People rarly die unless they go afk in a stupid place.. don't buy pots or go explore and fight something too strong..

why is maplestory so great?

Ask the 1m players playing it.

+ if you played the game long enough.. you would know that you want to lvl higher so you could kill better stuff.. if you ask a noob if he wanted to kill a lets say "viking" he'll be like OMFGBBQ HELL YEA. You gotta play maplestory long enough to understand whats "so" good about the game. If you get to lvl 50 which can take about 2 weeks.. lvl 21-30 u can go pq which is fun 35-51 you can pq which is also very fun and if you quit then it's truely not the right game for you.