Pros and Cons of Making the game Pay-to-Play

But let's add a wrinkle to it where after 6 months (30 bucks), you get the perks of, say, 40% off cubes or 50% off ...whatever. So in the long run you'd actually save the money to be used on stuff like cubes.

I guess you're absolutely right about pulling people in though.

That idea is would not work your essentially still paying to win discounts mean nothing. To people already paying for a subscription. You start a new account a monthly fee and you still have to pay more money to do anything in the game at high levels. There is literally nothing free except for leveling in maple story besides certain bosses like normal horntail and zakum. This essentially puts any player off at the game.