Nexon America's answer about Masteria

Don't be so hard guys=\ Do you REALLY think that NEXON's just gonna come out and say MASTERIAS COMING NEXT PATCH! Come on guys don't be a basil.Masteria seems to come once a year, the years not over yet soooooo..

More than a year passed since the last REAL Masteria expansion (which, even if some won't agree with me on this, I consider being Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest, not Haunted House 2, for several reasons), and that had never happened before. This should make you guys think. The vague answers by Nexon America confirm my theory that they probably haven't even been working on more Masteria expansions, or, if they did, they still lack of several things to complete it.

Only thing I don't get is why Haunted House 2 and Episode 1 both came out fragmented and made little sense story wise. Surely if the same guys that worked the whole Masteria storyline were around, those two wouldn't of shown up with badly written stories.

That's what I've been thinking and I still do. Again, since NxProse and NxJoeW left (so, we can say, since the last REAL Masteria expansion was released), we haven't gotten any content with a good storyline. This just leads me and several other people to think that, again, their problem might be the storyline writer, as well as the guy who comes up with ideas for the expansions. The lack of these people could severely slow down or even totally stop the development.

Considering that, with Big Bang, they would just have more mobs and quests (and even monster cards, if they even made them) to change, it could also be that didn't deem it worthy to keep developing Masteria areas, at least not before the Big Bang patch. If you noticed, Global MapleStory isn't the only version which stopped making exclusive content. Even MSEA hasn't been getting anything exclusive for a while now, as well as several other versions. I'm not sure if these things could be related to each other, but yeah.

Ok now you have to admit, as CRAPPY as the haunted house 2 story was, the traning areas were AMAZING.

That's why I'm saying it's more likely they're lacking of a storyline writer, not a designer. They kept designing new monsters and some maps (sadly, Episode 1 ones just were a bunch of random re-used map objects mixed together), but what we haven't been getting since the release of the Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest are quests with a good storyline.

I will FULLY agree with how crappy the story line is. But hey what can you expect?It was an event area, not permanent. All I'm saying is combattne said the visitior storyline is crappy, it's not done yet. WHENyes I said when, a new Masteria place comes out we'll make an assumption then. But for now, don't say it'll be crappy.

Episode 1 is an event area? No.

Also, I have several reasons to consider The Visitors an event with crappy storyline, one of them being that it doesn't take much to notice that the event is just about some aliens coming out of nowhere (I assume they're controlled by the Black Mage, since they mentioned it in one of the announcements) and invading the Maple World. The quests done until now didn't have much storyline value (if they had any at all), and I doubt further ones will have. It's not like it's something related to Masteria, Naricain, or anything. It's just an event where random aliens appear and you have to stop the invasion. There is NO storyline in it (as expected from an event).

So yeah. My best bet is the lack of the storyline writer, and, judging Hime's post, maybe even someone who gives the development team ideas for new Masteria content. I guess that NxProse and NxJoeW were the main idea creators, and why not, they could've also given some hints for the storyline.