Hey guys, how's it going? This is my first 'real' blog post in a while (I'm not promoting one of my videos like in my previous two ). Anyways, this is regarding MapleStory private servers, and how many have been shutting down in the past couple of weeks. I started playing PS (private servers) a few weeks ago, when I saw a video on Xfire of a party of people fighting the Horned Tail, with hacks on.

I got curious as to how they were doing so much damage, and found that they were on a PS, where all rates (EXP/drop/meso) where increased by a very significant amount (many were using x500/x200/x200, respectively).

I told my friends about this, intrigued them, and we started playing on the most popular one, FinalStory. A few days later, we were informed that Nexon was shutting it down, so we moved to another one, DesuMS, which then suffered the same fate. I then heard rumors about how one of the not-so-popular servers teamed up with Nexon to help shut down the top 20+ PS so they could move up in the rankings (can't confirm if this is true or not). Anyways, my friends and I have now gone back to normal/legit/slow leveling/Nexon/whatever MS, and it is very slow.

So this brings me to my suggestions towards Nexon. Everyone who has played MS knows that the leveling process is ridiculously slow, almost not-worth-playing slow. I know Nexon has their x2 EXP cash cards, but even with that, it is still too slow. One thing I would say is to increase EXP rates to at least x5 what they are now, as that may help a bit. Then on weekends, for one hour chosen at random (between 10am - 10pm, a message appears on the screen that double EXP hour is now ongoing) the EXP rate is doubled (so it is x10 the current rate).

The main reason I switched to PS was to fight bosses, as my main is only level 51 on MS (and I've been playing for about 6 months), however on PS, I had characters get to level 160 in a day, and I could boss with friends and enjoy looking at my amazing attacks. MapleStory is a very good game, but it needs to fix many aspects, as there are a large number of people who also quit MS just because it gets too slow and boring