Select difficulty...?

My point being, if Nexon did something like that to changed monster-drops + EXP, I would love to see that. This way, we could see how other players would react to it and start using their skills more than using their 'z0mb U83r 1337-DMG F555'.

The problem there is in Maple everyone's gameplay intersects with everyone elses.

You can't give a mob 10 hp for one person and 10,000 for another and have them both fight it at the same time.

The best you could do is give "easy" players a massive damage boost over "hard" players and that would severely jack up the only way Mapler's have to judge themselves compared to other players.

If "easy" players got drops more easily, or mesos more easily, or had cheaper prices, or any other advantages to make them easier, they'd quickly become farming accounts for "hard" players. taken to the other extreme, if the only way to get any of the really good things were on hard mode, "easy" players would miss out on so much content they'd never be satisfied. "No zhelm for you, you're an easy player."

Difficulty settings just do not translate well into an MMO with a shared reality unless you start segregating people into difficulty level setting based servers or similar where the modes can't mix.

It works on bosses because everyone who enters has to agree on it and is conformed to the same rules. For general game play though, it just fails.