2014-08-08, 08:54 PM
Avoidant Wrote:This is right on the mark. Outside of Bingo and OX quiz, we don't even have a good way of getting coins anymore, but that hasn't stopped the items in the shop from being stupidly expensive.
I'm venturing a little off topic here, but I will never understand why this game goes through so much trouble to stop its players from having fun. Like, just look at all the limitations maplestory imposes upon its few remaining players. Everything's "one entry per day, two entries per day," and pqs are all "ten entries per day." Why can't I just go in however often I want? Are they worried I'll level too much? Who cares? After a certain point, there's NOTHING to do anyway; might as well let me zak nonstop. And then you have bosses with pre-quests out the ass, like Gollux -- jesus christ, over seven hours of fetchquests and uninspired kill quests to face a boss that I can only do once a day. Then you've got tomorrow's hot time, which might as well be nothing, and it's just -- I don't know. Do they want us to quit? I really think they want people to just stop playing. I want to enjoy this game, but there's something stopping me at every turn. Even when I start to have a little fun, the client crashes because of memory leaks.
I actually really like entry limits. It gives people reason to have to come back and do more of that thing, rather then doing something until they're sick of it and never coming back. With entry limits, what could possibly feel like a grind (as you have no reason not to just do it over and over until it's no longer relevant to your character) instead sticks to you as a possible daily activity.
A perfect example is PQs... *note, this is how I see them, I'm sure others aren't bothered by this as much* Ever since they removed their daily limits, I just gave up on ever doing them on my characters. PQs like LPQ and R/J have become extremely boring without a daily limit, and because those PQs don't have limits, no one bothers to do any other PQs like they used to! I remember doing all sorts of PQs during the Ascension Update, I leveled a BowMaster to 120 through PQing everyday! It was fun! But now it's just LPQ and R/J...you can never get people to do anything else, and that sucks!
Maybe that's just how I feel though. Maybe everyone else really loves ignoring the PQ prizes and would rather grind in R/J until it no longer gives them good exp.