The fatal flaw with the current business model.

Ways of successing in maplestory.

A) Spend a huge amount of money

or

B) Spend an even much bigger amount of time in it

And for both pray to god you never get hacked in the run.

Since time = money,I think we can all agree maplestory is the most expensive game ever.

But it is impossible to get as far for free as you can with money.