When was the last time you seriously had fun playing MapleStory?

I still kind of have fun. For example, yesterday I was questing and puppet was very fun to use on the ludi clocktower monsters.

However, it's not the same anymore because most of my friends have quit, especially one who basically was the "soul" of my old guild. She got everyone to talk and do stuff as a guild. Another factor was that my brother quit, but I was still able to have a lot of fun before my guild collapsed because we did GQs, HPQs, KPQs, CPQs together and chat. I didn't mind grinding since there will often be purple text entertaining me.

Personally, the competition and getting better equips are tedious for me, since they are expensive and I don't want to spend my time just trying to make money merchanting.

That's basically it.