I have been playing MapleStory since high school, so I like the vintage feel of this game. I also like my character does the work, I only bought the no-ads pack, but so far I made it to level 80 without buying stuff (sry nexon)

Reliving the old music and maps is great, but there are definite downsides to this mobile game after having spent fulltime playing it and already spending 200€ so far. It’s completely pay2win. Upsides:Party Quest, World chat, guilds with perks built in. Downsides:1. it’s very repetitive. Your character is just grinding the same map and stages for 10 rounds. Once you unlock the next map, it’s the exact same grind all over again just a different background and music 2. you get free tickets and goodies for grinding and red diamonds that you can use to buy limited rewards from the shop or use for companion/weapon enhancement, but it’s still very pay2win3. EVERY currency except World Boss points and Arena coins can be bought and it’s not cheap4. You gets ads pushed personally to you with pay2win stuff: near highest tier weapons and armor, that give you an edge over others for no other reason than just having more CP (combat points)5. Not truly idle. Only 8 hours idle grind and the EXP you get idling offline is nerfed so it encourages you to keep the app open at all times if you’re a competitive person6. Membership to increase offline idling by a mere 4 hours costs 1,99 a month7. companion enhancement gives a lot of extra damage and so-called “battle passes” can be bought for 19,99. It doesn’t give you the companions. You still have to pay or grind (which isn’t feasible) to unlock all 10.000 points to complete the battle pass which gives you more points8. Heavily RNG making you spend even more money instead of waiting a couple days for more points9. Unique costumes and hairstyles are extremely pricey. Especially the special costume packs some of them cost around 40€ worth in blue diamonds (the shop currency)10. You are region locked in a server. You cannot for example play this with your online friends from other parts of the world. 11. Party quest is completely unstable. Black screen. Freezing. Etc.12. Game is centered around FOMO: fear of missing out. There’s all sorts of ranking to see how you do compared to others. Level wise, job wise, world boss rank, arena, even guilds have levels. All geared towards you spending more. All in all too expensive pay2win for a game that isn’t truly idle and very repetitive.

Banned?The game was fun, but I got permanently banned for no reason. Since its Nexon I’m not getting my account or money back. DONT SPEND ANYTHING ON THIS GAME!

You can spend $50000 and still not being able to reach endgame. Every 3 weeks they release a major update to move the goalpost so you have to spend even more real money to progress in the game.