KMST 1.2.455 - Moar changes

@KhainiWest; I never said the game was free to play, I said there are things you can do in the game that don't require you to throw piles of money at it, and there are, because some people seem to think that you can't get anywhere at all in this game without breaking the bank, and outside of bossing there are plenty of things you can do.

What you mentioned are chores. People do them because there's nothing else to do. FFS I play omok than anything else on maplestory (nearly 7k games). I don't boss on my character anymore, there's no profit in it, it's not fun for me smashing the same keys. You take bosses off and all you have is collecting meaningless crap, some that take weeks to find, others that are impossible to complete because of glitchy monsters who don't drop cards or familiars. If I recall, you have to refill your famliars as well, which is a chore not a delight.

What ever happened to spamming that you were selling crap in the Free Market entrance,
do people not do that anymore?

Botters outspam you and most players completely avoid the entrance and go right into the rooms, especially with a new room changing feature. And what are you going to sell? Scrolls? There's barely a market outside of popular class weapons and glove attacks. And most of them are less than 3m.

With the way NX is, you're gonna have to drop $10 if you wanna buy a permit. Or, possibly buy one from a friend with mesos, which is ~90m in Windia, ouch, tough for a new player, or borrow one until you make enough to pay them, or hell, ask if they can sell your stuff for you.

You'd most likely get scammed out of the stuff, if it's worth selling. As a new player what would you have to sell? All the equips that monsters drop are worthless, majority of the scrolls too, if not so insignificant that it's not worth even trying.

Everything outside of boss drops isn't exactly worthless. Monsters still drop scrolls, recipes (mostly worthless, though), and those new weapons that look like Cash Shop items, they're worth a pretty penny. Even the equips you get, NPC them, sell them as is to other players, extract them and sell the crystals, or use the crystals to make your own equips. They're not worth much in comparison to boss drops, but they're not worthless.

Yes you can make a lil bit of money doing event's but at this point you're looking for excuses and overlooking the limitations that these players have based on an economy that is supported by nx and the blackmarket. It makes everything in the game that can be found absolutely worthless, empress equips in my server (a whole set) is worth less than a bil. You know how much a bil is? 10 frekin dollars. What are you likely to do, spend years fighting the in game method of making money making a billion or just throw 10 frekin dollars at it? You play maplestory the right way and you're making penies a day in progress, hell half of pennies a day.

Seriously the biggest drop you can find, is primal essense, assuming your server didn't dupe it, and it takes players years to find it. At a lower scale, a recipe that takes days to find, for some profit. The game says "Buy nx, or work months to accomplish the same satisfaction as 2 hours of minimum wage would!". Yes money should make the game easier for the consumer, but this. This is ridiculous. You go from building a pyrimid in ancient times to building it with lego's with a credit card.

There are six out of, what, twenty three classes now, that require skill books from Zak, which you can now get from Hilla, and if you happen to choose one of those six, neither boss is that difficult such that you would need massive upgrading to do, especially with a group. You're not required to go through this game alone, after all, and it'd probably be a lot harder if you do.

All adventures from my understanding need to unlock their goddamn skills, no? Then you have horntail, who unless it changed, but the fact it was at one point ridiculous, is the only monster in the game that drops/dropped zerk 30. How stupid is that exactly? And how exactly would you upgrade at all to reach that point. Although I do recall saying that you could possibly struggle with as high as targa, otherwise you're screwed. Then we are back to square one, relying on a group. Which is laughable in todays metagame most people breeze through these bosses without a second thought, sure you could get someone to kill it for you, if they were bored enough. All that aside it's still beyond the point. You shouldn't have to rely on people to help you get basics to your job advancement, maplestory is an mmo, it should offer you a path that doesn't require money to be successful on your own. The game used to offer those oppurtunities, in fact encouraged it. But with a game that revolves around a standard known as cubes, that is longgg gone.

It's not like any old Angelic Burster can walk up to Magnus and wipe the floor with him. I don't think anyone expected her to be able to solo it, but one guy wanted to, he beefed up his character to the very extreme, and he did, and he couldn't even do that until the buff AB got from Hyper Skills. It wasn't an expected outcome, it was a fluke. And now it can't, it took half the time before, and now, with the last patch, and this one, over half its damage is gone.

Do you want to know how much it costs to accomplish it? Close to about $1200-1300. That's from buying crap from hackers, in comparison to the near 10 grand you'd spend on cubing, shield warding and god knows what else. See that's the problem. Nexon sets a standard, oblivious to the standard set by the blackmarket. They think like you do, that you have to spend insane amounts of money to accomplish slaughtering their content, which they set based on their own perspective. Little do they know that people can get gear that years ago were private server specific. That's a big chunk of the community that can do that. So this whole "top 2% thing" is garbage. It's for anyone who plays maplestory as a hobby, the reason why you see such a low % is because that's how how little people actually play maplestory as a hobby.

The easy way out is to throw money at the game, but that's not the only way for everything. You don't have to go from beginner clothes to decked out in perfect 30% stat Empress equips, you don't have to instantly begin saving all your money in the hopes that one day, you'll get enough mesos to afford the absolute best equip. How to get some okay percent stat equips? Craft them, craft a million of them, earrings, belts, tops, bottoms, weapons, whatever. Monster Park, do it five times a day until you get what you want, fuse those, sell the other equips. You're not gonna be rolling in hundreds of percents worth of equips, or getting some 70% boss legendary weapon, but there are options. While we're at it, pots? Make your own, it's pretty cheap, and the comparison between crafted MP pots and regular MP pots is even better, and even the lowest ones heal 1k, better than the crappy pots that drop. Scrounge up your Aswan coins, use those scrolls, it'll take you days, probably, and unless you're incredibly lucky, it probably won't be very good, but it's okay. Even luckier if you're playing during a coin shop event, save up your coins, do all the events, get free pots from whatever boxes you're getting, buy weapons, buy scrolls, buy equips. These are all there, they're means. Why disregard it? Because it's difficult? Because it takes time? I don't promise that you can do this and become God tier, but you'll probably be better off than you were.

Because all of those things have limitations and won't even bring a dent to what you're suggesting. Hell, what if I struggle at those pq's you mention? What is my alternative? Log in day by day to slowly struggle to raise my traits, fuse in desperation? No. That's now how a game should work. I should be able to get decent gear by training at monsters at a fair rate. Why can't Mp3 drop stat % gear that I reveal not to be useless? That's how nexon works, they give you the option, dangle in front of you but expect you to run an obstacle course to get something that benefits your character. They want you to run out of patience and cave, that's their entire business model. The make things not impossible, but improbable.

Yes, this game can hardly be called free to play, but it's not completely pay to play either.

So becaues it's not completely taxing you at every step you take that makes it okay? Your options aren't realistic, they are chores, they aren't "aspects" of the game that were meant for fun, it was meant for growth of your character. Which is so microscopic compared to a cube spree.