Its been years since this section has been active and going, wondering what everyone has been up to? School/Work/Etc?
How are you all doing?
It've been 5 years! woah, I'm amazed that you guys are still around.
I've been playing a bit of MapleStorySEA recently, it does seems that private servers are going nostalgic while the official server feels more like private server of the past.
The amount of players have dropped dramatically too..
Stumbled upon this article earlier
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and I thought of popping by Ragezone to see how have things gone.. There's a strikingly similarities between him and me back then.
However I'm more disappointed about the state of the community, time seems to have frozen since 2011/2012.
Even my old thread were still at the first page of RageZone. I just looked around the net, old screenshots of celino, all the arguments I've made with people in the past on ragezone (
john, Xerixe haha lol).
Familiar faces around! kipe, Expedia, kevintjuh93, richan (maybe, that nexon avatar), RatorJesus, Diamando, retep998 .
Yes, there were bad moments but just as I looked back I really miss every single one of them!
As for me personally, I'm currently in the field of Computer science & economics.
I'm an indie mobile app developer (android, windows), a bitcoiner, and a day trader (stocks, forex, BTC)
Just shortly after Celino was shut down I've moved on to Windows Phone/Windows 8 app development (*due to nexon, as you know it).
My daily expenses was pretty much reliant on Celino, and there was an urgent need to look for another source of revenue.. It was certainly a right choice, as android and iOS have just taken off at that time and competition in Windows wasn't too high. Past 3 years, the revenue have been consistently at 6 digit annually (USD terms) ..
I'm from Singapore and yes, I was a school dropout. GCE O-Level with a score of 26.
I must say, I've learned almost everything I need throughout 2009~2012 when developing typicalms/Celino. The fact is that before OdinMS was released, my knowledge was only limited to cheatengine scripting, and a bit of assembly instruction.
If I have a time machine that's able to bring me back to 2009, will i do this again? Yes I will certainly do this all over again. Even at the risk of being Lord Corned.
Excuse me from my absent for over 4 years.
Just like the 'silicon valley' teen who was sued by Nexon for duplicating items/meso, I'm sure many of you here are too successful in your life
You guys are a bunch of unusual beast!
It certainly wasn't easy, relative to the grade orientated society I live in but I believe what you have achieved for yourself is more important. Does it really matter if you're having a perfect GPA and yet you're only able to work on what's within your scope, like a zombie?
Source code of celino wasn't released when it was shut down. Sorry about that, I do thought of contributing back to the community.
However as part of the settlement with Nexon I am not allowed to do that.