Why Maplestory is Not Worth Playing

I’ve seen many people play Maplestory, and I’ve heard about it from so many others. However, I just don’t feel that this is a game worth playing. Here’s why:

1. Immature Community

Lets just face it, the majority of the kids playing that game are between the ages of 8-12. It’s doubtful that a meaningful conversation can even be maintained. Overall, at least when I played, it just seemed virtually impossible to make friendships. You wouldn’t be able to find those of common interests once you leave the age group.

2. Ridiculously Repetitive

The ultimate drawback of the game is its lack of alternatives and the overall limitations of the game. The experience system needed for leveling up is based upon an exponential system, meaning that it gets harder and harder to level up as you get higher in the levels. The result is repetition, repetition, and some more repetition. Your gear stays the same for a very long time. You use the same spells to grind for a very long time. The quests in themselves must be done over and over for a very long time. The game gets dull and gets dull fast.

3. The Emphasis on Real Money

Unfortunately, Maplestory itself revolves around this thing called “NX Cash.” Basically it is special in-game currency that you need real money to buy. It allows the purchase of various in-game features. Unfortunately, this money concept has shifted to the point where playing it for free has evolved to a lack of uniqueness. Essentially, in order to alleviate various annoying mechanisms of the game, you’ve got to buy NX Cash. If you want to level up faster with 2x Experience cards, you need to buy it with NX Cash. If you want to look unique, you need to buy clothes with NX Cash. When companies shift the experience from free to paid, a different result ensues. When this happens, the overall experience is just not fun.

4. A Surplus of Hackers

Hacking is just a result of the various implementation problems of Maplestory. Because Maplestory is repetitive, requires large amounts of grinding, and is exceptionally time consuming, populations of hackers rise to circumvent the problem. They use their hacks to kill monsters faster or get money faster. Basically, they ruin the game for the ones who play it legit. It just becomes pointless to play when players are forced to compete with a population of hackers. Once again, I must stress that this issue is particularly unique to Maplestory because it is the slow experience system which causes the hackers to populate.

Overall, the problem is that games are intended to be fun. When you suck all the fun out by means of hackers, an immature community, or by means of a ridiculously repetitive grinding and levelling system, the game just becomes not worth playing.