Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap

And to everyone else: stop judging something's level of "challenge" or degree of "difficulty" based on how technically involved it is. Hard, physical farm labor, while maybe not as technically involved as biomedical engineering, is still a challenge to complete to make a profit, given you need to expend a lot of time and effort maintaining your products in order to have them produced on time. MapleStory was the same, back in the day. It was and never will be a technically challenging game compared to others out on the market, but if you snub the true difficulty in the amount of time and effort it took to accomplish something back in the day before everyone else, you don't know what a hard day's work is like.

Quick last comment about final point: I was one of many people who played the game insanely at times in order to level before everyone else. I should amend my previous comment and say that I'm proud of reaching Lv. 200 when it was not only a challenge in terms of time and effort, but in doing so because I pushed myself to reach it as fast as possible to secure a fantastic, lasting ranking. To do that I, again like many others, had at times 3-4 4 hour month-long 2x cards, and will never forget the craziest weekend of gaming in my life when I played 16-18 hours a day for 3 days straight. That's not. physically. healthy. That's CHALLENGING. To maximize EXP/hr outputs consistently for 16-18 hours 3 days in a row is CHALLENGING. And thank god I only had to do that - I know many others who pulled that for weeks on end.

All this venting boils down to this: do not snub what people have sacrificed, physically, time-wise, socially, etc., to achieve in this game. It's disrespectful towards what they spent all that time and effort trying to accomplish, and is downright rude when comments are made tactlessly. Think before you speak.

I know difficult and tedious can be two very different things, but if someone's playing a game where they grind for 20 minutes and level as compared to a game where they grind for 2 hours and level, if you ask them about it they'll usually say "yeah game A is a lot easier to level in than game B". Yes, there's other stuff that goes into it but if someone says "yes, Maplestory is a lot easier now than it was before Big Bang" it's pretty much generally understood what they mean, which is that it takes less time. If you really want to be asinine about it then yes, it takes less time to accomplish things. To most people though, how much time it takes to do something usually translates into something being harder to do.

So...basically what this guy said, but in a much better way than I'm doing.