2010-06-19, 01:33 AM
1.What time period (ex. 2006-2008 or January 2008 - June 2009) do/did/will you enjoy the most of MapleStory?
Mid-late 2007. That was the timeframe when I started playing MS, although I was introduced to the game during beta. I was just brought back into the game by my little cousins.
(To understand my situation, I first played MS in Beta as a (horribly built) Mage for one hour, before my control freaks of a family decided to uninstall the game. Then my cousins started playing in 2007, and they let me play on their computer. Later, I got a hand-me-down craptop from my brother and proceeded to install MS on it. (Said craptop that I still use is at least 6 years old.)
About one week after 4th job was introduced, my craptop got a virus, and my control freaks of a family freaked out and wouldn't let me reinstall MS, thinking that MS was the cause. Two years later, they actually still won't let me do that - I just grew the courage to do it secretly and return to Maple during December 09. Unfortunately, my cousins had quit Maple about a year earlier, so this time around, I was kinda alone. So I decided to ditch everything I had done in Scania and have a fresh start in Windia.)
[SPOILER=Random personal crap that you guys probably don't need to know]However, during my two year absence from the game, I was still fairly active within the MS community. I witnessed the birth of SouthPerry when I noticed the strange absence of Temple of Time data (and all of Fiel's earlier extractions) at SleepyWood, but didn't join SP then.
I actually idolized IAngeliaL, who used to post a bunch of videos of her (now) Level 200 Bowmaster in MSEA. In mid October 08, her guild got into a huge fight with several other guilds in her server, in which she posted a link to this flamewar of a thread within AsiaSoft forums in her blog. I got curious, signed up on the forums, and somehow ran into the Prediction thread crew (DeanNim, Hanabira, Hadriel, and chrisloup, among others) through a strange series of events that I can't even remember.
I finally joined SouthPerry in December 08 afterwards.
2.Why did you choose that time period?
Just... A lot of memories, I suppose. I was in competition with my cousins. One was an Assassin, the other a Spearman who idolized Tiger, and I chose the Hunter line since I thought all the other classes looked boring. (Playing all of said other classes now only confirmed my thoughts. Well, except for Infighters, but Pirates didn't exist back then, so...) I knew little about the game's mechanics, economy, and crap - I played to explore, go on suicide runs with my little cousins, Kerning and Ludi PQed to hell and back, and I wanted to become a Ranger so bad because OMG I GET TO RAIN ARROWS FROM THE SKIES/KILL STUFF WITH FOUR ARROWS AT ONCE!!!
Well, not to mention that I really had the sense of that Archer Pride thing before 4th job came around with the Bowmaster bandwagon.
(And about two weeks ago, I finally became a Ranger. I was only about two years late. Still, Strafe and Arrow Rain were still worth it.)
3.What, if anything, do you LIKE about the progression of the game since beta?
I like how you can get through 1st job and about half of 2nd job without excessive grinding. The quests and PQs are enough to get through those levels in a reasonable amount of time.
4.What, if anything, do you DISLIKE about the progression of the game since beta?
The community got worse, I'll give you that. For some reason, the general community of Maple gives off this general feeling that the only point of Maple is to get to a high level and try to make a name for yourself through high damage numbers and similar stuff. I mean, it was kind of like that in the past too, but it seems so much more so nowadays.
5.What feature of the game kept you playing the longest, during whichever period? While "friends" is an understandable answer, I'm curious what parts of the game itself people really enjoy/enjoyed/will enjoy.
Back then, it was my competition with my cousins. Now? I'd say that the community of SouthPerry, my really weird friendship with some of the MSEAers at AsiaSoft forums, and my hilarious 'the way the government is currently being run'-hating guildies are the only reasons why I'm still playing Maple (as it currently is now).
6.In viewing GMS as a whole since its inception in the world of MapleStory, what are the lasting thoughts, memories, impressions, and emotions you will never forget?
Hm, I'm not exactly sure. Maybe it's the day that I decided to go 'screw grinding' in mid-March and do Ludi and Elin PQ for the hell of it. Or it could be something as random as my half-hour rant to my alliance last month, about how California isn't as much of a holy land of opportunity like the movies and stories say it is.
Or hell, watching my cousin explode when Fangblade took over Tiger's position as highest leveled Mapler, and then proceed to create a character in Bera just to whisper insults to Fangblade for half an hour (and watch his jaw drop when Fangblade replied, all polite and stuff).
Mid-late 2007. That was the timeframe when I started playing MS, although I was introduced to the game during beta. I was just brought back into the game by my little cousins.
(To understand my situation, I first played MS in Beta as a (horribly built) Mage for one hour, before my control freaks of a family decided to uninstall the game. Then my cousins started playing in 2007, and they let me play on their computer. Later, I got a hand-me-down craptop from my brother and proceeded to install MS on it. (Said craptop that I still use is at least 6 years old.)
About one week after 4th job was introduced, my craptop got a virus, and my control freaks of a family freaked out and wouldn't let me reinstall MS, thinking that MS was the cause. Two years later, they actually still won't let me do that - I just grew the courage to do it secretly and return to Maple during December 09. Unfortunately, my cousins had quit Maple about a year earlier, so this time around, I was kinda alone. So I decided to ditch everything I had done in Scania and have a fresh start in Windia.)
[SPOILER=Random personal crap that you guys probably don't need to know]However, during my two year absence from the game, I was still fairly active within the MS community. I witnessed the birth of SouthPerry when I noticed the strange absence of Temple of Time data (and all of Fiel's earlier extractions) at SleepyWood, but didn't join SP then.
I actually idolized IAngeliaL, who used to post a bunch of videos of her (now) Level 200 Bowmaster in MSEA. In mid October 08, her guild got into a huge fight with several other guilds in her server, in which she posted a link to this flamewar of a thread within AsiaSoft forums in her blog. I got curious, signed up on the forums, and somehow ran into the Prediction thread crew (DeanNim, Hanabira, Hadriel, and chrisloup, among others) through a strange series of events that I can't even remember.
I finally joined SouthPerry in December 08 afterwards.
2.Why did you choose that time period?
Just... A lot of memories, I suppose. I was in competition with my cousins. One was an Assassin, the other a Spearman who idolized Tiger, and I chose the Hunter line since I thought all the other classes looked boring. (Playing all of said other classes now only confirmed my thoughts. Well, except for Infighters, but Pirates didn't exist back then, so...) I knew little about the game's mechanics, economy, and crap - I played to explore, go on suicide runs with my little cousins, Kerning and Ludi PQed to hell and back, and I wanted to become a Ranger so bad because OMG I GET TO RAIN ARROWS FROM THE SKIES/KILL STUFF WITH FOUR ARROWS AT ONCE!!!
Well, not to mention that I really had the sense of that Archer Pride thing before 4th job came around with the Bowmaster bandwagon.
(And about two weeks ago, I finally became a Ranger. I was only about two years late. Still, Strafe and Arrow Rain were still worth it.)
3.What, if anything, do you LIKE about the progression of the game since beta?
I like how you can get through 1st job and about half of 2nd job without excessive grinding. The quests and PQs are enough to get through those levels in a reasonable amount of time.
4.What, if anything, do you DISLIKE about the progression of the game since beta?
The community got worse, I'll give you that. For some reason, the general community of Maple gives off this general feeling that the only point of Maple is to get to a high level and try to make a name for yourself through high damage numbers and similar stuff. I mean, it was kind of like that in the past too, but it seems so much more so nowadays.
5.What feature of the game kept you playing the longest, during whichever period? While "friends" is an understandable answer, I'm curious what parts of the game itself people really enjoy/enjoyed/will enjoy.
Back then, it was my competition with my cousins. Now? I'd say that the community of SouthPerry, my really weird friendship with some of the MSEAers at AsiaSoft forums, and my hilarious 'the way the government is currently being run'-hating guildies are the only reasons why I'm still playing Maple (as it currently is now).
6.In viewing GMS as a whole since its inception in the world of MapleStory, what are the lasting thoughts, memories, impressions, and emotions you will never forget?
Hm, I'm not exactly sure. Maybe it's the day that I decided to go 'screw grinding' in mid-March and do Ludi and Elin PQ for the hell of it. Or it could be something as random as my half-hour rant to my alliance last month, about how California isn't as much of a holy land of opportunity like the movies and stories say it is.
Or hell, watching my cousin explode when Fangblade took over Tiger's position as highest leveled Mapler, and then proceed to create a character in Bera just to whisper insults to Fangblade for half an hour (and watch his jaw drop when Fangblade replied, all polite and stuff).