2016-02-10, 10:51 PM
KhainiWest Wrote:Man pineapple this philosophical bull pomegranate, the answer isn't to rewind back to "MAPLESTORY V58, NO LAG, 10x WEAPON DROP". Look at the private servers that closed down because of lawsuits, THAT'S what people want in maplestory. There is a happy medium believe it or not.
I'm loving blade and soul the same way i loved maplestory, and I feel like largest factor that made it so was growth potential. People played maplestory, at least in my 'crew' to grow, become self sufficient, while being social. Maplestory /by far/ had that going for it more than anything else. As the game progressed it lost that spirit and everything became solo. It's nice having the capability to solo, but when a game runs off profits like maplestory did/does, it's not the people who play the game that get that 'reward". The game rewarded people who didn't play and that was the worst part.
You need to lower the damage cap, you need to add a social structure, you need to make profits outside of damage potential. If maplestory kept to those 3 core things I'd probably still be playing it today. I think people need to make a differentiation between a content roll back, to a content revamp, one that encourages growth from playing, and close that gap between players who can buy and who cannot. They need to focus on quality of life perks, rather than cash shop influencing your in game gear perks.
KhainiWest made a calm and insightful post in a thread with Pikamemnon and xparasite9 in it? What is the world coming to?
On a more serious note, I'm not sure whether or not you made any attempt at playing Reboot, but it isn't terribly far off from your principles/ideals that made you enjoy MapleStory in the first place. I'm not going to say that it's perfect or that it doesn't have its own problems I'm sure many others have pointed out, but the game's playable and enjoyable either solo or with friends, and is at least as far removed from being pay to win as I've ever seen MapleStory (maybe the furthest considering looting pets have been in the game for ages and vicious hammers aren't a thing on Reboot).