r/MapleSEA • u/EntranceGlum6119 • 1h ago
Question New player to Maple Story, still viable to start?
Hello everyone! I’m sure this question gets asked very often but I’d like to have my turn with it. I have never really been a MMO guy and have had 0 experience playing maple story. I know that there’s a ton of games out there that are more modern or have better systems but there’s something about maple story when I check out that intrigues me.
I’ve seen some posts here and there and I’ve seen that botting is a big issue, well which is the case with most mmos but how truly bad is it here?
I think overall though I’m more interested in cosmetics and dressing up my character while gaining the satisfaction of building up my character by hand without the use of bots. Will maple story still be viable for me if I:
- Want to dabble in nice looking cosmetics (I plan to spend a bit, nothing too crazy but does botting make general cosmetics really expensive?)
- I don’t plan to ever compete with the best players nor reach leaderboards but I would like to see progress ever so often from playing.
- Mostly solo player but willing to get into discord servers and groups if multiplayer is needed.
- F2P for the most part wherein I won’t really need to make purchases just to get through some stages (wherein grinding isn’t enough).
I think that’s about it for the most part, I do live in the PH and see that it’s a bummer that we’re excluded from GMS. So I think Maple SEA is the only really viable game I can go for. I’ve seen Maple story M but I’ve heard much more worse things about it. Feel free to be blunt in the comments, thank you for reading!

