2012-02-26, 08:36 AM
CarrionCrow Wrote:No, I blame Nexon US as a company and the scumbag brat players more than I blame the direction the korean overlords have chosen for MS.
I blame Nexon Korea for the game becoming more attractive to scumbag brat players.
Once upon a time Maple was an endless unrewarding grindfest which hardly anyone could tolerate long enough to even make it to third job.
With Big Bang (and other, smaller changes), Nexon Korea turned it into a game in which anyone could level fast and reach the flashy fourth-job skills and big bosses within a week or at most a month.
Nexon America made it even easier by keeping extra-fast-exp World Tour areas (Chimney and MP3, and of course the LHC party play zone).
This obviously attracts the sort of players that the old Maple would have bored away. And then when the "grind" becomes "hard" (meaning: can't level twice an hour anymore), they look for shortcuts.
Yes, people used to hack old Maple too. And yes, lack of GMs is definitely a contributor. But I believe the basic change, from Maple as a game for masochists to Maple as a quick-rewards game, is to blame for the new spoiled generation of players.