Friday, February 10, 2006
Maple Story: Part 3 - Conclusion
After the official lunch, more and more people sign up for an account with asiasoft.
Till a point where logging in to the server is a hassle people spent hrs in front of their PC just to login to the game and others leave their PC on 24 hrs so that they do not have to re login.
Then after quite some time, A$ finally decided to release a 2nd server. But little people migrate there as they had already spent too much time one the 1st server.
For a period after that, there was peace.
But something bad happen when the 3rd server came out. There are too many hackers as compare to the GMs, that people can hack happily and the GM never came and catch them. This goes on for many weeks. Finally A$ implement to stop the hacker, it stop the hackers alrite, at the same time stop players with sucky computers unable to play the game.
Guess the problems will never ends, but I have to put a end to this Hacker Story chapter else I will never be able to review on other games.
Cheers!
Till a point where logging in to the server is a hassle people spent hrs in front of their PC just to login to the game and others leave their PC on 24 hrs so that they do not have to re login.
Then after quite some time, A$ finally decided to release a 2nd server. But little people migrate there as they had already spent too much time one the 1st server.
For a period after that, there was peace.
But something bad happen when the 3rd server came out. There are too many hackers as compare to the GMs, that people can hack happily and the GM never came and catch them. This goes on for many weeks. Finally A$ implement to stop the hacker, it stop the hackers alrite, at the same time stop players with sucky computers unable to play the game.
Guess the problems will never ends, but I have to put a end to this Hacker Story chapter else I will never be able to review on other games.
Cheers!
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Maple Story: Part 2
Back by "popular" demand, I present you with the 2nd part of my review...
As days pass by, more and more people signed up for MapleSEA. When the first beta was open, about 1000 users were allowed to sign up. And there was about 4-6 channels at that time. Every thing was peaceful beside a few hackers every now and then, even after the 2nd beta was open.
Then finally, A$ decided that they are ready to release the game to the general public one day. A$ ask for "donation" from users to put up an advertisement on the Newpaper to invite kids and teens to the official launch of MapleSEA at Orchard. Many people turn up. And pre paid card was sold for the first time.
When the cash item first came out, some players tried to scam password from other user saying they are the GM.
To be continued...
Now to the review =)
The game play:
Maple Story is a 2-D game. It has the same music for all of the maps in an area.
In this game, you will control a cute character which the head is about half the body size. You can let your character wear many kind of clothes and equipment which you can buy from NPC, Cash Shop or pick up from drop from monster.
Messo - The money in the game. You will need them to buy equipment from NPC. Monster drop messo.
Quest - Follow instruction from NPC and collect stuff.
The Review:
The character design is good, each kind of jobs have different skill. The game play is very unique from any other game you have ever played. It is one of the slowest game to level up. It can hook players on to their computers for many hours every day, and its bad for the health and school result.
And people even buy messo/items for real money. Although many players know that its bad for them but they can't stop playing!
I give it a 4/5 stars for making people addicted to it!
As days pass by, more and more people signed up for MapleSEA. When the first beta was open, about 1000 users were allowed to sign up. And there was about 4-6 channels at that time. Every thing was peaceful beside a few hackers every now and then, even after the 2nd beta was open.
Then finally, A$ decided that they are ready to release the game to the general public one day. A$ ask for "donation" from users to put up an advertisement on the Newpaper to invite kids and teens to the official launch of MapleSEA at Orchard. Many people turn up. And pre paid card was sold for the first time.
When the cash item first came out, some players tried to scam password from other user saying they are the GM.
To be continued...
Now to the review =)
The game play:
Maple Story is a 2-D game. It has the same music for all of the maps in an area.
In this game, you will control a cute character which the head is about half the body size. You can let your character wear many kind of clothes and equipment which you can buy from NPC, Cash Shop or pick up from drop from monster.
Messo - The money in the game. You will need them to buy equipment from NPC. Monster drop messo.
Quest - Follow instruction from NPC and collect stuff.
The Review:
The character design is good, each kind of jobs have different skill. The game play is very unique from any other game you have ever played. It is one of the slowest game to level up. It can hook players on to their computers for many hours every day, and its bad for the health and school result.
And people even buy messo/items for real money. Although many players know that its bad for them but they can't stop playing!
I give it a 4/5 stars for making people addicted to it!
