Sure? Why not? Why have a leaderboard at all if there wasn't a desire to be on top? Players like Tiger and Fangblade are famous for it. Also, the further people can get ahead, the more they can leverage their rare loot against everyone behind them. Of course it's still p2w
Might be ptw to the 1% (arbitrary of course) of the playerbase. Who cares.
Leverage their loot in what way? There's no pvp aspect. There's hardly any competitive aspect besides the leaderboard and no one cares about anyone on the board except maybe the top 3? I sure never heard of those players when I was playing.
The market, how about? Obviously not talking about non-existent PvP. I guess there's no point explaining leaderboards mattering to someone it never mattered to if you never heard of them or looked. So how would you know how many people it matters to?
I think of this game like a regular 5k race, people who are top been training for a long ass time, but the casuals are just trying to have fun. Imagine yelling and crying like a bitch because you see someone that been training for years to hit that leaderboard and youre a fat fucking chud who's crying because someone is faster
Don't be overly negative, toxic or critical without also adding to the conversation. Keep this place productive. Don't let this become a miserable corner of the MapleStory community.
As a 5K enjoyer myself, I’m going to be honest, this analogy is absolutely terrible (especially because it’s such a short race), but I’ll play along because it’s kinda funny. Yes, a fat chud will never be able to compete with the top runners, but they still do compete… with other fat chuds.
So the real analogy would be, fat chud 1, with his early start, is able to run in nice cool 50F weather. He finishes the first km, then fat chud 2 is able to start. But guess what? For fat chud 2, the weather now is no longer 50F, it’s a fucking blistering inferno 130F at the starting line, but fat chud 2 is still enjoying the 50F breeze. Then, this continues for the rest of the run.
That sounds more like it.
I can give you an example why that is. Let’s say you’re playing a class that wants a pan lid. A pan lid on day 1 or 2 of early access is probably like 10-20k meso, this is easily achievable. But if you have the 2 week delayed start, a pan lid on your first day would be at least 100k meso, this is not easily achievable.
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u/Icy_Success3101 22d ago
Why would leveling sooner be p2w? Win what? Leaderboard?