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Pay-To-Win Design: Has MapleStory 2 Been Beyond Cure Already?

Many Maplers might have considered themselves stuck in the middle of a swamp that Nexon had inflicted on MapleStory 2. Instead of figuring a way out, the company seemingly tried to drag anyone else down. This Swamp, which makes a halt to any further movements and put anyone in it with a slow painful drowning, greatly features a variety of deadly snares and one of them must be the Pay-to-Win mechanism(P2W for short). P2W is commonplace in the game industry by now, with plenty of video games, outdated or popular, sooner or later, implanted in. This design, just as its name suggests, is a system that only favors of the customers who have been paid real-world money for the games' contents and help them succeed in any competition with more powerful and superior props. Undoubtedly, this P2W design is unfair and lop-sided for the majority of other players who have no intention to purchase any in-game contents or a big part of it. The only foreseeable consequence of this design occurrence ...

MapleStory M Review – An MMO port which only gets the port bit right

There are some games that just don't feel good to play on a phone, games that require twitchy controls, games that need a lot of buttons, and games that can't be put down for a moment so you can answer a text are just a few examples. While MapleStory M knows that it's not ideally suited for touchscreen play, its solutions to the problem end up distancing the player and making for a rather boring experience. MMOOM (Massive Multiplayer Online On Mobile) MapleStory M is a mobile port of classic PC MMO. It's an ambitious project, and for the most part it works really well. You create a character, level them up, unlock new abilities, find citizens in need, help them with their quests, and then get some rewards. Mo' problems  While there's a sharp, dopamine-filled compulsion loop here, MapleStory M falls into the same trap as a lot of other mobile MMOs out there. Within about an hour and a half, I was already level 20 and could get rid of my...