Runescape vs Maplestory Debate

Ok. Now, this isn't opinionated as I dislike both games equally(Actually, I dislike Maplestory more, as I suffered through 5 years of RuneScape, and only 5 minutes of MapleStory, but I'll defend it all the well).

You can't base quests from game to game. Quests/rewards are entirely different in both games. In some games, 600K = Nothing. In RS..600k = A lot, so rewards play no part here. Also, "auto attacking - how many mmos have auto attack?" Actually, quite a few MMO's have auto-attack. Second, there is no auto-attack in RuneScape. If your talking about botting...well, that's a different story. Actually, RuneScape not having auto-attack/skill is what makes it so boring. Why sit at your computer for an hour to gain 15-20k EXP in strength each hour? That's degrading. RuneScape has nothing to keep you interested(Other than the vast variety of skills). Once you train at level 60+ on a skill, it becomes so unbearably boring that you want to tear your eyes out.

Just going to pick out every mistake you made really fast..
-"very fast client download - most mmos have clients that take forever to download unlike runescape." That my friend, is called a loading screen. There is NO download for RS. It's a browser based game...
-"skills for money making - although some mmorpgs have skills / similar ways of making money. They dont match up to runescape. since runescape specializes in skills. Do you want to grind for the rest of your life using combat skills in maple alone to make money?" Err, money making in RS IS grinding. Just, not in a combat sense. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you use your woodcutting skill to get Yews for cash, aren't you grinding for items/exp? It's ok, you don't have to correct me.
-"we have banned over 200,000 accounts for breakibg rules." Guild Wars/WoW does that too. Does that mean that if a game is good, it must ban 1/5th of their player population?
-"Runescape is virtually endles"RuneScape is by no means virtually endless. If N0valyfe were still playing right now, he would be done with it. Every game stops at something. Just because no one has gotten all 99 +200M exp in every skill doesn't mean the game is endless.
-"I didnt even bring up maplestory hackers yet." RuneScape players get hacked over 1,000+ times a day. Plus, the real hackers who make the bots, actually got JaGeX brought to court because of the credit cards they stole to pay for members.


RuneScape is a fun game when you first play, but in the end you realize your sitting at your computer for 20k exp an hour. That to me, is not fun. At least in MapleStory/MMO's you don't have to care about how much exp your getting an hour, because you just play for fun. RuneScape, the majority of players play for competition. Thus bringing the HORRID community of name callers that RuneScape's under 11 population brings. Being featured on MiniClip doesn't help the fact that RS is a child's game. Also, it shouldn't even BE a game. The makers control the market, took away PvPing(Until recently) and tried to get RID of classic. They made it so you have to search for it through Knowledge Base. Maplestory allows you to give your friend 100k with no consequences. That ALONE makes MS better than RS. Come back later when you get the facts right. **EDIT**Also, I like how you say that MS needs potions. Potions are the same thing as food, so...yeah. Also, how long have you been playing? I'm guessing not long enough to see how the developers of RS have changed. They actually closed down query support. Are they trying to help their game or kill it? RuneScape takes more drastic actions than any other MMORPG out there, and they are losing people for it. I myself was a P-Mod, and I think JaGeX sucks at CS and anything like that. They make stupid rules, and stupid reasons for those rules.

 

-"Autoing was a problem in runescape but now it is nearly impossible to auto in runescape."Autoing ONLY stopped because RuneScapes trade limits. RuneScape did NOTHING to stop autoing. Actually, they stopped autoing somewhat, by putting in random events, but there are bots out there that make it so you can take control when a random event comes. Also, there were more sweatshops than botting.

- Max level is 138... And your not seeing the point about the cap. Your becoming too opinionated in the debate, argue from the facts, not opinions. Theres a 200 level limit cap in MapleStory. It's not like you stop playing once you reach level 200. Same with RuneScape, there is a cap, they just made it higher than MapleStory did and made it harder to obtain.

-"Maple story is even worse , you sit there hitting the same key for hour's"
YOU DO THE SAME THING IN RUNESCAPE! Just because your not hitting a keyboard key doesn't mean it's different. I'd rather sit there for hours than do the RS routine. 'Click on wood, click on wood, click on wood, click on bank, click on wood, click on wood, click on wood, click on bank'. EVERY game does that! So you cannot say that MS is worse than RS.

This is done. You have no valid point to prove that RS is better than MS. They are two completely different games that can't be judged. Compare RS to Syrnia or Movoda or Stroceta or another big browser game. Actually, compare it to Aurora Blade. Aurora Blade would win against it. At least all these games don't have the makers controlling the market/taking away PvP(Although they put it back after a year of complaining)

 

Uhm, I'm going to counter these things, because I love Runescape.

NOTHING to stop autoing? Please, know what you're talking about and do legit research before posting. Runescape admins and GMs have this lil' thing called a time chart. If you're online for a certain long amount of time, you're put on a warning list. Admins and GMs will pay attention to you, and if it looks like you're autoing, (clicking, not talking, walking around) you're banned.

Also, it automatically logs you off if you do nothing for a certain amount of time, so the chance of someone getting accidentally banned is minimal.

In Runescape, it's more interesting than in Maplestory. In Maplestory, there's nothing to do but grind. That's the ONLY thing to do. Maybe you can socialize, but the community seems to hate n00bs. So it's back to grinding, and that means more pressing of the same key.

Controlling the market? The only way that a game could control the market is by being good. A bad game isn't going to control the majority of the free MMORPG market. Also, the fact that they put in PVP AFTER complaints shows that the company cares about it's players.

 

I've tried runescape for about a day and quit it, because I found out I didn't like it. I've read the reviews about maplestory and watched the index related stuff and decided I shouldn't bother with it. So I can't really say which one is better, only that I think that maplestory might be worse than runescape.

As too weehut's previous post, yup marketshare has always been a problem for every online game. The way I see it a game needs to score on many different aspects, to make it a winner.

1. a game needs a large playerbase to keep it interesting to players (more people means there are friends out there for everyone if you only know where to find them). With a small playerbase this is harder, because socionics tells you always tend to dislike some people for various reasons. So make the choice large enough and you can find people you like.
2. a game needs to have a good interface. Trouble is that some clearcut games with good interfaces don't necessarily have good game mechanisms (development takes time and this often means that developers will make a trade-off between them).
3. a game needs to have good game mechanics and some strategy behind. There are some games out there with very good graphics, but if the mechanics are bad, chances are people won't bother playing it, because such games are boring.
4. a game needs to deal with cheating and premium bonuses need to be balanced or kept to minimum to ensure there is fair play. For pay to play games cheating often less of a problem than for free games, because it stops multies (always a big problem in free games). Only problem with pay for play games is that it invites credit card theft and fraud (big problem for games like WoW, which is the number 1 cause of credit card theft in the U.K., (yes really)).
5. a game needs to have good graphics, or in case of text based games an inviting atmosphere
6. a game needs to be noob friendly or have a low learn curve. Most complex and good games have a steep learn curve, again its a trade off where you cannot have it both ways. Either you have a simple game that soon becomes boring, or a complex game that takes a while to learn.
7. a game needs to have a place where the players can socialize. Forums are better, irc and messengers less so and if the playerbase lacks both, then chances are they won't stay for very long.

-both games score on the large playerbase
-runescapes interface is good, but not that good really (figuring out the way the game works, does take some time)
-with both games the mechanics are rich, but not that rich really. Eventually it becomes more of the same. Its especially true for maplestory if you read the guides.
-Cheating has been dealt with in runescape, but not thoroughly
-the graphics of runescape at one time were unique, its not so for maplestory
-I doubt either game is noob-friendly
-socializing has been troublesome and uninviting with both games

in the end i'd have to say runescape is better, but not much better

 

Run/walk - very creative
auto attacking - how many mmos have auto attack?



jusyt about every mmo has an auto attack and run/walk

 

too many MMOS do.

 

Haven't played Maplestory
Runescape gets boring at level 60?
Maple story looks more fun so i'll go with that

 

Don't judge a book by it's cover.

 

True

Lol I guess that true but isn't that only for books?

 

Ive played both for at least three months, yes i do agree with Exo in the fact that In Runescape training your skill levels after 60 can be very tiring and extremely boring. Both Games show grind (Maple story Also Very hard to level after certain point). But I'd say I'd say i regret playing maplestory more. I dont know why, i don't play niether games now but i seem to hate maplestory more. Why? Who knows, perhaps it was a bad experience or something.

 

Good choice. How can you guys even compare Runefagscape with Maplestory?

First of all,
Maplestory:
-Sweeet Graphics
-Nexon cash doesn't really help WITH the game. Unlike Runescape, which you almost HAVE to have membership at like level 50.
-Chat is way better and can talk IN chat.
-Still fun with barely anyone on.

 

I must say I'd prefer maplestory over runescape. Mainly because I had bad experiences of runescape. Endless clicking, bad graphic (more like blobs), and wall of illegible text.

But that's just me.

 

Both these games are not combat orientated, and that seems to be what a lot of people are judging them by.

Maplestory is nothing but grind and socializing. I still go on Maplestory every now an ten simply to chat. My avatar is me actually playing Maplestory, but it's not a playing game if you get what I mean.

Runescape is similar, I went into runescape with one goal, to get all party hats, I got 2 before I quit. But thats the strength of runescape, you can approach it in so many ways. Some may want to get rich, some may want to level up, others might want to simply chat.

Don't play these games if your there to game, these are games to play, have fun and play casually, or in my case start a runescape buisness. ( I actually had about 30 people gathering stuff for me at one time. Then the grand exchange came and made merchanting impossible, which made me quit)

 

to be honest i dont like eather of those to games, so therefore i will debate on both sides.

the grafix on both games honestly i cant stand. they look like they were made for computers running on windows 95 that couldnt even run an nvidia 128mb gfx card. i mean comeon people 2d is out and 2.5d is just a bunch of crappy animators thrown into a room and given a peice of paper and told to video it moving. COME ON! second point on the grafix is that maple story is far to childish and cartoony for anyone over the age of about 6 to enjoy(my sister is 21 and i swear she is the most immature person in the world.)
gameplay. maplestory didnt even get me hoocked. we're in the 21st centuary comeon guys sidescrollers? we have grafix cards now guys keep up! still cant get over the fact that we are in the 21st centuary with all the tech we have and people are still making games out of paper cutouts. the gameplay of this sucks as well... click, kill, click, kill, pot, click, kill, click, kill, collect items, click, kill. no thanks!
runescape. gameplay is ok, if you like repetitive strain injuries... all u do is click ffs!

overall both these games suck on what ive had time to discuss just now and i honestly wouldnt play eather of them if you are a hardcore gamer(not a geek... i have a life and a girlfriend and many friends irl thankyou very much) like me.

 

ScareCrow makes a lot of sense. Maplestory is more socializing game.

 

People play these 2 games to play with crowds of people instead of being the last mohican on a lonely game.

 

I know. It would suck to play alone.

 

No surprise runescape killed Maple Story