2010-03-01, 10:35 PM
Maple definitely isn't dying. As much as we might dislike Nexon, we still like the game and will continue to play regardless of things like getting locked out of accounts over the past weekend for having to change IPs to get around the IP ban. Also, most of maple's income comes from relatively newer players who are now being extremely pressured into buying nx with real money. For those that are saying you need to pay to have fun in maple, that's definitely not true. With the release of the MTS, buying nx with real money is basically the same thing as buying mesos now. Mesos and nx are both forms of virtual currency and are pretty much interchangeable. People who pay Nexon get the advantage of having more of this virtual currency, but that totally makes sense considering they're the ones making the game free for you, or vice versa. And that's all assuming the using the cash shop is a requirement to playing maple.