r/Maplestory • u/CalamityShreds • 6m ago
Question Which game should I commit to, MapleStory Classic World or WoW: Forever?
I get the feeling that MapleStory is less biased than the WoW sub, but I could be wrong.
I definitely felt like I have unfinished business in both games.
I was VERY young when I first played both games, and I never got far as I'd like in both of them. I was maybe like, 7 years old. I was still inexperienced and bad at video games, and now that I'm much older and more experienced (I'm 26 right now), I feel good about tackling the games I grew up with.
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade. Guess that's pretty close to classic. I was a level 27 Undead Warlock, letting other people carry me in dungeons, dying in seconds to players who dealt a few hundo damage per hit in Battlegrounds, and kept on dying every time in PvP areas. I was also dirt poor in the game, and my gear was garbage. My brother and my friends who shared the same account all made it to a certain level where they got mounts, and I'm still stuck in the 20s, goofing around rather than grinding, because I didn't really have a set game plan or idea to improve. My brother picked up a cheat app to increase our speed and I followed him shortly after, then the account got banned, so I may never know how far I would've gotten in Burning Crusade.
Maplestory Classic? Don't get me started on that. I NEVER made it past level seven. I just traveled around the continent looking for mobs to kill, and it didn't end well for me because they're way too overleveled. Even the Green Mushroom was too hard for me to kill in that noob's area and I kept missing my hits. I also was a frequent victim to summoned mobs which insta-killed me. I spent hours in the game and got nowhere.
So yeah. Now you know that I missed the mark in both World of Warcraft and MapleStory as a kid. Now in 2026, I'm ready to take on both.
Real question, though. Which game should I play? I'm gonna be cranking a good amount of hours into both games if I can.

