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I can see how this series can be a pretty hit or miss type, and it kind of has been both for me at some points. I got a bit annoyed at the beggining when I realized that there was no stopping and Maple and her friends would only get more and more overpowered in ways that make no sense if you have any sort of experience with MMOs and their balancement, and I first began reading it in a moment when I was searching for MMORPG settings that felt more realistic and that show the authors experiences and hopes for this genre of game. But after a while, I just threw that out of the window, and accepted for what it is, a more happy-go-lucky story where you just ignore any kind of common sense and wait to see in what new ways those characters are going to break the game's mechanics. It's not groundbreaking or revolutionary in any way, but I've read almost 200 chapters and it has been fun so far.As of the translation, the machine translation chapters were a bit painful to read, it's not impossible to read, but it is a bit confusing and requires some effort to make sense out of it. Asian's Hobbyist's translations have been pretty consistent and I had no trouble reading them as far as I remember.