MapleStory's Future

If I recall, big bang WAS the rewrite? I'm not sure I just remember that being the case

Could be, cause I remember spadows blog post along these lines:
"In this conference it turned out that MapleStory 2 is actually a seperate project from MapleStory 3D"

Then again here:
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-12-...58,2.shtml

That article was about the same conference as Spadows blog was about. I think Spadow meant MapleStory DS with the "MapleStory 3D". Why would they have a "team MS2" just for Big Bang? Huge patch =/= sequel and it wouldn't require a special team, just the typical update team for MS.

Funny. I remember this same topic in 2007. "Hackers have taken over! Nexon just wants our money! Meso buyers have KILLED the economy! This game won't last another year!". Where are we now? 4 years later and the game is as strong as ever. It has more players than ever, and though it's declining, Nexon has gotten a good enough cash shop that for the most part they make much more money per person than they used to. Things aren't great, but I can't see 'maplestory 2.0' fixing things unless it's a full replacement of ms with character and item transfer. [SIZE="4"]Nobody that has played an mmo wants to just drop their progress and every hour they've put into a game and just move on to ms 2.0. [/SIZE]The more likely scenario is that ms 2.0 is just a rewritten version of the same game with better security. Aka, big bang 2.
What's really needed is validation checking on inputs, packet checking, and better software than hackshield. 99% of the exploits we see now are simply "record packet 1, change value, spam new packet", or some variety of that. If they did simple things like validating input, scanning packets for abnormal values, or replacing hackshield with whatever that old one was that fixed hacking for a few years we'd be much better off.

I do.

Really, the Big Bang exp curve already took that progress and hours "away" from me. No one is going to remember or "respect" how much we old players used time on training. We were supposed to have fun training or getting levels, if we didn't, then we can only blame ourself.

And it's not like MS1 would be gone after MS2 comes out. The characters would still stay there safe.