The Visitors

This is what i consider a "Trial by fire" test. There are a LOT of new techniques being used in this update - the kinds of things we've never seen before. NPC allies fighting with you, quest progression via real time, map backgrounds changing over time, moving platforms in JQs, etc. These are things that, if it goes well, will undoubtedly be used in future permanent expansions. However, right now, it's important to see if these things actually work in the real game - and what better way than via event? KMS does this literally all the time. Springs, for example, were first used in the moon event. Now they're a permanent fixture of Orbis. Low gravity maps were used in that moon event as well, now the dragon rider PQ. This is promising if only because there's a lot of innovation in this event, and if it succeeds, it means there's a potential for big things in the future and that's something maple desperately needs.

Except a lot of these things are already successful if you compare to other games. The "real time" thing will probably only be successful if they tie in what they said about time travel, so that when the event is over you can go back in time and do everything in the event again and again. That won't really be a successful idea if the weapons and such expire though. >_> What shouldn't have been done was build hype by milking the existing popularity of exclusive content, only to release this which has nothing to do with any of it. When planning the concepts for this, it should have been something tested with an expansion to something that already exists. If they released episode 2 with all of this new stuff, they could test their s'hit while expanding on something already "successful". Those players who actually thought something of this place have only been put down, without getting really excited for this because it all EXPIRES and therefore sucks complete ass.

Also, the "Ultimate visitor" boss sucks. It's too weak to be any fun against a party (33m HP is not that much even for one person after releasing potential), yet too strong to be solo'd for most classes because of it's extremely high damage and KB. The only redeeming factor of this boss is that it gives twice the exp BF does, and that's not really that great because we don't know how available this boss will be to kill. Of course, if the VIP weapons drop from him and they DON'T expire, i take back what i say.

One more thing. RELEASE THE W7 CLIENT ALREADY. I HAVEN'T ZAKKED IN MONTHS AND HAVE NEVER SURVIVED A HT AND IT'D BE NICE TO EXPERIENCE THE ONLY HIGH LEVEL BOSSES I CAN ACCESS.