Maplestory producer E3 interview with Crstyn Cox

Yeah I dunno I guess I always just thought that the G was silent in it.

"The more you know" I guess.

PvP isn't the kind of thing that can be developed and balanced by a department other than Korea.

Following this logic there is no reason to hope for any good content from this 5th surprise part, nexon ran out of developers that can create quality content and so far we have only gotten things that other countries have co-developed with or for us. That is assuming PvP isn't such an amazing feat.

Is cygnus really pronounced "cig-nuss"? All these years have gone by and the entire time I always envisioned it being pronounced as "sigh-nuss"

Interviewer seems like he'd rather not even be there.

I've always pronounced it "sigh-nuss" too. Especially since most of the English pronounciation rules with G before N next to each other have the G silent (ie gnome, campaign, sign, foreigner, design, etc). I'm probably still going to keep to that pronounciation.

I've always pronounced it "sigh-nuss" too. Especially since most of the English pronounciation rules with G before N next to each other have the G silent (ie gnome, campaign, sign, foreigner, design, etc). I'm probably still going to keep to that pronounciation.

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Ignite / Ignition
Ignorant
Dignify
+Tons of other examples I don't feel like typing out. xP

In JP it's シグナス (shigunasu), so I pronounce that way, except with a C sound instead of SH.

Following this logic there is no reason to hope for any good content from this 5th surprise part, nexon ran out of developers that can create quality content and so far we have only gotten things that other countries have co-developed with or for us. That is assuming PvP isn't such an amazing feat.

PvP involves systems that aren't maintained by any other version. Has any other version besides korea come out with skill revamps? No.

Exclusive content, on the other hand, has been developed by other versions before. Therefore showing they have the capacity to not only do it, but in masterias case, do it well. If a non-KMS version made PvP (like JMS) they would probably just throw everyone in a map and let them go crazy without modifying any of the skills or HP systems. Buccaneers would rape everyone and warriors would never die.

I pronounce it with a non-silent g, but since it's a made up word, there's probably no correct answer. If you never ever heard the word ignorant for example, you could easely mistake it to be ign-or-ant, instead of ig-no-rant.
Same thing with the server names. How do you pronounce Yellonde? I do it french-y xD (And fantasize a frenchman saying "aaaah Yellonde")

lol I've always pronounced it sin-guss...LOL...i think it sounds better

Yeah I dunno I guess I always just thought that the G was silent in it.

"The more you know" I guess.

Lol, the Empress turned evil because the black mage told her that he would give her a sinus infection if she didn't.

Then the magical effect of the future came into play.

./plot

I pronounce it with a non-silent g, but since it's a made up word, there's probably no correct answer. If you never ever heard the word ignorant for example, you could easely mistake it to be ign-or-ant, instead of ig-no-rant.
Same thing with the server names. How do you pronounce Yellonde? I do it french-y xD (And fantasize a frenchman saying "aaaah Yellonde")

It's not a made up word. It's a constellation or something.

Wikipedia says it's Greek for Swan.

Sinus sounds better than signus to me too. When I first heard her say it like signus, I for some reason kept thinking about sigma from megaman.

I pronounce it with a non-silent g, but since it's a made up word, there's probably no correct answer. If you never ever heard the word ignorant for example, you could easely mistake it to be ign-or-ant, instead of ig-no-rant.
Same thing with the server names. How do you pronounce Yellonde? I do it french-y xD (And fantasize a frenchman saying "aaaah Yellonde")

Made up words can definitely have official pronunciations.

Sinus sounds better than signus to me too. When I first heard her say it like signus, I for some reason kept thinking about sigma from megaman.

So you'd rather think of phlegm?

I pronounce it with a non-silent g, but since it's a made up word, there's probably no correct answer. If you never ever heard the word ignorant for example, you could easely mistake it to be ign-or-ant, instead of ig-no-rant.
Same thing with the server names. How do you pronounce Yellonde? I do it french-y xD (And fantasize a frenchman saying "aaaah Yellonde")

This is what the other guy was talking about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_(constellation)

It really is a constellation though. I can confirm from my Astronomy textbook

Wouldn't be surprised if the "exclusive content" ended up being Haunted House 3.

Wouldn't be surprised if the "exclusive content" ended up being Haunted House 3.

To be fair, if this can be done correctly, it would kick major ass.

I love the spooky stuff we have been getting in updates, CWK just topped up the ''halloween'' feel to it, not quite, but dang.

Same thing with the server names. How do you pronounce Yellonde? I do it french-y xD (And fantasize a frenchman saying "aaaah Yellonde")

'yeh-LAWN-duh'. Yeah, probably alone on that one. I seem to pronounce every name in this game wrong (though Cygnus was an exception, apparently ).

How do you pronounce Yellonde?

I pronounce it like... Yellow-n-day ...kind of.

イェロンデ xd

Wouldn't be surprised if the "exclusive content" ended up being Haunted House 3.

To add on to this I can also see "long awaited"(HA) Neo City expansions. I could be wrong but when our expansion came out didn't they say they would do more? I mean I can see something popping up..maybe the Neo Tokyo weapons, earrings, throwing stars. Some exclusive pomegranate. They already tied Professor Foxwit with Neo City so why not..Or hell it could even be the winner of that design your own content contest.

Fun fact: Cygnus [Sig-nuhs] - The Swan, a northern constellation southwest of Draco, containing the bright star Deneb. Yay dictionary

-Edit. Also a lot of server names seem to be actual words, though not yellonde anyways.

I skipped to the last page in this thread, and it made me very depressed.

I skipped to the last page in this thread, and it made me very depressed.

Would've been worse off if you'd read the others, anyway.