Great little retrospective video~ I do miss the exploration aspect of OSMS, even now playing in GMS you can just warp everywhere, but, whenever I play on a private server I usually just... walk everywhere. Like, I could use a TP rock to go from Henesys to Magatia, but, I don't mind taking a taxi to the station > take a ship to Orbis > ride my mount to the usher > fly to Ariant and so on. It's... fun, just hearing the music, seeing people, it's a peculiar conviviality that isn't present in modern day maple.
Travelling in OS MapleStory would be the fundamental part of meeting new players and friends. The 10 minute wait would recharge me from grinding. Nowadays the traveling is done instantly and the only form of interaction with someone is ccplz
i know people (including me) love being nostalgic to os maple, but one change that is arguably the best thing done is the auction house. its stopped so many bad deals and scams
really loved this, brought back so many memories. i remember the only scam i fell for back then was in a henesys shop with the right side of the map being able to hide a player. it was known to be "show off items" scam. I dropped a maple flag. ill never forget that lol. good times.
One scam I haven’t seen mentioned here, I ran into 2 times in all my years of maplestory. Random guy would chat me and story short, ask me if I wanted his other accounts because he wanted “to focus on his main account”. They would give you the account info with some nice characters on it (with nothing valuable on them), let you fund it, and then recover the account and keep everything you put on it. Absolutely DEVASTATED me the first time this happened to me. Second time this happened to me, I immediately logged onto the account and proceeded to delete both their shadower and night lord characters, LMAO. I mean, it “was” my account, right? I remember leaving some “getrekt” kind of message by making level 1’s. It made up for getting screwed the first time around. 😂
i remember someone telling me to drop an item somewhere safe, i did and they used a teleport spell to get it and run away :') (I only lost a garbage gear piece thankfully)
I was a huge scammer in maplestory. I used to scam the family double exp strat. Xp first and then money, then switch channels and go to the halloween map and farm xp.
The few times I got scammed, were the ones I remembered the most.... First time, back when I was a dumb kid who didn't know how to type fast, I got tricked into "duplicating" items via a trade. The scammer would say to put up the item and type M A P L E S T O R Y in all-caps and press enter twice. I guess it really relied on dumb kids who had to look down at their keyboard to pull off but that's how I lost my Pan Lid. Second time, I didn't know to pick up items while sitting, you had to press 0 on the numpad (it was also Pick up but it worked for some reason while sitting) and someone in Henesys goaded me to a drop game while sitting and he yoinked my Red Whip right in front of me while I was frantically spamming the pick up key (Z by default) wondering why it didn't work.
i was one of the victims for nx scams :c plus i lost my account, it hurt me a lot because my character was lv 52 back in 2004 , goshhh i was 12 y/o back in the day, thanks to that i learn that i cant trust anyone online
Hahahaha, I knew the moment I saw this video that the drop games would get a great section. I fell for both the classic "Hidden off-screen player" and the vacuum hack as a kid lmao. Great video!
To think that i was been scammed in about half of those methods i cant believe this my little brother who was 9 at the time quit the game because of my dumbass thought we could generate money for him only for his character to lose all of his valued items 💀💀💀
How about blink for loot scams? Where people blink for loot, one wins blink and the party leader doesn't pass lead and doesn't change loot settings, then for someone to steal loot.
The scam at 13:00 was very prevalent in runescape, I remember two people would stand on opposite sides of the grand exchange doing that, I don't know if I ever saw it in maple though.
Way back in the day, pre-Big Bang times (I was like 10-12 years old at the time), I was super happy I managed to get a single set of Kumbi throwing stars on my thief. Those were stolen when someone told me I could copy them, "just put them in the box, then type C-O-P-Y while not having the chat active!" (now that you're talking about the tab-tab scam, yeah...) Granted, the two dudes didn't log off, and had readable names, so I followed them around the various FM channels until they finally did. Whether I managed to annoy them to the point they stopped scamming, I doubt. But I hope they lose all their riches in whatever game they're currently playing, including the stock market. I'm a spiteful MF 😂 Also, with the advent of Reboot, whenever I'm off my Maple Break, that's where I usually hang out, so no need to worry about trade scams, and I'm not good enough to fall victim to boss scams, haha
this goes hard. I used to fame scam and do another scam you didnt cover in this video. There were these double exp 7/11 codes and i would go to 7/11 and take pictures of the codes, and sell them for in game mesos to people. i used to scam people for them aswell, i only gave away about 1/4th of the codes i got. ty for posting about this, when i grew up i realized how lame scamming on maplestory was.
My child self was a victim of NX scam >:'3 but instead of even being given a code, the person just told me that the NX would show up in my account, and I believed them!!! I will never forget the scrolled pole arm they took from me :c
