







Dear Maplers,

This is MapleStory M’s Development Team.

Before all, we the Development Team would like to express sincere apologies for the disappointment and a sense of loss that you may have felt from recent patches.

We have been looking into your every feedback and suggestion and tried our best to accommodate your concerns as soon as possible. However, when we were checking your opinions and feedback on this update, we realized that there was a huge discrepancy between the team’s intentions and our Maplers’ thoughts. Thus, we immediately gathered all internal stakeholders and had a long discussion over this situation. In short, we decided that urgent improvement was crucial.

Based on the recent feedback and suggestion, we are aiming to provide you an enhanced playing experience through two steps: 1) This week’s quick patch and 2) May 2020 Update. Please allow us to share our plans for each step below.

[This Week’s Patch: Expected Works]

1. Changes in Guild Attendance Rewards & Adjustments on Guild Shop Item Price

Making changes on previous Guild Attendance reward was to polish parts from the ‘Guild’ content that were not working as the Development Team had originally planned.

Under the pre-update attendance rewards system, we saw a pattern where the players would have multiple characters signed up for a guild to transfer the collected Fever Buff Charge Tickets and Auto-battle Charge Tickets to the main character. We consider the core value and purpose of ‘Guild’ reside in a gathering of diverse players to enjoy various guild and other in-game contents. However, the pattern we’ve found was the opposite of what we had intended and planned in the beginning. As a result, we judged that a change was necessary.

As delivering GP (Guild Points) as an attendance reward would grant you an option to purchase an item of your desire from the shop, we figured that this would increase your convenience. Along with this change, we designed the ‘Guild Shop’ to have previous attendance rewards with a daily purchase limit and an inexpensive price. However, as all rewards were replaced with GP, a positive communication among guild members who would encourage each other to attend was faded. Also, an issue where a price gap of some items was unexpectedly huge occurred.

We greatly apologize for any inconvenience you have experienced due to these. We will make revisions as below.

A. Change Guild Attendance Rewards: GP → Original Set of Items

* Yet, in order to resolve the previously found issues, all items given as rewards will have ‘Cannot be transferred between Storage’ and ‘1-day limited’ attributes (same as the original guild attendance rewards).

* Items that were on sale at a lowered price from the ‘Guild Shop’ will be removed.

B. Add ‘Black Activation Stone’ to Guild Attendance Reward

* The same ‘Black Activation Stone’ available from the Guild Shop with a ‘1-day limited’ attribute will be added.

C. Add Buff Items Originally Sold from the Guild Shop as being ‘Always on Sale’

▶ Baby Chick Cookie, Berzerker Bon-Bons, Carrot Juice, Candy Basket, Candy Cane

D. Adjust Prices of the Items Sold from the Guild Shop

* The prices that were set considerably high due to the GP delivery channels including Guild Honor Battle and Guild Attendance Rewards will be lowered.

2. Improvements on Time Attack Expedition: Rank Rewards & Shop

Many players could not receive rewards even with expensive buff items and the conflicts within a guild community occurred due to the current rank rewards system.

In order to resolve these problems, we are going to improve our current rank reward and shop systems.

A. Expand Rank Rewards Delivery Subjects: Limited Number of Participants → ALL Participants

* Reward policy will be updated so all players will be able to enjoy Time Attack Expedition’s Coin Shop

B. Adjust Difficulty Level and Improve Clear Rewards

* The difficulty level will be adjusted, and clear rewards will be improved so that more players can enjoy this content.

C. Remove ‘First-Come-First-Serve’ Item Sales System and Add More Items to the Shop

* Coin Shop will be improved so that you can enjoy greater rewards from continuously playing the content.

3. Improvements on the Higher-Level Potion Drop System

We have been receiving requests to add higher-level potions from the higher-level Star Force fields. The Development Team approached this concern as to shorten the ‘Sell Obtained Potions ▶ Get Mesos to Purchase More Potions ▶ Purchase Higher-Level Potion’ process. We apologize for taking the wrong approach to solve the issue that you kindly raised, and we plan to improve the current system as below.

A. Remove Higher-Level Potion Drop Buff Items from the [Shop]

B. Improve the drop system so that hunting at a higher-level Star Force field would give you higher-level potions

* If you currently have ‘Potion Upgrade Buff Items’ in your bag, you can sell back these items after the patch and receive all Mesos spent on it. We will try our best to provide you a more stable hunting experience. For instance, EXP Increase Tickets, Equipment Enhance Items and Auto-Battle Charge Tickets giveaways?! Party EXP Hot-time sounds nice as well. We will see if we can implement these right after this week’s patch.

We are currently working on applying the above three points to be done this week. We’ll also implement more improvements in our upcoming May 2020 update as below.

[May 2020 Update: Expected Works]

1. Improvements on the Equipment Preset Function

We understand your inconvenience in having an ‘Equipment Preset’ Hotkey in original ‘Skill Preset’ Hotkey location. Hotkey above the skill icons will have ‘Skill Presets’ from our upcoming May update. ‘Equipment Presets’ will be available from the [Bag], under the character’s equipped items information screen.

2. Improvements on the Damage Skin Effects

The original purpose of this update’s damage skin improvement was to show the effects similar to the MapleStory PC version. The intention to maintain original IP’s feelings caused discomfort to our players who are more familiar to MapleStory M. We are sorry for any inconvenience this change has caused.

We will add a function where you can choose between the pre-update and post-update versions in the upcoming May update.

We would like to thank all of our Maplers for your kind patience and understanding.

We will do our best to listen to your voices and decide on development priorities.

Thank you.

Best Regards,

MapleStory M’s Development Team