Pre-Big Bang Maplers, how do you feel about Maplestory now?

Here's the question I have for everyone:

Since removing the potential system is off the table now that players have invested hundreds (or thousands) of dollars to cube equipment, what can be done to modify the system? Obviously, Nexon is not willing to release cash shop cubes that guarantee a higher tier potential. That's pretty obvious by the new red/black cubes and the new meister (and whatever the other one is called) cubes available out of the CS. In my mind, this is just a band aid - smoke in mirrors to make players think that the potential system has hope. Woopdeedoo, we can now decide if we don't want to use the crappy potential we just got for $2. Great. Thank you SO much!

If potential was more of a guaranteed thing - or if the rates were at least higher than they are now - then I could see the potential system existing alongside scrolling. When the potential system was first implemented, I actually thought it was a secondary group of stats that we could ultimately use scrolls to upgrade or change. It's disappointing how potential was such a missed opportunity.

Like [MENTION=6823]Polantaris[/MENTION]; and others, have said...things may be too far gone. Has anyone looked at the consecutive users on today? Horrible. The game should just be thrown back to 3-5 servers so that people can actually PQ before 8 PM when there's no one to PQ with.

At this point there's really not much they can do. If this were 6 months after Potential was added, or before 5+ types of cubes existed, or before Legendary tier was added, it would be a different story but they cashed in on it too much. Any changes they make for the better of the game will alienate the players that are funding the game in the first place. They would lose a lot of customers with no promise of gaining new ones.

This is why I am interested in MapleStory 2 far more than most people. The You&Me update has shown that Nexon finally realizes what they were doing wrong, and hopefully this realization will help them develop MapleStory 2 into a game that is not only more updated, and more enjoyable, but also more playable from a F2P standpoint. It has a lot of potential(no pun intended, hah) that MapleStory has lost and can really never get back.