[Rant] This game's practically dead in terms of actual content.

I hate bringing this on and on but you are showing off as real annoying. Your aim is evidently to just provoke my replies in a poor attempt to get away with your distorted posts. Keep in mind this is the last time I satisfy your ego, any other points that remain unclear you can pm me as I will ignore your replies and try to stay ontopic.

Worst crap I've ever humanly been told.

What f`ucking self righteous garbage is this. He pointed out the arguments towards your interpretation which most of your reply to the original reply was a unedited paragraph of unnecessary offended rage. There is nothing he said that was directed towards you as an individual. Even if he was how about you stop being insecure and attack the points and not the respect you think you're entitled to. Just for reference your entire argument or majority of your temper tantrum is based off something as subjective as how it was perceived, which grammatically was not insulting towards you.

In fact you attacked HIM, which is why YOU got a warning and he DIDN'T. So you can start by apologizing honestly.

Maybe you are very sure that only GMS is buried under a pile of crap, so is what I understand from the comments. Shocker!, KMS was too and EMS still is too. I don't go sugar sweet on it, difference is instead of just whining I work to get out of it using what is in my possibilities, and I tried to give some suggestions. The feedback I got is how you welcome a little help.

Sapta has already conceded the time it takes to meet any progression is almost a year long progress. You're bat pomegranate insane if you think majority MMO's play anywhere like that. If you did happen to read the other posts you'd have a credible argument regarding the population drop, but you won't honestly. You'll take some elitist attitude like "ONLY THE BEST CAN THRIVE", the irony you'll be trying to tell that to me out of all people.

That's the exact opposite as I intended LOL! you think I don't know bishop was the easiest? Yet it took all that long. Any other job took double as long or more, people (this is also for KhainiWest) invested so much time on grinding and so much meso on books (yes books were expensive if anyone remembers, and required for bossing/grinding if anyone remembers). So actually you could buy your skill points (aka books that allowed you to use them), actually you HAD to. Intended, with mesos. You can buy your gear with mesos too; yet you refuse to try making money? I never said what happened is good for the game, but if the game has changed then it's natural for some/many people to quit. It used to be about leveling, now it's about gearing up. Some people now play it because they prefer it now rather than what it was back then, so what? You cannot either say that 80% of the population has quit due to these changes, because you seem to forget IRL changes or new hobbies and integrate them in the mentality of "I grinded hours for level 200, now I cba to grind hours for gear so I quit" which is limited to a part of that 80%.
Your severe misunderstanding, Zero, makes me wonder what else on earth you could possibly have misinterpreted. Probably the entire thread.

I'm so so glad you put my name in the hat because you really really are full of sh`it.

First off, you can't compare gear to something like leveling. I already stated this in the thread and you're fu`cking stupid if you think they are equivalent. Gear should not define your entire base damage. A level 170 character and 250 character with the same gear should have drastic DPS differences. They do not.

When server tracking was still available back in 2014, the population decrease was down 75%, it's even worse now. You're seriously naive if you don't see the HUGE population gaps in today vs 2008. Also skill books are a pretty poor excuse, there were only half a dozen unobtainable to most people because they were exclusive HT drops. Also back when I played in 2011 I knew people who grinded level 200 characters in a week, gear takes months if not years, unless you strike it really lucky or pay for it. They are not the same, gear is tangible, it fluctuates, it also has no balance, you are literally looking at characters who can be 200x stronger than a non-funded counterpart.

The game perspective as changed in the worst possible way and has made majority of the population quit. The point of getting gear before was to train more efficiently, to get those last %'s an hour, now it's to be able to take on a boss without dying. I originally started a str chief dit, I quit as the top Drk in my server, from hard work, you have no soapbox to stand on when it comes to me.

There is something called "buying equipment" without recurring to the cubes' RNG. That takes pure meso raising, no RNG gods praying needed, luck or whatnot.

You need 10's of billions to get the gear you're talking about, where 90% of the drops in the game are NPCable, the remaining being bosses that you can't kill without said gear. Hello vicious circle.

Do I need for Your Majesty to write in capital letters "I agree, this is right and completely flawless" and argument it or do you have a brain to understand that "I agree" = "agreement" without you resorting to big words to hide the fact you are merely satisfying your compulsion to question each and every of my words even after I stated "I agree"? Are you able to follow up a post that treats more than one topic at once or do you need a linear sequence of thoughts? This is your worst defect, you seem to be gravely unable to understand people and their intentions.

You can't criticize people for giving you attitude then turn around and be facetious you flaming hypocrite. Also just fyi, most people disagree with you, that's kind of what the pineapple system is for if you haven't f`ucking noticed. So stop trying to speak on behalf of people, like you have some supporting regime ready to back you up, makes your argument look a lot weaker.

I don't take the authority to order people what to suck up. I do take the authority to share my experience, give ideas and offer motivation to keep going. If you want to take away from me the freedom of expression, go become a dictator, but do it somewhere else.

Here's my advice, stop being a masochist and quit. I tried a lot of bureaucratic methods to get changes made, the Korean HQ doesn't give two sh`its. They made 2 community managers leave because they couldn't get anything done. You're playing a corpse, there are much better options out there, I loved maplestory, it was unique and beautiful in it's own way. Now I can't even log in without being immediately bored (save for omok). The classes are all the same, the leveling is a chore with no reward (seriously, level 140/250 and you run out of skills?), it's too f`ucking cluttered and completely prejudiced to anyone who doesn't have an ass load of time on their hands or money. The only people who still play are the ones who have been playing for 10 years, had hacking backgrounds, or are children. Even with the khaini/broa merge I can log in right now and get an FM 3 spot and try to sell garbage. That is unheard of from the generation I used to play.

Finally, I never mentioned to be an authority in EMS. This is the Nth proof that you keep inventing bull.

I'll be honest, no one really gives a sh`it about the other servers, it's either KMS, or GMS, for you to come in here and try to speak on behalf of all the Nexon branch offices is just so out of context and unnecessary that it's almost laughable.

I would love to see new questlines too, but at this point it's pretty hard. Unless you add something peculiar as quest rewards, for example items that help scrolling. Or maybe "shards" that, once gathered in total, allow you to create some new item that may match up with harder-to-obtain endgame gear. These quests might as well involve exploring hidden maps. This is the concept of DIPQ, except dim gloves are only one piece of armor, and I believe you have tyrant gloves too which can easily outdo them.
There was plenty of these quests back then, but they mostly gave useless rewards and are now barely completed, for example the explorer medals. However systems like the hyper rock hinder this design at least for people who have it.

Party quests I feel are severely damaged. Speaking of my world, they are partially underrated aswell, very few people play them despite the good trait leveling tool they represent as well as a decent alternative to grinding. As it is now we have some fixed grinding spots. I would like to see some "new" PQs (as in recycle the existent ones) specifically for levels 45-60 (currently we grind at drakes and start off with a 40% miss rate or so), 90-100 (MP3, it's not slow but it's boring to do all 3rd job levels there), 140-160 (in GMS I believe you don't have veracent so I will also ask where you grind - we have 2 very good maps in veracent, but if you think that of all the available grounds in veracent (20ish maps) and outside, of those 2 one holds high HP mobs and the other is overpopulated by anyone of levels 100-160 really) and 150-165 (it's ridiculous that people at 160 with mystic door mules go occupy KC1 with level 177 mobs and a requirement of level 165 prequests). Just an example.

In the regard of motivating people to level up, I believe hyper stats are a great idea. They replace those passive stat enhancing hyper skills and require an increasing number of points which you get by leveling, in a higher quantity the more you level up. And the bonus they offer is not at all irrelevant

There are only two solutions, Korea already taking one of them, an entire server reboot for people to migrate too, or for them to play 1 player maplestory for the rest of their lives. The second would be to drastically nerf potential and stop caring about so much of the gambling addicts that still play and justify keeping the server up.

Also the person you ridiculed initially as if he raped your family already made this suggestion, like, awhile ago, so good job on the whole "I READ EVERYTHING" or being a parrot, whatever suits you.