The main reason Korea Maplestory is more popular than Global Maplestory

Yeah, pretty much.

Koreans are fine with super hardcore grinding and pay2win, even if newer kMMOs are moving away from those. (Closers is a rather new Nexon Korea game I was able to manage to maintain endgame status on for multiple characters before I quit without spending a cent on the game.) We're not.

Koreans are fine with the insane requirements and investment it'll take to fight the proper endgame Black Mage battle. We wish they'd do something with Arcane Force and maybe cut the 200-250 EXP requirements by 50% or higher..... (I hear 249-250 is like 6% EXP per hour, WITH Kanna, EXP buffs, etc.) Maybe add more sources of money so Reboot isn't spent mostly farming money on Kanna. (And what happens when I want to level up that Kanna past level 150 for Legion purposes?)

I pretty much gave up on 200+ content and am just leveling up alts whenever I bother to sign on now. And it's really problematic trying to remain signed on my main account, my Bishop mule account, and my Kanna mule account when the game is prone to crashing.

I think you can gain 12% instead of 6%, maybe people sucks at trainning or they are using JUST kishin+x2 cupons, if they use x2 cash cupons can be 12%, in Esfera i could reach 16% with the same multipliers or 4% without kishin and x2 cash shop cupons.