History YMMV / MapleStory

** The log-in theme music. Too bad it's been changed in the Korean edition.

** What about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXkFRHTLLJo Repentance]] from the Time Temple? The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2GTIaUe_80 piano version]] is good too, if not better.

** PERIDOTS. The average time to complete this quest is about 7-12 hours of hunting. Have fun!

** More so in some version than others. The Neo Tokyo quest chain had a great story in the Japanese Servers. It like, emotionally moved me at some points. They threw at least 90% out of the window and renamed it Neo City for the Global version. I'm glad most players don't even care about reading that.

* LoveItOrHateIt: The LevelGrinding, mentioned above, is a put-off for many. But, if patient and played with good friends, ''Maple Story'' can be a fun game.
** Posed to (hopefully) become a nonissue with the Big Bang patch, due to the massive drop in the experience curve.
*** Has become a non-issue, as there is now no real grind from 1-130. But after 130 the grind starts and just gets worse and worse.

** YourMileageMayVary for the [[strike:[[TeamFortress2 Engies]]]] The Mechanics. They have shit tons of defense and health, powerful skills that can lay waste to multiple enemies and all in early levels. The downside is, you will chew through your suppiles of MP pots really quickly, and those things aren't exactly cheap. But, screw that, It's still [[RuleOfFun damn fun to play as]]

** All newer classes in general are pretty much subject to this. Whenever a new class comes out, people gripe about Nexon should be adding new worlds, quests, and bosses, instead of new jobs. While many people like playing as the new classes, those players get a lot of flak just by playing as one. Especially true with Evans, and probably with any new class that gets released. A bit of a case of UnpleasableFanbase as well.

* UnpleasableFanbase: The only thing the fanbase can agree on is that they like Maple Story. Before Big Bang, the fanbase was divided into two camps: people that complained about grinding and people who weren't bothered by it. Cue Big Bang patch and now those camps are the camp of "MS is way too easy now; noobs deserve to suffer as much as we did when we were noobs!" and the camp of "Fucking finally, this game is fun now!"

** More so in some version than others. The Neo Tokyo quest chain had a great story in the Japanese Servers. They threw at least 90% out of the window and renamed it Neo City for the Global version.

** More so in some version than others. The Neo Tokyo quest chain had a great story in the Japanese Servers. They threw at least 90% out of the window and renamed it Neo City for the Global version. The story doesn't even make sense anymore, and they also managed to leave references in to things that are only in Neo Tokyo.

* WasteOfTimeStory: Sadly.

* UnpleasableFanbase: When a couple of hackers began to exploit a glitch that generates countless amounts of cash, people started complaining that the economy's going to be ruined even more than it has. What does Nexon do? It fixes the exploit, but has to do a rollback in order to fix most of the damage. Cue people screaming about how the game's ruined because they lost levels/items/mesos due to the rollback [[{{Misblamed}} and accusing Nexon of wrecking everything because they're trying to stop a handful of hackers.]] No, ignore the free Maple Points and the five days of 2X EXP, Nexon hates you all.
* WasteOfTimeStory (Sadly.)
* YourMileageMayVary: The difficulty of leveling up depends on the patience of the player. Of course, less difficulty for the clerics.
** They do however (along with the other two Mage classes) have extremely repetitive grinding methods at 4th job compared to everyone else.
** Thanks to the new Big Bang patch, clerics were robbed of most of their hunting grounds with undead monsters, as the Cronos family were horribly upgraded and the Wraiths were horribly downgraded.

** Nexon seems to be on a roll with bad updates; the latest one (6/21/10) introduced potential items and an increased drop rate, possibly in part to deflate the economy. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero The problem here is that it further divides the gap between funded and unfunded users]], by making the potential items worth more while rendering anything without potential as being worthless. Users with cash in their pocket can simply buy the potential items and merchant them for a quick buck, while everyone else who had previously godly equips now find out that they're worthless because some idiot can pick up something that has the potential to be even greater... with less investment put in than the previous equips. One or the other could have fixed the problem. [[WallBanger Both just made the situation even worse.]]

** YourMileageMayVary for the [[strike:[[TeamFortress2 Engies]]]] The Mechanics. THey have shit tons of defense and health, powerful skills that can lay waste to multiple enemies and all in early levels. The downside is, you will chew through your suppiles of MP pots really quickly, and those things aren't exactly cheap. But, screw that, It's still [[RuleOfFun damn fun to play as]]

** YourMileageMayVary for the [[[[strike: TeamFortress2 Engies]]]] The Mechanics. THey have shit tons of defense and health, powerful skills that can lay waste to multiple enemies and all in early levels. The downside is, you will chew through your suppiles of MP pots really quickly, and those things aren't exactly cheap. But, screw that, It's still [[RuleOfFun damn fun to play as]]

** YourMileageMayVary for the [[[[strike: TeamFortress2 Engies]] The Mechanics. THey have shit tons of defense and health, powerful skills that can lay waste to multiple enemies and all in early levels. The downside is, you will chew through your suppiles of MP pots really quickly, and those things aren't exactly cheap. But, screw that, It's still [[RuleOfFun damn fun to play as]]

** These mannequin mosnters [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100807064733/maplestory/images/2/2a/Monster_Kid_Mannequin.png]] [[http://static.basilmarket.com/monster/BasilMarket-com-Female-Mannequin.gif]] are...kind of [[UncannyValley unsettling]]