As I stated in the title………….ENOUGH! (WITH THE RANKINGS!)

90% of the topics/threads i’ve seen in the last few months are about one of the top five, mainly Tiger, or just about rankings in general.

For example…..

Person1 : w00t I/V raked atm 45329875, lolz! TH4ts hig3r th3n ulolz n00b.
Person2 : WEllz Tig3r !5 H1gH3r than U! LOLZ Nub!!!

I am sick of it. By applying a ranking system to Maple Story, it has destroyed the friendly competition between friends to get to higher levels, and replaced it with a Server-wide contest of who can train the fastest. This leads to increased Hackers, more Kill-Stealing, and generally bad additudes around the entire game. If this continues, there will no longer be a point to Maple Story. This was not created as a contest. It was created as a game.

A game. By definition, an activity providing entertainment or amusement. Is it AMUSING or ENTERTAINING to be subjected to thousands, if not millions, of people fighting for the top, with you constantly being insulted, wronged, and other such atrocities? I would say it isnt. Its horrible. And there is no solution. Maple Story is dying, one year after its global release. And everyone is standing by, watching MS slowly crumple to the ground. Are you going to join the people who are kicking it while its down, or the people who will pick it up and nourish it, allowing it to live as long as possible? Or will you be the third group, the people who watch the atrocities and the kindness, without fighting for your beliefs? Its not up to me, a single player, but it IS up to the community, the whole population of Maple Story, to keep MS alive.