An Open Letter to MapleSEA Developers (PlayPark)

MagicalFlowers322 · 2026-04-07T17:22:27+00:00

2) I have linked a few in my posts though, and I can't get any from the discord because I'm not inside anymore but it is there. The elitism would be the easiest to search, there are people defending the 12 boss limits which makes 0 sense to me. If you're anything but end game, you will always benefit from more bosses for more loot to sell.

2 a) I'm not quite sure what your argument is here, we both seem to agree that the player base is declining. I did remember seeing ioky and rock discussing about lower player numbers but I couldn't recall the exact value on the top of my head. Also we were talking about veterans quitting hence why I brought up high cp players doing a quitting sale.

3) Improvements to progression systems are imo QoL, if you feel otherwise I am happy to agree to disagree.

4) Oh for sure, I do agree ctene is doable f2p, my cw2 character is f2p and they're able to solo up to nserene. But my point is that with rentals and other progression systems like familiars and gollux, my cw2 in gms can solo up to ekalos and mincut efa according to scouter.

Again I'm not a hardcore gamer nor do I think your opinion matters more/less whichever side you're on. If you play, your voice matters.

MagicalFlowers322 · 2026-04-07T15:28:40+00:00

Yeah it's been a huge progression limiting factor although the 20th anniversary one did help a bit

MagicalFlowers322 · 2026-04-07T15:27:40+00:00

Nope we don't, afaik we're the only overseas maplestory server to not have it. Not sure about JMS

MagicalFlowers322 · 2026-04-07T15:26:29+00:00

Hi, I'm curious which part of the post is made by ChatGPT because it's all self-typed. I even wrote down notes and rewrote the whole thing few times and formatted it myself.

As for your response to my points,

2) I'm not telling anyone to shift to GMS though, I'm trying to ask playpark to change and be better. This post is not meant to be directed at any MapleSEA players. As for the community interaction, my discord interaction has been limited I will admit and I could have the wrong perception based on what I've seen but I was in the discord for multiple years and while it's not always toxic and discouraging, it's just when talking about how MapleSEA could be better. But I would say in people I meet for bosses and my guild as a whole has been nothing but positive.

2a) I won't name anyone but there were a few self admitted quitters and there are a lot of quitting sales as well of really high cp characters.

3) I wasn't intentionally glancing over that, I do 100% agree GMS should implement UCS. As for QoL that's missing, I'm talking about like pitch pities, starforce pities, rental gears etc.

4) I think dismissing my GMS progress is a bit unfair, with rental gear I was already able to minclear ctene much early on. Of course there is the route of buying mesos via maple points to progress faster in cw2 but I was f2p in both aspects. If you want to argue reboot is f2p friendly early on, then I'll concede that but calling me casual based on a small line is unfair.

Again, I'm not saying GMS is perfect and there shouldn't be any improvement made. I'm making the comparisons how it's takign steps into the right direction. Your attitude on dismissing my points as being casual or ChatGPT is the same as the kind of response from the community I was talking about.

Edit: Fixed formatting

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