Why do we play Maplestory?

Actually, the way MapleStory is written, it appears the original version was meant to be a peer-to-peer kind of system, with the server, if any, only being a database and/or largely transparent communication switchboard. Like a toy some college students wrote to play with each other.
Then someone must have said "this game is so cool, I bet a lot of other people would like to play it, maybe we can even make a bit of money", and the rest is history.
It didn't scale well at all.

but its amazing they made it p2w when it "seemed" they were making alot of money all my online friends and most of the community bought nx... i mean there were people who didnt buy nx.. but it was alot of people who did... i mean was nexon not making enough profit?