31/1 - Characters' max level is increased to 250!

Yes, because bountiful tears of rage, beautiful elegies for the players of old and rousing epic poems of the hours it took to level up would somehow make more of a difference when the patch actually hits and erases the footprints once thought to be cemented on the shores of time. If you cannot convince a fellow player who has been playing since 2007 of the importance and logic of Nexon preserving the rankings for all to see instead of thinking of a new way to ensure that revenue keeps coming in without using ridiculous phrases such as 'War veterans' and making assumptions about one's motivations for things thought even to be trivial, what hope is there that you'll capture Nexon's heart?

And 2005 here, but what's the use of using dates when you don't care? Assumptions, along with resorting to an Ad Hominem attack in there. Don't pretend you didn't pick "War Veteran" on a whim. Tell me you aren't serious.

I don't know what is so tooth-grindingly hard about just making a website and capturing the rankings along with the date of capture so that people wanting to study Maple's history can actually review it every now and then (And don't even give me that rubbish about how it could be Photo-shopped because as I've said you're seriously overestimating the number of people who both remember and give a damn about these numbers). Instead, all I see now is a continuous boatload of whining about how this is unfair and how Nexon should do something about it even though we're ALL familiar with their persistent lack of caring and we're all accustomed to making sarcastic commentary about each and every one of their patches.

Yes, it's unfair and they lack caring. But you are accustomed to it. Not me. Possibly not everyone either. Again, assumptions, since you like throwing that around so much.

I ask you now, at what point do you realize that you're fighting a losing battle? Is it the time when you see three Hitler videos complaining about Maple Story a few months within each other? Is it the time when you recall the promises they make and the taglines they use and they failed miserably? Is it the time when your old main is left in the dust multiple times and the difference gets even more staggering with each update? Or how about the time when hackers get off virtually scot-free in the game while people who want to have pride in their legit status can't compare?

... So? And since you too know that you're fighting a losing battle too why bother commenting on the bugs and listing out missing content? If you wanted awareness you could have redirected people to the right places, or even here. And so what if my oldschool character is left in the dust? Have I complained about the staggering differences between the new-age and and the old-school characters?

You're skirting the issue. All I'm asking for is an immortal (and separate) ranking, and NOT another balancing/patch-up. I don't need to see myself being the tops again on the oldschool character. All I ask for is a recognition of all the old 200s before the patch. Even if you really cannot care... What's so difficult with Nexon putting up a static museum page? And since you don't care, it doesn't mean everyone follows suit either. Again, assumptions.

If you need any more words so that you can make more assumptions, here's what I predict: MapleSEA will fall before this update comes so you can keep your precious ranking since no one will be able to surpass you forever. What do I care? Just as I feel like I'm going to get to level 200 after so many years of playing someone's going to stomp all over my joy and talk about how it's too easy and I did it in about 5-6 months (Estimated, I'm level 174 currently) so it doesn't matter. You of the so-called old guard act as if spending hours and hours to do what amounts to the same level is supposed to be a crowning moment of awesome that everyone must remember in the form of http://www.heylookwe'reawesomenowandforever.com, while some of us think that it's a bore and frankly something quite ridiculous in the first place because guess what, the numbers of the rankings don't really say anything about your journey to get there and you don't even get to show the time that you took to get to level 200 so how exactly does these numbers help or prove anything beyond saying that you did something and it's there?

Irrelevant. Do I need to pander to you not caring? And of course we're awesome now and forever if that's how you wish to put it. I honestly don't care what you think about those efforts, but at least we did it, and not "keyboard warrior"-ing away. And yes, I have screenshots too. But what's the use if it isn't official?

You have a choice in this. You're just actively not choosing to do it and you've more or less reminded me that my givingadamn.exe program just stopped working. Now if you'll excuse me it's time to get to level 175 since I'll have my own screenshots for keepsakes and cheap laughs, plus I'll always recognize that as an achievement because I still got there in 6+ years even though it's not with the character I originally began with.

I don't need or want you to give a damn. Neither can I to you not caring. On a practical note, I won't be affected in any way, excepting the loss of a few neurons. So why bother about the naysayers maintaining that all these are useless?

Go on, you can tell me 1001 reasons why Maplestory is still worth playing despite this avaricious and neverending slew of nonsense they're coming out with. With the exception of the ranking being cast in stone, I really cannot care either. Like Khaini, I can just stop playing seriously, and I have every intention to. In-game contacts aside, why not totally quit too if YOU are still complaining about how Nexon is mistreating you and your efforts in-game? Ironic, isn't it?