Free 2D MMORPG: Maple Story

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2005-10-26 10:57pm

http://www.mapleglobal.com/

Great game, just recently got into it myself, on Brda world.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-10-26 10:59pm

*pukes* it wants IE. If they can't do it without activeX or whatever other bullshit they're using then they can do it without me.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2005-10-26 11:08pm

darthdavid wrote:*pukes* it wants IE. If they can't do it without activeX or whatever other bullshit they're using then they can do it without me.

You just need IE to download it the program and then never touch it again.

On that note, the download file is fairly large for 56kers, but they are kind enough to break it down into 20 10mb .rars so you can do it bits at a time.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-10-26 11:12pm

Well why in fuck do I need IE to dl it? What have they embedded the dl in an activeX control or something fucking retarded like that? I mean shit, you'd think they'd have heard of one of the wonderful cross platform technologies such as html, ftp or even gopher for fuck's sake!!!

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2005-10-26 11:58pm

Here's the source code for their index, just looks like a bunch of html and javascript to me, can't see any reason why they'd make it ie only.

It's pretty weird.

Code: Select all

Killed because it fucks up the formating!

Edited because it broke the formating

~Faram

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-10-26 11:59pm

Goddamn it, the registration on this thing is the most retarded process I've ever come across. I'm begining to suspect the entire thing was programmed by drunken and retarded chimps.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2005-10-27 12:45am

Spyder wrote:Here's the source code for their index, just looks like a bunch of html and javascript to me, can't see any reason why they'd make it ie only.

It's pretty weird.

*snip*

Jesus, did you need to post all that?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-10-27 12:47am

Well I've played the game for a while now. It's ok, but half the time the mouse is horrible, and with about half the NPCs I cant tell if they just don't have dialogue or if the mouse support is just so borked that it woun't let me double click 'em. The art is decent, if sub par in some parts. My biggest complaint is that the game seems to constantly barrage you with random useless crap as well as having the unique ability to turn 5 second tasks into 5 minute tasks by a combination of opaque goals and controls that are unresponsive and ill thought out to the point of madness.

Lindar · Post by **Lindar** » 2005-10-27 12:57am

*signs up and will work on getting it tommorrow*

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2005-10-27 01:05am

darthdavid wrote:Well I've played the game for a while now. It's ok, but half the time the mouse is horrible, and with about half the NPCs I cant tell if they just don't have dialogue or if the mouse support is just so borked that it woun't let me double click 'em. The art is decent, if sub par in some parts. My biggest complaint is that the game seems to constantly barrage you with random useless crap as well as having the unique ability to turn 5 second tasks into 5 minute tasks by a combination of opaque goals and controls that are unresponsive and ill thought out to the point of madness.

I only have problems with hat during periods of severe lag.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-10-27 01:18am

Anarchist Bunny wrote:
darthdavid wrote:Well I've played the game for a while now. It's ok, but half the time the mouse is horrible, and with about half the NPCs I cant tell if they just don't have dialogue or if the mouse support is just so borked that it woun't let me double click 'em. The art is decent, if sub par in some parts. My biggest complaint is that the game seems to constantly barrage you with random useless crap as well as having the unique ability to turn 5 second tasks into 5 minute tasks by a combination of opaque goals and controls that are unresponsive and ill thought out to the point of madness.
I only have problems with hat during periods of severe lag.

Maybe it just hates me then, because there didn't seem to be signifigant lag.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2005-10-27 02:58am

Holy fucking shit, the tables! They're breeding!

Not to mention that the need for Internet Explorer fits the textbook definition of "retarded".

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2005-10-27 11:12am

It seems that you can download it using Firefox if you disable Javascript. I did (didn't download it though, just tested to see if it worked), and on their download page there seems to be an option; "online install". That's probably the one which requires IE (indeed, it links to something with "activeX" in the name).

Edit: Now I know why you have to use IE. Their screenshot page is using defective Javascript and HTML and, mostly likely, so is the rest of the site. Well, if they don't want me to see their screenshots with whatever standards-compliant browser I want, then fuck'em. They probably wrote their game in fucking C#, anyway

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2005-10-27 05:25pm

Ok, I gave in and visited the site with IE. On the signup it asked for my email address...fair enough I start entered mark.rus... *BEEP* CAN ONLY BE LETTERS AND NUMBERS.

WTF? It won't allow people with dots in their email address to sign up? What was that darthdavid was saying about drunken retarded chimps?

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-10-27 05:27pm

I tried visiting that site but I get a 404.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2005-10-27 05:34pm

Spyder wrote:Ok, I gave in and visited the site with IE. On the signup it asked for my email address...fair enough I start entered mark.rus... *BEEP* CAN ONLY BE LETTERS AND NUMBERS.

WTF? It won't allow people with dots in their email address to sign up? What was that darthdavid was saying about drunken retarded chimps?

"Well, old boy, we must have some method of keeping the riff-raff at bay, don't you know?"

...nnno, all joking aside, they're plainly just a buncha idiots.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2005-10-27 06:01pm

Enigma wrote:I tried visiting that site but I get a 404.

Same here, what's going on?

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2005-10-27 09:16pm

Damn my curiosity...

ok, using one of my non . containing email addresses... WTF, "Please check your ID" "Please check your email address"

You have to click a "check" button before it'll perform a check to make sure the information doesn't already exist.

...the monkeys weren't drunk, they're on a highly concentrated form of opium.

[Edit #1]

Ok, I now have a login, let's try the game out and see what happens.

"Connection to server has ended"

WTF?

[Edit #2]

Alrighty, it seems that when you're on the login screen the enter key is pointing at quit by default...makes perfect sense.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2005-10-27 09:42pm

Well, I'll be monkey's turd. It actually, worked after a fashion.

Behold, I am Emonator!

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-10-27 11:53pm

Damn it. It's soooo fucking addictive. I hate you. I can see it's shit. The anime graphics are irritating, the players are for the most part stupid ( though 1 guy did sell me a transport scroll well below the going value when I ended up in the wrong town, so there are some people looking out for nubs like me

) and the developers keep finding new ways to piss me off, but the game is addictive like black tar heroine. Grrr...

BloodAngel · Post by **BloodAngel** » 2005-10-28 12:16am

darthdavid wrote:Damn it. It's soooo fucking addictive. I hate you. I can see it's shit. The anime graphics are irritating, the players are for the most part stupid ( though 1 guy did sell me a transport scroll well below the going value when I ended up in the wrong town, so there are some people looking out for nubs like me ) and the developers keep finding new ways to piss me off, but the game is addictive like black tar heroine. Grrr...

If you've ever played Nexon's other games (NexusTK, Dark Ages, Shattered Galaxy...) you would find a commonality there.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-10-30 02:45am

Any of you on the 1st server have any steel you'd sell me on the cheap?

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-10-30 10:33am

I am on the first server and my character is a level12 swordsman named DasBoogers.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2005-10-30 07:28pm

Fear the power of Emonator!

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2005-10-30 07:53pm

Brda, the first server is Brda, its four fucking letters and makes things much mroe certain.