“A Better Maple” News Update

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/news/current/00IMp/

Greetings Maplers,

A little over a year ago, we initiated the ‘Better Maple Program,’ asking you to highlight your biggest problems and MapleStory discussion topics so we could focus on providing a better service for you, the players.

Please know that we are working hard to improve the game by addressing various concerns, including upcoming changes to the cube system to reduce pay-to-win issues, which you can learn more about below.

But first, we want to give you an update on what we’ve done so far, thanks to your feedback, including but not limited to:

• Added the Maple Rewards system, which allows you to earn Reward Points in-game and spend them on items in the Cash Shop
  
• Made it easier to upgrade equipment by using Star Force, and easier to enhance equipment by using Spell Traces
  
• Increased the drop rate of Nebulite Boxes from monsters, bosses and reactors
  
• Made the Horntail challenge able to be completed in solo mode
  
• Added the ability to preview REG style coupons for Hair and Face in several of the Hair Style and Plastic Surgery Shops
  
• Removed gender restrictions when trading cash cover equipment
  
• Allowed Elite Monsters to drop Safety Scrolls
  
• Removed the drop restrictions for Horntail and Chaos Horntail drops
  
• Gave certain bosses a rare chance to drop a Golden Hammer 100\%
  
• Removed the Owl of Minerva and Electronic Heart from the Cash Shop and made them purchasable with mesos in-game
  
• Made updates to Masteria, Ninja Castle, Lion King’s Castle, Malaysia and Singapore quests, and included high-level area Kritias
  
• Moved popular NPCs (including event NPCs) to the Event Hall and out of major towns
  

This year, we intend to continue to improve the Maple experience. We know some of you are concerned that the game has become too pay-to-win. So with this latest update, you will see our efforts to address this concern with:

• A big drop rate increase for Master Craftsman’s Cube and Meister’s Cubes. These cubes will now drop much more frequently from all the monsters that drop them so you can get Cubes much more easily than before.
  
• A big rate increase of the rank-up rates for all craftable and purchasable Cubes. Now your chance of ranking up to Epic, Unique and Legendary is higher than ever before.
  

The 10th Anniversary will be upon us soon. It’s been 10 great years thanks to our loyal players. Please continue to do what you do best—play and give feedback—and we will keep working to improve the game.

Keep an eye out for more news regarding such improvements in the coming game updates.

Sincerely,
MapleStory team

Well, this might make things interesting.







Right?

Auction House when?

No really. When?

Now if these were back when I used to play the pomegranate out of this game.
I guess better late than never?

Depending on the rate changes of cubes being dropped/tiers being upgraded, I may or may not play a little more.

Ah now if only we had some quantifiers instead of the usual ambiguous qualifiers...

so lots of drop rate multipliers plus dis = get bank ?

I'll still probably only log in to do daily boss runs, but if this allows me to get cubes more often for tossing at my shadower, cool.

Most of the things listed were just updates from KMS weren't they?

Auction House when?

No really. When?

When Nexon Korea fix the bugs in it.
Apparently they're really intractable.
Two years of dedicated hard work and the Auction House still occasionally glitches and eats up items and meso.
Or so we're told.

so lots of drop rate multipliers plus dis = get bank ?

That's implying the price for them would stay the same. I think we all know better than this (or at least you should).

That's implying the price for them would stay the same. I think we all know better than this (or at least you should).

xD i meant like get bank as in free cubes no needa buy nx anymore since the ones that drop from bosses = untradable

The drop rate increase is definitely welcome. I am probably not the best judge since I am hardly ever playing the game these days but since cubes started dropping I have hardly found any. Not enough to make any useful impact on my gear at any rate. So the rank increase is also really welcome. However I am sure I will still be disappointed in it. The Nebulite Boxes definitely have a noticeable increase in drops but I still find the rate to be very insignificant. I am sure cubes will probably be the same. But I'll be happily proved wrong.

Well, hopefully the cube changes will be very soon.
I'm sure Nexon knows nobody is going to buy any cubes until it happens.

Well if you already have legendary items, and only need to get better stats, if the prices of cubes go up and the only thing that changes is tier up rate and not chance to get more primary lines, then you'd want to buy them now.

So basically the other 1%.

Well if you already have legendary items, and only need to get better stats, if the prices of cubes go up and the only thing that changes is tier up rate and not chance to get more primary lines, then you'd want to buy them now.

So basically the other 1%.

Cube prices won't go up. I don't think they'd dare, the community would be livid.
I do expect the rate of good lines to go down, but that will be a silent change that they will vehemently deny.

Cube prices won't go up. I don't think they'd dare, the community would be livid.
I do expect the rate of good lines to go down, but that will be a silent change that they will vehemently deny.

I don't think Nexon is that vicious.

I don't think Nexon is that vicious.

they in question is the 1% with loaded gear that want to retain the value of their equips(as it will depreciate assuming nexon's words are the truth to a visible degree), not nexon.

at this point anyone who seriously cares more about the "value of their gear" than the wellbeing of the game as a whole is just plain insane. What value can your gear have when the servers get shut down once and for all? I have almost full legendary equips and I'm 100% for something like this.

Depending on how Nexon goes about it I'd even maybe actually start playing again and heck, start a new character to work on from the ground up. But I still have my doubts they'll actually make cubing something that can be done completely for free.

Haven't they already increased tier up rates once or twice already..?