2009-04-01, 04:46 PM
IsaacGS Wrote:If that's the case you can boil everything down to vanity. Why level past 130 or so? You've already had all your skills, nothing new is going to be available. why get lots of fame? You only need 20 for dark equips. Why do any quests at all? The rewards are minuscule in comparison to the effort in most cases. Why collect event items like snowboards? They're not useful to most classes. pineapple, why even play the game? It's not getting you anything tangible in the real world.
I think you're drastically underestimating the usefulness and interest in such a collecting system. Some people just like collecting stuff, and I think that those people are quite a large group. A larger group than the number of people who are going to extensively benefit from the family system as opposed to people who are simply going to be used by it. I definitely don't intend on using that system when it comes out in GMS so it will have 0 impact on my playing, but the monster book's going to have an enormous impact because it'll give me something to do when I'm wandering the world and I'll be a lot more likely to play Maple when I can go hunt monster book cards as opposed to now, where I basically wander around randomly until I get bored and log off. I mean hell, just by having the Monster Book in the data, Everyone gets a 100% accurate drop list. That's reason enough that everyone should want it.
you level past 130 to get more skills (who actually has all of their skills at 130..?), make your skills stronger, kill more efficiently, or kill more monsters (like bosses), to be able to visit new areas (like time temple when it's eventually released for you guys), and many, many more reasons.. that's basically the whole premise of the game, to get to a higher level and accomplish more things because of it. why get lots of fame? there's no point in that besides the fact that some people like to distinguish hackers by their fame count (which is stupid). as for quests, some quest rewards are good, some aren't. most people tend to just do the good quests and ignore the others.
to be honest, all I can really say is that the monster book appeals mostly to hardcore collectors, which I don't think is as big of a group as you say it is.. like Dusk pointed out, a lot of those people aren't going to enjoy the monotonous task of hunting the same monster for hours and hours at a time to get 5 cards with hardly any reward. at least for quests you get something..
as for your view on the family system.. I really don't think you get how it's used. think about it this way. in a real family, are you gonna be talking to all of your, I dunno, 5th cousins? you mainly keep in touch with your direct family, which on maple are the members you can see directly around you on the family tree. you only earn points from your juniors and your juniors' juniors, no lower. I share and receive 2x EXP from my elder and my juniors. they do the same with their elder and juniors, etc etc. it's not "slavery" when your direct family is made up of your friends and you all benefit.