I met one of my best friends in the sauna room in Sleepy wood. Haven't talked to her in months though

Ugh, what I'm mad about most is how useless Victoria Island is. The new layout is retarded, and it's just one circle with nothing to really explore. I remember back in the day when people would go out of their way to get to good training places, but now it's like, one place for 30+ levels that EVERYONE goes to, and it's always crowded, etc. I miss meeting people in Sleepywood too...

Oh yeah. Sleepywood sauna...how I miss you...
It was always fun to talk and mess around and watch people play drop games. Sometimes I even won those games.
What I enjoyed was the nice chilled music...one time I went to sleep and left the computer on while I was in the sauna. I fell asleep so fast that when I woke up the next morning I said to myself: "Wow, what the hell? That was fast."
Good times. I miss maplestory before all that new crap came on. Before the game got too fucking big for my laptop, before all these hackers and crowdedness everywhere. Before constantly trying to find new ways to take your money. Maplestory just got reeeeeally lame. :/
I admit though, there are still times when I want to go back. That sweet sweet time when the music from sleepywood or the forests of Ellinia (forgot it's name lolol) would lul me to sleep. Or when I would shit myself on the airship ride when Skull Balrog would appear.

Aw...Maplestory. Why? WHYYYY?

Although I can blame Nexon for mismanaging game concepts, I hold my tongue when it comes to patching up hack loopholes. Botters and hackers in every game often have the upper hand, because its harder to fix if the company doesn't know what the given problem is (hacking and botting are done with sophisticated programs, presumably).

But you do bring up a good point, the good ol' days were the good ol' days. Now leveling from 1 to 30 is a string of quests away. I think the best times were 2nd and 3rd job, when it was opportune to explore the far-flung reaches of the Sleepywood Ant Tunnels and Dungeon, as well as El Nath Mine and Lava Dungeons, and also Ludibrium Dungeon, with all of those undead and weird monsters.

The random metal pig in Pig Beach. Searching desperately for pan lids as a status symbol. Bob the snail. Good times.

Sleepywood sauna still exists. People only go there for the NPC to sell their stuff or buy potions. There was a Showa shower house that is exclusive to specific genders and it was big when it came out.

Now, nothing more but a empty room.

Motherfuckin Slime tree. levels 10-15 in a nutshell.

THEY TOOK THAT SHIT OUT!

they took out henesys hunting grounds. total fail. i hacked the crap outta the game ever since big bang =D

Feels like a while ago, but it can't have been more than 2-3 years right?

I wished back in 2008 that they would stop adding new worlds and stupidly altering old ones (the changes to the beginner island being a major peeve, seeing as it eliminated my all-time favorite class, islanders). Seriously, at this point there are just far too many worlds and quests to keep track of, and making it so convoluted just made my feel overwhelmed. It's not worth my time.

I would timeleap back to beta if I could -.-

The game has been running for about 6 years officially. Maybe 1 or 2 more during the beta.

Potential system is a game breaker. People asking which class has the most DPS (Damage Per Second) Classes has ruptured to either better or worst (Page class are becoming more superior and Brawler class are lulz because of lack of updates) Damage whores, only 19 channels on old worlds, KS wars are instigated, meso inflation I can go on and on about this game.

It really saddens me.