How many people are REALLY still playing Maplestory?

I see everything going on, but I really don't see how you can say these people hate Maplestory when they're still playing it. They play it elsewhere, but alas, they are still playing Maplestory.

Who is this "majority" that hates maplestory then? I want to see these people.

They hate the changes that happened with maplestory. I don't hate the maplestory "game", that was intended and what it was originally. It has no where near the same atmosphere it originally did based on so many crutches it has caused itself, that popular private servers removed. Why do you think this thread exists? It's another player complaining on how maplsetory just seems so dead. You know how many people were on my home server yesterday? 36. I used to see that many people in a single boss.

That doesn't prove it's not attracting a large amount of new players. All it proves is that the number of people leaving is greater than the number of people joining.

I can't really speak for Nexon since I can't play games published by them, but it does seem that they aren't doing a very good job.

...I would assume the definition of large would mean that it would alter a static slope.