2014-03-18, 04:58 AM
Anyone who thinks that an "old school" server would actually be A) Profitable, or B) Enjoyable, are beyond foolish.
It will not be profitable. Old MapleStory had very few things that made paying worth it. Clothes, Pets for the lazy/laggy, and.....EXP Cards? Really what was there in the Cash Shop? There was almost nothing worth buying. It survived somehow purely on clothes and other perishable items.
So many people have Permanent items at this point that the thought of going back to the monthly/tri-monthly (I forget which GMS had originally) purchases is borderline wallet killing. You had to pay more monthly to keep up appearances than you did a subscription for a regular MMO back then, because that was the only way Nexon made money. The second prices are like that again people will go back to their characters with loads of Permanent clothes that they don't have to rebuy every 30-90 days. Nexon gives away so much free permanent crap nowadays because of cubes, because they improve appearances while lose not really that much money in comparison to what cubes net them.
Everyone says that the game was more enjoyable...do they remember what kind of a grind the game was? No one that wants it back does, I guarantee it. People are used to getting 120 in a day, 200 in a week or less. That's, quite literally, impossible in pre-BB Maple. There's no Aliens or any of that other nonsense that makes grinding so painfully easy nowadays. Then second they realize how much of a massive grind the game really was back then, they will quit.
Sure, they'll enjoy their PQs, but then when they realize that they have to do it a ten times or more to level once, including the wait because it's the ONLY thing to do, they will quit.
People like their big numbers, and they like their fast leveling. Neither of those exist in Pre-BB Maple. For some odd reason, few people remember this. If they made a "rewind" server, it will be a failure. It will be popular for a week, a month at the most, and then it will be like the newest MMO that's not really good, just really new, and it will die.
This ideal of an old school Maple is the epitome of nostalgia, I could literally write and publish a research paper about it.
It will not be profitable. Old MapleStory had very few things that made paying worth it. Clothes, Pets for the lazy/laggy, and.....EXP Cards? Really what was there in the Cash Shop? There was almost nothing worth buying. It survived somehow purely on clothes and other perishable items.
So many people have Permanent items at this point that the thought of going back to the monthly/tri-monthly (I forget which GMS had originally) purchases is borderline wallet killing. You had to pay more monthly to keep up appearances than you did a subscription for a regular MMO back then, because that was the only way Nexon made money. The second prices are like that again people will go back to their characters with loads of Permanent clothes that they don't have to rebuy every 30-90 days. Nexon gives away so much free permanent crap nowadays because of cubes, because they improve appearances while lose not really that much money in comparison to what cubes net them.
Everyone says that the game was more enjoyable...do they remember what kind of a grind the game was? No one that wants it back does, I guarantee it. People are used to getting 120 in a day, 200 in a week or less. That's, quite literally, impossible in pre-BB Maple. There's no Aliens or any of that other nonsense that makes grinding so painfully easy nowadays. Then second they realize how much of a massive grind the game really was back then, they will quit.
Sure, they'll enjoy their PQs, but then when they realize that they have to do it a ten times or more to level once, including the wait because it's the ONLY thing to do, they will quit.
People like their big numbers, and they like their fast leveling. Neither of those exist in Pre-BB Maple. For some odd reason, few people remember this. If they made a "rewind" server, it will be a failure. It will be popular for a week, a month at the most, and then it will be like the newest MMO that's not really good, just really new, and it will die.
This ideal of an old school Maple is the epitome of nostalgia, I could literally write and publish a research paper about it.