The Twitch streamer Niru had the chance to become the first to reach level 300 in the MMORPG MapleStory. The company Nexon and his own family wanted to celebrate him and had prepared gifts. But he decided to be a hero, to forgo his triumph, and to voice his criticisms to the developers of the online role-playing game. Now Niru is struggling with the consequences.
What kind of heroic deed did he do?
- Niru made incredible efforts to become the first to reach level 300 in the online role-playing game MapleStory: This requires extreme grinding over many thousands of hours.
- However, when he was just about to reach level 300 on April 25, with 21,000 people watching him on Twitch and even the MMORPG promoting him, he stopped playing.
- Instead, he declared in an angry speech, what is going wrong in MapleStory, criticized problems in the cash shop, and pointed out flaws in the overall direction of the game.
No one thanks him for doing the right thing
How is he doing now? He is not really enjoying his situation, as he currently feels mainly the negative effects of his decision:
- MapleStory sent him a gift box before the stream, intended for him to open it during the stream – but he won’t do that because he did not reach level 300.
- His family had told him before his success how proud they were of him, prepared gifts, and showered him with love – but all of that is gone. He feels like he has disappointed everyone.
- His extensive content plans on how he would continue in MapleStory have also vanished – he can no longer play the game that had been the focus of his life for so long.
Moreover, he now has significantly fewer viewers with other games than he did with MapleStory in the past week. Viewership has dropped from a peak of 21,458 (April 25) to 160 (May 1).
People accuse him of having done it just for fame
On top of that: No one really thanks him for having “done what he believed was right,” instead people accuse him of having done it just for personal fame – no matter how much he insists that it was solely about the long-term health of the game.
Additionally, he can’t just play new games now. Because he has always brushed off all his old friends, who have asked him for years to play with them, claiming he needed to grind in MapleStory. Now they also won’t play the new games with him.
All understandable, but still annoying, as he says.
From his perspective, he says he still stands by his decision because it was the right thing to do and it would have been wrong to meet the expectations placed on him and simply level to 300. Because then nothing would have changed at all.
But one must clearly see that he and his stream would be much better off if he had just leveled to 300. Currently, things are going “really badly” for him.
Somehow it doesn’t seem very attractive to do the right thing if it ends up like this.
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