2011-07-07, 03:54 AM
Old Maple was hard.
People with no patience quit it after a couple months, around level 30.
The game has progressively gotten easier, more newbie-friendly, more instant-satisfaction. Best example is the new personality system. The actual rewards only change every 5 levels of a trait. So there's no real reason to have 100 levels, it could just as easily be 20. But people like hearing that "ding" and reading "your XXX level increased", so Nexon give them that every few minutes, every kill, every quest...
With the change in the game came a change in audience. Those who stuck around with the old game were, perforce, a bit more mature and patient than the new players who enjoy the fast-paced maple.
And I agree with everyone blaming Potential. Before that came, even with white scrolls and chaos and all, even the most heavily funded could only get to maybe double the damage of a normal player. Post Potential the gap between the haves and the have-nots has widened considerably, the rich having five times or more the damage of the unfunded. And I'm not even talking about the unscrupulous rich, the kind that won't hack, themselves, but have no qualms about buying hacked and duped gear... (I don't want to get into a hypocritical discussion about whether *any* white scrolls in FM can be considered legit. I'm talking about people buying 300-attack claws and 27-attack shoes, 100% positive they were not created in anything resembling a legitimate manner, and often for real $$).
So yeah,our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency the reasons maple has gone downhill:
- caters to the immature, attracting a less pleasant population
- potential system creating a huge gap between funded and unfunded
- rampant hacking nobody gives a rat's ass about anymore, making it increasingly frustrating to play the game by the rules
People with no patience quit it after a couple months, around level 30.
The game has progressively gotten easier, more newbie-friendly, more instant-satisfaction. Best example is the new personality system. The actual rewards only change every 5 levels of a trait. So there's no real reason to have 100 levels, it could just as easily be 20. But people like hearing that "ding" and reading "your XXX level increased", so Nexon give them that every few minutes, every kill, every quest...
With the change in the game came a change in audience. Those who stuck around with the old game were, perforce, a bit more mature and patient than the new players who enjoy the fast-paced maple.
And I agree with everyone blaming Potential. Before that came, even with white scrolls and chaos and all, even the most heavily funded could only get to maybe double the damage of a normal player. Post Potential the gap between the haves and the have-nots has widened considerably, the rich having five times or more the damage of the unfunded. And I'm not even talking about the unscrupulous rich, the kind that won't hack, themselves, but have no qualms about buying hacked and duped gear... (I don't want to get into a hypocritical discussion about whether *any* white scrolls in FM can be considered legit. I'm talking about people buying 300-attack claws and 27-attack shoes, 100% positive they were not created in anything resembling a legitimate manner, and often for real $$).
So yeah,
- caters to the immature, attracting a less pleasant population
- potential system creating a huge gap between funded and unfunded
- rampant hacking nobody gives a rat's ass about anymore, making it increasingly frustrating to play the game by the rules