MapleStory Then and Now

Damn, I just got nostalgia'd. And it worked.

The moment I heard about Big Bang, my first thought was that the MapleStory I joined when I was 12 would cease to exist, and there's a part of me that finds that very unsettling. Even after they're long gone, I don't think I'll forget the boring white menus and tight-knit communities of yesteryear.

We need to decide what will be carried over into this new Maple World? Some of the decisions have been hard, but we’re confident that when all is said and done, we’ll have brought the best of the old MapleStory into the new.

They're going to fully kill Masteria by leaving it out of Big Bang, it's official!

Is there really 4,000+ quests?

Not that I know of.

Not that I know of.

Multi-part quests, event quests, job only quests, I would believe it's over 4000.

They're going to fully kill Masteria by leaving it out of Big Bang, it's official!

I would hope your being sarcastic about this.

They're going to fully kill Masteria by leaving it out of Big Bang, it's official!

Henesy will probably stay the same.
Korean folk town won't go cuz it's a checkpoint from Aqua rode to Ludibrium

- More cody events
- More masteria updates
- More holiday bosses spawning at random.


Those were all good things! BRING THEM BACK N3X0N!!!

Henesy will probably stay the same.
Korean folk town won't go cuz it's a checkpoint from Aqua rode to Ludibrium

- More cody events
- More masteria updates
- More holiday bosses spawning at random.


Those were all good things! BRING THEM BACK N3X0N!!!

Anyone who thinks NEXON America will get rid of their pride and joy is dumb. JMS already did the mobs and the bosses thats just a copy and paste. They just gotta fix the NLC mobs for themself, same with Haunted House, and our version of Big Foot.

Nothing of use ever comes from their "Blog" posts.


Nothing.



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I feel tempted to talk about the change in hacking from then and now.

Back then... Oh there's the occasional show-off fly/speed hacker in towns, and those silly vac hackers, some which are stupid enough to do it in public places...

Now... The dreaded 900+ attack Stonetooth, account hacking at an alarming rate like AsiaSoft's versions are getting, D/C hacks, item duping...

Seems to me that I'd probably take the fly hackers and vac hacking over today's hacking.

Tell us how many bugs you've had THEN and NOW, Nexon.

The numbers tend to be somewhat arbitrary in my experience. The games I tested had about 13,000 bugs in the database by the time of release on average, granted a fair number were waived... but at least it included everything from alpha forward. No I didn't add a zero there.

Anyway, even if you have the number of bugs, how will that information help? Would you want it higher or lower? Both seem to have negative connotations to the public anyway.

They're going to fully kill Masteria by leaving it out of Big Bang, it's official!

I got the impression that they didn't really want to destroy Vic, but felt they had to in order to be consistent with the BM's attack.

Anyone who thinks NEXON America will get rid of their pride and joy is dumb. JMS already did the mobs and the bosses thats just a copy and paste. They just gotta fix the NLC mobs for themself, same with Haunted House, and our version of Big Foot.

If we copy paste that junk from JMS that will be a massive let down.

I got the impression that they didn't really want to destroy Vic, but felt they had to in order to be consistent with the BM's attack.

You don't know how badly I want them to leave that out. HOW BADLY! But if they do go through with it hopefully they won't do the same retarded job KMS and JMS did on their areas to NLC/CWK.

If we copy paste that junk from JMS that will be a massive let down.



You don't know how badly I want them to leave that out. HOW BADLY! But if they do go through with it hopefully they won't do the same retarded job KMS and JMS did on their areas to NLC/CWK.

Cute, but JMS did the same remap job on Mushroom Shrine as KMS did on Victoria Island. And they both suck massively. Port Road or whatever the f'uck it's called that links all the towns together looks like something from a 5th rate private server ran by 14 year olds.

Is there really 4,000+ quests?

There is No way there is 4000 quests for a person to do on a single character. There might be 4000 different quests if you added up every quest for each character for each class.



Sooo they have been bug testing for a few weeks now...so BB should be relatively bug free, right?

Now there’s so much to do in Maple World we need to speed up the leveling just so you can see it all!

Say what? Faster levelling makes one *miss* content.

Global MapleStory at Launch
4 Classes
3 Worlds
1 Zone
~450 Quests

Global MapleStory Now!
13 Classes
10 Worlds
10 Main Zones
Over 4,000 Quests

Hmmm? How do they count? Every step of a quest counts as a quest, but Corsairs and Buccaneers are the same class?

We need to decide what will be carried over into this new Maple World? Some of the decisions have been hard, but we’re confident that when all is said and done, we’ll have brought the best of the old MapleStory into the new.

I don't like the sound of that. I hope it means they're leaving the Seventh Day Market behind, but...

This is more like a GM blog than a dev blog. Lame.

Agreed.

I'm getting annoyed that they keep alluding to Big bang changes. Info has been out since the summer, and they announced it mid-September. I can't help but think, after everything, I'm just going to end up disappointed if they don't ass pull something major. Saying just one specific thing is different than other versions and telling how isn't too much to ask.

Day of darkness was years in the making?

I'm getting annoyed that they keep alluding to Big bang changes. Info has been out since the summer, and they announced it mid-September. I can't help but think, after everything, I'm just going to end up disappointed if they don't ass pull something major. Saying just one specific thing is different than other versions and telling how isn't too much to ask.

Day of darkness was years in the making?

a feeling in my gut says they're going to cut the insides of the bread and hand us the crust on this topic... =[

I hope they mean that they'll cut away stupid friggin half arse jobs like their own expansion to Neo City and such. Scratch that, hope they cut away the whole bloody area.

tl;dr
"PUBERTY IS A WONDERFUL THING...!"
"LOL NOOBS DIED!!!!!!1111oneoneonefourttwo"
"We shove pomegranate load of content in you liek yes?"
"OH pineapple THESE CLASSES AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH SO WE'RE GOING TO THROW 50 MORE AT YOU!!!!!11"
"WE SHOVE MORE pomegranate LOAD OF CONTENT IN BEFORE END OF YEAR YOU BETTER LIEK."

Sums up the blog post pretty nicely. God I hate content.

GM revisionist history: no hacking ever occurred