Leveling characters is a mandatory task in most MMORPGs here that you complete before the game really gets going. But in South Korea, things work differently in some games. For example, in the online role-playing game MapleStory: For most players, it ends at level 275, but theoretically, you can grind almost endlessly up to level 300. But well, even ‘endless’ can eventually come to an end.
This is how it is in MMORPGs that we know: If you play western MMORPGs, you quickly reach an endpoint when leveling up:
- If someone has declared World of Warcraft as their favorite MMORPG, they level up 10 levels every two years at the start of a new expansion. Leveling takes 2.5 hours to 200 days. Once that’s accomplished, the WoW fan can dedicate themselves to the endgame.
- Leveling is a ‘short phase’ for most MMORPG players before they chase increasingly powerful items in the endgame of an MMORPG, killing stronger monsters, and developing their character in this way.
- There are also some leveling junkies among us who love leveling so much that they start over whenever a character is ‘finished’ and build up a considerable number of secondary characters over time.
For most, it ends at 275 – One wants to play up to 300 in the MMORPG
This is how it is in MapleStory: It’s completely different there, as the game essentially has an ‘open level cap’ going forward.
Theoretically, you can level up to level 300, but the experience points needed for leveling up grow so drastically at some point that no normal person would do it or even consider it. Usually, for most players of the MMORPG, it ends at level 275.
Because from a certain level, there is no way to visit such a high-level area where ‘grinding’ would still be worthwhile.
Leveling to 300 in MapleStory has always been seen by even the hardest fans as ‘unrealistic’, as something that might be done in the distant future when new, tougher content is in the game, but certainly not at the moment.
A player has now succeeded: In South Korea, the player ‘Niru’ with the class ‘Bishop’ has become the first in the world to reach level 295 in MapleStory.
This is such a special achievement because 295 is a special level, with an extra-high EXP hurdle. To advance from 294 to 295, one needs almost as many experience points as needed to go from level 1 to level 290.
To reach level 300, the absolute maximum, Niru will have to push himself hard. Because reaching level 300 in MapleStory requires three times the amount of experience points he has accumulated up to 295.
Even the biggest fans of grinding might lose their motivation.
The player himself believes he needs about 2 more years to reach level 300 if he continues at this pace. He expects to reach 300 by the end of 2024.
The last major story we had about MapleStory on MeinMMO dates back to March 2021:
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