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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:29 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:36 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:00 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:45 pm
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I am a level 200 Bishop. I am comfortably in the top 100 in one of the largest servers, so not one of the first-gen players, but I've still been around forever.
I don't know how to feel about this thing. As a player that reached 200 before Big Bang, I have a substantial permanent advantage: I reached 200 with MP Increase, that has since been removed, and replaced by a 20% blanket boost. So, I get to have the full advantages of both, and my MP is over 25000 without Hyper Body. I also got all the Bishop books way back. It's kinda horrible watching all these people scramble for Big Bang 30s when I bought mine for 5 million when it was completely worthless.
Also, I love that they finally took 2x XP away. I HATED that about Maple. They'd talk about "free" on their website, but it was like the sales pitch of a used car salesman: no competitive player could possibly get anywhere without 2x XP cards, and one had to sit at the computer in 4 hour increments to play Maple, being unable to step away or call it quits. Now, we can play whenever we want, and anybody can achieve a high level, not just those with big money for the experience cards.
HOWEVER... Maple is still about money, and I think the removal of 2x was done not to make Maple "free." I think what they did was realize that before only a fairly small group was spending a fortune on NX, that is the competitive players who were going for high levels. Now, EVERYONE can go for high levels, and so everybody will be tempted to spend more on NX.
The Cash Shop scams continue. When I left the game they instituted permanent NX clothes for double the price of 90 day. Then, they obviously realized that was costing them money, so they removed it. Now, they're selling them permanently for the first 2 weeks, and it becomes 90 day after that. I love how they say it's to "simplify the cash shop experience," when it's an obvious marketing scam.
Finally, and most importantly, the basic principle of equipment in Maple Story has not changed, and that is the biggest scam. They keep releasing updates that make old gear obsolete. Most of my friends have spent billions of mesos on their gear, each time this happens they spend billions more to update their equipment. Until this s**t stops, (which it probably never will,) I don't think Maple will ever be worth playing. This stuff makes children steal their parents' credit cards to get NX, in my CVS they don't accept my credit card half the time because the management has been told to only accept cash for NX cards.
I think overall, Big Bang breathes new life into this game by fixing a lot of problems, but the things that REALLY were the problems in this game remain alive and well. I think anyone who plays other games and is not addicted to Maple should not choose this game. Yes, I am level 200, but I can tell you from my position that having gotten there, there's nothing to do and you start wondering why the hell you did it in the first place.
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:38 pm
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:41 pm
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veffanculo I've gotta be honest...I haven't touched MS since mid August and even then, I had no clue as to what "Big Bang" is...From what I see, they're adding 2 new jobs/classes...I'm guessing that's not all there is to it, since there's a big hullabaloo about it. Anyone care to further inform me?
They added two new classes, changed nearly every skill in the game in one way or another, merged some skills, added a couple new skills to some classes, changed a lot of maps, added/removed some features, changed almost every damage/stat calculation in the game, changed the exp curves, and I'm sure I'm missing a handful of things.
See Here for a list of a good number of the changes.
My thoughts:
As a player who played from Beta until quitting two years ago, it's tempting me to play Maple again. I got to 138 on my Dark Knight, but I was 134 when 4th came out. The skills they gave Dark Knights in 4th made it feel like my efforts were wasted which is why I quit 4 levels later. But now, I like how they've tweaked and merged some of the skills. Maybe it's just because I was never a hybrid, but it feels like I'm playing a whole new character now.
And this is saying a lot since I vowed to never touch Maple again after finding out my DK's godly Blue Whitebottoms and Brown Work glove had been stolen off my pirate character while I was away for a few months.
One thing I don't like is the new accuracy curve. My hermit is now unable to scratch the few things I would train it on before, and I'm afraid to see what my DK can't hit.
Overall, many of the updates were greatly needed. But will it be enough to keep me in the game personally? Right now, I'm wanting to go back. But in the end I probably wont feel this way after a few hours of grinding. And even so, I might not even attempt to go back until they resolve my customer support ticket (which is currently being looked at (apparently)) and give me my damn equips back.
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 11:03 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:51 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:42 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:16 pm
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Imaginary Fox Vice Captain
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