The fatal flaw with the current business model.

Okay lets play.

Look at this guy haha.

What content did they strip from you? Last I checked no one charged me money to fight a boss or do a quest.

Probably should check again. But you know what, instead of listing them all out to you, I'll rub the salt in the wound and let you find out yourself. I assume you're going to post again, so if you don't find it by then, I'll correct you. Think of it as a mercy.

I'm not a fan of pay to win but I'm not too blind to think there's a viable alternative. They damn well should reward those who pay more than they reward diligent work, the paying ones are their entire business. Like it or not someone has to shell out money and if everything in this game could be had easily Nexon would have no money fast. The top 5% may have broke the bank but what does that prove? That being the best was worth the money for them (ignoring hackers/glitch abusers).

>Not blind

You still play a game that is so incredibly broken, so incredibly repetitive, and the owners so apathetic that you are easier oblivious to the point of ignorant of common sense, or a masochist. What can I do, as an individual, to afford 12b equipment that doesn't take me years to slowly accumulate. How many quest rewards are there out of the hundreds of quests, that are actually worth doing? What scrolls can I find outside of gachapon/nx events that actually have a value AND are tradeable? What items do common monsters drop that allow me to merchant anything that isn't from an event? Then what if, for whatever reason I can't get the nx, and there are people out there, what means do I have beyond shop permits and smega's?

There's a proportion most games nowadays give, which is what I'm arguing. For you to even allude to me claiming people who spend money shouldn't get their money's worth, just demonstrates your lack of sentence comprehension. But $10, even in a chinese sweatshop, doesn't and shouldn't take weeks, to months to accumulate. Or would you like to demonstrate to me how easy it is to get 80 million mesos from pure looting, outside of a pet, outside of free marketing, starting from level 1.

And what does that prove? The insanity of how much you have to spend to get there. This is a generational thing, it's not like you reach this point and stay there. Eventually the gear you spent thousands of dollars on is now second rate. Even computer parts don't cost thousands of dollars after 3 years. What I am alluding to is two things;

1) There should not be a system within a game which suggests you need to spend a minimum of half a grand to have a decent character, and not 5 thousand to create a character who people aspire to be. You make the choice to do so, but for it to be an option to begin with, and the only option mind you. Well unless on the off chance you've been playing for half a goddamn decade.

2) The time necessary to accomplish what you claim is outrageous. Even your suggestion to achieve the "old" max mesos limit takes 280 days doing a single quest. That.is.ridiculous. How many games have you played outside of maplestory that hold this type of extreme? Cus even dragonnest, another game nexon operates, is no where NEAR this.

I know merchanting is still a viable way to make thousands of dollars of NX. I also know it's doable without the cheating aspect. It's stupid to assume just because almost everyone pays their way to the top that it's the only way. There are other legitimate ways, they're neither easy nor viable for everyone. But you can make thousands of dollars in NX if you honestly put effort into it. Believe me or not it's been done in today's meta.

Legitimacy is the most stupid topic to talk about. You can't even list the methods, without putting yourself in the perspective of someone just starting. Trying to merchant would require at least half a billion mesos' just to start. Then most merchanters deal with duplicated and illegit equipment to begin with, which is in fact against the rules. There is nothing in this game you can mass market, ever since they took away white scrolls, to get the profit margins you are claiming, without dealing with stuff on like GS.

I'll admit self control isn't a strong point of most teenagers/young adults. But on that point these players aren't exactly thrift shopping. Those who are willing to drop 3 grand on this game are willing to do the same drinking with friends or buying consoles. They're going to make bad monetary decisions, that's how it's going to be whether or not Maplestory existed.

Are..are you really...LOL. Man, this is how you justify this money pit? "OH, JUST REPLACE IT WITH THESE ACTIONS". I don't know if you have ever been drinking before, but unless you're going to frekin clubs in new york, you aren't dropping anywhere near that cash. And buying consoles? Really?! All 4 generations don't even add up to 3 grand, but I bet you've spent that much in the last goddamn year lmao.

Never claimed they cared about their player base. I'm pretty sure they don't. Girasol did, but she's gone now. Yes the ticketing system is a nightmare. Yes they're not very good with customer service. I'm sure if I ever get hacked I'll be frustrated with it too. I'm not saying Nexon's perfect, far from it, but I'm saying their business model isn't broken. Just because you feel that money spent on this game isn't worth it doesn't mean everyone feels that way. The ones who are discontent are always the loudest and this is no exception. If every business changed their entire business model just because a vocal minority didn't like it there wouldn't be any businesses left. Like it or not you are a vocal minority. If this model really did lose as much money as those who are discontent claim then Nexon would have closed the game or changed the model ages ago. Anyone who's been here long enough knows Nexon's improved significantly in the past year and a half. They're actually giving compensation, they're better at communicating with the community, we even had a Nexon GM here for a couple of months. I get that you don't like Nexon, a lot of people don't. But this isn't about that, this is about spending money. All that matters is Nexon still makes money, we all cry and yell at them for being greedy but people still pay them. All that tells me is regardless of popular opinion here the product they offer is worth the money people are willing to spend.

Also note I wrote all that without trying to discredit you via insults, I suggest you try the same, it's amazing what you miss while you swear.

First of all, the fact they don't care is essentially saying their business model is in fact sh`itty. What the f`uck. They essentially try to get you to spend at least a dollar, if you do that, they accomplished their mission. Their entire company policy is a high refresh rate, but the thing is, it's escalated to the point where entering the metagame without cheating is so overwhelming and takes so much dedication it becomes a second job. For god's sake, look at your krexel example. Assuming you are even strong enough to kill it, in a reasonable amount of time (we're talking about poor people here, not million damage hitters) you're asking them to do the same quest for an entire month to acquire max mesos? Do you know how stupid that is? How unproportional that is? Let me give you an idea.

That's nearly $37 dollars worth of mesos. You're suggesting the opinion, of really, anyone with common sense, is discredited because of a quest, you believe, creates fair opportunity to everyone. That's like 15 cents a day. That's your "big" discreditor.

By the way, to further strip away any credibility you have, it's very against the rules to sell or buy mesos' with nx or any type of money, but that explains where you got it from at least.