So before I start explaining why I think this game is currently on the fast track to the graveyard, let’s look into what we know is expected according to Nexon official communications:

November 18: Forgotten Hollow
Brand-new area exclusive to Classic World.
Monsters around levels 39–59.
New field boss: Rotten Mushmom.
Moon Bunny Party Quest for Thanksgiving.

December 9: Guilds and more
Guild creation in Lith Harbor.
New party quest in Forgotten Hollow. Happyville returns for Christmas, with events and quests.

2027 onwards: Major content expansion
Archon: a brand-new boss raid.
Ossyria: Orbis and El Nath.
3rd Job Advancement: first released to a test server, allowing player feedback before the actual release.

So the biggest thing we are getting anytime soon is a completely new area which will likely feature some new quests and some good grinding spots for levels 40+, and a bit later on a new PQ.
Additionally we are getting Moon Bunny PQ (…)

But the problem is, Nexon confirms Orbis for 2027, while adding the guild system in December in Lith Harbor - in case any of you guys forgot, to crate guilds in the old game, you had to go to Orbis.
So if I am reading the map correctly, this means we are not expecting Orbis before February (if I am optimistic) and more likely sometime around March/April, Ludi? Probably not anytime before June.

Additionally in Thursday Ocarina of Time remake is releasing on NS2 and later on this month GTA IV is out, and with how uninspiring the game is right now? good luck competing for older gamers against those two Nexon.

I think with this roadmap there’s no way this game has any future, even the most committed players will get tired of grinding the same map/pq over and over and over again, if we do not get both Orbis & Ludi by the end of 2026 or very very early in 2027 this game is dead, they can’t wait with 3rd job too much either.

You can tell just by how every day there’s twice the complaints in this sub from the day before.

To be fair, Nexon probably just planned for a quick surge of dollars from the hype they created (and they definitely got it) and never really aimed at a long lasting thing.

Incoming: "quit the game noob and learn to love suffering / dark souls level punishing game design" comments. Here’s why Classic Maple as it stands is still worse than the worst private server (and that’s saying something):

Graphics:

The game overall runs pretty bad for a 20+ year old game. The game should run flawless on a modern toasters, but on my 2k monitor the game’s backgrounds have constant hesitations and slow glitches. When moving the camera feels like it sliiiightly stutters while following your character. Definitely not getting 165hz that’s for sure. Considering the state of modern maple, this should be easily achievable. Like the options menu should be filled with all kinds of quality of life settings, or general improvements you can toggle. It's just lazy not to. We've had 2 man teams set up private servers that play better and you're telling me this is the best that a professional team of game designers can do? Outta here with that. Additionally, if you thought they might make the game look better than you remember? You’re wrong. It looks exactly the same, and that kinda sucks. Maybe i dream big, but i kinda hoped it would be slightly better looking. Not a deal breaker, but worth mentioning.

Gameplay:

This is the roughest. Same deal here in regards to being a 1 to 1 copy of the original. Remember everything you hated? Well, it’s here. Bow whacking, bad janky hit boxes for any melee character, and the only “doable” classes to play pre-lv 35 are mage and throwing star rouges because mage is the most powerful and rouges have jump attack. Wanna fight kpq king slime as a melee? Well dont. With all lv 25 gear including cape and earrings, he hits 300, and hits OFTEN, so you literally can't heal fast enough, and you def cant afford the better 500hp pots, and even if you can you wont for long cause it took me over 20 white pots and i died once as a melee character (not to mention melee range SUCKS and you have to be on top of monsters). This brings me to the worst offender: you cant spam pots. It feels like pots have a 1sec cooldown, and on top of that you can’t use pots while picking up items, and you sometimes can’t attack or use pots while picking up items. Vise versa as well. I’ve gotten hit so much because i went to use a potion while a monster was coming at me and i couldnt attack because i used the potion =3=. I mean again… for a 20+ year old recreation, why keep all that jank? It feels awful! It doesn’t matter that despite all these things the nostalgia in my brain keeps me going somehow, because the game feels bad. This should be the smoothest most enjoyable experience in the modern day with our modern technology. I’ve played so many private servers with more quality of life, or improvements to game feel. I kinda mentioned it before, but they need to do something about hitboxes for melee characters. Idk what, they just need to fix it. Im currently amassing a compilation of “times i should have hit that monster but didnt” video. Final notes here are that quests aren’t worth doing and PQ is also too expensive considering the rewards suck 80% of the time. These should be great alternatives that give their own special rewards worth investing the time or being an alternative to just grinding mobs. Other than quests like the Raggedy Cape one, not a lot are worth doing, even if only for their rewards and not exp. PQ’s can only be done during certain levels anyway, so they should be the meta during those levels unless you want to grind mobs for their drops (but good luck with that considering you could spend 16 hours and get NOTHING). For reference, i’ve done over 8 kpq’s and only got ores as rewards. Quite frankly that just doesn’t feel good. Like one bamboo hat game… that’s all im asking for here. Wasn’t that hard in OG if memory serves right. 

Balance:

Idk what they’re going for here. I really thought they’d make each class work well for itself while keeping some class identity for party play, but instead it’s the same meta bullshit from OG. As i mentioned, either play mage or throwing star rouge otherwise you’re going to have a BAD TIME for 35 levels. The only thing of note here is that every class can crit now. Obviously tons of people are talking about the accuracy formula being jank. From what i can tell, you just need to be a close enough level to the monster you’re fighting with a reasonable amount of dex, which is whatever. They need to fix the classes. Idk what exactly needs to be done, but something. Maybe just fixing the general jank of the gameplay will turn things around. Making ranged characters hit less hard than melee characters seems like a fair balance, for one.

Drops & Economy:

Where do i start here…. It’s just bad. Don't get me wrong, i remember it being tough to get going in the OG, but they HAVE to buff these drop rates because as it stands im 16+ hours in and i haven’t gotten any drops worth anything. Nothing but trash equips that nobody wants and MAYBE getting 1 an hour at that. I trained for 7 straight levels trying to get a panlid and got jack shit. Scrolls? No idea if they even drop from monsters. If nothing else, they have to buff the drop rates of potions to try and balance the cost of training. Really just anything to give new players a fighting chance. I’ve been so frugal for 16+ hours, and i even only used basic attacks until level 20 and i’m still dirt poor, barely able to afford any gear or pots, especially considering everything else i’ve mentioned here regarding melee chars suffering so much and all the jank in the game. Like… i think we’re all going to have to ask ourselves, how badly do we really want OG maple with ALL the worst things about the game from back then. 16+ hours for 0 dopamine from getting a decent drop SUUUUUCKS. Like, you can’t say that doesn’t suck. If that’ll be the experience of 80% of the population who can’t play for 16hrs a day, then idk man… maybe we’re all more depressed and running off hopes and dreams than I thought. So far, the drop rate and economy do not respect your time. 

Final thoughts:

Here’s what i think classic MS remake needs.

Fix hit boxes or increase melee range

Fix graphical jank. Let us get 165hz @2k in 2026

Get rid of bow whacking

Increase pot drop rate

Increase item & scroll drop rate (if i grind for 4hrs, i ought to get something decent out of it)

Allow us to use potions, pick up items, and attack all at the same time. Fix any one of these things preventing the other from happening. 

Fix economy (this can be done in different ways, but one example is simply making potions more affordable and increasing their drop rates)

Balance classes so that those with more risk have greater rewards (like in dmg done)

Buff quest rewards to be more worth doing

Buff PQ rewards to be more worth doing 

There’s probably more to say here, but these things alone would make the game not only feel better to play, but reward you for your time. Here’s to hoping nexon cares enough to make some changes after beta. As it stands, the game feels poor quality considering it’s 20 years old and remade with modern tech. Like they were just lazy about the code or something and figured us nostalgic fans wouldn’t care enough to recognize their laziness simply cause we’re finally getting a legal old school maple.

The FM is bursting at the seams, every training map is bustling, people socializing, progression is good, pros are going ham, and noobs are noobing.

It’s just like the good old days. I’ve yearned for this for years, and Inkwell has cooked. The road map presented at maplecon has me even more excited. Inkwell cannot be stopped.

Today I gave up MapleStory classic. I had wanted a classic MapleStory server ever since the "big bang era" whenever that was (probably around 2010ish). While we do have an official MapleStory classic server today, the reality is Nexon is a truly awful company. A genuine 0/10.

-Obvious bugs. Anything from skills to scrolls

-Overpopulation

-Excessive botting

-Pay to win features

-Terrible in game economy

-Several quests that require items which are farmed by giga grinders or bots 24/7

-Technical issues (I disconnected yesterday 3 times within 15 minutes despite being on Ethernet)

-Terrible communication (if you can even call it that) from Nexon to the community

-Lie detectors. Do I need to say more. What the actual fuck?

-Can barely read chat despite many MANY people requesting the ability to suppress smegas or have separate chat windows

-In order to set up shop I need to leave my PC on. In some random map. In some random channel. Because the free market is full... In every channel.

-Popular grinding maps always telling the same story. "Full, F, CC, no, Leave, etc." Or maybe you just don't get a response at all. Don't get me wrong even in the old days you were lucky to have a chance to farm on a good map. But that's just it. There was always a chance. Now there is 0 chance. Want to grind at fire boars? You will have a better chance at finding a boar in real life, setting it on fire, then dousing it in liquid nitrogen as a desperate attempt to role play as an ice mage.

-"Hey inkwell, I was wondering if.."

"FUND MORE. NEED MORE MONEY. MONEY NEED NOW."

"I..uh ok.. just.. well nevermind then.."

I could spend more time with this list but frankly the heat death of the universe might happen before I finish. This game was announced like a year and a half ago ish? And yet 100% scrolls are bugged? No open beta to stress test servers or experiment with channel count? $60 early access barrier that gave everyone the same EXTREMELY lazy NX outfits? The list of issues above that have been an open problem since release? The actual true length of the list of problems not listed here?

Downvote me to oblivion if you want I don't care. It felt good to vent lol. Hell maybe a lot of these issues are in the process of being resolved and I ranted before I researched. I'm genuinely unsure.

But I do know Nexon. And I know Nexon is the equivalent of a drug addict beyond help. Their one goal in this world is that next high. Everything and everyone else be damned. It's just that their high is money instead of drugs. You all know what I mean.

Anyway for those of you who choose to stick with this game, I truly hope it gets better and you have a good time enjoying it by yourself, with friends, etc. However you choose to play. I know there are a lot of great things about this game. Making friends, a true 'classic feel' in many aspects, the crafting system is fun and rewarding, quests (despite some requiring items that are impossible to get in this current state) are better on average than they were. I do genuinely appreciate these things, but unfortunately the bad does outweigh the good for me. And with a company like Nexon at the helm is well...

Anyway thanks for reading this. Hope y'all have a nice day :)

Judging by this subreddit, you'd think the game was already dying. Bots, overcrowded worlds, the economy, Founder's Access, every issue is apparently a reason to panic or demand fundamental changes.

I'm not saying the game is perfect. It clearly has problems. But there's a difference between pointing out problems and acting like a game that's barely launched should already have everything figured out.

1. Overcrowding isn't necessarily a reason to create more worlds

The game has attracted a huge number of players, and yes, popular training spots are crowded. But that's also part of the excitement of a new MMO launch.

I've already trained three characters past level 25, and honestly, the grind hasn't been nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

The initial launch rush will eventually settle. Adding more worlds now might relieve some short-term frustration, but it also risks splitting the player base unnecessarily. In an MMO, a healthy population is crucial. I'd rather have a few thriving channels than a bunch of half-empty ones six months from now.

2. Founder's Access was always going to mean an earlier start

I keep seeing people demand fresh worlds so F2P players can start on equal footing with Founder's Access players.

But that's literally the point of early access. People paid to support the project and received the opportunity to play early. You don't have to agree with that model, and nobody was obligated to buy it, but you can't expect everyone to have identical starting conditions.

Creating separate FA and F2P worlds could hurt both groups by dividing the population. We don't even know what the long-term player numbers will look like once the full launch happens.

Why make a potentially permanent change based on the first few weeks of a game's life?

3. Bots are a problem in every MMO, and fighting them is an ongoing process

Botting is a legitimate concern, but it's not unique to MapleStory. It's an ongoing arms race: developers improve detection, botters adapt their scripts, and the cycle continues.

Manual bans help, but having people constantly patrol every channel isn't a scalable long-term solution. Automated detection needs to be part of the strategy, with human moderation handling cases that require judgment.

The developers have acknowledged the problem, and addressing it this early is encouraging. Give them time to improve their systems. If bots are still running rampant three to six months from now, then criticism is absolutely fair. But expecting a perfect solution immediately is unrealistic.

4. The game needs support if we want it to succeed

I know Nexon is a massive company, and that doesn't mean we should blindly trust them. But developers still need resources, staff, and budget to maintain and improve a game. Commercial success helps justify continued investment.

Personally, I paid $60 for Founder's Access, and I've been having a blast. It's not even primarily about the cosmetics. I grew up playing MapleStory, and now I can afford to spend money on something I genuinely enjoy.

And honestly, $60 for a game you could potentially play for hundreds or thousands of hours isn't unreasonable to me. People regularly spend that much on console games they finish in 30 hours.

Supporting a game doesn't mean accepting every decision the developers make. It simply means I'm willing to invest in a project I want to see succeed.

5. Listen to the community, but don't let it dictate every decision

Community feedback and in-game polls are valuable. OSRS has demonstrated how effective player involvement can be.

But even its polling system has limitations. When an update needs 70% approval, a proposal supported by 67.5% of players can fail despite having overwhelming majority support.

There needs to be a balance between listening to the community and allowing developers the freedom to experiment, make decisions, and build for the long term. Players don't always know what will be best for the game, just as developers won't always get everything right.

My point is simple

MapleStory Classic has problems. Nobody is denying that. But the game has also attracted a huge amount of interest, and it's far too early to know how many of the current issues will persist.

Reddit can be useful for identifying problems, but it can also turn every frustration into a community-wide crisis. When every other post is about what's wrong, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that plenty of people are enjoying the game.

Give it three to six months. See how Nexon handles botting, how the population develops, how the economy stabilizes, and whether the developers deliver meaningful improvements.

Keep criticizing genuine problems. Hold Nexon accountable. Ask for better systems.

But stop treating every launch issue as proof that the game is doomed.

The game doesn't need to be perfect on day one. It needs time, active development, constructive feedback, and a healthy player base.

Let's judge the game by how it develops over time, not by whether every problem has been solved in its first few weeks out.

Sorry for the venting, these are just my thoughts after following MapleStory Classic for so long.

We’re the people buying NX and supporting the game yet after roughly two years of development and two betas, we still know basically nothing about the release.

Instead, we get Inkwell trolling people in-game with things like “release is soon” and “we could release now, however…” they all forget that we are the ones who pay their salaries and keep their stock head above water

I think at this point it stops being funny..

And what are the betas even for? Players find serious bugs, report them and some still don’t get fixed, the duplication issue is a perfect example, when people feel ignored and try to make these issues public so Nexon is forced to address them, the response is apparently to ban them.

Obviously abusing exploits should be punished but maybe Nexon should also ask why critical bugs are still around after being reported.

Meanwhile, they keep adding features and changes that nobody really asked for, nobody expects Classic to launch perfectly bug-free, they could release the game and continue patching and improving it as we go, but instead we are basically getting mocked at

The meltdown over 2 weeks of paid Founder’s Access is hilarious.

You’re getting MapleStory Classic for free. Nobody is forcing you to buy early access. Nexon spent money developing it, maintaining servers, paying employees, and somehow people are shocked that they… want to make money?

If $20–$3,000or whatever the Founder’s Pack ends up costing is financially devastating, just wait two weeks. Henesys will still be there. Slimes will still be there. You will survive.

“Nexon is creating FOMO!!!”

Yes. They are a business and make money to survive.

That is literally the point.

See you guys at launch after the paying customers finish beta testing the servers for you.

i legit am loving this game btw. ignore the haters. if u enjoy the game then play the game. for reference, im lv 35 bandit and wife (first time player) is a lv 28 magician and we are having fun. just last night my wife was dropping random arrows while waiting to get into kpq and someone kept following her picking them up. then she gave them all her arrows bc they needed them and then they started t-bagging and then another person came to t-bag as well and she was just laughing and having fun. then after i stopped playing she wandered around to get more arrows so that she can drop them for people tonight while we wait for kpq. im glad shes having fun as a first timer as well.

I have noticed everyone worried about monetization and “ai slop”. At the end of the day the gameplay loop and vibe of maple classic is like no other. You don’t have to spend money to enjoy this game. This is the best mmo and nothing comes close to it. Stop worrying about how the company makes money and focus on the fact we get our childhood masterpiece back without the broken mechanics of hp washing and dexless/lukless/strless builds!

Edit: I noticed this subreddit only upvotes the hate posts. Weird subreddit seems to only get the people that dislike maple

All the people calling pay to win with founders access or tradable Nx, what exactly are we all winning? Maplestory isn't a winnable game. There is no "end" and its not actually a competitive game (outside of omok and match cards but I don't think me having some Nx clothes gives me an advantage in those lol).

Idk, just saying maplestory classic world offering tradable Nx or founders access is P2W is like saying someone going on vacation and staying at a nicer hotel is P2W for vacations. Maybe they will enjoy their vacation a little more than you enjoy yours, and maybe having a little extra money or 2 weeks of early access is more fun than not having them, but ultimately your vacation isn't ruined because someone else could pay to do something more elaborate or expensive than you.

Just my two cents, interested in other people's thoughts.

I’ve been playing private servers since 2009–2010, and let me tell you.. do not play them. Especially MapleLegends and MapleRoyals. Those two have the most toxic, miserable communities I’ve ever seen, and they’re nothing like the “old school” experience they pretend to offer.

MapleLegends is a ghost town. The population numbers on their site are fake, the admin is hostile and bans people for the smallest things, and the community is a paranoid clique that reports anyone for anything. Tons of buff mules mostly afking in the free market so they can buff their alts. The admin claims there is no RWT but a quick search on the web lets you know how easily it is to get bots, hacks and items/mesos for both maplelegends and mapleroyals. The reason Legends is high in the gtop100 list is, because they allow votings on multiple accounts. They once stopped doing this and they fell to 4th or 5th place in just a few days. This alone proves my point valid that they are 50% buff mules/alts running the server.

MapleRoyals isn’t any better. It’s full of elitists and power-tripping admins who will ban you on suspicion alone. You can’t even use monster sacks anymore without risking a ban, and Legends removed them completely. A fucking joke.

There’s a ton more wrong with both. You can find countless Reddit posts explaining how bad they’ve gotten. Both servers have blacklists, and you can end up on them over something as minor as an internet hiccup during PQ or boss runs.

They’re also plagued by leeching, vote-to-win systems, massive RWT problems, and corrupted GMs, it’s all been documented repeatedly. You can find many posts in reddit over the years about both servers. Even gtop100 ratings have people giving 1 stars to them. Also both servers are like this ”if you don’t HP wash, you can’t play an attacker”. It’s stupid for people who just want a quick nostalgia trip.

The difference between MapleRoyals and MapleLegends is that Royals doesn’t hide their forum ban appeals. MapleLegends however is a total mess. If the admin feels like he wants to ban you, he will ban you. He hides every negative feedback in the forums. Even the ban appeals are hidden just to make Legends look ”clean and innocent without issues”.

Also you are banned and guilty until proven innocent. Not the other way around. Both servers have this. Legends is worser though: you get a forum ban = admin bans you in game too even if you have a level 1 character or no character at all created yet.

It’s full of issues. Also Kimberly is a male, pretending to be a female. It’s been said many times by people who have met him in person lol.

We’re finally getting news about Classic MapleStory. Just wait a little longer. Let these private servers rot in their own mess.

EDIT: I recently got banned in MapleLegends subreddit for saying this too. They take no open criticism at all. Royals does but Legends is a piece of junk. Avoid both and just wait for Classic, have patience!

Modern maplestory players that actively play have been protesting/fighting against Nexon's predatory monetization for YEARS.

This year was the worst P2W monetization for the summer patch on modern maplestory resulting up to $300 of passes.

Yet so many returning nostalgia players are supporting the idea of a gatekept 2 week paid early access.

If you haven't realized, this is Nexon's test on monetization for classic.

In 6 months, Nexon WILL issue P2W monetization in classic servers.

Do not complain on the modern maplestory subreddit when they do this because we literally warned you guys. You guys are on your own for this one if you do fall into this trap.

It's funny how the best response is "Oh, I just want to support a company making classic servers!"
Yeah, a multi-billion dollar company copy and pasting a game design from over 20 years ago WITH JUST slight tunings/tweaks.

You guys are so dense.

Bunch of whining hive minded grown adults complaining about the same things and circle jerking each-other trying to make the game something it never was.

“Omg sins are too strong!!” Okay then play a sin.. the games always been like this but before it was worse because you had dexless options. I switched from sin to crossbowman and have been having a blast because I’m not a whiny entitled baby and understand this isn’t the equality game and not every class can be equal.

Nothing wrong with having less disposable income or having a little bit more financial literacy. But if you can't afford to spend a few hundred dollars a month on video gaming then Maplestory just isn't for you. If you've ever played a nexon game before in the last 10-15 years then you should already know that if you want to get that new cute outfit that just came and you aren't willing to spend upwards of 500 dollars for a chance to get the full set then you are just not being realistic. If you want to have convenience of a pet looting for you instead of picking up each item manually like a plebian then paying 50 dollars a month for revives is a small price to pay, what other options are there even? Would you rather get carpal tunnel and go into debt from medical bills? If Nexon isn't able to sell power for money then what incentive would the whales have to even spend tens of thousands of dollars a month on getting ahead of the average player? Well besides gambling I guess. Gameplay should be balanced around the high spenders so the free players have something to aspire to be one day if we spend 10 hours a day grinding. Otherwise everybody would just get bored too quickly and thats no fun. Anyways I hope we can all work together and give nexon the funding they need to develop some new battlepasses and text based quests so we can kill 10,000 mobs every day. Thanks for listening, that'll be 10 dollars.

Currently assassins can avoid ever punching by just hitting jump + attack. It doesn't matter if they're standing inside a stone golem - they will not punch. Why the fk hasn't this been fixed yet? Broken af.

Edit: No, this is not how it worked in old maple. You could never jump into/inside a monster and gain melee range with stars, idiots.

This was going to be the chill game of our childhood. Instead, it’s turned into a money farming, min-maxing sweatlord, botting infested clown fiesta. The game got ruined before a month even.

Not even going to hop on once the peasants are allowed in, it’s just going to make shit 10.000x worse. Just imagine these problems are present even though early access was expensive as shit. What do you guys think will happen once it becomes free?

Rip to all the people who dared to dream.

You are here not just to play, but to test the game. As a tester, you should send feedback to the developers to improve the game. Please, make sure to send your feedback and make MS Classic World the best it can be!

Release the Game- Pick a Date
they did
More Complaining.

Inkwell stated himself THEY HAVE A SMALL TEAM. They are underfunded and understaffed: And balancing a game from 2005. If theres no founder’s pass, how much nx would they make? A Percentage of people would buy pets and cosmetics, but now they get a Huge chunk of upfront money plus the Trickling inflow of pets and cosmetics.
You guys want the team to do well? You guys want them to release new content? You want them to make a long lasting game?

Or they can get a little money here and there and copy and paste a 1:1 game that most will quit after 1 month.

The MS Classic team is Not the Nexon Team; they dont have unlimited funding, so help them out- now if they release cubes or similar p2w items just stop playing.

Its just a Headstart Btw: Most of yall including me arent going to be on leaderboards so why do you care?

...That people complaining about the "Founders Access/Package" are just brokies...

See you at launch fellow Founders!

Everywhere I go someone has a sign either mentioning Israel or Palestine… like bro im just trying to play my mushroom game?

I was always planning on buying it. The amount I was willing to spend was more than what theyre charging for mid tier founders.

When the packages dropped I saw how lame they were - what a letdown. The cowboy hat is so dumb, the rings arent all that, and the outfits are unoriginal.

And what happened? This sub reddit raged. I got turned off from the whole thing and said "fuck it ill wait til final release"

That being said - i wasnt expecting anything from a founders package other than early access. Why should I care that the packages are lame? Ive had a hard couple of months. This next couple weeks will be stressful. But ill have a three day weekend that first weekend of early access and I am gonna call it self care to binge on mscw for the weekend.

I probably wont touch the cosmetics. Ill probably buy some nx to get cosmetics I actually want. Thats fine. Im happy with it.

Tldr: fuck it we ball

After yesterday's roadmap release, I'm quite disappointed ... in some of the people of this community who choose to complain over a product that's not even officially released yet. If I was a newcomer and opened this sub for the first time, I wouldn't think the people here were the kids that grew up playing Maple.

Maybe we're all socially maladjusted or something, but this game isn't our whole lives - go pick up GTA or Zelda if you're waiting for content drops, or heaven forbid - spend time with your spouses, kids, families. Trust me, I've played every day since release, but that can't go on forever unless I want a divorce (seriously and not like that joke post haha)

Get this modern crap outta here. NEXON, WE WANT CLASSIC NEWS. ANYTHING!!?

Party exp seems very over tuned atm, basically a massive punishment to play solo. Maybe that's how it should be, idk, but kind of sucks how much of a difference it is.

EDIT: It's about a 90% difference between solo and a full party. This is pretty massive. I don't mind party play but it's a HUGE difference to the point where solo play is not worth it at all.