MapleStory

Living Purgatory.

this game is a CIA-driven humiliation ritual for the player (YOU). just play a private server until classic releases and pray to whatever god you trust that nexon doesn't ruin that too

Worst patch. I wait Frieren for month and Nexon nerf the pet rate from 1% -> 0.25%.

I'm a returning player but I am new as my first time playing was 2022 for a few months. Although there's been a lot of improvements there is still some additional QoL updates that could be done to make things easier for people without having to spend so many hours on the game, also why is maintenance so long just to not fix the initial bugs first time around or create new issues? Improve your practices.

not even a shell of its former self

Unplayable on steamdeck

After being enthusiastic to play this game for the first time with my spouse who has nostalgic memories of playing this game in her youth, stay away the controls are horrible and don't allow you to fid it without using 3rd party software to change it for your universal settings which is not a real solution, figuring out where to go or how to adapt to the new systems, this game is terrible i would say do no i repeat do not waste your time on this terrible game. the amount of bugs and broken quests that are supposedly just normal make this the worst use of your time.

"Global" MapleStory solely exists to fund the development of Classic MapleStory. Nexon America does not care about improving the GMS experience, despite Inkwell taking over and pushing the "Go West" narrative. The game has taken 1 step forward and 2-3 steps backwards every major patch, with completely useless community managers and empty communications. Repeated false promises and neglected issues such as the Universal Cash Shop, with our server being the only one without it, alongside ZERO communication as to why. GMS repeatedly spits in the faces of players, having rampant server issues inducing server rollbacks, lost items, and real money spent in-game. Despite introducing a private test server, "minor" maintenances are 6-8 hours with extensions and additional unscheduled maintenances. Even with all this time, the game servers will come up extremely buggy and broken with some players just unable to play. All while having the audacity to bring over the Battle Passes from KMS AND adding their own GMS passes into the game. Content is copy and pasted into our version 6 months behind KMS, with QOL very rarely being fast tracked. With our GMS exclusive content falling flat on expectations and quality. This is only a fraction of the issues plaguing GMS and Nexon America, I love MapleStory and truly think it could be one of the best MMORPGS on the market. However, Nexon simply does not share the same vision nor the passion to properly publish and develop the game.