Limited Time Job and Character Release

Separate patches just for those three things? I can't say I'd be satisfied with those alone myself, even as I secondary a Hayato. It'd just be 1-2 months of boredom from an already mentally disappointing summer in MapleStory.

In all honesty, I think I'd contemplate quitting.

While i see your point, you have to bear in mind that the Big Summer Update is over, the next big update is in Winter, so it makes sense the next few patches would be filler.

We are already very nearly caught up to KMS. yes, filler is boring, but at least we have something to look forward too. If we got everything early we would just have filler ALL the time with nothing to look forward too, and that would definitely cause people to quit.

This months Makeover Update is actually pretty clever of Nexon, and an update that no other version has had. hundreds of thousands of free NX given for nothing. while it isn't much content wise, it shows that they are trying and that filler doesn't have to be the same old thing. and with filler content comes new events and new free goodies. Some of the best event rewards we have gotten have been during filler patches.

We also have the speculated masteria expansion that could come in the gap before Cygnus/RED.