Gaming🎮 During promoted live stream, MapleStory’s top player holds the game’s feet to the fire with a scathing critique

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MapleStory may have just witnessed the most extraordinary community mic drop in years, perhaps ever. Niru - undoubtedly the game's most dedicated player in recent memory - has been grinding to hit level 300 for months. No one has ever done it before, but moments from hitting the record-breaking milestone, and with the developer promoting his livestream both in-game and on social media, he flipped his own celebration on its head.

On the verge of hitting his goal, Niru stopped and delivered a staggering scathing critique infront of 20,000 live viewers on the state of the game for roughly 40 minutes (the full video is available on his YouTube channel). He then logged off, pledging not to play the game again until these issues are fixed and providing MapleStory developer Nexon a historical case of corporate blue balls. Today, he is streaming Zelda.

"I am very sorry, but I just don't want to do anything because I feel this needs attention and anything I do will take away from it, which is why I decided not to level up," writes Niru in the description of his latest video ("I won't play MapleStory unless things change"). "I am very sad over this, and worked very hard to build up a Twitch page that I really wanted to do for years and I feel I am throwing it all away, but this is probably the best chance that I can think of to try and improve this and if not I just won't return."

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