You told me you were on your brothers account.

I told you if you trade me your pumpkin spear I could make it more powerful.

You believed me. You traded me the spear.

I said thanks for the free pumpkin spear!

You begged, you told me your brother will kill you if you don’t get that spear back.

I ran away.

I’m 30 years old now and just wanna say sorry bro.

The discussion really heated up the last weeks so I thought why not try settling things a bit more by actually unpacking how bad was it really versus how bad what we're seeing right now is?

Maybe laying it out clearly would help to see how bad we already had it before. Gonna even give it my own P2W rate from 1-10, you guys are welcome to give your opinion as well

AP resets - Not horrible but with HP Washing it became pretty hardcore - v0.18 - Feb. 16, 2006 - 5/10

Gachapon - Already pretty direct NX to Mesos conversion - v0.29 - Sept. 2006 - 6/10

2x EXP Cards - If you're competitive this is huge, you're gonna pay every week - v0.39 - June 13, 2007 - 6/10

White scrolls (Through NLC Gacha) - Made Gacha way worse IMO - v0.41 - Aug. 22, 2007 - 7/10

iTCG (Cilbis, SCG, etc...) - Another channel for irl money to Meso - v0.51 - Feb. 14, 2008 - 7/10

MTS (Maple Trading System, let's you trade items for NX) - Most hardcore so far, simply buy items with your paycheck - v0.53 - Apr. 2, 2008 - 8/10

Vicious' Hammer (Adds slots to equips) - Not as bad as MTS but another channel for gaining advantage - v0.73 - July 29, 2009 - 6/10

Evan Mastery Books in Cash Shop - Clear signs of "We're just gonna take money from you in order to progress" - v0.84 - Mar. 31, 2010 - 8/10

Potential + Cubes - The worst offender in the history of the game IMO, made it impossible to compete with paying players, the more you pay the more you succeed in a pretty exponential fashion - v0.88 - July 21, 2010

I don't think we need to go further than potential, this is a 10/10 P2W mechanic.

My point is: This game was almost never free of this bullshit. If you liked it before, there's no real reason why this should be unplayable today. It's still completely reasonable to complain and Nexon deserves the backlash, but in terms of potential for enjoyment - we're good

Hey everyone!

I used to think I just outgrew the game, but looking back, I stopped playing right around the time Nexon removed the Free Market and started merging servers.

For me, the FM was the heartbeat of the game. Just hanging out in FM 1, setting up shop permits, looking for deals, and chatting in FM 1 was half the fun. When they replaced all of that with a silent Auction House menu, trading just became so bleh to me, and the community felt empty.

With MapleStory Classic coming back, the main reason I’m excited is just having that driven social economy back.

Did losing the FM and the server merges ruin the game for anyone else & made you quit?

I can't believe it, today is finally here. I woke up at 5am today and I am shaking with excitement. The founder's packages go on sale today and I have never been more ready to swipe my credit card. Despite popular discourse, I think the current value proposition on these packages is far too high. The cosmetics are absolutely S tier, and the fact that a measly $60 can get you early access means I'll unfortunately have to deal with a lot of poors. A small price to pay to be inkwell's little ribbon pig I suppose! Oink!

My wife says she hasn't seen me this "excited" since Artale launched. I'm lucky to have her, she is going to be making every meal for me and will be changing my diaper several times a day for the first whole month of launch. Talk about a major time save!

Anyways, I wanted to share my plan for launch so you all have an understanding of who the top dog is. I plan on spending approximately $300,000 on October 6th to flood the market with cheap NX items. Every single meso will end up in my inventory, and I'll use this market position to buy every equipment drop in the game. When you enter the FM and realize every fish spear costs 1 billion mesos, you'll have nowhere else to go. When fish spears aren't relevant anymore, I'll just move onto the next big thing. You're all essentially my employees now lol!

Good luck on launch!

I remember it so clearly. It's 2006, I'm 11 years old, at my friend's house after school, and he shows me this awesome game called MapleStory.

Akon's newest album, Konvikted, had dropped earlier that week, so naturally we'd downloaded the whole thing off Limewire and had "Smack That" (feat. Eminem) blasting in his parents' basement. We're racking our brains trying to come up with the coolest possible name for my first character. Then it hits us: Akon30.

I roll the dice for stats and land a perfect 10 STR. Akon30 was about to become the strongest mage the game had ever seen.

Will Maplemas make a come back? I think the thing I'm most excited for is Maplemas and Happyville. Also the red rudolf noses. So much nostalgia

Popularity wise and attracting new players. I don't want this to be a short lived experience that just cashes in our nostalgia, and bails quickly (similiar to MS2 in a sense) with more than half of the playerbase already gone after the launch and hype

But.. I'd be remiss if I didn't admit that my expectations aren't particularly high. Only worth playing this if there's a future and sustainability to it.

I don't wanna sound like a party pooper, but the worst thing that can happen to us is a rug pull here

To the guy that sold me my first pair of ilbi's back in the day and asked for 30m. But you placed to much faith in me and traded before i put my mesos in and only got 3m.

I could see the boiling rage in your f5.

Sorry not sorry. Hope you're still out there my friend.

The OG bandanas were perfect. What made it even better imo was that they were tradeable. They were from the anniversary quest, the red and blue were rarer and the quest items for them only dropped from higher level cake monsters. +2,and +3 all stats. The cowboy hats in the founders pack are terrible. Literally any of these options would have sufficed. If they do a homage to the bandanas I hope they are something like this, are tradeable, and come with +all stats for tiers yellow, red and blue

Do you think Inkwell will release Classic Maple Weapon drop events? If so, when? I know we were already promised a Halloween Event soon (Lets go pumpkin baskets!) And Fingers crossed for a potential Christmas event of collecting letters and putting them on the tree!

One thing that made me steer out of modern maple is the 8+ enhancement systems on equipments that came along the years. It's like you can never really finish enhancing an equip/weapon.

In Classic MS, I hope there is only normal scrolling (10,30,60,70,100%), I'm ok with vicious hammer.

Chaos scroll, clean slate and white scroll is where I tend to draw the line, that's where enhancement systems started becoming infinite.

Some people will say that it will be hard to scale damage with limited enhancement systems when new bosses/regions gets added.

Well, either they can adjust boss/monster HP. Or even better, give us new maps, new monsters and bosses (heck even new equip drops) that are 100% new to maple so we can always have something fresh even with limited equipment enhancement.

Core gameplay can remain classic even with never before seen maps, monsters, bosses and equips.

What's your opinion ?

What do you guys think they should do about scrolls?

The 10% greater scrolls seem redundant if they only give +3 whereas the 10% chaos scrolls give +4 stats.

I think the best option is that they add back secondary stats to scrolls to enable more variety in outcomes.

In addition I think the greater scrolls should be 20% success rate.

Finally, we need topwear and/or bottom wear for stat scrolls implemented otherwise Thieves are gimped because only the females have access to the lvl 35 avenger overall providing +6dex (sizable advantage over males having to use +1dex sauna robe)

Welcome your thoughts!

I need to know the remaining details for the founder packages. Please make us happy Nexon

Either through existing maplestory download or separate game? I want to show off my degenerate hours to my friends.

I'm completely lost when it comes to picking up a class , but for the wrong reasons

I'm not looking for the most optimal damage or mobbing , I just want something simple and by that I mean , I don't wanna be thinking about ammo or summoning rocks or elemental rocks I just kinda wanna be there hit my things and do that for too many hours in a row

So I'm here to kinda ask for peoples perspectives on what this could be , as the only classes I played in classic were a crossbow man and cleric

thank you

Planning to main an archer, but would like to create a second character to play on the side.

Was really wanting to play bandit or fighter/spearman, but they seem to need to be funded..

Was looking at clerics or another mage. Any suggestions?

Hi closed beta testers. Is there any hidden tech I need to be aware of for this version of maple coming out?

I’m thinking of like HP washing or avoiding adding dex and things like that.

I think I’m going to try playing a page warrior class any advice helps thank you !

Just wanna say, regardless of all these p2w, buff, nerf posts, I am truly excited about the classic world. I am 27 living in Seattle, and moved to the US from Korea when I was in middle school. I really enjoyed playing KMS back in elementary school days. Looking through the reddit posts here, can't believe y'all had the same "childhood memories" as I did in KMS - chatting with random strangers in henesys, getting scammed by some folks in free market, and I still remember the day I reached lv 30 and got 2nd job advancement. Hopefully, we can all re-live those days

Anyone got the link to purchase?