Ever wonder why people still play classic Maplestory servers? Help me find out!

The nostalgia of childhood.
To be honest, As the game upgrade it became more boring.

For example
•levels up.
•Party Quest.
•Boss.

There was significance to the levels you up.
You would enjoy the character more.
You enjoy the game more when you play such a team.
Today the game has lost all meaning and all the fun to play it.
In the past it was very difficult to kill boss..And today you are not dependent on anyone to kill any boss.
That’s why is lost all meaning and fun to play it.

 

I really enjoyed the game when wizet was Managers.

 

Current GMS has way more bugs, disconnects, general problems, and bad GMs/PR compared to MapleLegends among other reasons. The only thing I like from current GMS is some bosses mechanics. Example, I really enjoyed solo/duo hard Magnus (back when it took over 30 minutes). But nowadays, most bosses can be killed in seconds... which is very lame.

 

The reason I like Legends better than the current version of gms is simple - everything is more community driven, meaning it allows me to meet and make friends with other people. On the other hand, as Maplestory evolved more over time, Neckson started moving away and began emphasizing more on having solo plays, which was what eventually let me down.

For example, I don't think anybody could have imagined one person casually soloing zakum in minutes 10 years ago. I remember back when I went to PC bang in Korea, I saw one person zaking with 15+ other guild mates, and I thought it was the most badass thing I've ever seen. But nowdays, you don't even need a guild or other people to kill a boss, which I think is a shame.

And that's without mentioning other big flaws of the game that promotes p2w like cubes. Things like that were the biggest reason why I prefer to play on private servers more over gms.

 

whats the conclusion you plan on making with this survey btw?

 

There are a few things that keep me coming back to Maple Story private servers. One, the sense of community and talking to people making lasting relationships and the other reason being that games recently are all just way too easy. Don't get me wrong, Maple is easy too, but I mean easy in a different sense. Developers want you to get to max level and complete all the content within a month, while spending hundreds of dollars potentially, only to move on to the next "big" release that comes our way. It's just not satisfying to me, it's all based on short term satisfaction to drive sales.

It's also a big reason why games such as League of Legends and Fortnite have become so successful, because it actually has something to offer over long periods of time. I invested about 5 years into League alone. It's also the reason the MMORPG genre feels so stale at the moment, with people endlessly jumping from one game to the next looking for that next big thing only to be disappointed.

 

Hi, pretty cool project you've got going on. Couple suggestions here:

1. Since we're able to select multiple games, the "type of sever" question should also include multi-selection.
2. The "modern equivalent" question also faces this issue (I played both Old School Runescape and currently play Maple Legends)
3. Not a big issue, but I'm pretty specific on how I'm willing to pay when it comes to games, especially old school servers. I would not play a private server with pay-to-win microtransactions (e.g. Neckson + NX), but I would happily pay for a month-to-month subscription fee or even for non-play-to-win microtransactions (or at least nothing game breaking; e.g. Miracle Cubes).

 

Hello I think shot and I both have very similar views on why people choose old-school and ditch the current maplestory.
New maplestory today is all about solo play which isn't fun without a community since no one wants to play alone. Neckson has switched their structure from community and exploration to P2W and solo grinding by releasing dozens of new classes, potential system, miracle cubes, and items that allow solo bossing/grinding. Big bang also destroyed much of the old original layout of the maps making the maple world feel much smaller. Players now feel pressured to focus on material gain rather than focus on community-geared gameplay like what we used to see in KPQ,LPQ,LMPQ, and our beloved balrog expeditions in sleepywood. Sadly there is not much opportunity or incentive for communities and friends to be made in that atmosphere which makes players leave. As GMS popularity continues to drop because of these changes, fewer people will know about private servers, and private servers will eventually die out. I think private servers can only survive by leeching off the attention from GMS, yet GMS' competition alongside other free to play PC games for new young players looks hopeless.