How many people are REALLY still playing Maplestory?

I'm not really conceding because I simply do not believe that there is such a minority. To me, if you care to still play it or keep up with it at all, you don't hate it enough. Cut your ties clean, not this sloppy effort you slump into a "majority".

My point here is that is the game dying? Yes. Every game will die. There is no going back to "the glory days" of Maplestory. You cannot "make maplestory better" and fix the game. Anyone who thinks they know a plan to make Maplestory "better" is laughable because Maplestory is a 10 year old game in a country where games are massively consumed. They can only fight for so long before all these new games win out. This was my point with WoW because even though it was immensely popular back in the day, it's slowly trickling downhill.

This doesn't mean I can't enjoy it, and this certainly doesn't make the plot "bad" as our discussion originally started. That is simply your own view on the quality of the story and considering you cannot put a stasitic on that, you can't even claim that those whom find the story good is in this "minority".

Yes you can put a statistic on it, the rate of which it declines, especially since it's actually a special niche game makes it easily measurable. You're in denial over something that has been proven by the very rate of death. When large numbers of people quit, that means, the game has gone bad. When people on this very forum who spent days scripting out the lore, no longer put that commitment into it, it tells you the lore is sh`it.

If you want to deny factual evidence, than that's on you, but saying "oh all games decay" is absolutely worthless. Do you know why? Because people don't quit because maplestory is old, in fact it, like team fortress 2, established it's own standard of art, it will be timeless because of that and that alone. People don't complain let alone refer to maplestory's age, the things that made maplestory playable have been chaotic, bastardized or just overused to the point where it's a husk of what it once was. A steep population decline supports my opinion, while yours is purely an opinion of why, when the hundreds to maybe thousands of threads of people quitting, along with them filled with people expressing why they quit, contradict your view all together.

The more you try to argue this common sense, the more your credibility is slipping.

Also mathematically speaking, since you're clearly illiterate, there were originally 150 thousand players, roughly, there is now 15k regulars. You are now a minority of who still plays with most people quitting because the game no longer was enjoyable, based on the changes made.