2018-10-01, 10:56 PM
I just finished Monad and then YouTubed the ending cutscene because none of the ingame cutscenes work anymore.
.....Oh joy. Oda Nobunaga, Subani(sp?), and PULSAR are going to get rushed and thrown under the Darmoor train too. It's not just the Black Mage~.
As for MapleStory potentially not surviving another 10 years..... yeah, no. Less popular regional servers might die (NA unlikely. I mean, if they still bother to keep Mabinogi NA up, running, and well caught up with the Korean version.....), but KMS is going to be around forever.
-Everquest 1 is still getting expansions. And so is Everquest 2.
-Ragnarok Online was the first kMMO to make the big time worldwide and was what a lot of us played before it went pay to play then transferred to MapleStory. It is still alive.
-In fact, the only big name kMMO that I can think of that HAS actually shut down (other than high budget flops like RO2, Sudden Attack 2, etc.) is Grand Chase.
And KOG basically killed Grand Chase themselves because they didn't want to work on it anymore. Grand Chase was to Brazil what Starcraft was to South Korea. Perhaps even proportionally bigger. It was a huge mistake on their part. Brazil alone could have kept ALL of the versions of GC funded indefinitely.
-Furthermore, Elsword of all games is STILL alive despite it going through not one, not two, but three massive clusterfucks (On top of Grand Chase's shutdown making people hate KOG.) that made it look like the game really was going to die. (They had to give out tons of free cash shop items to get people to stop ragequitting, and then come up with new characters that pander to demographics kMMOs usually don't with edgelords and a loli "that's really thousands of years old you guys!") THAT is a kMMO that's doomed to die eventually. MapleStory will never fall to the point Elsword is at right now. Its foundation is way too strong.
So simply put, MMOs that make it past a certain point basically become immortal. MapleStory is probably the second most played MMORPG worldwide behind WoW. It has obtained its immortality.
.....Oh joy. Oda Nobunaga, Subani(sp?), and PULSAR are going to get rushed and thrown under the Darmoor train too. It's not just the Black Mage~.
As for MapleStory potentially not surviving another 10 years..... yeah, no. Less popular regional servers might die (NA unlikely. I mean, if they still bother to keep Mabinogi NA up, running, and well caught up with the Korean version.....), but KMS is going to be around forever.
-Everquest 1 is still getting expansions. And so is Everquest 2.
-Ragnarok Online was the first kMMO to make the big time worldwide and was what a lot of us played before it went pay to play then transferred to MapleStory. It is still alive.
-In fact, the only big name kMMO that I can think of that HAS actually shut down (other than high budget flops like RO2, Sudden Attack 2, etc.) is Grand Chase.
And KOG basically killed Grand Chase themselves because they didn't want to work on it anymore. Grand Chase was to Brazil what Starcraft was to South Korea. Perhaps even proportionally bigger. It was a huge mistake on their part. Brazil alone could have kept ALL of the versions of GC funded indefinitely.
-Furthermore, Elsword of all games is STILL alive despite it going through not one, not two, but three massive clusterfucks (On top of Grand Chase's shutdown making people hate KOG.) that made it look like the game really was going to die. (They had to give out tons of free cash shop items to get people to stop ragequitting, and then come up with new characters that pander to demographics kMMOs usually don't with edgelords and a loli "that's really thousands of years old you guys!") THAT is a kMMO that's doomed to die eventually. MapleStory will never fall to the point Elsword is at right now. Its foundation is way too strong.
So simply put, MMOs that make it past a certain point basically become immortal. MapleStory is probably the second most played MMORPG worldwide behind WoW. It has obtained its immortality.