Not quite dead.

After getting hacked, I was pretty much done for. So much for reaching my dreams of reaching level 120 and having a taste of power of being a bowmaster.

Game Masters from Nexon America can easily fix my problems… if they wanted to. They’re just lazy asses. No point in continuing about it.

Anyway.

Go to this journal. This will be my new home. Might contain some MapleStory related stuff, I don’t know. Maybe also related to other nerd, geek or otaku type thing.

All things must come to an end

With little to no hope, I doubt that I can return to MapleStory with the current conditions that I’m in. Plus, it may happen again. And I’m not gonna risk it.

Just in real life, I have to move on to other things than keep the same routine that helps comfort me. Such things that even video game companies keep doing the same method, they’ll be put out of business.

Plus, I’m gonna go out just like a candle. Simply vanquish.

However, I’m willing to say this.

Nexon, you are the most greedy, bird flipping, shit taking, morally abrupt, lazy shits, cunt bags, soulless fucks, wallet raping, pukeage, cheap mofos that I have ever dealt with.

So, good night and sleep tight MapleStory community. You will forget.

~Tharticus

R.I.P MapleRamblings

Dual Mind Post

Here’s another dual minded post from the last time I’ve done it.

Oh the glorious joy of potential scrolls, this can make users powerful-

*skips record sound

Everyone’s a critic

Take it with a grain of salt and gander at this thread.

Or make it worst and head to Basil Market.

Real life work continues to daunt me. Maybe I’ll make another dual mind post.

~Tharticus

Review of Dual Blade

And now for the anticipation for my review of the new thief branch, the Dual Blades.

Review of GMS Patch 0.88

The Dual Blades has arrived upon the scene. Nexon sure has made changes upon entering the game. It’s drastic but I’m coping over the changes that has been the same since 2005.

Statless beatdown

With the Dual Blades class came, the entire server went bandwagon on the Dual Bladers. Go figure. I’ll review that patch next week.

It’s rollback time

After the special update that I actually did posted on 12:00 PM EST, it’s time to make a decisive choice.

After all, it was a meso exploitation after all.

The question is who should receive the blame?

Nexon: For having incompetent coders and managed to make some people super rich for having the Meso Exploitation in the first place

or

The community: For having to discover about the exploit and spread the word around having some people to be uber rich?

This is a really difficult decision since I can’t pick both and both managed to screw up big time and having everyone rolled back past 2 days. Time to break it down.

The case of Nexon happens when certain issues arise, communities starting to act up or not, Nexon either fixes the issues or leaves it be till about 6 months later.

Then there are the players who happen to stumble upon these exploits, perhaps using to their advantage.

I happen to accumulate history about Nexon and the users in which so, so, so, SO many players tend to exploit anything in the game just to get ahead. This isn’t the first time that I have mentioned about it.

So with that, players are to blame. You’ve gotten yourself into this mess, what you see is what you get.

I’m sorry that any players who lost everything on this rollback but if you got potentially screwed, you can either get back up or move on to better things.

If you were asking me what happened to me, I did get rolled back. Didn’t lose much exp only lost wooden tub and earring for 60% dex. The 5000 maple points were worth it. Sadly, I only got scrolls from gachapon which didn’t do much.

~Tharticus

Special update

I have massive emails that Nexon screwed up on the meso exploitation through Chief Tatamos in Leafre therefore hyperinflating the Maple economy and caused the unexpected maintenance server check to happen.

Probably that caught my attention to meso exploiters was this thread.

During the server check, these are the following that will happen:
Rollback on servers
Hell banned on players who exploited the glitch
Compensation for players

Chances are if you exploited, you will be banned.
If not, your ranks will go up but your characters will be rolled back. Mesos, equipment, transactions, everything.
You can search your rankings and see if there’s any change.

This isn’t the first time that Nexon screwed up. You know what I’m talking about. I did a post about Nexon’s absurd bugs and glitches and while it’s tolerable for a company that makes 700 million dollars annually, I can’t see why Nexon’s coders are incompetent.

Incident #1: When Orbis Party Quest was released during the time, there was a glitch (exploitation rather) when a leader lags through by removing the cable connection to their computer and plugs back in, all the players get 6x the original amount when they complete a part of a stage.

Nexon’s response: They announced it but they did little to none despite the massive amount of players exploiting. They fixed it after 6 months.

Incident #2: Nexon released Crimson Wood Keep and when Bigfoot came out labeled as a boss, it cannot be status inflicted by freeze, poisoned or even stunned. However, when one person did find out the exploitation, everyone wants to join the bandwagon. This became a massive prime for Fire/Poison mages as well as classes that can inflict status inflictions.

Nexon’s response: Announced about it, banned several players and even innocent bystanders. Server checks occur and Bigfoot is no longer status inflicted.

Incident #3: Family system. I despise the Family System. I really, really hate it. It’s nothing but a slave system that requires people to level up, gain reputation points, use points to teleport, 2x drop and 2x EXP. This feature sounds like a mini free cash shop items but I hate it with a passion. The exploitation was that 2x EXP rep does not stack with 2x EXP event. Even the descriptions on either solo or party buffs of 2x EXP/Drop are swapped. 4x EXP happened when 2x EXP event started and everyone started to power level like crazy. Buy a 2x EXP card while you’re at it and you gain 8x EXP. That’s when I started raging and quit my guild seeing they are power leveling addicts. I was a minority group who opposed the family system when this happen and players still don’t care.

Nexon’s response: Announced it, did nothing. Let the exploiters go free. Fixed in couple of days and having the players off bitching about no 8x EXP. Was fixed in couple of days.

All in all, Nexon continues to screw up. Don’t bother trying to be optimistic about this game.

And yes, MapleRamblings will continue to go according to schedule, 12:00 AM EST every Friday. So don’t freak out.

~Tharticus

Unordinary Pains

I’m a very miserable and curmudgeon person. So lets find to rip on so I can get my hate engine cooled. The subject is the arrival of the Big Bang patch in KMS. My last post about that is that I approved it. But there are pains that Nexon brought that were unforgettable.

The very point of today’s post is, what’s the point of playing a video game when it’s continuously updated from a day to day basis?

But it’s a very common problem with other Massively Multiplayer Online games too.

The premise is that when running a Massively Multiplayer Online games, you need to frequently update the game in order to keep the base of operations running. Keeping the content the same as it is and the player base will dwindle.

And that’s when the old school fanbase starts to rage when changes happen. Most of them would continue to see what happens or quit the game altogether.

I happen to be one of the old school people who doesn’t like much change but when all your efforts of leveling up all for naught, what’s the bloody point in continue playing the game?

There are a tons of examples to choose from since Nexon didn’t happen to serve the old player fanbase.

Example 1: The Dice System when starting up a new character is removed.
Example 2: All AP points are reset when you start a new job.
Example 3: Community complains about these changes and Nexon did nothing about it.
Example 4: The Musical Notes Pitches that you need to collect 100 to obtain the Wild Wolf Bandana.
Example 5: The adventurer rings require to level up 30 times if you have an existing character or start anew and level up to 50.

Part of Example 5 would be during the class balances, the classes are severely overpowered by the weapons, armor and the rings they retrieve after they level up to 50.

These are the examples that it’s really excruciating to start anew just to obtain these examples.

I admit, the old days were better and awesome because exploration is also part of the player experience as well. Despite the massive rampant amount of hackings occur, most of the hackers were banned and everyone has equal training, regardless of having NX or not.

Then Nexon became publisher and Wizet continues to develop the game. Years later, more content arrives and more players arisen in droves. Then arrive the 2x EXP cards in which broke the rules of gaming equivalency of what the cash shop became. Then came 25% exp reduced curve that also changed the landscape, making it 1.5x EXP.

And then all is forgiven? Really players? Really? I’m a bit shocked since the abuse of this game is basically throw away money when you screw up skills and then this Big Bang update? This is absurd really.

I don’t see a reason why all is forgiven when Nexon is treating the old players like rag dolls. And now with this new content, that’s rubbing salt in the wounds.

I understand that the entire MapleStory community wants a lower experience curve since the start of the game but with the Big Bang Patch in KMS, that’s horrible for existing players. I’ve been waiting for that six months after starting the game but this is insult to injury.

You might as well wipe the entire game clean.

*Note: People were pretty much stirred by my opinions. This is an extra point about opinions.

Let me state that opinions are all equal. You can say that my opinions are wrong. That’s totally fine. It’s not right but it’s my opinion and stated what’s on my mind. Convincing is not plausible unless you have strong cases on why subject x sucks more than subject y. If you think that I’m shoving these opinions down your throat, you’re thinking it wrong. I’m explaining why this subject x is worst than subject y and either you can take my opinion or leave it.

~Tharticus