Jaruddd Wrote:I was referencing the quote below that statement, not the above. Sorry if that was unclear.
As for what I've been referencing, maybe I should bold each and every point I feel is related. If instead of dismissing every post as wrong (which is the obvious response, as you've done it to everyone who's taken the time to post in your thread) you would actually read into what is said, you'd more easily understand our points.
I'm sorry I'm not a mind reader and can't understand what you're trying to say the first time I read it normally. I didn't expect to be reading Shakespearean literature that required 10-minute analysis and rereading. So thank you for making yourself more clear in this post.
Quote:Nexon implemented things such as 2x and Gachapon to allow players a bit of lenience in terms of the game's general difficulty (otherwise known as appeasing the masses, alleviating the hardship in various areas). If you're unable to glean that from that statement, I don't believe this thread is worth continuing.
I'm sorry, but your argument falls apart in who you assume to be the masses. The masses are not the people capable of affording Gachapon and 2x cards in the first place. Nor are the masses who post on SW.net or SP.net like you and me. The masses are, and I guarantee you, those who have already quit and will quit, as seen time and time again from people saying in this thread that they too have lost 99% of their former buddies and continue to.
Quote:No, I don't have a problem. You can stand alone on top of your soap box all you want, as apparently there's not a single person who can sway you from demonizing the community which you say you strongly care about.
Sometimes criticisms may hurt, but they can also have truth and reason. You see no value in those people who have gone, as demonstrated in your first post in this thread. Yet I only beg to differ by asking you to go around your server's folks and friends and ask them this one simple question: "Would you still keep playing Maple if your best friends quit?"
Even though these leechers and non-motivated-eventual quitters may seem no value to you or me personally, they are still part of the infrastructure of our community. They have friends, and their friends have friends, and so on. Only one weakest link is needed to break the chain.
Quote:What's funny is that you're assuming I haven't read the thread since my initial post. To put it simply, I did not have time to read it fully initially, and similar as to how you are failing to understand peoples' reasons for how they play Maplestory, you misinterpret my reasoning for issuing a "tl;dr" declaration.
I'm not failing to understand people's reasons to play MapleStory. I understand you guys' reasons for playing, as well as the reasons of those who have quit - because I have actually talked to them. Indeed, some have quit over real life situations. That is something out of our control as players of this community. But a large handful has, in fact, quit over the game itself. I have said already that this thread is not aimed at people who still find their reason to play and don't mind their grind. This thread is for those who we have lost that was part of the old community that made our playing experiences luster for the longest times. It is that community that I cherish and look back upon. This present day community is the one I'm pointing my fingers at...which leads to your final point.
Quote:If I were blatantly derogatory towards you in that post I would understand, but from what I can tell I was concise and on topic. There is no reason to retreat to insulting comments or calling people hypocrites. I'll say now what I said earlier: Before accusing the community of doing something wrong, first look to yourself and consider how you as a member of that community can begin to make it better.
Why don't you tell me then. Tell me how to make this community better now other than to want changes (that most of you posting here seem to be not caring about) that would reverse the very reason that caused the old community to die apart in the first place.