A Better Maple

Isn't that what the clothes collector NPC in Henesys Market is for?

Yes that's exactly what it's for.

Why can't non-NX items be shared across all characters in an account? Why are so many items untradeable or tradeable only with a Sharing Tag or Scissors of Karma? If I earned an item, I think I should be allowed to trade it between characters on my account.
Rare items are not tradable so as to keep the game balanced. Also, trade is limited to prevent hacks or accidental trades. While we understand this may be frustrating, this system was designed to keep your rare items safe.

God damn what a load of bullpomegranate. I can't believe they expect us to believe it. Worst of all it doesn't even answer the question that was actually asked.

The overly-high EXP of these monsters was a bug. As this went unnoticed for so long, many players unfortunately began to believe that this was a normal part of the game. Because of this, many players would farm EXP in Masteria, attaining high levels without exploring the rest of MapleStory's worlds and in-game systems. This caused a division in the community, and we received many complaints about it. All of this resulted in the bugged EXP being fixed.

"It was a bug".
Yeah sure.

The truth is, if you look at the stats, Soul Weapons aren't particularly good. If enough players want the Soul Weapon system we will consider putting it back in, but keep in mind it will make the weapon tool tip even longer. We want to make sure this isn't too great of an inconvenience to the player community.

nnnn...yeah the weapon tooltips thing has become a bit of a problem. There definitely needs to be some kind of reworking on that system somehow.

The version of Masteria from before the 2012 revamp will be put back into the game sometime early next year.

Hm. I wonder as to what extent they will be doing this. There's a few fixes that would need to be applied with regards to certain things, especially flying mounts and teleportation skills sort of ruining the whole point of the design of some areas.

Big Bang came about directly from player feedback over the course of MapleStory's first few years

wait seriously? Or are we using different interpretations of "first few years" here?

Why did you change Victoria Island so much in Big Bang? For example, most of the hidden areas were removed and the maps are smaller and simpler now.
From an additional perspective, since Victoria Island is a low-level area, its more complicated map designs and map flow were considered too cumbersome after the Big Bang update. Big Bang allowed players to level up faster, and thus exploring the vast expanse of Victoria Island would have become even more frustrating. For quite some time before the Big Bang update, many long-time players were already almost exclusively using taxis and town return scrolls to avoid the hassle of moving around Victoria Island. Also, as Maple World expanded with new regions and content outside of Victoria Island, it became necessary not to bottleneck players and slow their progression so early in the game.

oh sure that's fine, but what about the hidden areas elsewhere? Why are new maps for higher level content designed in a similar way (cramped, simplistic, flat, uninspired, no secret stuff)?