2012-02-27, 11:32 AM
[MENTION=4235]KhainiWest[/MENTION] I realize I'm being a bit patronizing, and I apologize for that.
What you're talking about is not really relevant to what I was talking about. Everything you're describing is just a result of a snowball effect that started years ago. Mesos were near worthless long before I even quit the game. It wasn't worth the time to pick up the mesos that monsters dropped even back when Leafre came out. Hackers vac monsters, run their bots, dupe vendable items and exploit the vendors for tons of mesos, and sell them. Nexon gets the bright idea to try to compete with meso sellers by selling their own mesos, which just makes the problem worse. I mean, you really haven't been able to grind your way up to riches for years now. It was easier 3 years ago, and you could certainly work your way up by selling leech, selling boss loots, etc...I agree with that. But if that's out the window now, it's not because of a design or community shift, it's because hacking has gotten even worse and Nexon doesn't know how/doesn't care to fix it.
Anyway, so yeah, maybe trying to advance or get riches in the game has gotten harder, but that's an entirely different topic from what my original post was getting at. My point is that there was never a happen golden time where MapleStory was a great game, the community was friendly and helpful, and no one cared about damage. If you earnestly believe that, then you haven't done enough online gaming. Nexon hasn't really changed its design philosophy, either. It's been playing the same game for years. I guess I assumed that if the gameplay didn't get worse than it already was and the community was still the same, you were just tired of the game. I didn't quit because I couldn't make any money in the game, I quit because I was tired of looking at the game, I didn't like the direction the game had been taking, and I was tired of Nexon's poor service. I was disillusioned with the little fantasy world I'd been a part of for years and I couldn't convince myself that it was a timesink that I'd enjoy anymore. I guess the neglected status of the game did make it worse over time, but I still stand by my views that the community was always terrible and the game was always terrible.
What you're talking about is not really relevant to what I was talking about. Everything you're describing is just a result of a snowball effect that started years ago. Mesos were near worthless long before I even quit the game. It wasn't worth the time to pick up the mesos that monsters dropped even back when Leafre came out. Hackers vac monsters, run their bots, dupe vendable items and exploit the vendors for tons of mesos, and sell them. Nexon gets the bright idea to try to compete with meso sellers by selling their own mesos, which just makes the problem worse. I mean, you really haven't been able to grind your way up to riches for years now. It was easier 3 years ago, and you could certainly work your way up by selling leech, selling boss loots, etc...I agree with that. But if that's out the window now, it's not because of a design or community shift, it's because hacking has gotten even worse and Nexon doesn't know how/doesn't care to fix it.
Anyway, so yeah, maybe trying to advance or get riches in the game has gotten harder, but that's an entirely different topic from what my original post was getting at. My point is that there was never a happen golden time where MapleStory was a great game, the community was friendly and helpful, and no one cared about damage. If you earnestly believe that, then you haven't done enough online gaming. Nexon hasn't really changed its design philosophy, either. It's been playing the same game for years. I guess I assumed that if the gameplay didn't get worse than it already was and the community was still the same, you were just tired of the game. I didn't quit because I couldn't make any money in the game, I quit because I was tired of looking at the game, I didn't like the direction the game had been taking, and I was tired of Nexon's poor service. I was disillusioned with the little fantasy world I'd been a part of for years and I couldn't convince myself that it was a timesink that I'd enjoy anymore. I guess the neglected status of the game did make it worse over time, but I still stand by my views that the community was always terrible and the game was always terrible.