Maple Story's real problem.

The GMS economy isn't so bad as people make it to be. Heck, the scrolls in JMS cost about 10x as much as they do in GMS right now. I'm actually glad about our scroll prices after being on JMS for a few days.

^ everything in Japan is more expensive :<

I don't really think jms should be compared to gms though.

Well, JMS has its reasons for being more expensive, primarily the age, but also due to how script users(hackers, scripties) are punished.
I'm somewhat sure that when Pokgai was banned he took the majority of bow scrolls from the JMS he played on.

I myself have been trying to return from a semi-hiatus and and surprised by the jumps I'm hearing occurred over the past six or so months.