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Okay. Let's take a deep breath.

Now.

Before we begin, I think it's kind of ironic that SwordStaker would point out you and Link because you're two of the Southperricans that mainly play JMS, because Japan has a few little pieces of content (re: Sengoku Era) that don't exist anywhere else, whereas everyone's just feeding off the same (cash) cow.

New classes are content. For higher levels. Does that make sense? They allow you to experience the same pomegranate in a slightly different way. If you get lucky, the difference is bigger.

Now, I agree with you, so don't start pomegranateting yet. NexonKR has lost sight of actual content and focuses on the money. We all know this. And to be frank, actual pieces of content that contribute to the variety (or lack thereof) of things to do take time and money, but don't necessarily make a profit. That's why new classes are what's coming out of Korea so often. The cost of comfortably playing a new class is higher compared to the cost of exploring a new substantial area with a character that you've already buffed up and are ready to go with. You won't need to buy a new pet, with new pet equipment, and new Cash Shop clothes, and change your hairstyle if you don't like it. You won't have to get new equipment to use, buy more and more cubes for bigger numbers on that new equipment and spend more time getting to level 200. But it would be fun, yes?

Take Limgoon. He spends a pomegranateton of money on this game (or, I don't know, he has connections). He's probably the most funded anything here. All NexonKR has to do to get him to spend more money is to make a new class. A new area? He'd blaze through that easy. A new boss? Wait for the 1-second kill video.

Nexon does not work like Blizzard. Nexon doesn't work like ArenaNet. Nexon works more like Zynga in this respect. The ultimate goal: make as much money as you can and give the illusion that things are going well.

Let's compare. WoW has 11 classes. GW2 (while new right now) has eight professions. MapleStory has 32 36 subclass branches up to Xenon (counting Avenger and Slayer separately, but counting Jett and Dragon Warrior as one, and including Hayato and Kanna). They are not comparable because MapleStory's focus is different.


I would love to do more things with the game. I'd love a new area that I can get into, especially if Angelic Buster's writing team was involved. But that's not going to make me want to spend more money on the game.

So play the game over again. Or don't. That's perfectly fine. But realize that until the right train of thought comes through the NexonKR management, this won't change.

JMS does have the most exclusive content, but that doesn't mean it doesn't suffer the same issues that KMS content does. Sengoku was nice, but it's essentially the same thing as Aswan, which has been pointed out before. It has the same flaws, and it has the same difficulty. The regular Sengoku areas were like Pantheon is, an area to start new characters and that's about it. The only exclusive content that JMS has that can qualify as high level content is Neo Tokyo, which is older than Big Bang, so it has the same problem.

I'm sorry but I do not agree that classes are content. All they do is make you start over and redo the same content you've done thirty five times over for the thirty sixth time. I wouldn't want 10 more Kanna and Hayato type characters, I would have the same problem I do now with KMS content. The only difference between Hayato and Kanna and the rest of the characters is that they had the flare of a different development team. If those same guys made 10 more characters, we'd have the same problem we have now. I don't even want to see one more character from them, honestly. I would prefer they worked on actual content there as well. Just like it is for KMS, it was cool for a little bit, but now I want something different, I want a reason to play those two classes. I want a reason to go back to my Paladin. I want a reason to play any character I've enjoyed.

You've mentioned there's 36 classes. At what point is there enough classes? I mean, seriously, when is it enough? 40? 50? 100? When can we go back to getting areas that make it worth my time to level those classes above 120?

Take Limgoon. He spends a pomegranateton of money on this game (or, I don't know, he has connections). He's probably the most funded anything here. All NexonKR has to do to get him to spend more money is to make a new class. A new area? He'd blaze through that easy. A new boss? Wait for the 1-second kill video.

So everyone else should suffer because Nexon dug its own grave with cubes? There are other ways to get people to spend NX. Guild Wars 1+2 have great cash shops. People spend money on those all the time, yet never get an advantage. EverPlanet has one too (Funny, it's also a Nexon game). There are a lot of games with Cash Shops that do not break the entire game balance the more money you spend and those games are doing fine. Nexon dug the potential hole so damn deep, that now the entire game and player base has to suffer because they were money hungry? That's why I said earlier that I wish the game had died gracefully and during its prime, instead of withering away into a shell of what it once was.

They are not comparable because MapleStory's focus is different.

MapleStory's focus was not always different. It was the same as those games, and it did fine. Then one day Nexon added Potential, and then Nexon decided that instead of adding actual areas, they could make the most money out of Potential by squeezing every little penny out of us all by giving us all Untradeable gear and a million classes, and letting us all spend a million and a half dollars on cubing said untradeable gear. Then, when they release a new class, we all have to spend another million and a half dollars on cubing NEW untradeable gear.

I'm not saying I expect MapleStory to have as high quality as GW2 or WoW or Rift or any of those games (Although at the amount of money they've gotten out of people, I should), but I do expect to have something new to come back to every few months other than more classes. I really do not see how it is appealing to replay the same exact game thirty six times.