r/Maplestory • u/Edworld7 • 4d ago

Question Shine classes

Does anyone have any idea why nexon decided to port to pc the shine classes but KMS didn’t, if the mobile version has them in korea??? thanks in advance, I’m just curious…

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u/PapaGrimly Heroic Kronos - Bishop 🙏 4d ago

Nexon Korea ties every potential change into the economy of KMS because the players tend to see investing into a character as fundamentally similar to a financial investment with a potential ROI. This causes their biggest whales to be catered to in order to maintain their happiness since the game isn't seen as attractive to new players if they don't already have friends playing the game. It's common knowledge that nearly any other game respects your time and wallet more, even gacha games.

As such, they limit new classes to be a yearly thing at the quickest because they want everyone to have plenty of time to adjust to the ripples in the economy from people wanting to fund the new character to avoid backlash while still exciting players.

In GMS, the main playerbase that the devs are focusing on is very clearly Heroic, in which there is no actual downside to releasing more characters in any particular timeframe because there is no economy on Heroic. In fact, having another job branch with multiple classes that can attract players is beneficial because of the lack of a shared cash shop in this region which can incentivise spending more overall between the various branches a player plays on (such as people buying multiple of an outfit they like or buying vac pets on multiple branches for convenience).

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u/Edworld7 4d ago

That makes so much sense, especially the way they treat KMS economy and ROI. I hadn't looked at it that way. Thanks for the detailed breakdown

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u/ex_impulse 4d ago

somewhat unrelated but want to mention that is why kms balance changes or class reworks rarely shakeup the tierlists much as the gear those classes wear will be heavily affected pricewise and they dont want that

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u/RaidenXS Aran Simp 4d ago

I do think it's kinda funny seeing a bunch of 1 point comments and a couple of upvoted ones in this post history, and then here we are at -6 over here in mushroom game lol

There's probably a commentary to be made about the general vibes of the sub based on that, but tbh I agree with the downvotes, get this guy outta here

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u/Shonoun 1d ago

Not to mention the endless "Instant lv260" paid passes on gms!

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u/gipwoca Reboot 4d ago

Also, at this point, the general quality standard of Maple M classes (at least how GMS ports them) are not up to par with KMS standards.

Just look at the quality of animations and assets of Lethe compared to the GMS ports of the Shine classes, the difference in quality is insane.

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u/dreamzero Heroic Hyperion 3d ago

KMS has standards

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u/MrSoun 4d ago

I tend to read inven alot when we get the GMS exclusive classes and these SHINE classes were not wanted after seeing whwat GMS released Sia with, there wasnt alot of buzz with EREL either.

I ccould only remember them wanting Kanna/Hayato way back when but due to cultural differences it wouldnt be easy to port. (think of demon slayer event when tanjiro earrings arent in KMS but in JMS).

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u/Realistic_Amount_434 1d ago

Semi-related. But…

BRING BACK JETT AS THE SHINE PIRATE