Even though I’m more inclined to the old MMOTales and recent VuTales community, I’ve always looked back to Basilmarket to check up on Maplestory things. Things like trending complaints and artworks that I could never aspire to make. I don’t have an account, I just snoop around like a scavenger. I scrounge around for the hell of it, much like some of us do this site (I’m more of a stalker for this site, sans the creepy sexual harassment or lawsuits).
And then I found 
this.
Some “genius” figured out that Nexon was using real-world references like demons in their allusive in-game content.
Let me just say: wow.
It wasn’t the stereotypical beach with tanned babes of Florina Beach, but that the names of level 130 gear were an allusion to otherworldly beings. It wasn’t the entire lego-inspired Ludibrium, the Area 51-inspired Omega Sector, the Little Mermaid-esque Aqua Road, the other forty bosses with realistically familiar backstories, the other hundreds of areas with oddly memory-jarring resemblance.
Granted, the little theory extending from that was nice, but still, if it isn’t obvious that the entirety of Maplestory is a rip-off of every other genre, topic and concept, it’s just so… infuriating.
I know confidence I should have of the player base for any game is low but… damn.
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Basilmarket isn’t so bad at all, I’m quite active on the site.
The owner however..
I’ve stopped caring for Maplestory a long, long time ago.
Ugh, I need to really get back into MS since I’ve spent so much money on it. And Basilmarket’s kinda fun to hang around the Chat section on; I have the place bookmarked, etc.
I frequented Basil back when i actually played, but I dont give a crap about MS anymore so i have no reason. the moment i felt like spending money on maple i called it quits.
Greenelf, Mastercheeze.
I don’t think I ever spent any money on MS, especially with the introduction of the MTS. Still hated it when they increased the transaction fee or w/e it was. Let the suckers spend money while we play the game that was meant to be played.