Why do we play Maplestory?

Because it is one of the few 2d mmos and requires little skill (less than most 3d mmo).

You don't have to bring skill into it... it's just plain one of the few 2d MMOs.

The stand-in-a-spot-attacking bosses don't require much skill, but there are things in MS that not every player can do (regardless of funding)


For me, MS has never had an endgame grind that encouraged me to be at the top levels. I have a bunch of level 170-180 characters, none of which can make grinding HoH a fun use of time.

The only time I've been among the top level group of players was when Ludi came out and suddenly the highest grinding mob was from Zombies (7x) to Grims (good up to 10x)

Areas with level restrictions (like future Henesys/Perion, minimum level of 160/190) are discouraging - no matter how strong you are, if you're level 174, you have to spend 16 more levels on HoH before you can see the new content. If you're level 130 you need to grind 30 more levels to even visit Future Henesys. They killed the best part of high level content, which is "go there when you're too weak and get slaughtered after taking down a single mob"