MapleStory 2, welcome.

Which market do you think Nexon and Wizet are going to care about the most?

If it's still a top game in their home country, they're obviously not ready to abandon MS1 just yet.

Pretty sure with the declining community MS1 has they're going to care a lot more about the shiny new product and hoping that it can bring them back the popularity Nexon used to have in the gaming industry. It will be newly and freshly coded to more modern times, less likely to have all the holes MS1 has, and potentially become a better overall game.

I actually expect Nexon to pay less attention to MS1 once they receive so much interest on MS2 and MS1 will turn into combat arms, an unsupervised hack all you want game.

You're wrong about 2x events making the game more active, that couldn't be further from the truth. Players are not suddenly putting LoL or WoW on "pause" to grind for 2 hours (out of 168 hours in a week) on Maple Story just because of double experience. Obviously players show up more on weekends than any other day of the week, but it's not because of double experience.

Besides that just shows how vapid the game is, double experience is what you think makes the players come back? How spoiled does the community need to be to get them active on MS 1? After all the exp curves and 2x coupons and 1.5x red coupons in FM, exp buffs via potions or link skills or pendants, they still need 2x to be active? Good god, that just screams to me Nexon doesn't have a creative thought.

That is why Maple Story 2 is being created, because Nexon has ran out of ideas for MS 1, their latest creative idea Gollux which IMO is pretty nice, not sure what everyone else thinks of Gollux, but people still think pineapple MS 1.

I don't even expect much of a spike due to RED, it will be the usual winter break spike but hardly because of RED. People will go back to LoL shortly after.