2015-07-30, 01:51 AM
The cubing and potential system completely messed up the pace of the game. With how much stronger players can become with potentials, bosses exploded in health exponentially. The newest content can only ever be accessed by those who spend NX and maximize their equips' stats.
Normal players fell so far behind in strength that classes had to constantly be reworked. Then they had to add these game-altering NX items into normal content for the players. Then all the old content had to be reworked. So much of the game had to change to adapt to the insanity that cubing wrought.
And the economy epitomizes how messed up things have become. I see more NX items than actual game items in the free market. Any non-end game equip is basically worthless. The best equips are in the billions range of mesos---it's incredibly hard to obtain that much without getting NX. A player who spends large amounts of NX is legit over ten times stronger than a normal player. I can't think of any game with that kind of discrepancy.
I feel like Nexon knows that MapleStory is at it's end state. They're milking things out for all they're worth now. MapleStory2 most probably will be their next big focus as they let MapleStory1 slowly die.
EDIT: Just also want to say that the game is still fun, especially when playing with friends. All of the people I play with don't spend real money on the game so we're all on the same footing enjoying the same content. We can still have fun. We just can't enjoy the newest bosses/content (new meaning content released from 3-4 years ago to the present).
Normal players fell so far behind in strength that classes had to constantly be reworked. Then they had to add these game-altering NX items into normal content for the players. Then all the old content had to be reworked. So much of the game had to change to adapt to the insanity that cubing wrought.
And the economy epitomizes how messed up things have become. I see more NX items than actual game items in the free market. Any non-end game equip is basically worthless. The best equips are in the billions range of mesos---it's incredibly hard to obtain that much without getting NX. A player who spends large amounts of NX is legit over ten times stronger than a normal player. I can't think of any game with that kind of discrepancy.
I feel like Nexon knows that MapleStory is at it's end state. They're milking things out for all they're worth now. MapleStory2 most probably will be their next big focus as they let MapleStory1 slowly die.
EDIT: Just also want to say that the game is still fun, especially when playing with friends. All of the people I play with don't spend real money on the game so we're all on the same footing enjoying the same content. We can still have fun. We just can't enjoy the newest bosses/content (new meaning content released from 3-4 years ago to the present).