The first player in the history of “New MapleStory” with nearly LV300 to intentionally freeze 99%, saying that the game environment is bad and will refuse to play unless it improves | 4Gamers

Evergreen MMORPG “Maple Story”, the world’s highest level player Tniru (game ID: Niru) is close to the 300 mark, and the official promotion has joined the community to celebrate. Unexpectedly, he will launch earlier today (26th) Stopping when the experience bar reaches 99%, complaining for an hour in front of 20,000 viewers that the game environment is bad, and refusing to play if the developer NEXON does not improve it.

The “New MapleStory” international server (GMS) opened the level cap to LV300 in early 2021. However, a netizen at level 275 at that time calculated that the experience bar starting at level 290 would only increase by 1% at most every 9 hours, and it would take about 4,500 hours to reach LV290 to 295. , the experience curve is staggering, “This game is not worth sacrificing your health.”

In June 2023, the 20th anniversary of “New MapleStory”, GMS player Tniru practiced 20 hours a day for three months and brought his LV295 bishop to level 296, surpassing the progress of players such as the Korean version of KMS and the Taiwanese version of TMS. During this period, Each Twitch live broadcast lasted for more than 35 hours. Tniru was sleepy but never left his seat. Many viewers prayed that he would not die suddenly.

Tniru maintains the rhythm of practicing every day. When he is tired, he takes a nap in front of the camera, and listens to electronic dance music with body rhythm to prevent losing consciousness. On January 29 this year, he reached LV299. Netizens estimated that at his speed, it would cost at least 80 It took him days to complete the last mile of the journey to the top. The community paid tribute to his perseverance and spirit and wished him perseverance.

It was initially estimated that the world’s first LV300 player would not be born until 2025 at the earliest. Tniru is working around the clock to “farm” the progress nearly a year ahead of schedule. To celebrate this moment, the official broadcast, blogged and tweeted (X) in advance on the World Channel. Following the preview event for version 250 update, the community manager called on players to witness Tniru reaching 300.

Under the cheers, Tniru once again failed everyone’s eyes: when the progress bar was 99.993%, it stopped all actions of the character, and began to complain about the gameplay of “New MapleStory”, including the inability to trade the farm rewards, forcing players to find agents, and GMS mall prices. It is too expensive than other servers, many restrictions on cash cubes undermine the P2W player experience, and many resources are extremely scarce, causing prices to be maliciously driven up…

In the end, Tniru said in a calm tone that he had been practicing hard for a long time just to reach LV300. However, he was worried about the continued deterioration of the game environment and believed that this matter needed attention. This was the best opportunity he thought of to speak out.

“This is why people don’t play GMS. I’m not trying to attract attention through anger (Rage-baiting). If someone says this, I will prove my journey to him. (NEXON) Please improve, thank you.”