I think the idea of making a 2D scroller into an mmorpg has always been a bad idea. It really limits your mobolity and your ability to dodge players on 3 dimensions rather than 2...
Also the death penalty is absolutley horrible...
The grind is also unbearable. You people who say you like the game would probably like Lineage 2, Silkroad, and other games of that nature were there is no point in grinding except to kill stronger monsters. To me that makes the game pretty pointless. You need involvment on a large scale, like Raiding in EQ2 and WoW, or something like battlegrounds or a good balanced PvP system.
To me Maple Story has always been a cheap knock off of a real RPG and just has a long grind.
