And should we care? (Someone else brought this up but I thought it was interesting) Folks toss around population numbers and such but what if a small or large portion of remaining players are hackers/bots? Earlier this month I had actually visited one of the old school servers I used to play on and while walking through some World tour maps, I spotted a hacker/robot person. I changed channels but encountered yet another and another and a couple more after that.
People hitting entire screens worth of mobs without a matching skill is an issue that is not new and they can mostly be avoided if you know what you are doing but what about the long term effects? Is it possible that the only reason why Maple's population has not hit rock bottom is because the numbers are being kept afloat by illegitimate characters? It would explain why so many suggestions (demands?) from the community seem to fall on deaf ears. Since the players online never appears to drop below a certain threshold, the developers see no problem and therefore have no need to listen to feedback or make changes.
The A better Maple project sounded like a good idea but I see more rage about how that turned out more than almost anything else..
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