but how on gods earth can anyone stand playing maplestory?

i mean i dont really mind the fact thats its a 2d ....but the game just has no point to it? no pvp , no raiding , sitty quests, and grinding to lvl 200.......and overpriced wepons/armour......but yet it has thousand of players.....

i dont get it....

It has an addictive gameplay. Monsters keep dropping item, and they die easily, so you just hack through them, and keep doing it.

I have only played it for a while, and don't enjoy it anymore. But I have played it, and thought it was kinda fun for a while... Just like I thought active sports was fun.

It's actually a good starter MMO, for children. I don't think it's aimed at the hardcore gamer crowd, even though I could imagine there is a few no-lifers out there that play the game 24/7, just like in any other game.

Originally posted by Orca

It has an addictive gameplay. Monsters keep dropping item, and they die easily, so you just hack through them, and keep doing it.

I have only played it for a while, and don't enjoy it anymore. But I have played it, and thought it was kinda fun for a while... Just like I thought active sports was fun.

It's actually a good starter MMO, for children. I don't think it's aimed at the hardcore gamer crowd, even though I could imagine there is a few no-lifers out there that play the game 24/7, just like in any other game.

ya...there are quite a few non-lifers on this game....it was on fox news...cos so many people are addicted to it....

What Orca said.

It is fast paced, pointless fun.

I play from time to time, actually had my account since they launched it outside asia, yet only lvl 27.

It is with games like it is with books or movies or any form of entertainment, sometimes you want Weekend at Bernies, sometimes you want The Ninth Gate. ( If you have not seen that movie then do so ).

From what I heas MS is a huge financial success, was an article not long ago in a Swedish newspaper on how kids wasted fairly large sums of money on their avatars, new hairstyles, clothes or whatever in their item mall, just to be "cool".

The weird thing with MS's item mall is that it only sells "fluff", like said hairtsyles, no uber items, and yet the kids trip over themself to spend the cash.

Its not a bad game if you see it for what it is, a tool to kill an hour now and then without much effort.

Originally posted by Umbrood

What Orca said.

It is fast paced, pointless fun.

I play from time to time, actually had my account since they launched it outside asia, yet only lvl 27.

It is with games like it is with books or movies or any form of entertainment, sometimes you want Weekend at Bernies, sometimes you want The Ninth Gate. ( If you have not seen that movie then do so ).

From what I heas MS is a huge financial success, was an article not long ago in a Swedish newspaper on how kids wasted fairly large sums of money on their avatars, new hairstyles, clothes or whatever in their item mall, just to be "cool".

The weird thing with MS's item mall is that it only sells "fluff", like said hairtsyles, no uber items, and yet the kids trip over themself to spend the cash.

Its not a bad game if you see it for what it is, a tool to kill an hour now and then without much effort.

ya i heard people spend like $200 a month on this game...thats like a year of a normal mmo .....

I too, never understood the appeal. But I do understand that people like different things. As such, if they want to play Maplestory..more power to them

Torrential

Originally posted by Czzarre

I too, never understood the appeal. But I do understand that people like different things. As such, if they want to play Maplestory..more power to them

Torrential

ya i suppese...hehe :)

I can understand why people play MapleStory

I used to be addicted to the game because all my friends played it but when they quited I quited too.

It has a great community but the problem is that there are too many hackers in the really crowded places. And another con is that a good amount of quests are not suited for the lvl you can do them.

well this is my opinion of MapleStory

nexon fucked this game up, once it was about having fun with friends, plaing and lvling up, doing quests,

now its all about spending about 200$ each 3 month, to have a more "preety" jean\shirt, and what about the wedding stuff? ppl these days r so ugly till they cant find a wife in real life so they have to marry in a game?
ITS STUPID!

Oke,but the game has raids. But still the raids suck and they are only available from lvl 20-50 orso. So the other 150 levels you just have to grind. The thing that makes this game so popular in my opinion are the characters that are really great. And the fact that everything can play this game. You don't have to have an adducation before you can play this game. So I hope you know realise why so many people play this game. Just because it's fun, "free" and if you play it with friends it can be fun aswell!

Okay i agree  man...this game sucks...let me explain:

it takes FOREEVER to lvl once u reach lik lvl 30 and ppl waste their lives AND money on this game jus to make their character look good. Seriously, ppl get seriously messed up and not right fr the hard-core gamers. An i know little kids should try this but so many ppl i this game are jus motha f***in b*****s!!!   

It is really addicting but i shoudn't sugest this game AT ALL! sorry ill calm down...

oh well UR WELCOME fr my help

lol i gotta do this:BANANA MAN!!!!

man im crazy>........................sry if this is

na i thot this game was pretty fun if you dont waste money on cash shop...

I'm a hardcore gamer and I enjoyed Maplestory. It's a great little game (until taken too seriously)

I thought this game was fine until "Trade System" came. Seriously wth? Trading real money for items. I just had to quit.

I used to be addicted to this game. I don't know why, maybe because I was really bored at the time, or probably because I joined it when I was new to MMO's.

Now I only get on occasionally, when I truly have nothing better to do, or when my friend wants me to get on.

Good starter MMO, good for people who dont have killer PCs.  I was enjoying myself with this game, but then moved on.  ive expanded my horizons, if you will.  I tried AoC and am now playing EQ2.

Originally posted by Housam

but how on gods earth can anyone stand playing maplestory?

 

i mean i dont really mind the fact thats its a 2d ....but the game just has no point to it? no pvp , no raiding , sitty quests, and grinding to lvl 200.......and overpriced wepons/armour......but yet it has thousand of players.....

 

 

i dont get it....

Honestly I have played over 30 MMOs including all the current and past 8 year "TOPS".  Maplestory had me more addicted than any of them. Eveonline = Joke. Spending days trying to Mine or Pvp in 0.0 constantly watching ur back just to collect isk just to spend another full day getting all the parts and ship together. Then it getting blown up within 10 seconds of a fleet battle starting. I ask my self why would anyone play that? Apparently im not hard core enough.. Lol...  WoW = Cookie Cutter nuff said.  Everquest 2 = Felt to restricted and the fact I had to upgrade my armor set every 2 levels INLESS it was pristine.. Yeah that was another "lol'd" moment.  EQ1 = Second best MMO ive played even though that was back in the day and it was the only thing around. SWG ( 1 Year after release ) = Best MMO I have ever played.  I cannot express how much enjoyment I got out of that game. Maplestory = 3rd dont know why maybe because it wasn't a WoW copy.

i used to play this game 2....

it was pretty fun to start with (before 3rd job) after 3rd job there came 2 many hackers...

there was some PQ's (party quests) where u should do some cool and fun stuff... the only problem is that u could glitch many things(smugg passes , get multi exp reward and so on)

i played with a friend and we raced to be the highest lvl... i didnt have so much time as he had to play so i began use those ''glitches'' and it actually worked

i knew all the glitches in the pq's and when i was doing it with my friend he just thought like ''what the fuck are we doing?'' (the worst thing is that you could glitch in a pq against time with oter players which ruined the whle thing')

Maple story badly needs an upgrade, it was great when it first launched as a nice introductory MMO for starters and some fun but now the competition is heating up, not to mention that the graphics are dated.

My money is on Hello Kitty Online to do what Maplestory did, it seems to be just that higher level for the non MMO'ers....

 MapleStory's not really a great game to play. I mean, where's the point of the game? The quests have nothing in them, you just recieve items and experience points. I don't like the way Wizet sets up the game. Getting engaged and married in MapleStory is saying "I don't got a girlfriend/boyfriend or a wife/husband in real life, so I'll just do it online." The game itself is a waste of time. Playing a game with no point is like sitting in a chair with a blank computer screen.

 I'd give MapleStory a 8/10, because they need to improve some things. They need to give the game a point, tell us why to play it, not just because its fun. The game is that bad, its just that it has no point to it, and its a waste of lifetime.