Would you survive without NX?

I don't think I could because I hate when my characters look ugly. I'd be fine with in-game equips, but I'd need at least a face/hair coupon for me to take my character seriously.

Sad I know, but the aesthetics are so much of the game for me.

I probably could. "Probably" because I am not able to merch by spamming FM entrance, so without a shop I am limited to what meso I loot or can get by npc'ing dropped items. Not sure whether post-BB drop rates vs. potion consumption rates would let me do this, but I assume it's possible, especially since 120 takes so little time now and doesn't really require anything special by way of gear. (And by special I don't mean just the high end, I mean anything that costs millions of meso).

However, that is not the question, at least not for me. The question is "would you enjoy it?"
This is a game. If it's not fun, I don't want to play.
I have very bad loot and pot lag, possibly due to living halfway around the world from Nexon.
Not having a pet to loot for me is physically painful, as well as considerably slower training.
Depending on class, not having a pet to pot for me means a lot more deaths = much slower training.
Call me spoiled, but I don't enjoy that.

Now, if I had to raise a secondary char to 120, like say a Cygnus for UA, or an SE mule, and it had funding from my main, I just wouldn't bother looting. I would not get it a pet. Mules aren't worth it. I've done this before, not to 120 but I've raised numerous mules to 50 and a few beyond that (highest is 95) without a pet or anything else NX.
However, for my main, far beyond 120, if you told me I could never use NX again, I'd just quit the game. I hate having to manually loot. I can't make the kind of meso I need, without a shop. I can train or boss without auto-hp, but it's stressful; all the more so for having no charms or wheels. And being unable to cube means being very, very weak, especially if I also don't have a shop to earn enough meso to be able to afford pre-cubed gear. Or even scrolled gear, for that matter.
I would not enjoy the game under those conditions.

These two are pretty much the reason I wouldn't. I -could- survive a while, I guess, but I'd have so little fun that after a while, I'd just quit. s: