Does anyone even bother to play it anymore? I mean, I still play it from time to time every time new content is released. Take for example, the Cygnus Knight revamp is coming up, I might play that.

(We've had 4 other maplestory threads in the past but seeing as none of them are really detailed I'm not too concerned about duplicate threads until someone bothers to make a better one.)

Maplestory jumped the shark, didn't they? As far as the gameplay goes, it's gone to hell, from what I've heard. By the time I quit, Nexon was already starting to show its true colors of screwing over long-time players with content that outdated them - basically, the classes like Aran and Evan that completely outclassed the "Adventurer" classes - and turning it into a pay-to-win game.

I'm not averse to the idea that it's a fun game to play with your friends to kill time and dick around, but does it have even a shred of gameplay value anymore? What made me stop giving it a chance in my mind altogether was when I heard they made leveling a trivial task. My friend who had worked for several months to hit level 170 told me after a certain patch that suddenly everyone was 200. Just makes it feel like there's no point in trying anymore, doesn't it?

Musuto I totally agree! Having the other classes coming out basically every 6 months has to overpower explorers in every way, and it feels like there's no sense of balance of classes in the game. and that's a problem for me. I've played almost every classes, then, when I switch back to explorers, you can already see a huge difference in abilities and skills. It kind of pisses me off that they'd rather create new classes to please people and not fix the balancing issues already plaguing the game.