Maplestory is not dying, it is already deceased

How many people would even care about actual s,cubes, viable toading, flames, extra stars etc, If someone who didn't play KMS would be here, and would showcase how successful it is there and how it helped MS? You're claiming that I am so Ignorant about GMS while you don't play KMS (I know you have an account but it doesn't count), that sort of comment is what's not helping anything.

I do genuinely believe people are exaggerating about the Player-base though, Koreans aren't no life grinders 24/7, this is just stupid, everyone plays the game more or less the same, and everyone can enjoy it especially now and it could be amazing if GMS could fix its issues and get on the ground like KMS, I am not sure why this is though, why people insist that the mindsets are so different between the east and the west to the point where this game which everyone enjoyed in the past and many still do enjoy exists, everyone does grind and so on, the only viable issue is the management not the playerbase which prevents adding actual good stuff onto the game, if nexon KR thought so badly of GMS being played by koreans there wouldn't be so many deficiencies.

Some games do better than others in different countries, that's just a fact. I think there are definitely strong differences, you can see based on what kind of games are popular in Korea vs America, but the people who play GMS and KMS are, of course, far more similar than like, I don't know, Japanese Final Fantasy players vs American Halo players, I think, simply because both were drawn towards playing Maple in the first place.

I feel like whenever people say that the game needs big sweeps, they don't get that, it's frankly impossible and a change is better than no change, it does slow down the bleeding of players, I am not asking of anyone to be thankful but realize that it is just impossible with how things are heading and the KRs won't budge.

I don't feel it's reasonable to just accept that, it's something that really needs to change, and I feel others feel the same way, hence the complaints.

Somewhat wrong, the only way to bring out its full potential in GMS is by Fusing and getting 2% (->6% atk) Bonus Potential, Just like I've said it's just not as viable, in kms you for example try to get 18 stars on a fafnir (first bonus pot from level 10 items) and then transfer to absolabs, gear which is pointless in GMS due to the fact you can't go beyond 15, due to the increased attack from 16 and above, absolabs become amazing, this is lacking in GMS, buying level 80 overalls and SCUBING them to 9% and toading and so on, you're relying too much on dumb RNG with MPE, and just like you said, for now, it saves and makes us KMSers a lot of money, do you get it now? I am sad it's not viable in GMS, I make 20M per overall with 9% around 3m investment, 17m pure profit and keep on doing this and I become stronger and stronger, 20m or so = 2 tries at 15+ stars for example so I am happy and content with this, less pay2win, more 9%+ equips and so on.

We got more abundant crafting cubes basically in exchange for the existence of occult cubes. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up, but they've never really done anything for me anyway. We lack many of the ways to make mesos that exist in KMS, our crafting cubes aren't even tradeable. But mesos are basically useless anyway, it's technically against the rules to use them in a way that would make a significant difference (like, buying NX without cash trading), mesos being worthless means any good equips (like fully scrolled and cubed equips) are far too expensive for regular players to get.

Well, I just really think that GMS is restricted, Khaini pointed it out for me, How many changes can you already do :/? think about adding flames&scubes&and so on, wouldn't that be a huge great sweep we all want? Thing is, how do you get this? Really how? How do we convince nexon KR to stop treating GMS as 2nd class citizen?
Ah yes I even forgot about auction House, such a great feature I use every day to find 3l epic overalls or other equips to scube and make money off, see things like this? on the other hand maplefm does exist but shops aren't free, so it is sad, Look I agree with you all, but you also have to realistic how is this obtainable?

By being vocal about it. Things don't change if you do nothing. Hell, we don't even have evidence things change even when we do things, maybe they would've done the "A Better Maple" improvements even if we weren't complaining, but it's better to give it a try than not doing anything at all. But not here, this is basically the land Nexon has forsaken.

And, you know, getting all the stuff in KMS that don't exist in GMS isn't like the limit of changes they could make, I don't agree that getting closer to KMS is the standard we should be aiming for, hell, when we lost Occult Cubes, they were pomegranate, they only worked on rare and epic stuff, and they deranked, and in exchange, we got crafting cubes that were much easier to get, and that was a hell of a positive change compared to just doing what KMS did. Getting some of those things would definitely be nice, but we can do better.