gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin?

What you still fail to understand is that Nexon was testing us just as much as we were testing them. Out of the three benefits you listed, only #2 existed in Tespia's time. Every patch released after being tested was still full of bugs, and I don't think Nexon gained any money from letting users run rampant on a server with no rules. After Nexon witnessed the colossal failure that Tespia was, #2 was the best route to go down.

#1 would have been if Tespia was managed like it should've been, and #3.. well, I think that if they reduced the amount of testers to a reasonable amount they wouldn't have to use any "powerful" server to keep the server up, therefore they wouldn't have to spend so much money for them. In fact, they spend money for their "private Tespia" as well. Even if it's probably on a Local network or something, it still costs to keep the server up. Probably, without having to pay their testers, they'd spend a little less. Maybe not a noticeable difference, though.

You're indeed right when you say that the Tespia rounds which were held were a total failure, but I'm just saying that they could improve if they wanted to.

Let's get one thing straight: Nexon doesn't care about you. Nexon doesn't care about anyone that supports Tespia simply because there's only a handful of them. If Nexon barely ever listens to the majority of its players, what makes you think that they care about what you want? Nexon loses money when Tespia's up anyway. 1,000 people in a test server are 1,000 people that aren't on GMS buying NX. Not to mention server costs, but I don't know enough about that kind of stuff to get into details. They've grown too much to rely on their kiddie userbase; nobody played Tespia to TEST STUFF, and you probably weren't going out of your way to find glitches either. Paying a couple of nerds minimum wage to play a video game isn't hurting anybody. Well, except for you, for some reason.

Tespia's not worth the bother. It's not an opinion; it's a fact that Nexon has exemplified for more than a year now.

They listened to this "handful" of people enough to mention Tespia in their Open Letter, so it's probably not because we're "not enough".

About the 1,000 people, again, they could reduce that amount to a reasonable amount of people, but choose them thoroughly like they do with MWLB, and there wouldn't be so many people who "don't buy NX on GMS".

If you think I didn't go out of my way to find glitches, then you are wrong, because I actually did and reported many bugs. I was one of the people who reported most, in fact, as I won the bug report event as well.

But yeah, the reason because NEXON doesn't and (likely) never will open Tespia probably is the failure of the first rounds and the fact that they think that it wouldn't be worth it, just like you.

Maybe they are right.