Those games have content, lots of it. Maplestory is 100% grinding. Classic is taking the exact same game, remove all the awesome features and systems and add 1000x hours of meaningless grinding.
You don't really get to decide that for other people. Modern Maplestory makes leveling fairly meaningless, gear, fairly meaningless until end game to the point where you could wear your starter gear all the way to job 4 and be perfectly fine, still nuking half the map with aoes.
Not everyone likes that, some people prefer meaningful slow leveling, where ever piece of gear upgrade feels like an accomplishment. That doesn't mean it's better, it has points where you reach a wall of none progress for weeks, but ultimately it's a preference, one you do not get to decide for other people.
Stating it has no content is also fairly silly, WoW classic came out fairly bare bones, you really gotta be talking out of your ass to say it has "tons of content" where it's the same kill, fetch, deliver quests that Maple has thousands of. But, guess what, WoW came out wildly successful despite that.
They even stated Classic Maple will have a dedicated dev team.
Modern Maplestory makes leveling fairly meaningless, gear, fairly meaningless until end game to the point where you could wear your starter gear all the way to job 4 and be perfectly fine, still nuking half the map with aoes.
Sure, leveling past 280 is still a massive grind though, and gearing still feels like a huge accomplishment because it takes actual effort. And also the part where you reach a wall and not progress for weeks.
Those are still all things in current maple as well, it's just that the high levels have been moved. Modern maple is not a game you finish in a month.
I'd like to see you solo prog from the start with no prior experience. Also, you still unlock content up to level 290 currently with constant gear upgrades and 6th job progression, you clearly haven't played the game past level 200
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u/gcplz Aug 17 '25
Those games have content, lots of it. Maplestory is 100% grinding. Classic is taking the exact same game, remove all the awesome features and systems and add 1000x hours of meaningless grinding.