On the Issue of Power Creep and How It Relates to Nexon

having old items worthless because newer things are more powerful and much better and faster. How old is the time traveller medal or VIP weapons? Not new but some of the better gear in the game. Only being superseded by 130 and 140 gear. You think hackers mass duping pinks and ws then gms making every weapon pink is Nexon's fault? Older weapons would still be in use if those scrolls didn't exist.

So tell me, who made the scrolls exist in the first place? Hackers only duplicated them and most players exploited a tedious glitch. I don't recall hackers having the power to create item's, they found an exploit that could pull items such as the smiling masks out of the data and create them, but not create random scrolls. I mean why would they limit themselves to only 5 stats if they could create new scrolls with 9000 stat improvements?

To the point, it's nexon's responsibility to regulate the game, it's nexon's responsibility to remove said exploits or take action to limit them. Bottom line is, nexon acted irresponsibly and ignored the problem, I assure you it was reported, a lot, but they simply disregarded it. Those scrolls wouldn't be a standard if nexon enforced regulation of their TOS.

After reading that you put two and two together I hope. Nexon's response to these weapons is to simply create BIGGER BETTER ONES to compete with the broken ones that they allow to be circulated. DISREGARDING all of that, you can still buy that power, with or without the hackers for a big chunk of change, like $300. Nexon still has not taken proper action to limit this, in fact they encouraged it by hosting events that made those scrolls cheap, hell even made gm scrolls droppable by accident. Remove them? Nope, they just stopped it and let the players who hoarded them benefit the most off of it.

Name some content that is outmoded in maplestory. People still normal zak and ht even though their is chaos. I kill both because I can. maybe your thinking pqs. Well yes they are dead but isn't that because of LKC party play and the fact that it's so much easier to level thanks to 24 hour leech. Try looking past your hate of all things nexon and really see it.

Go look at any "training" guide, you'll see maybe a dozen maps suitable, now go look for every map in maplestory. Sure you could go through the pain of training at zombies at level 80 again, for hours and hours to gain 10%, or maybe gobies for an oustanding 15% in an hour, or you could go to aliens and level 6 times in that same amount of time. How about mushmom, how often do you see her anymore? Jr balrog? Crimson balrog? When was the last time you did ludi maze pq, or did a party train at ludibrium? How many characters did you need to go to do vikings? Grims? How about the fact one class can take every party skill in the game, rendering adventure classes even further useless.

You know why you still regular zak? Because there exactly isn't a lot of expedition bossing, maybe half a dozen at best, and it feels good to know you can solo it, that challenge is completely depleted because of power creep. I doubt anyone can do it for profit anymore considering karma of scissors and zakum hems are unnecessary when you can get to 120 in a day and a half.

And maplestory now has more High levels then ever, but not one event aimed at high level characters. Levelling is so easy most people can get to over one hundred in a day. Turn over doesn't matter if everyone can get to 150 in 3 days, a week at most. Besides some event items don't suck like the purple witch belt, which only got passed over when the rising sun stuff came out. I say Nexon does a good job handling the power creep that was handed their way but hey I actually play the game.

What is the difference between something you can do at level 180 and 200? Your most valuable skills are maxed out by 185, latest, maybe 190 if you consider some buffs. You're looking at 100 AP and an inferior mount to the legend classes. That's what players mean by high level content, all they do is solo bosses for experience now, maybe do some LHC parties, but mostly boss for the profit. I know players who lives run around that expedition clock, or the toad boss. There is no real reward of getting to 200 besides some level of accomplishment, which fades out after maybe 2 weeks to a month. Then you realize your character can be stronger if you make 8 different characters with link skills.

It sounds like you haven't been hit with that "Wow this game really sucks" moment yet. You haven't been hacked, and you haven't reached the top tier yet, and once you look down from that mountain top, you see how worthless your effort was, because what you can do, is only a minute faster than someone 20 levels below you. And you've been facing the same half a dozen bosses since level 140. Most you can solo and make a small profit, assuming you can get a store up, pay for the karma's and/or have room to even pick up all the loot.