2023-12-02, 05:05 AM
Who is Nexon trying to appeal to here?
Their players. The ones who have maxed out their 5th job skills and were clamoring for new power.
Maplestory is an online game, and as such, its purpose is to exist forever. It has to keep adding new content and new things to hold players' attention, or at least their time. Otherwise people will "finish the game" and leave. As for new players, they are given faster and faster means to "catch up" to where everyone else is. We've been calling 1-200 "tutorial" for a while now, and now it seems Nexon is pushing for 260 to be where the game actually starts.
Personally I'm not impressed with 6th job.
When they came out with 5th job, they intentionally made it expandable, and outright said that "6th job will never be needed, because 5th can grow indefinitely". They've been releasing new sets of 5th job skill periodically. But players kept asking "6th job when" so I guess Nexon decided that they'll call the next wave of 5th job skills "6th job".
5th job was a completely different system from the previous ones, but 6th is really just more of the same as 5th - except harder and slower. No imagination put into it at all. Just as Grandis "Sacred Force" is exactly the same as Arcane River "Arcane Force" - except harder and slower.
I really hope the new director can get some fresh ideas into the game.
Their players. The ones who have maxed out their 5th job skills and were clamoring for new power.
Maplestory is an online game, and as such, its purpose is to exist forever. It has to keep adding new content and new things to hold players' attention, or at least their time. Otherwise people will "finish the game" and leave. As for new players, they are given faster and faster means to "catch up" to where everyone else is. We've been calling 1-200 "tutorial" for a while now, and now it seems Nexon is pushing for 260 to be where the game actually starts.
Personally I'm not impressed with 6th job.
When they came out with 5th job, they intentionally made it expandable, and outright said that "6th job will never be needed, because 5th can grow indefinitely". They've been releasing new sets of 5th job skill periodically. But players kept asking "6th job when" so I guess Nexon decided that they'll call the next wave of 5th job skills "6th job".
5th job was a completely different system from the previous ones, but 6th is really just more of the same as 5th - except harder and slower. No imagination put into it at all. Just as Grandis "Sacred Force" is exactly the same as Arcane River "Arcane Force" - except harder and slower.
I really hope the new director can get some fresh ideas into the game.