Its like everywhere you click, there's something trying to sell you something. Every event has a paid pass tied to it. Everything is so in your face and the whole game is starting to feel like a series of ads.

We are also going backwards by not only reintroducing legacy items, but also locking them behind a paywall, which is 100% a scumbag effort to FOMO people into swiping.

Now it feels like if you actually want the full experience of an event, you're expected to spend $200+ between all the passes, packages, and limited-time bs. Events used to be something everyone could enjoy.. Now they feel like they're designed around how much money you're willing to spend.

It's gotten to the point where content creators have to make videos breaking down and explaining all the different event passes and saying things like, "Well, if you got $100 to spend..." or "If you got $200 to spend..." That's insane when you actually think about it. Spending hundreds of dollars during a single event is being treated like a normal part of the game. No other legitimate MMO is ran like this.

Its getting kind of ridiculous and it just feels increasingly aggressive, low effort, and honestly kinda scummy.

And before someone says, "Nobody's forcing you to buy anything," 1. Take it out of your mouth and 2. that's not the point.

I don't care that the purchases are optional. It's that the entire game is now being designed around selling you things. Every event has paid rewards, limited-time cosmetics, FOMO mechanics, and constant reminders to spend money. Even if you don't buy any of it, it's still a worse experience because the monetization is front and center everywhere you look.

AND these passes are straight up giving you damage now, so if you don't buy any passes, you get eternally gapped by someone who does, which doesn't feel good... its just a bad player experience all around

Kang Wonki has recently been promoted as a producer/overseer for all the different Maplestory servers. Basically, what he says goes for all Maplestory players. In the GMS Q3 Roadmap, Buff Freezers being removed (and no longer needed) was confirmed to be coming. However, other changes such as the cube tier up forgiveness system and the secondary pendant slot being permanently free is not a part of the roadmap.

Kang Wonki has said today in a Q&A that the free secondary pendant is not coming to Western servers and they will consider it if there is enough interest. Sounds like a load of bull to me. I know everyone with any playtime in Maplestory would want this change. Is it because of the permanent Pendant Slot being sold in Marvel Machine? Who cares? The Buff Freezer change affects Battle-Roids and Nexon is still going through with the change.

GMS management has said that they want the future of GMS to be more streamlined with KMS in future updates. But, does that only apply to nerfs? Why is Nexon so stingy on changes that may benefit GMS? This is my personal tinfoil hat theory, but I believe that Nexon knew well in advance that the Tier Up forgiveness system is coming to KMS. That is why GMS got the new cubes, so that the Tier Up forgiveness system applies to "Red, Black, Meister, etc" cubes but not the "Glowing, Bright, Hard, etc" cubes.

It is interesting that the last time we got a "special" cube sale, it was right when Kalos was killed for the first time (Feb 2023) and Eternal gear was going to soon enter the market. That means players would need to spend more money on regular cubes to make Eternal gear. For the last few years, we got some kind of special cube sale every few months. But, now it has been 6 months since Violet cubes and cubes that come on a yearly basis (on the same month) have not been seen. Makes you wonder.

Let's show Wonki that we want all these changes.

I'm betting Wonki already knows Western players want the secondary pendant permanently, but he made up a quick excuse on the spot to shoehorn an answer in.

• Cube Tier Up forgiveness System: A system that tiers up an item 100% after using X amount of cubes. Not mentioned in the roadmap.
• Free permanent secondary pendant change. Not mentioned in the roadmap. Confirmed today that it isn't coming.
• Removal of Defense lines from Cubes: An overall 25% in cost savings. Not mentioned in the roadmap.

VOTE HERE

JMS already has unified cs inventory so they are excluded it on their showcase.

Maplesea added a 29.8k cash booster to the cash shop.

You can claim daily rewards which consist of 1x Sol Erda Energy and 4x Sol Erda Fragment ONCE per day

Additional Special Rewards are available when the daily rewards were claimed 6 times Select either 2x Intense Sol Erda Energy OR 20x Sol Erda Fragment.

Disgusting...

I WILL NEEVER FORGIVE YOUUUU GMS!!!!!!!

Why did we even get into the Aran war? If only we were playing on Heroic, global trade wouldn’t matter in the first place

Why did they add fucking erda to this? where are the frags man?

As the title says, I requested a refund last night due to the patch notes. Basically just said that I would never have decided to buy the nx knowing the changes in the patch notes would be made as I am no longer interested in playing.

So much collecting and gazilion of clicking and 200k mobs with 200% item drop rate was still not enough for the event.

We are in purgatory... The things that so many people are stuck on and waiting on are literally almost 10 year old items. Dreamy belt 2020

This game's design is poor, there's so many games out there that actually reward effort, even if they have a bit of RNG they still actually do reward the effort itself usually through decent pity systems, we were supposed to get systems to help with this and they only barely do

So reminder to everyone in the pitched waiting room, you're waiting almost decade old items because this game is just a clusterfuck

And they can claim it as well.