The fatal flaw with the current business model.

Arguing the morality of it just seems counter productive to me, because they aren't technically doing anything illegal. A lot of players have quit, no where near enough players have started to compensate the losses. Especially when you have quest rewards with such small windows, yet have the highest stats given in that type of item. They reward those who play a long time, but at the same time, reward those who just started.

I like to think it like this, they welcome them with a lot of free stuff, a lot of bonus' to catch them up, all up to this door. They ask you, if you want to play this, put a credit card, if you say no, they point you through a boot camp training course. 6 months of your life are dedicated to be gone, at the very least, and you come out barely on top of anything, just where the starting point of those who chose yes are.

Your free to try anything in the game, but it never says your free to be successful at everything either. So if you want to argue about the corruption of this specific company, you're really better off down at wall street.

I didn't think I was making any arguments with respect to morality. The negative consequences I was referring to was a noticeably large decrease in playership, and shrinking revenues in the western markets.

Also I'm not entirely arguing about the corruption of Nexon, but rather, through the lens of Nexon, the very unstable nature of this kind of business model, and that, while enticing to publishers, it is not a viable long term strategy. It's disconcerting that more publishers are adopting this business model, and the very terminal nature of it means that there's going to be a lot of games that will crash and burn once this little bubble bursts.
Furthermore, when investors (who aren't gamers) see this happen, they won't understand that this is because of just one flawed business model, and will fear the entire gaming industry as too risky, and then things will really suck.