2010-09-14, 04:01 AM
Fiel Wrote:I don't see why people feel that their levels have devalued due to Big Bang. Anything and everything you have done up to now in your life, including time spent on Maplestory, is a sunk cost. It's not coming back. Almost no amount of foresight could have prepared you for the fact that they would eventually be reducing rates by almost 80% and redesigning the whole game. Any sunk cost is irrelevant to future decision making.
Time spent having fun is never time wasted. Did you have fun getting all of those levels? If so, then you have lost nothing. If not, then why the hell are you playing a game you don't like?
I just don't see the logic here. Please point out where I'm wrong.
This, and even more so due to the fact that the rates aren't as ridiculous as many are making them out to be. I don't have the link, but during the KMST patches and chaos this past summer, there was a thread Paul here commented on that showed a 19x Hero training at Oblivion 4. IIRC, when her soloing rate was calculated and compared to current GMS soloing rates, it was something like taking 51 hours to go from 191 to 192 on 1x, as opposed to the 70ish it is now. tl;dr: while it's easier, it's not broken.
That being said, I hope they remove 2x cards in GMS with the release of this patch. Clearly that won't happen, though, so yes, leveling will be a tad more broken here than in KMS.