Quit This Game For Good

My dream would be taking a picture of me and my best friend, each with out pair of specs at Perion Channel 1. I mean, with the rest of my funds, I can get it. Sadly, MS doesn't exist on my computer.

Aww, that is sad. I'm just taking this screenshot as a joke though because you know what Phantom's level 200 medal is and what one of the statues near the end of the CWK PQ says...once I caught sight of it while going to get my MoN I realized that I could never quit until I got a screenshot of that to laugh over it forever as my last and fondest memory of a Maple brick joke!

The only reason I keep going on Maple is my guild. Honestly there are many superior MMOs out there. What keeps me grounded is the people I know.

[COLOR="#0000FF"]I keep it installed because it's always nice to go back on, and play one of the first games I ever did play, and see how it improved. I like to try the new classes that come out too. I came back because of the pirate revamp, and made a couple buccs. Then quit because of school, and started back with tempest. Honestly maple was just a second game I felt like playing when I played LoL too much, and wanted to play something that didn't require much effort. Also, playing league is too entertaining, so I switched to maple at night time so I could get bored and fall a sleep easier.

Honestly, the only fun part of this game is like 1~80. After that, it gets too grindy for me, no where to train, and then you start needing damage you're too poor to afford the farther you go. And when I heard about the hackers in LHC and the higher level places, I thought why am I gonna play anymore when hackers are gonna make it impossible for me to level up. And another thing is the market turns me off. No search function (screw you owl), no auction house, and everything is the max cap. How is a new person going to want to continue when everything is that price, and if you want to make your own stuff you have to be really lucky/have money/both.

So for now I just keep it on to try new updates, like ab and her funny dialogues. I play DFO in maple's slot instead, cause I like button mashing more than holding one button too.

EDIT: Another reason I thought about why I keep it, is there isn't another rpg game like maple that I've found. I want a game where you have the same kind of skills, 2d side scrolling adventure, etc. The graphics and sounds of maple are really nice too, and I haven't found another rpg like it. Once I can find one that is more captivating then I'll be gone completely. Something like Wonderking, it was pretty good. It had combos, you could set up your own shops, and etc. And Latale is pretty nice too, it has some special clothes you can buy that is like nx that is sold with in game money, and then there is also the rl currency. Only thing is it's clunky and repetitive/unpopular-ish.[/COLOR]

I quit GMS about 11 months ago (as in I haven't logged on since then, I think I effectively quit in november 2011). I had transitioned to KMS. I quit KMS effectively by about april, and didn't log on from some time in June to late December this year. I still frequented SP a lot, but it was mainly for the LoL group. I redownloaded KMS at the end of December because I was having a ton of nostalgia. I leveled up my Shad for the first time in 10 months (wooooo) and played a Demon Avenger. I only played for 2 days, then I went back to LoL, Dota, and SoaDA. It was kinda fun coming back, seeing what all I had missed, but it didn't have the same thrill that it had ever had. I quit originally because I couldn't remember what I enjoyed about the game. In KMS, a lot of the people I knew and liked had started to move on. I just didn't find anything that kept me playing, so I quit. I never really wanted to be super funded, soloing every boss and hitting damage cap. I played to have fun, and I just don't really find it in Maplestory anymore. Find something to play or do that you really like. I started with LoL too. If you're the Kunai on NA, then I guess you've gotten pretty into the game, lol (1.2k wins). I assume you're not though. Actually, I can't figure out who you are for the life of me since the ones on EUNE and EUW look like they're the same account that hasn't been played since the two split. But yeah. Just find something that replaces MS, and try to avoid reminding yourself of MS. Then come back and laugh at all the pathetic proles that still play this game.

I am holding on to false obligations and I feel like this is exactly what I should be doing. I should be putting my hand on the stove for playing maple today, going on my mules to collect the Hot Time items. It's pointless, stupid and I'm not accomplishing anything. Everyday, I suffer more and more. This game lost its sense of accomplishment that it used to have and the community is summarized by independent soloing/leeching.

The icon is my sin and the reason why I came back. It should have been gone long ago and I keep coming back and back. Every time I realize what I have in this game makes me return to it even though everything I have acquired has been transmitted to real life situations. This game is pretty much long gone and an empty shell used to burn my free time when I can be doing better things. It's sad that we sometimes play this game to fulfill our own predispositions without fully assessing how much fun we are actually having with this game. I don't know, just my 2 cents about this game. I won't regret this I am sure.

I don't want to doom someone else into having all my belongings and continuing since I wish that everyone would just move on from this trap hole.

Let this be a small step and I hope I can help everyone quit this game for good.

I hope that everyone leaves the cycle since a this is merely an illusion saying that you can still grow as a mapler, but deep down, this game has fallen and is way past its expiration date. My goal would be to help every individual quit. I have lost the true meaning of having fun with this game and there's no point in continuing.

delete that nasty icon

I am sorry if I come off as rude, but you simply sound like you're whining.

You're making it sound like you just got out of a really bad real-life relationship with a real person, not a video game. And if you took this game that seriously then it is for the best that you quit and you're rid of it.

But, could you lighten up your tone a little? I mean, just because MapleStory was an abusive relationship to you doesn't mean it is an abusive relationship to everyone who plays it, you don't have to "save" everyone from the big bad video game.

I might sound a little sarcastic here and I am not trying to come off as rude. But after reading all your posts that is the sense I get from you. You spent 6 years, you gave 6 years of your life to something and in the end you realize it was all for nothing and now you're upset (At least, you're sounding upset.) but, once again, just because it happened that way to you doesn't mean it happens that way for everyone so you're being far too generalizing in saying that MapleStory is a soul-sucking waste of time and everyone should stay anyway from it.



I, personally, play MapleStory like any of my other video games. Every now and then I dust it off, boot it up, and play it. Then I put it back down and do something else.

Despite it being a MMORPG I treat it like I do the regular RPG's I own in the sense that I enjoy questing and collecting and training and beating what bosses I can. Because, I don't cube my gear, I don't feel the need to cube my gear, so I don't. I don't need to be the best, I don't need the glory of dealing millions of damage. Hell, my main character deals close to 1 million damage already completely unfunded and that is good enough for me.

I like to "upgrade" my equips in the simplest way possible. In which I mean if there is an event or a new area that comes out with better gear than my current I set out to get it, and once I do that is enough, I equip it, maybe use a few scrolls on it (60%'s for life, yo.)


I have been playing MapleStory the exact same way I have been playing it since beta, and I still have fun playing it to this day. But, I can pick up any of my old games (NES, SNES, Sega, N64, PS1, PS2) and play them and have fun to this day as well. Games don't "expire" for me, I remember being a little kid and playing the same 4 games for my NES because that is all I had and I had a blast beating those 4 games countless times.

Maybe there is something wrong with me if I can continue to play the same exact same game over and over again always knowing what to expect. And, yes, while you can't "beat" MapleStory I always know what to expect from it, I always know what to expect from the quests, I always know what to expect from my equips, the npcs, the training, everything. I always know what to expect, and while some people find that boring I can still have fun doing it because I guess I am a really boring person or something.



Though, with all that said, it doesn't mean I don't have my problems with MapleStory. Unlimited really irks me. But, in my current state the bosses that get changed I can't beat anyway so, lol, whatever I guess. I'll continue to play, and enjoy MapleStory in my own way since in all this time playing MapleStory in that way the game has never become unfun for me so I guess I am doing something right.





Anyway, sorry for posting a bunch of useless words in your thread. I just felt that you shouldn't go off on MapleStory and act like those that are playing it are being "abused" just as you were and I went off into some stupid wall-of-text about how I play MapleStory.

Maplestory is the only game my girlfriend can really play that keeps her attention. She has motion sickness, and she loves cute things, maplestory hits her sweet spot. She's much better at detaching herself from it emotionally than me though. Frankly that and the waiting for the blade and soul to be released are my two biggest reasons I tolerate it. I'm hoping the motion sickness she has doesn't impair her from playing B&S, as it's not in a first person view.

Considering the simplicity of maplestory, it's only a bad game if you emotionally indulge in it. I don't know how you can nowadays, most people that play, in my server at least, can't really hold my attention for more than 5 minutes. Stale jokes, constant begging for emotional support as they failed something, or something stolen, down to bragging about damage/money/level. There's no longer substance in the general community and it's quite sad.

I've been playing for 6+ years now and I share many emotions of yours. I'm part of those who still play but don't really know why.

Well, if I have to say the truth, I haven't really "played" for a long time, but that's because my main character (the main one I'm willing to play right now and which has the meso to fund other characters) has been having log-in issues, first with a strange issue which got me stuck at character selection screen, now with a weird error 38 crash every time I try to log into it.

This has been going on since mid-October. I've only been able to play a few days since then. Sure, I could've played with other characters, but I really didn't feel like doing so, seeing how the company I've supported (even financially, by buying good quantities of NX in the past) has been completely ignoring me. I guess it's a sign that I shouldn't play?

In any case, the game has been linked to several positive memories, to me. I've had so much fun with my friends on this game.. I still remember when several other italian people played it. We formed guilds, had fun with people from other countries, and - I'm really glad to say that - enjoyed the best years of this game. Yeah, because playing it before had a feeling which can't just be compared to now. You could say it changed because of getting used and bored of it, after so many years. Well, I'm pretty sure there are other factors which helped with that.

MapleStory was so different many years ago.. it had an unique feeling attached to it that seems to be gone after so long. Maybe it's how they managed the game and its updates or maybe something else. I sometimes think that the original makers of the game weren't really expecting such an incredible economical success, so.. they just made it simply because they liked doing it, with no huge financial expectations and whatnot. They made the game with a pure heart. And many people felt that.

Then, after the staff slowly changed with years.. the owners started becoming greedier and making content purely targeted to money-making. And that's when the game started getting worse. Bosses requiring great potential'd equips (NX) to be defeated, etc.. some time before Big Bang, Maple had stopped giving that feeling I was talking about. That's probably because the owners started focusing more on money than anything else. Just look at how they keep releasing all those classes. There are seriously too many, but.. they keep doing that, just because it earns them lots of money. THAT is, in my opinion, how the game was truly ruined.

That's it. There's no way back. They took a road with no exit. All that's left to do now, is wait for the game's final fall. And I'm feeling that, if they'll choose to release the Unlimited patch as it is in KMS, they'll only make GMS' death even faster. It's a matter of years now. Maybe even less.

They DO realise that by doing this they're losing players, but they - as several others have already said before me - really seem to want to milk the players the most money they can before the game's decline, and the move they've made with the Unlimited patch just makes me think that's what they're trying to do. Right now they can't even care less if many players quit, as long as they know that a good part of them will spend money on trying to make themselves as powerful as possible.

So yeah. I'm hoping my character gets unstuck, but only because I want to spend some free time playing the game every now and then. I doubt that it'll ever go back to what it was before. The feelings the game gives me have permanently changed.. for the worse, obviously. Now that I think about it, the only things left about this game which might give me some feelings are some characters' storylines (Kaiser's was definitely a masterpiece), the graphics and the amazing background music. THAT, I will never stop being a great fan of.

@above more or less sums up what I think. I still love the stories, music and graphics but it's insane how much money is needed to gain access to bosses and the like and I cannot agree with that kind of outlook.

The only reason I keep going on Maple is my guild. Honestly there are many superior MMOs out there. What keeps me grounded is the people I know.

Exactly the same reason why I keep playing, I just love the people in my guild. If they all were to change to wow or some other mmo I would follow them for sure.

Quit the game.

Left the game after the item generation fiasco and despite nexon doing a good job with security recently from the updates, I don't see any reason to come back.

Besides after selling my endgame equips and seeing the unlimited update, it would take a lot more funding to get back into the game especially now that gm scrolls/protects/whites are gone.

I'm proud of your actions. It takes some guts to quit, and your story is quite interesting as well..
I've asked myself the same question several times until I came to one conclusion:

Maple's more of a hobby for me. Although I've played for a long time, there's always something that interests me in-game, and when I feel like exploring those interests or talking to my friends, I log on. If I get angry or bored with the game, I simply abandon it for as long as it's needed. For example, currently, I haven't logged on in a week and 2 days, and I'll probably come back when Root Abyss is out. So far, I've reached the max level, and I might try to polish up my main for improved performance if I get some extra time. But at the moment, I'm not really engaging in heavy game play. It's mostly guild activities, or LHC sessions.

I started the game because I found it interesting. I've lasted so long not only because of my friends, but because of my personal enjoyment for the game. It's not so much that I need to quit; maybe my self-control for things like Maple has evolved for the better so that I don't need to be quitting. I still get my studies done, go to work, clean the house, and even other things.

I mean, again, I see this game more as a hobby for me. The same way an avid artist invests in an expensive tablet, or a runner buys running shoes to strengthen his performance; Maple applies, even if it's a game. If you're like me, you're essentially putting effort into something you enjoy. Who cares how amazing another games' graphics/gameplay? There's no such thing as a superior game or even a hobby per say if you are enjoying what you're doing. And everyone takes a lot of crap for standing up for things they like or have to quit, and taking that crap is only a way to strengthen you, which is why I found your story so interesting.

MapleStory is truly what you make of it. If you want to procrastinate on an assignment/project because you'd rather be bossing, then you are the one to blame, not the game. Most of us have started MapleStory on a bumpy road, and I'm sure a lot of you went through some crap with your parents and getting your work done because you were busy playing Maple. It doesn't mean you have to quit, it just means you need to have self-control. But again, the case is different for everyone.

I mean, you did what you have to do. And that's a good thing that you recognized the game for whatever it needed to be recognized for. Whatever the case, congrats on helping yourself.

Again, MapleStory is what you make of it. An addiction, an interest/hobby, an obstacle..? You decide.