Wow today I decided to take a look at my maple character once more before bidding farewell to it for 20 weeks and guess what? After logging in for 3 mins my chat box was flooded with green rectangular boxes. If you used to or still do play maple you will know what I mean. Those green boxes are known as Gachapon Megaphones. Whenever someone gets a rare item it will be flashed in these green boxes. Today it took only 3 mins to have 16 boxes. What items are they, some might question. I will tell you alright. Miracle Scrolls, Dragon equipments, 100% scrolls having the stats of a 60% scrolls, Raven items, and Elemental items. What is going on?? Shouldn't these items be in a state of scarcity??? With the supply of these items increasing, people would say that 'Hey it's good as the prices of these items will drop drastically right?' NO. N-O no. If you play maple for a long time you will know that if an item’s drop rates from monsters are raised, then only, will the prices of these items fall. However if its being obtained by exchanging them with @cash or in my context money, there will be massive inflation. Prices of items would once again increase. E.g. price of Brown work gloves (clean) 70m clean. If gachapon machines keep giving them out, price of Brown work gloves (clean) would increase to 120m together with other items. In other words the value of mesos would decrease drastically. This made me wonder, isn't maple suppose to be a game where friendships are being fostered even with strangers? And it’s a game for kids of all ages to enjoy. Yes, I do agree in the past it was, it was calm, enjoyable and it requires skills to trade. However looking at it now instead of fun driven, maple has turned its focus to be profit driven. With these kinds of implementations, would you not agree with the statement I said before, 'only the rich will survive'. Maple has changed drastically. It's no longer enjoyable. It's more like 'day-light robbery'. It's vision and its motive has blurred. It's no longer the innocent maple we once knew. Mapl-ers refers to people who play maple. They were once friendly, helpful and kind. Now? Let's just let your imagination run wild and be sure to include @#$@% in speech bubbles coming out of maplers who are only 7 to 13 years old. However I know that it's not entirely their fault that they have to result in these kind of methods to earn money as they need it to support such a large company. However earning money from gamers can be done in other forms. Instead of using items as incentives for maplers who buys @cash they could use exp points or have events in real life like the one that was held in illuma. This is totally bias towards rich people. And it's giving me second thoughts on continuing game play. Why is society nowadays? What is society now anyways? It is really sad to see this happening. Anyways I should start my work now.

~Nights~