Maybe in 10 years Maple will be gone. But it doesn't matter, none of you are giving remotely good reasons for it going away. Download size? Really? Runes of Magic, shittiest MMO I've ever played has somewhere up around the 7 gig client download. Plus, I'm sure Wizet is smart enough to pack their files. If we can cut them down to ~40 megs with XML's, I'm sure Wizet can find some way to make the .wz files smaller.
As for you guys saying "Maplestory will be out performed by technology", you're so smart. As somebody else said "we got all hyped about a 1024x768 resolution in 2010" You really think Maplestory players stick around because of the technology that goes into the game? It came out on top during the rise of 3d games, and it's a 2d sidescroller. Oh and it's got in what, the top 5 of the most registered daily players out of all free MMO's? If it were going to die because of technology I'm sure it would've happened by now.
10 years from now, I have no idea what's going to happen. With how strongly MS is running there's doubts it'll die out, but then 10 years is a LONG time, so we never know. I know I won't be around to find out, that's for damn sure.
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Stupid and Biased? This is asking you what you do think Maple will be like in 10 years. It's meant to be biased. I don't think it's stupid, very good thread.
You're an idiot. You want Nexon to die because they Autobanned you for using a fly hack, and then said "I'll just go back to my private servers". Sorry kid, no PServer developers that I've seen have the ability that Wizet's dev team has, and if that dies how long do you think PServers will last? Not very long. It'll flourish - greatly - for a couple months, then die 100x as fast as Nexon did.
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I refuse to believe that 3D technology will ever overtake television. It causes MUCH more eye damage than CRT monitors or LCD monitors or even LED monitors. It won't take anything over.
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Are people really bitching about the Required System Abilities?
OS Windows 98ME/2K/XP
CPU 3-1Ghz
RAM 128MB
HDD 1.5GB
VGA 3D Acceleration card
SOUND N/A
NETWORK 56kbps Modem
...If you can't even support that, go buy a computer from the goodwill for 25$.