MapleStory

I love Maplestory. I've played it mostly on and a little off since 2004. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on this game in the past few years alone. There's so much great about this game, from the game itself to the communities and the people you can meet through it. But the worst part about this game has remained consistent from day one and that's Nexon themselves. Day after day, week after week, year after year, Nexon continually prioritizes short term profits and what can only be perceived as shafting the player for funsies over the actual health of the playerbase and game itself. Every positive change that the community has begged for years to receive is met with a huge caveat to it that takes you one step forward two steps back, or just sends you ten steps back outright. During the past two years of Inkwell's leadership of GMS, during this whole "Go WEST" mindset, every single unique change we've gotten to our server is exactly that or exists as a very clear attempt to grossly fund the Classic MS project that shouldn't have a single thing to do with GMS itself. On the other end of that, when KMS makes positive changes to their game and gives players things they've explicitly been asking for, without any caveats to it, it just doesn't come to GMS. Every. Single. Server. In the entire world has Universal Cash Shop now. We don't. Why? These consistent failures, these consistent, cheap attempts to garner favor while not actually solving any of the most core issues this game or playerbase has taken me from someone who maintained at a minimum MVP Diamond month after month to someone who has found GACHA GAMES of all things to be more rewarding to spend money on. Anyways, no, don't play this game. Not because the game itself is bad. It's not perfect, it has a lot of issues, but all of those issues exist exclusively to manipulate and force players into spending money because Nexon is too chicken ♥♥♥♥ and greedy.

I first played maplestory in 2006 as a kid. Loved the game. I remember chatting so much with people all over the country and making great friends. I've played it a couple of times as an adult now and it's absolutely terrible. The community component of the game sucks. It feels much more like a solo game now than it was when it first launched where it was more community based. I recently played either this year or last year and I got to level 150-ish in a few hours due to an event they were having (absolutely bizarre). And I recognize that ya know, communities for games change. So I recruited my partner to play with me. BRUH, we didn't even have a single quest we could do together because we started off in different maps and were leveling up so fast we couldn't even stay together. We tried to find group quests or some way to at least party up but it was such a terrible experience we gave up. Sometimes things are better off left in the past, lol. This was one of them.

nexon is one of the worst companies ever how tf do u take such a desired game like classic\oldschool maplestory and mange to turn the fanbase against it BEFORE IT EVEN LAUNCHES what a joke

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. I will forever miss you old Maple

Promise QoL features and "Go West" changes that benefit us and are optimized for our server and gameplay. Deliver half baked QoL features, cut wanted features that other servers get, don't communicate and nerf the gms exclusive rewards after posting patch notes.

False banned me years ago, came back on a new account 2 years ago to play with friends. - Game is riddled with bugs - This patch started off with core functionality being broken, like Starforcing. - Ton of legacy items. - Game is heavily RNG-focused. The only way you'll progress in this game is if you're lucky. - Class balancing is horrible. - GMS exclusive features are a massive chore. - Lack of shared cash shop. - Paid (NX) event buffs ends earlier than advertised, no refunds. Just a shared compensation that's given to everyone, even if they didn't spend. - Game is riddle with service buyers / bots. - Community managers are just scapegoats for management. - Boss loot room crash is still common. If it happens, support will tell you you're out of luck. - Player support just responds in templates. Had issues recently with paid (NX) items and Nexon Support basically told me to get bent. Game is promising, but the team behind it ruins the whole experience, especially the support staff. If anything goes wrong in this game, you're ♥♥♥♥ out of luck.

I've played the game for a few hours and gotten to level 45. I've killed maybe 100 mobs, and sat through 2 hours of the worst cutscenes I've experienced in a video game. My character's portrait next the the chat window looks nothing like the character I created. Maplestory in 2026 is nothing like original Maplestory, in the worst way possible.