were. I mean, come on. Most (not all of them though, as some were very original) were just made of re-used pieces of other maps, and ALL of the BGMs were re-used as well (some also unfitting - see VPQ, which is just a walkthrough of half BGMs of Maple randomly thrown there). That's the part where I'd have liked to see more creativity from them, but it's not like they haven't done a good job with that in other things, for example in introducing some interesting new game systems as attacking from a mount, moving platforms (finally!), and dynamic background objects for all maps.

So yeah. They haven't done a bad job with it at all, but Prose's works will probably stay irreplaceable.

maplefreak26 Wrote:inb4Masteriaturnsouttobecrap.

Masteria sure had a lot of potential. Greatly designed maps, BGMs, everything. CWKPQ was after NxProse left; which was probably where he last left his notes and fully thought ideas.

When the other developers pick it up, I'm betting it will turn up like crap; a couple of nice things here, but it'll be crap altogether.

ALSO, WHATS THAT BLUE BLOB THING ON THAT CHRISTMAS THING?

Corazon Wrote:The Masteria revamp can stay for the high levels - since they were bishin about not having anything 'sides Leafre/Time Temple to grind at, this gives them another spot to choose, and possibly a Dr. Krakia/Naricain/Dragon Ninja Lord Expedition. Furthermore, don't you think it's about time to let the Arans/Evans/DBs/Resistance get in on the Twisted Masters too? Cygnus is understandable before they go UA, but not after that. Also, include the Pirate Twisted Lord please.

Can't comment on Amoria - haven't touched the place in ages.

Maple Story Episode 2 - .... Yes. Yes. A thousand times YES! I mean, cmon, don't scrap the really good story about the Goetia! There are 72 Goetic Demons, you only covered like 5 (6 with Astaroth), and about another 5 via the PvP gear sets. That still leaves you 62 good possible Goetic demons to throw out there! I know Demons like Shax, Andromalius, Beelzebub and such are just waiting prime for challengers to fight them!

ShanghaiDizzy Wrote:It's always funny that people assume things without even knowing the details first. Except in my case, I'm practically forced to quit because I can't even LOG ON (that's the unfunny part).

Worthyness Wrote:I agree with the above. Nexon has shown it's lack of creativity lately with all the repeat events and such. It shows they lack anyone with a decent amount of imagination. Their exclusive content is their chance to improve upon and make something "unexpected".

Here's something i would like:

- A guild or Alliance PQ- They eliminated the original one in Perion. It was one of the most fun PQs as well. Now if they could get an Alliance PQ that would be pretty awesome: depending on the amount of guilds in the alliance it could change (or something easier like, each guild has to do 1 separate room to defeat "body guards" and then everyone comes together again to defeat the Boss). This would also help accumulate Guild Points for not so level oriented guilds.

- iTcg items turned into Masteria/Amoria exclusive drops via recipes: gives open access to old and dated equips that no one can make anymore. Plus it also gives Pirates, mages, and archers the chance to use a top and bottom combination instead of an overall.

- An expansion of Masteria: Again, a place to show off their creativity. They have a place riddled with lore. Sure it won't be as cool or as epic a storyline when NxProse was there, but he gave them A LOT of freedom to develop the area without reverting to a repeat of another event (a la sophilia and the "long lost eldest child of the dead pendergast who he had via an illegitimate clone daughter something or other). Hell they don't even need it to be the same area as NxProse originally wrote for it- make a completely new area that is linked to masteria via mysterious space bridge.

- Some place where i can get a easy to upgrade knuckle- i need a new weapon that won't cost me an arm and a leg. i barely have over 100m (which is basically nothing these days), and don't have the funds to mass scroll anything. If perhaps they had something like Alien PQ, and then a process in which to "scroll" the weapons a la tablets from hob pq, i would do that to try and surpass my current knuckle and weaponry.

- Do something totally and completely unexpected- JMS developmental team made their own version of content in addition to patching in KMS content. This is where the sky is the limit to them (hell maybe even above the skies, who knows).
drops
- And finally: have everything go off without a hitch- Just have an event where one time, you KNOW hackers are going to try and exploit it. Go in and patch the potential hack before it even happens. Increase player-moderator interaction. You can't please the consumer base without knowing who they are.