Okay, you were right.

uh so it never had scrolling or stats? cause i played in beta and it was always about damage to a pretty heavy degree.. and people were always willing to shell out time and money for it.

I was enjoying reading everyone's arguments, but after reading this I had to laugh and call bull pomegranate... Sure everyone loves to get high damage, but back then it wasn't JUST about damage. I don't know what game you were playing, but it wasn't MS. Basically you're saying in beta, people were willing to pay money for damage. I mean how is that even plausible. Even after Beta, it was still a decent amount of time before meso selling sites came out, and the Cash Shop didn't have anything that gave an advantage in game other than how you looked. We're talking around a year after beta closed and the game opened before people started thinking more heavily about damage. And even then, it was very few people. It was still about quests and exploring maps for most people.

Sure Nexon has made a pretty penny since the introduction of things like cubes and whatever else they have now compared to before those things, but that in no way means the game itself got better.