How many people are REALLY still playing Maplestory?

Essentially, you want GMS to differ ENTIRELY from KMS because the audience?

clearly. Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney said it himself.

We shouldn’t try to sell kimchi to people who just want to eat hamburgers

Well if we ignore WoW we still have dota. Still going strong 11 years later with a still growing playerbase.

how many people actually play the original DotA? Don't confuse dota 2 with Defense of the Ancients.

Don't bother, she'll just make up sh`it to back herself up on a fallacious pedestal. Glad I never had to endure such a chore

perhaps you should elucidate on what exactly is a chore aspect of the games.
for example, having to maintain a monster life farm, craft things on a regular basis to keep our level 12 professions from going back to level 10, doing daily Commerci runs to eventually be able to afford whatever equips, and killing 500 monsters a day for a stupid attendance event.