MapleStory

NOT WORTH PLAYING ANYMORE.

GMS is pretty much dying. Nexon never fixes their bugs and crashes, let alone the server instability. Event rewards are nerfed from time to time. The game content is getting boring as well. Just new bosses with inflating HP (like trillions). Everyone in reboot bascially follows the same route (farming mesos, node stones...). I would say 11 years is far longer than the lifespan of MMORPG. It's time to stop nostalgia and move on to some new and creative games.

This game is great for someone who just wants to kill things - no, wait, the lag in responsiveness and monsters spawning on top of you ruin that.

Maplestory has been around forever, bless its heart, but I just can't recommend this game. I could barely recommend it when it came out, and only because there wasn't much to choose from. For starters, they delete your characters after a time. I think this is the third time I have re-downloaded the game, played a bit, and come back to find everything gone.

It has serious scaling and lag issues. We have much better computers these days but still, Maplestory continues to run shittily and at a low resolution. The soundtracks are too repetitive.

It has some serious frustrating issues with gameplay, like having to use the mouse to interact with NPCs when everything else is strictly keyboard controls. Monsters spawn right on top of you and without delay, picking up items is irritating, and the controls feel laggy. Going from town to monster-fighting areas is near infuriating. The number of keyboard bindings is dizzying for a game that feels like simple hack-n-slash.

I visit from time to time and always find the same things: Nexon continues to pour development into new classes, new items, new premium things, but zero into the core product, the lag, the intuitiveness.

***Most positive reviews mention "childhood" or something along the lines of that subject.
What if Animal Crossing was an MMO, a 2D platformer, had combat, had nothing to do with animals living in a humble town, and was also terrible? Missions: go and kill those things to give me these things, then go to that guy to kill other things for some other things to turn in, then do the same thing with everyone else. In short, I. don't. like. it.

I have around 400 hours on steam but I've spent more than 1k hours on the other version. I must say despite the amount of dedication I've put into this game, I cannot reccomend it to anyone. The servers are extremely inconsistent, they need maintenance at least every week and no new or interesting content get introduced for many MANY years. Even when they do (5th Job update and lucid), its very underwhelming and sad since I waited 4 years just to receive junk and the frustration of that is what caused me to put an end what was the most time I've spent on a game.

TL;DR:
Pros
-Mechanics are pretty fun
-Animations mostly look great
-Music is excellent and nostalgic
-Unique mob designs
-Variety of classes
Cons
-Extremely Repetitive (Even if you come into it expecting to grind for hours, its still feels repetitive)
-Inconsistent servers with re-occuring maintenances
-Only a couple of servers are populated
-Pay to win system on standard servers
-Insanely annoying and frustrating upgrade system.
-Must dedicate a lot of time to even have access to the fun content of the game
-Unrewarding levelling system

What's this? I was just munching some pasture grass when someone came up to me and gave me a laptop with this game running on it

I will say this, in my opinion, this is one of the best free-to-play MMORPG's you'll ever find it is so in depth and specific and so many different quests, monster, bosses, and events you will never be bored. But I will say this this a game where you need to work for your levels, in this case characters go up to lv 250, this may seem like a lot but actually u don't really need to go past 120, and in general if you find the right areas it wont be hard. This is a great game to play with friends in fact its almost recommended, but in my case since none of my friends play this game I just put a Youtube Let's Play on the side and its great.
Background Information: Been playing this game for 3 years, am 16 now was 13 when I started and still love it.
Defiinitely recommend it, so many classes to choose from,
You'll definitely enjoy it its a great experience!

I have played this game back in 2006 and I had a blast, everything was new to me, the settings, the people running around and killing snails on maple island then slimes and mushrooms in henesys hunting ground. Took many years of breaks in between, back and forth, but when they revamped the game and released big bang is when they started to lose the vast majority of players (slowly).
I know that change is needed for games to progress, but so many changes killed the game.

Pros:
- if you're a fan of mario style games or platformers and like to see big numbers when you hit monster, then try out this game
- it's not a grindy game anymore, *sadly* (at least not from lvl 1-200)
- amazing map BGM's
- a lot of friendly people still and so on

Cons:
- p2w
- bugs, bugs and yes, more bugs! "yay!"
- gets a bit grindy past 200 and gets a lot grindy past 200 if you didn't pay a lot of real money into it
- the company NEXON America, doesn't care about their customers/players

I could go on forever with the cons and some more pros, but I'll stop here. If you're a new player, I suggest you try this game, but it won't feel "magical" anymore.

Unfortunately I cannot recommend this game in the state it is right now.

~~Have played this game for 10-12 years.
Thousands and millions of wasted gamehours. And euros. ~~

- Proud owner of the #1 Battlemage (EU) ages ago :))





Positive:

+ Region combining added more players and motivation into it. Noice.
+ Overall, I feel like the game is going into right direction, since you dont need years of playtime (or 5000€) to make a high end character.

~ Quick example about playtime:
Pre Big Bang update in 8 hours of pure grinding you got to lvl 30.
Now pure grinding of 8 hours will get you to lvl 130. But it will get a lot slower after that ye.
~ Quick example about high end characters / money waste:
You used to need literally hundreds of euros to scroll and cube a high tier weapon(/item)
Now you dont need the scrolls (Reboot) and can get the cubes with mesos (Reboot also)


Negative:

- Probably no player will keep playing or understand the greatness of this 2D Anime MMORPG if they have never played it before (back in the days). I just feel like it xDD come on look at this game....

I want to start off by saying if you do decide to download and play this game, I would strongly advise just downloading the Nexon launcher and downloading it from there. The steam version of this game seems to have a lot of issues regarding starting the game, on most occasions I have to start my game up about 5 or so times before it finally decides it either doesn't want to crash or it actually wants to connect me to the servers.

Aside from that this game is quite enjoyable. Early game progression is rather fast and you level up relatively quickly, but for me once you start reaching into the 80s it gets a bit tedious. The game can be excessively grindy and it feels like most of your time slaughtering the same enemy 200 times is wasted when you're only given a couple thousand exp.

Even though the game can be overly grindy it makes up for it with its constant events. A lot of the events in Maplestory stem from special item drops that can be opened to give some sort of special currency, consumables, or trait boosting items. This adds a little extra value from grinding and you're usually able to buy pretty cool cosmetic items or chairs with the special currency.

I'd also like to add that this game is a lot more fun with people you can talk to or a group of in-game friends. The boss party match making isn't very good and more often than not if you are able to be thrown into a party its with one other person and they leave it just to solo the boss anyway.

Party dungeons or themed quests don't have a matchmaking system and as of right now I have a hard time finding anyone willing to party up on my lower level characters.

This game in itself is fun, but the amount of time and effort with little take away make it tiresome.

ATTENTION EUROPEAN PLAYERS: Avoid playing on European servers at all costs, it's trash. Just play on the NA one, the european server lags like crazy. Especially if you've got strong internet, in that case you won't feel any lag in NA, while there'll always be lag on the european server, as it's the server's problem.

I don't want to beg for "likes", but please upvote this review so people can be aware of this.

Thank you in advance :)

Edit: I recently came back to MapleStory and remembered this review, so I should update to let you know that the EU server no longer lags and it's absolutely fine to play in. HOWEVER, be aware that Maple Story has always been many times more popular in the USA than in Europe, so our server is nowhere near a populated as the american one

As an old maplestory player, I have been wondering if anyone else (old player ) still play this game.
It became way too easy and messy.
I've been trying to get some levels with my Arch mage and I can't even find a spot.
They changed way too many things.

For old players who are thinking to come back to maplestory I don't really recommend it, but for others this might be a good pass time since you don't really need to be into it to level up anymore.

I started playing Maple Story back when it was for korean citizens only (a friend made an account for me). The game has changed a lot, and while i miss some of the old grinding stuff, it is generally a better experience now. The game has a nice story and the end game is quite better, and easier to get. Also before there was a time where you had no quests and basically no one told you what to do, and while now it is a bit too guided it is definitely better, plsu playing alone is an option now.

LOVE AND HATE RELATIONSHIP. i have spend 300+ on stream and at lest 1k + prebigbang and after on both China and GMS. Have played every character pretty much all the quest. And believe me when i tell you these easy teleport bosses all had LONG pre-quests zakum jumping quest took me at lest 2 hours. Still if you want to get to most good daily bosses per quests are long and you have to do it with every new char GL.

If you want play get ready to grind. If you have no idea what stats on what gear where to go, well you will not get anywhere.
Reboot is fun
Pros
+Very cool looking skills
+Job advancements are amazing
+can play for hours while watching somethign
+lots of classes to choose from

Cons
-GG to life
-if u think getting one character to lv 200+ takes for me at lest a week and half if i play as much as i can but for new players or return players with no links/ cards pets GL spending a month :D unless you play 20 hours day.
-you can hit 100 pretty fast with 20 hours then 150-170 gonna take you awhile then you will give up try to make a new class then hit 70 and quit


just dont even try to p2w game

Game is great. Reboot is really awesome if you want to progress with your friends, or just by yourself without spending ANY money. Have been playing this game for 2006, and have really fallen in love again the last 2 months. I would suggest anyone to at least try it if they enjoy an mmo especially one with unique sidescrolling graphic and a beautiful soundtrack.

it is pretty fun for me, i dont think you need to fund much to be good, i like the auction prices for things and the community is great. met a guild and they been helping a newbie like me out so far, also its easy for leveling, great if you want to try out a little of everything

Looks bad at first but when you get in and play it really is an amazing game. Complicated yet simplistic. Immersive gameplay which you can sit down and just play for hours. Relaxing and suprisingly fun to play.

10/10 would maple again

this game is sometimes freaking awfull.... i cant even go into the event hall... and my game keeps closing at the server selection screen... normally it takes me 3 times to start but since today it will take me probally 1000 times... it used to be an awesome game

I remember this game from my childhood as the game that i could spend countless hours on and only make it to level like 30 XD. I mean honestly that isnt this game anymore but now a days its more of a boss game which is fun in its own way. But from all the years this game has lots of customization and i love it to this day.

Sometimes the server latency makes the game unplayable. As a MS veteran I demand the latency to be fixed forever so I could kill iron hogs again without wasting more time picking the loot than killing them.
Currently I am experiencing crashing as soon as I log in.

I've played a little over 15 hours of the game. It's a great game under two circumstances: 1) You have a friend/friends to play with. 2) You actually understand how to play the game. Without these two things it gets really boring very fast, too much repetitive grinding for quests with drop rates being odd and sometimes making things last far longer than they should. It's a great game and I'm sure it was lots of fun when the community was bigger but there are just too few people online now and there just isn't enough information told in game. I hardly understood anything about what I was doing even while I was reading guides for it. After 15 hours I got to level 53 out of a max of 250, and the game just isn't entertaining enough for me to get those other 197 levels.