2011-05-19, 01:37 AM
I've been on both sides of the fence on this one. Yeah, I do miss the "old maple days", when all my friends in real life played together, and we'd go explore things, train, hunt for things together, when every single archer knew every single other archer (Archer Council! lololol), etc.
That being said, games change. Its inevitable. Things will ALWAYS change, and in the end, you gotta come to accept it. The old days were fun, but these new days are just as fun. There is nothing preventing anyone from having fun other than the boxes we lock ourselves in, saying "Old maple was funner". I remember having so much fun with a friend that rainbow week event a few weeks/months ago, where you had to turn in crayons for a cloud robe. Yeah, it was silly, the event kinda sucked, it was kinda pointless and all, but it was fun. We had fun with the notion of turning pot (used with a different meaning of course) into crayons, and slowly collecting crayons for this robe with crappy stats. It's also fun to reveal random items you find with hidden potential, just to have them turn 3 line on reveal, but with 3% INT on an archer shoe or something.
That being said, hackers can ruin "fun" real fast. I only play this game when it's fun, and I had "fun" collecting maple weapons at hobis, and training my mech at sage cats for maple weapons to trade to coins. It's fun collecting things, till you realize a hacker can do the exact same thing, but in minutes instead of days. There are still "fun" elements to the game, if you just open up your mind to it, and enjoy it for what it is. It might not be the same fun as 6 years ago, but it's still fun nonetheless.
That being said, games change. Its inevitable. Things will ALWAYS change, and in the end, you gotta come to accept it. The old days were fun, but these new days are just as fun. There is nothing preventing anyone from having fun other than the boxes we lock ourselves in, saying "Old maple was funner". I remember having so much fun with a friend that rainbow week event a few weeks/months ago, where you had to turn in crayons for a cloud robe. Yeah, it was silly, the event kinda sucked, it was kinda pointless and all, but it was fun. We had fun with the notion of turning pot (used with a different meaning of course) into crayons, and slowly collecting crayons for this robe with crappy stats. It's also fun to reveal random items you find with hidden potential, just to have them turn 3 line on reveal, but with 3% INT on an archer shoe or something.
That being said, hackers can ruin "fun" real fast. I only play this game when it's fun, and I had "fun" collecting maple weapons at hobis, and training my mech at sage cats for maple weapons to trade to coins. It's fun collecting things, till you realize a hacker can do the exact same thing, but in minutes instead of days. There are still "fun" elements to the game, if you just open up your mind to it, and enjoy it for what it is. It might not be the same fun as 6 years ago, but it's still fun nonetheless.