Why MapleStory Players Are Dubbing its ‘New Age’ Update the ‘Sewage’ Update

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MapleStory, the 2D fantasy MMORPG that’s been miraculously chugging along successfully since 2003, is getting a huge new update today. And while the game still has a massive audience that you’d think would be celebrating a surge of new content, instead a major chunk of its community is furious.

From the outside looking in, the New Age update seems fairly innocuous. Its most notable change is adding a sixth job advancement to MapleStory, which if you’re not familiar with the game, effectively allows players to grow their respective classes and skills further than ever before. The update also includes a new area to explore, Identisk, and the return of “Burning” events that offer much-needed, major EXP boosts to players. There’s a lot to be excited about here, but the baggage that comes with it has players up in arms, demanding a boycott and claiming that the so-called “New Age” update should really be dubbed the “Sewage” update.

When the New Age update was first announced, the main complaint from players in Global MapleStory regarded recent differences between Global MapleStory (which covers North America and Europe) and most other versions of the game that appeared to be penalizing players of Global.

The biggest issue, players said, involved a currency called Sol Erda. Sol Erda is a necessary currency in the new update to progress the abilities of the newly-introduced sixth job advancement, and while it can be obtained in several different ways, one of the main ones is by farming lots of monsters. However, players quickly observed through various streams and patch notes that Global MapleStory appeared to be capping players on the amount of Sol Erda they could collect in a day, while players in other regions of MapleStory