The MMORPG MapleStory has just announced a radical step. The developers will completely remove the class Jett from the game. They stated that Jett exists in the global version but not in the Korean one. Many players are now fearing for other classes.
What is happening right now? The global version of MapleStory differs from the one in Korea, where the developers from Nexon are based. Not only are there different shop contents, but also different bosses, stats, and classes.
The global MapleStory has about 5 own classes that have never appeared in the Korean original. However, this repeatedly leads to problems, as revealed in the official forum. Because although Jett does not exist in Korea, the developers had to take it and the other classes into account when balancing new content. They have done this for 11 years regarding Jett.
MapleStory offers – across versions – more than 50 different classes. Achieving a balanced balance is said to be very difficult.
Moreover, there have reportedly been recurring bugs affecting Jett. Therefore, a decision has now been made to disable the character creation of Jett immediately and to delete the class completely in February 2024.
Players fear that the other classes could also be deleted
What happens to the created characters? In summer there should be a “Jett Job Transfer”. This will allow players to transform their character into another class. However, the transformation is limited to 15 selected classes.
This will retain the character’s gameplay progress. Additionally, there is currently work on a solution to retain the equipment as well. Details about this are to come “later”.
How are the players reacting? Players who have Jett as their main character are not very enthusiastic about the change. Some are demanding a refund for the money they invested in the character.
However, players of other “non-Korean” classes are also worried. Because there is no guarantee that they will not face the same fate in the future. The user Mission-Indication96 writes on Reddit: “This is really a bad sign for all classes that do not exist in Korea.”
In 2005, the cute MMORPG was released in the West and has since experienced a turbulent history. On Steam, where the MMORPG was released in 2013, over 7,000 players log in simultaneously at peak times each day. Almost one million people follow MapleStory Global’s account on Facebook. Thus, the game definitely has a fanbase here in the West that is not very pleased with the new change.
Moreover, there are always cute stories from the game, such as here a boss with 720,000,000,000,000 hit points:
