Okay, you were right.

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.

see it's posts like this that make it obvious people didn't play beta. beta had a lot of hacking and a lot of bs. soon after the game released money started getting involved for items and mesos. just becuase you weren't around people buying things for cash or hacks etc. doesn't mean it didn't happen. beta was not the happy friendly land you're remembering and old maple had tons of alienating due to power/level. the nostalgia goggles are strong in here but if you actually plyaed beta/early maple and weren't 13-15 you'd probably know what i'm talking about. i mean back then the community you all talk about wouldn't even give you mesos for pots or the trip back if you got stuck in orbis. literally tons of people woudl run by you and ignore you. peopel used each other, excluded people by class, and nobody was really "close". a lot of you are flat out mislead or were probably too young to recall what it was actually like. "oh you're not an i/l or sin? gtfo my party we need someone better". sure they didn't say godly, sure there wasn't cubes but people alienated the fk out of each other and there was maybe community for you and your friends but the game was not friendly lol. anyways servers are up and i won't check sp again til next maint most likely so i hope you all have a good day