Maplestory is not dying, it is already deceased

Honestly the game probably became the way it did more from being pressured by investors to keep increasing their profits. It's a pretty vicious cycle and it affects all MMO games(and everything in general).

Grind aside, I cannot call Maplestory a "bad" game exactly and I would guess that it is not totally unreasonable to expect a company to want as much cash money as possible. For example, was Nexon wrong to try to put Meso bags into Reboot? I dunno, maybe. Nexon's gotta pay the bills too.

I do not have a lot of memories of having long talks with strangers on boats or anything like that but everyone has their own slice of Maplestory that they like best and that is grand. Its up for debate on how much effort Nexon should use to try and win back lost customers or on how much they are willing to represent the past game for new players.

When I think of Maplestory, I think of a game that should be shared. Regardless of whether its old or new Maple. This is my vision of the game anyway.