2012-08-03, 05:35 AM
anondesu9000 Wrote:Real difficulty is not, however, a hole that can only be climbed out of by filling it with money. That's something else entirely. Unfortunately, when people rally around wanting difficulty, that's all MapleStory ever gets. Holes to be filled with money. And for someone who doesn't go around just dropping cash into gutters, or eating it like ol' Will Romney, the disgusting nature of such a cash scam is only made worse by the fact that the community completely and totally buys into it as if real difficulty hasn't been in games since the very beginning. Well, it has. So I honestly can't understand how anyone could mistake out of control greed for it.
Your posts are annoying to read. They are full of memes and unnecessary formatting, it's infuriating at best. I don't come on Southperry to witness cancer.
That aside.
I didn't mention my opinion about the game's difficulty anywhere in those two posts, so watching you use it as an argument was pretty regaling. "The problem with the modern Mapler is that guys like you seem to mistake "pay to play in a supposedly free to play game" with "difficulty." " was also very cute, by the way. There isn't much content in this game that you throw money at to win, really. Due to the amount of power creeping this game has taken almost anybody with little to no funds can defeat Zakum, Papulatus, Horntail, Chaos Horntail, and Pink Bean. The way the state of the game is going is clearly a result of the over exaggerated buffs and balancing that each class gets. The other remaining bosses do need a bit of "money" I suppose to be able to be "won".
Though there really is one thing you have to know, truthfully is that this game is a freemium. A vast majority of these pay benefits are provided for free such as fusing, random drops, etc. This game isn't necessary to be played with money and I can assure you many people don't spend NX on these things. Having played many games, Nexon handles their free-to-play model pretty decently. I can't count the amount of games that give away many, if not all, exclusive in game benefits as cash only with no external way to receive them. Nexon doesn't do that, however difficult it may be to receive said awards/perks/benefits.
Several characters in MapleStory need a bit of "control", though it's out of the grasp of casuals. These include delay shortening, iframes and other nice quirks that classes posses or used to. I admit the game has changed quite a bit over the last 7-8 years I've played it, but in order to say that the difficulty is "fake" is preposterous and outright stupid.