Maple Story 3D and Maple Story 2. Does not seem like a hoax.

To be perfectly honest, I love Maple Story, but I would not give Maple Story 2 a chance. Diablo 3 has been announced, and if I switch games at all, I'll go from Maple Story to D3. I am sure Maple 2 will be a great game, but some of the things Nexon does seriously bother me. I know this is not the "Nexon sucks" topic, but I also do not think we can discuss transferring from Maple to Maple 2 without mentioning the widespread concerns people have about Nexon as a company.

I played Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Diablo and Diablo 2. After that I went to Maple Story because a friend recommended it to me. The standards Blizzard holds itself to seem to me much greater than those practiced by Nexon. Nexon's customer service is almost universally considered inadequate, and I would never have come on Maple if I knew that it was this money-intensive. The GMs are overworked and understaffed, the players are pretty much on their own as far as hacking, scamming and KSing goes, and there has been no incentive for Nexon to change any of that that because they've successfully made every aspect of the game connected to the spending of money, and they pretty much got away with it. I do not see why they would change this basic company philosophy in Maple 2; that's why I do not think I want to get hooked on another Nexon game. A $15 monthly subscription to a good game is not as bad as the quantities of Nexon Cash competitive players expend, even if they do spend Nexon Cash on a good game. Some people here are talking about Nexon transferring Maple 1 inventories to Maple 2. I personally doubt they will do that because people starting over from scratch will make them waste more money than people transferring inventories.

I still think it's too early to be making assumptions. We don't know anything about this besides the fact that it exists. Right now you think Nexon will make it craptacular, but who knows, it could be the best thing to ever hit Maple.