Maplestory is not dying, it is already deceased

I know I post this every time this conversation comes up, but old Maple had terrible content. The only good point was the community, and I agree that that part, at least, was great. But I still play other games with friend I made through Maple, and I have more fun with those games then I did with old Maple. There was nothing really all that special about old Maple that made people flock to it, it was just one of the first huge F2P MMOs. Other games had grind, other games had harsh RNG, other games had group content. I feel like people enjoying the community of Maple PS's for their community isn't something unique to Maple, it's just the type of players that stick around on PS's. I've played lots of RO PS's, and there were similar communities in some of them.

I also enjoy new Maple in spurts, most of my old friends don't play it but I have a few who still do. I'm very glad that new content isn't 30-man raid bosses, even ignoring how boring of a fight Zak or HT were having to deal with coordinating that many people's schedules isn't what I'd call fun. Even WoW moved away from giant raids years ago, didn't it? I think Maple has definitely improved a lot over the past year or two, and while there's obviously still a ton of things to fix it's on an upward swing, at least for now. I really like Reboot! Also, I hope that 5th job will make the harder bosses more accessible, but that's not a huge deal to me. Power creep will make them easier one day, I'm sure.