2013-10-27, 06:11 PM
If Nexon could create a server that transports me back to when I was in middle school, had boundless free time, and it was actually possible to meet people in-game? Count me in. If they just put up a server that has all the same rules as the old one? No thanks.
There is a distinction between a "space" and a "place." A space exists on its own. It's specifically defined and has its own rules. A place exists only when there is an attachment to it. Old Maple is, or was at this point, a place to me.
In game rules, the slime tree was a vertical map with an entrance on the far end of a larger map outside Ellinia. It spawned slimes on the platforms inside. That was a space. What turned it into a place was when people attached themselves to it in some way. Slime tree was slime tree was because it's where all the low level characters started grinding. It had a personal and social meaning to me. I don't long for there to be a vertical map where slimes spawn on the platforms, I long for Slime Tree, where I trained for 5 levels with a whole bunch of other low level characters. Nexon could recreate the space with an old-school server, but there's nothing they could do to bring back what people really want, the place.
There is a distinction between a "space" and a "place." A space exists on its own. It's specifically defined and has its own rules. A place exists only when there is an attachment to it. Old Maple is, or was at this point, a place to me.
In game rules, the slime tree was a vertical map with an entrance on the far end of a larger map outside Ellinia. It spawned slimes on the platforms inside. That was a space. What turned it into a place was when people attached themselves to it in some way. Slime tree was slime tree was because it's where all the low level characters started grinding. It had a personal and social meaning to me. I don't long for there to be a vertical map where slimes spawn on the platforms, I long for Slime Tree, where I trained for 5 levels with a whole bunch of other low level characters. Nexon could recreate the space with an old-school server, but there's nothing they could do to bring back what people really want, the place.

