The Current State of MapleStory | Summer 2024 

The crazy part is the moment I read this comment he said that.

yeah, hopefully they release maplelands for gms

I miss a early game that you actually play, now you just skip everything.

Ah, yes... Old days. Waiting hours in KPQ and rushing at the end to enter again before someone get your channel. I remember when I wanted to rush and bought a 24h 2x exp coupon for the weekend.

I miss the time when lvl 60 was the max lvl and it was so simple with no lags , after they did more worlds windia bera ect the amount of ppl on the server was insane so i miss those days when it was hard to find more than 1 person playing at the same area as you.

I agree i do miss the full on grindy game

Im an OG player I could never get a char past 200 bro. these new players dont understand the sturggle we had to go thru to level chars.

@@almightyurf3236 I remember it taking so long just to hit Level 30 lol. I remember farming in slime tree as warrior, spamming my AOE skill. Which was like, one of the few classes with an actual AOE mobbing skill for first job. Then trying to do kerning PQ from 25 to 30

@@almightyurf3236 almost nobody is a new player lol. Most haven't stopped playing since pre-Big Bang or are returning after years. Also the grind is still very real, 300 is the new 200.

Considering I've seen players pop like 9 levels in a row (burning events) you'd get a warning for spam lmao

My guild still does this when people are like 250+

this struck a cord in my nostalgia ): LOL - miss this big time

They still do that for Runescape!

I don't miss that. It's awkward as shit.

very good question actually. If you look at things in the big picture you will understand it is just easier to add content on top of existing systems than to try to cater for legacy accounts when changing systems. Also for returning players it would be weird if job advancement system changed too much.

Maybe because some classes got Combo attakcs which requires em to do different skills from each Job and level skill + some passives or toggled skill also you start as a level 1 not 100 or 120 so it should stay and exist to make sense ?

@@sketchdevil5194all I’m saying is there is no real functionality to the job advancement in these levels. If getting to 100 takes 15 minutes there is no real need in the 1-4 job feature. In old times getting to 2nd 3rd and 4th job was a MASSIVE milestone. Now doing the advancements is just a chore.

@@aloneliraz it takes 15 mins because of the event going on rn. You don’t have to participate and you can always, just like coppersan says, rawdog your character. It takes a decent amount of time to level your character to 4th job but not months on end to get to lvl 30 like in pre-bb days.

1st to 4th job is to get to know the class your playing and what to expect in both mobbing and bossing. Also going from 1st job to maybe Level 200 there's gonna also be a storyline which u will get to know the story of the class you're playing.

for the past 16 years people have been saying this every 6 months.

ok buddy, see you next character revamp LMAO!

more like 7th job’s release LOL!

@@MacMush Nah man, maybe after 14th job and big bang 5

I still don't trust them

You definitely have time to enjoy this game in the early levels, just don’t use any exp coupons, don’t wear any equipment and just play however “easy” you want

Guess what? You don't have to level fast, you can go at your own pace. But after making 10+ characters for legion, I appreciate the fast leveling. And yeah, I played maple back in 06.

Tbh you are stuck with most of your skills on 1st til 4th. 5th and 7th just add long cd skills. It's impractical to ignore the starter skills.

@@fasddfadfgasdgs It's not that you're old. Majority of the player base are in their mid to late 20's and early thirties. You just dont have the willingness to learn the new mechanics. Its just that simple. The game has progressed and the game focuses heavily on 200-285. Areas you havent bothered exploring so you say things like this.

the good/fun skill are at 200+ and 5th/6th job changes most class significantly. so i think right now leveling before 200 is tutorial and it is a time wasting for me

I have basically been playing on and off for years since i started in 08? 09? I passed 1500 hours in steam and I probably have hundreds more before i started using it to log my usage. I admit i have started over with new accounts, but I have a few characters that I rawdogged past level 200 in reboot. I decided to shift back to interactive by burning a night walker, and I am still learning stuff about how to optimize my stats. There is plenty of info out there, but if an idiot like me takes thousands of hours to figure out basic things like how there are two different types of potentials or how to find the secret map to begin the Princess No prequest... well I feel bad for new players lol

I quit when I got to 200 because I was just getting spammed with all these new systems and skills and abilities all at once

Gameplay is now completely different, while you like the nostalgia and trying everything out, I prefer progression and slowly moving to new maps, new bosses, and new content.

It's still slow pace just the goal post changed.. try get to 300 .

@@mattcee7113 Brain dead new player

@@pompomdidi Is that or being even slower to get to 300 or good gear, if you want to pq and go to the maps you can still do, fill the monster collection, get the cards, etc. If you want you can level up without events, bonks, exp coupon, etc

I’m sorry but 95% of all players now would quit IMMEDIATELY if shit was that slow back then. The game was dogshit back then but the social aspect made up for it, but now neither aspect is here anymore

a SINGLE ex growth pot is so funny 💀

And they also made it that the potion can’t be put in storage too. I just claimed them all on my main and was surprised to see I couldn’t store it for one of my legion characters

MapleRoyals

Yes there is a monthly “soft cap” through playing. Technically there is no cap if you’re willing to spend on NX, since your NX purchases get you RP.

it is a grindy game , thats literally what this game is all about. Nothing wrong with being a casual daily player but you can't complain you have to grind when the main aspect of the game is grinding ...

@@masterace1071 I never said it wasn't a grindy game. But the fact is with the addition of 6th job there is an unnecessary need to farm another 1k mob. If you want to for exp go ahead and train. I am only just pointing out a factor that can impact player satisfaction and retention that has already affected some like myself. And how does it impact you in any way if the requirement decreased down to 2k?

Tbh it gets easier the more sacred symbol areas you unlock. Killing 3k mobs in 1 area sucks but killing 1500 in one area and 500 in 3 other area makes it feel better

End-game changes very frequently which is good, since it means the game is alive and being updated regularly. There was PvP back in 2010/2012 or something like that, but not anymore

End game is about the bossing in maple story next to fashion story, at least in heroic world. In contrast to what people say, hands matter in maplestory end game bossing and there is a degree of skill expression in general

it is a grindy mmo , progression is the main goal. End game is all about party bossing, basically like raiding from other mmos (altho its only 6 man party).

End game = use your credit card and hope for the best. Unless dont play this trash game

@@rinreborn7364 clearly you know nothing about the game lol. You can't p2w in reboot(heroic) and that's the main server everyone plays and the only server anyone should play.

You don’t have to do things optimally, you can play it for fun just to see how the animations of the different class changed. That’s how I restarted

It is really not that hard anymore to progress, sad to say, especially not on reboot. If you're thinking of going into it i can help out with tips. This game is still very much worth your time, albeit in moderation.

Theres plenty of info out there. I would say to start by making friends :) that will 100% get you further ahead than video guide.

If you have money, everything is possible. If not, dont come back just like me

@@Mach2style yes just not in the heroic servers

Come GMS then

Go gms and get banned 😢

tl;dr - MSEA's director/board needs to push these needed aggressive changes without fear of Nexon Korea's retaliation. It's unlikely to happen given the mix of similar cultures between regions and the population which is smaller than GMS', but I do hope it happens. ----- Pretty much all the recent GMS changes have been pushed by its new director, a movement that could be seen by Nexon Korea as a direct confrontation against them, but likely backed up by GMS' decline over the last years and presented as a plan to keep the game going long term to their board to avoid retaliation from Korea. You can bet Inkwell's not in a good light at the moment back in Nexon Korea. For MSEA to improve, something similar would need to happen. My thoughts is that this is much less likely to happen for MSEA given the similarities in cultures between this region and Korea; they're more likely to bend to the latter's will rather than confront their point of view. I sure hope I'm proven wrong in the foreseable future though!

Yukinon already did

stop exploiting bugs then

@@Dnite13 players of every game will always take free stuff, it’s on the devs to prevent it and to fix it as soon as they can

​@@Dnite13Because people commenting on maintenance times are always exploiters, obviously.

@@dragostorm259 blame the players, every game has bugs

@@bigmanalexx_ and they did, plus 7 day bans

If you ever need to know how non-existent Inter is to him That mistake might as well not be one kek

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It's fast because they want to make it easier for people to get their Legion going. If you don't know what that is then its probably best to not ask questions because you're not getting to 1-200 in a blink of an eye.

Idk why people think this is true. Every week I party with 6 people to do group oriented stuff. Having to grind solo to get up to that point is where you guys are stuck at and honestly, maybe you're just not built for the game and that's fine.

@@yyyyyooo98 Nice copium. Not a single MMO gatekeep their new players from group content like Maplestory does, yet you're still finding ways to defend it. You're right about one thing, most people aren't built to play a slot machine lobby game like the current MS, where the entire game revolves around making bossing mules and tapping your gear, like a casino RNG slot machine game.

have fun playing in your dead servers where you grind endlessly for no reason with no content lmao.

I started playing again on pre BB server a week a go, its been great!

@@masterace1071 I mean, I don't like people who ride on the old school pserver scene too but they are not dead at all lmao. mapleroyals for example has been alive for at least a decade now or around that.. same with legends... they just avoid dmca by putting their servers in russia or some shit where dmca is not applicable

@@Backslash962 Respectfully, todays standard 1.5k players would be considered dead. If GMS had a total of 1.5k players.. LOL ! I aint hating though. What MapleRoyals has done is great and would like them to keep going to cater for that specific audience.

This gave me aids to read and I hope you never return to the game. At this point where you're asking questions like this when the game is in its best state ever, the issue is clearly you and not the game. You cling onto the past and refuse to move on. The game has been here for 20+ years , they are clearly doing something right. If you never once gave todays game a genuine chance, then please move on and don't comment on the games state because this comment radiates ignorant energy and it aint cute. Whats the point of 1-220 if you can blow past it in half a day ? No new player can do that. A veteran player can though, dont be mistaken on that. The whole basis of 1-200 is learning the BASICS which translates to 5th job from 200-300. Whats the point of learning 1st to 3rd jobs ? Some classes utilize like Cadenas utilize their 1st to 4th jobs so idk what the you're on about. Same with Ark and a few others. For majority like I said , its to learn the BASICS which translates to 5th job. Not all classes utilize their 1st to 3rd job skills but a handful still do. Whats the point of cool looking weapons when your skills takes up majority of the screen? It looks cool thats why. You can set your skills to be transparent and look at your weapon if you want. Why complain if thats an option. Whats the post of side quests? Honestly true. Side quests suck anyways so yea. Whats the point of beautiful areas with nice art when you go to the next grinding map ? Respectfully everyone trains at different paces. Some others will be slow, some others will be fast. If you want to appreciate the areas, whats stopping you ? Go and appreciate the art and take your time LOL. I may not have a purpose training in those areas anymore but I'll hop by anyways and visit old places that I haven't been to in a long time. Whats the point of PQs ? Nostalgia probably. Probably for the better anyways. I hope this satisfies you. Do comment back if your lady friend is interested in playing the game. I'd be down to play with her and show her a great time is with mushroom game.

Nexon will never release a classic Maple server, they wouldn't even do it before Mapleland, now Mapleland is out, its hopeless. They would rather keep their current playerbase chained to this current version of Maplestory, a slot machine lobby game. Where the entire game revolves around swiping and gambling.

@@july5345 tbh it was always like that but they had to adapt to the freemium game style which sucks

It wasn't always like that at all, there was time where community was integral part of the game which is now non existant

In my honest experience, it is also what you make of it. I still make friends and have good fun with people on maplestory. But I actively search for it and make the best of it.

@@GulatzoJPQ ):

@@Bliu2th oh yeah? I heard they remove PQ, community is shit because nobody wants to socialize, also PAY 2 WIN, lastly, ghost town everywhere

I spend 15min pet daily and maybe 2 hours at most for weekly per char.

@@fasddfadfgasdgs i cant even do monster park and mpe in 15 minutes. The thing is the game incentivizes u to do dailies/weeklies on multiple chars

god forbid the game change and evolve after 20 years. These boomer comments about how the game changed are so cringe , its literally all nostalgia. The game was objectively so ass back then , it was a fun casual social game that we enjoyed as kids. But as an actual mmo it was a pointless endless grind with no content. Doing pqs over and over get boring pretty fast as an adult once you are done with the whole ''explore the world'' aspect of the game.

@@masterace1071 change? It's i like mobile game hooked on korean crack

@@masterace1071 All I see is facts. Boomer comments are so cringe that I am actually wasting my night commenting on some of them because I am so triggered. I've been having boat loads of fun with my guild mates and everytime I hop on a coppersan / daboki video all I see is nostalgia driven boomers that havent touched the game since they were 8 years old talking about how amazing old Maple is.

Me too!! I feel like after some time they're gonna get lazy with the coding and just copy and paste it from kms again. I'll just enjoy it while it lasts and when it eventually happens find a new game to play. Ain't nobody got time for that

Trust me. In msea, its NOT well received. More than 50% of the population have quit ever since that announcement 😂

Meso cap is shit when you have a system so meso hungry like starforcing and cubing on regular