2011-07-04, 03:43 PM
Part of the "old maple > new maple" argument is that all the new players that weren't around when maple was hard to level in (before big bang, before dual-blades, before reorganization, before potential, before white scrolls, before chaos scrolls, before the MTS, before dark scrolls, before the plethora of godly items available in the FM...), take the new system for granted and act like it's always been this easy.
On top of that, getting above 100 before ludi and el nath were in place was a chore. I remember grinding my bishop to 8x in the Kerning City Subway area 4 on wraiths because Coolies was always full. It was because of that grind fest that I made my original leveling calculator.
I remember before Orbis actually had content, when you'd fly to the island in the sky, risking death if you were noob an unaware, and getting there and not having anything to do except talk to NPCs and go down a giant 20-story well that led you nowhere... Then I remember when Ludi came out, and it was that same crap, except instead of being a 20-story well, it was a 100-story well, and everyone said the PQ was at the bottom, so we'd race our friends down down down and when we got to the bottom, we'd realize there was nothing down there and we'd have no return scrolls and we'd let out a YELP and suicide.
New content has always made maplestory a replayable game. Whether it's new maps, characters, item systems, or just experiences with new people, the game has always been this way, now there's just more crap to complain about.
On top of that, getting above 100 before ludi and el nath were in place was a chore. I remember grinding my bishop to 8x in the Kerning City Subway area 4 on wraiths because Coolies was always full. It was because of that grind fest that I made my original leveling calculator.
I remember before Orbis actually had content, when you'd fly to the island in the sky, risking death if you were noob an unaware, and getting there and not having anything to do except talk to NPCs and go down a giant 20-story well that led you nowhere... Then I remember when Ludi came out, and it was that same crap, except instead of being a 20-story well, it was a 100-story well, and everyone said the PQ was at the bottom, so we'd race our friends down down down and when we got to the bottom, we'd realize there was nothing down there and we'd have no return scrolls and we'd let out a YELP and suicide.
New content has always made maplestory a replayable game. Whether it's new maps, characters, item systems, or just experiences with new people, the game has always been this way, now there's just more crap to complain about.