"It's the machine that will eventually eat all of us up eventually."
Maple Story is an MMO that boasts being free-- well, mostly. You can progress just fine level-wise in the game without ever spending a dime, but if you want bells and whistles (such as special clothing, hair, etc.) you can trade real cash for 'NX' points.

A few days ago, a patch was released with a Halloween theme, including a couple new map areas to explore and monsters to kill. One of the areas, a haunted mansion, can only be entered by people wearing costumes purchased with NX points. Although entering this area is not neccessary to complete any goals in the game, the masses were not happy.



Roxx0rz: "Guys, I bet this patch is ALL about halloween, and i bet that if halloween wasn't here that we would've gotten showa aswell. PLUS, You need NX to get into some wacko mansion to be allowed to kill stuff, just like amoria PQ.
Nexon sucks, And screw halloween.. We don't even have halloween here in holland so what's the point ><
Flame me if you want, I just think this patch sucks ass."

ChibiShuYin: *urge to bomb Nexon America...rising...*

sirbasar: "You can't always get what you want so ST*U and stop complaining. Besides, OF COURSE people who pay money have advantage over people who don't.. This game is F2P. Waht the hell did you expect?" To which belmont123 politely replies: "Seriously shut up , i mean SERIOUSLY SHUT THE HELL UP! Im SICK of turds like you. Your way of thinking makes me wanna puke all over your ugly face. WE WILL COMPLAIN IF WE WANT."

imxn00b tells us the trouble is clearly the work of SATAN: "you know whats awesome? the Christmas events never get messed with or hated upon. lets take this situation from a religious point of view now shall we?" Clearly, pixelated chibi headless horsemen make baby Jesus cry.

skribbles: "It's the machine that will eventually eat all of us up eventually."

xXSyKoXx: "I love how you complete idiots try to blame the US for everything, looking for ANY and ALL excuses to get up on your soapbox and try to preach. Get a grip on reality ppl. The US isn't as bad as all you WISH it was. You just want it to be. Just sthu if you don't have anything worth hearing to say. There are dozens of countries we Americans could FLAME STRAIGHT INTO THE GROUND, on a daily basis, and with JUST CAUSE, and everyone knows it. We just don't, because we're not as damn petty as many of you. We don't LOOK for reasons to bash other countries on a daily basis. We don't get off on it like you idiots do. Many of you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about, and yet, just to SEEM intelligent, you join the line of band-wagoning idiots, marching off in a cloud of ignorance and stupidity. Just sthu until your older or more knowledgeable about politics, because seriously, many of you just blame America for EVERYTHING, and have no idea wth you're even talking about, even taking EVERY opportunity to say something negative, even in a thread about a damn GMS Halloween Event. lmao. Morons."

Zapgaze shares their knowledge of Japan: "Nexon isn't an American company you fool, Nexon Of America is the branch of Nexon LOCATED in America, and all the other versions put up with the same things, they're just too civilized to complain about it. Instead, they are happy with what they have! Have you ever seen how curteous and mannerful the majority of the Japanese people are?"



There's also a second huge thread about it here that I didn't have time to find choice comments from. A day after the patch was released and uproar began it was revealed that after Halloween you wouldn't need the NX items to enter the mansion, but that didn't really stop the rage any.