The Visitors

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.

You totally missed the point. This event is about testing innovative activities IN Maple. Yeah there are other MMOs with day-night cycles but that's irrelevant because we want to see if it's possible in the constructs of the client they have. Think about what's happened when they tried new things with permanent additions:
* Boomers replicating when damaged. Neat idea. Unfortunately, major flaw in that poisoning them caused them to replicate endlessly and created major server lag. Couldn't be done so they had to change it. Wouldn't it have worked better if they tested replication on a timed event map where the amount of lag a single FP mage could generate was limited?
* Bigfoot. The idea was that he would be a boss monster, but not flagged as a boss, so that you could use things like freeze, stun, whatever to help in dealing with him. Unintended side effect: Poisoned by FP mages and shadow web allowed him to be killed in seconds resulting in ridiculous leveling speed. If this were something else that didn't give as much EXP, something temporary or in a special event map which could have access cut off, then it wouldn't have been as much of an issue. Instead they had to cut the EXP down to nothing and that hurt the people who were trying to kill it legitimately. Eventually it ended up so that only 2 or 3 classes could fight it effectively.

Point is, this way if it goes well, they can use what they learned here to make more interesting permanent areas in the future. If it doesn't go well, we aren't stuck with a permanent area built on a broken premise.

Keep in mind they never said anything about it being Krakia or whatever. That was our assumption based on the information at hand. We had absolutely nothing pointing to this so we had no way of guessing it right. All we knew was: A. This is a new area. and B. It was made by GMS and technology themed. Based on that the logical conclusion was that it would be Krakia. It's pretty ridiculous to try to say that they're manipulating our expectations to build hype for something else. Let's face it, the vast majority of the player base is completely unaware of Krakia at all. There's no reason to think nexon would want to play with the .5% that has heard of it.

The only thing to legitimately complain about here is that they're doing their real-time "miss one day and you're screwed" event right when most of their players have to go back to school or college.

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.

Can't agree with that more. Sick of disconnecting constantly whenever i stand still, kill monsters, change channels, log out, alt+tab...