Comments on: The craze behind Maple Story http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/ VTOR - Virtual TO Reality, featuring Second Life Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:39:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Married in SL and RL, divorced in SL and RL, but killing is going way too far » VTOR - Virtual TO Reality http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/comment-page-1/#comment-11186 Married in SL and RL, divorced in SL and RL, but killing is going way too far » VTOR - Virtual TO Reality Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:56:26 +0000 http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/#comment-11186 [...] wrote about Maple Story back in October 2007 and it seemed a little too cartoonish to interest me at the time. Seems like there is more virtual [...] [...] wrote about Maple Story back in October 2007 and it seemed a little too cartoonish to interest me at the time. Seems like there is more virtual [...]

]]> By: Rasaeru http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/comment-page-1/#comment-9967 Rasaeru Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:43:58 +0000 http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/#comment-9967 Parenting issue, and what kind of fucktard would steal for a game... Parenting issue, and what kind of fucktard would steal for a game…

]]> By: TD Goodliffe http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/comment-page-1/#comment-9941 TD Goodliffe Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:21:43 +0000 http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/#comment-9941 That's a great point, Crissa, I'm not sure what's the deal there. That’s a great point, Crissa, I’m not sure what’s the deal there.

]]> By: Crissa http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/comment-page-1/#comment-9940 Crissa Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:46:38 +0000 http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/the-craze-behind-maple-story/1466/#comment-9940 All I can think is that it's yet another game that pretends everyone has the same version of Microsoft Windows installed, and that's just not the case. There's more than one version for, say, Japanese, alone - and in the US you might or might not meet their directX requirements or even administrator rights on your machine. And yet, none of this is said on their websites - though Maple Story has one of the better support sections and does answer patching and directx questions, assuming you get that far. Why do games or services pretend that everyone can play them when they require some offshoot or patch to Windows that everyone may not have? All I can think is that it’s yet another game that pretends everyone has the same version of Microsoft Windows installed, and that’s just not the case. There’s more than one version for, say, Japanese, alone - and in the US you might or might not meet their directX requirements or even administrator rights on your machine.

And yet, none of this is said on their websites - though Maple Story has one of the better support sections and does answer patching and directx questions, assuming you get that far.

Why do games or services pretend that everyone can play them when they require some offshoot or patch to Windows that everyone may not have?

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