Sharing story/thoughts on this game we all love

Hi everyone, sorry for the unexpected thread. I just wanted to share with you my story/thoughts on this game we all love(Maple). You're also welcome to share yours if you want to.

Well, you see... Ive always been the kind of guy that likes to go "back in time" and re-experience the good old days. Not just maple, but you know, even music or films, or even the clothes I wear in real life - you know? With a video game like this its quite simple to be honest. When I started playing at about age 13(22 now), I was really noob and ignorant, I had a swordman and kept wondering why I keep missing on monsters when all I needed to do was throw in some points into DEX. And when a 100% cape for luk scroll suddenly dropped from a pig, I was like "wow!" and overexcited about it, and about anything in general. Yeah, it was dark days indeed. But now when I arrive at my current self of today, being a young adult that still enjoys playing this childish game . . . I used to have this feeling of guilt of playing this game, because a lot of people in real life told me that its too childish for me. People really tend to associate video games in general with childhood, but really - I know a guy 44 years old who still plays video games. At some point, I even met a 53 year old women playing Maple! I met her in Korea Folk Town, a 50-something cleric I believe she was. And she had the same passion for this game as a 10 year old, really. When I had my addiction to this game really strong a few years ago, I couldnt stop playing, I logged in everyday and spent hours of hours playing this game. Now I'm glad I have much more control over this habit - I dont play as much as I used to because I dont sit in front of the computer all day anymore. So, I feel much better with myself when I come back home from a hard day's work and relax a little by playing on a nostalgic server like MapleLegends. Its really a great feeling to come home for everyday. I'm glad Kimberly decided to start this server.

 

Yeah guys, you see... when I first started playing this game back on Bera in GMS I never thought to myself I would be playing it for this long, or get this far etc. I'd say everything that happened at the time for me was spontaneously because I was completely new to the game. I mean, later on I had also times where I was getting better and had more knowledge about the game, but I wasnt taking it very seriously at the time because I was quite immature in generally. I guess I still have my moments of immaturity even now, haha, but obviously much less than my younger years. I mean this game is basically what made me live a much happier life by providing me with something fun to do everyday when I'm back home from work, or in the case when I was younger, high school. When post-bb came out I quitted shortly after, and some time later I gave it a try and played some of the post-bb classes. It was fun, but I really missed playing the game as it was before all the shit that Neckson have changed/added to the game. So thats why I'm saying, a server like MapleLegends is the pinnacle of that ambition. If no such pre-bb servers existed I dont think I would still be playing Maple. And people like Kimberly who take their time to work really hard on making this a reality for so many people like me who miss the good old days. Its really nice of her to do that. Imagine how good of a feeling it is to know I can still play the game I love everyday? I'm sure she's aware of how happy she makes people feel by runnig this server for them, for people like me. I thank god for everyday I wake up in the morning just because of this, because I know there are amazing people like her who take the time to work on something like this and making it available for everyone to enjoy. Its giving me strength to go to work because I know when I'm back home, I know that this game I love so much will be waiting for me everyday. Its truly a great feeling to have, and I'm glad I can finally play this game without the excessive addiction that I used to have which was a bad habit of mine and I played too much. Now I have full control over this and that's exactly what makes me so happy about it. I'll stop here because this is already long as hell haha.