The Free Market needs a change.

Of course, with 'new system', it'd be more than just a FM revamp. People often auction stuff, but that also occasionally leads to a number of smegas. It can also be a pain in the ass. Not to mention, people will have new ways of dealing with billions of mesos. People buy items for more than 'max mesos'. The current trading/store choice no longer works well due to that. And, tax is meaningless. They could at least make use of that and have a stock market or a lottery to win a portion of a world's tax. Or, if enough tax is collected, it leads to, let's say, a tax refund. Potion discounts, prices of potions are off cut 30%! 50%! NPC resell values of items increased by 10x! Yeah..our tax goes towards an NPC's vacation? Nexon, what kind of message are you trying to promote here? The NPC stopped doing stuff once BB hit, so why does he deserve our money~? /rage

Dude, tax is not meaningless. Every video game economy needs money sources and money sinks. Killing monsters and selling their drops to vendors, and trading the mesos to other players adds money to the economy. With everyone adding money to the economy all the time, you have to start trading larger and larger sums of cash to buy things you actually want. Left unchecked, this leads to a situation where money becomes valueless and everything becomes a barter system. If you've ever played Diablo 2, you should know that no one cares about gold and you need billions of the stuff just to buy gems. Item prices are all based on runes instead of gold. This is just a really annoying system that defeats the purpose of money in the first place, and makes it difficult to get any actual item value. So, that money has to be removed from the game somehow. Potions used to do it, but training costs have become so cheap over time that potions hardly make a dent on how much money is being generated. Mounts hardly account for anything, no one buys equips from vendors, and Maker is seldom used these days and doesn't cost that much in the first place. A tax on trade is actually a great system because it takes most of the money that needs to be removed from the economy any way from the richest players.

Think about the current state of the Maple economy. Is the money you pick up off mobs even worth anything? We need more stuff that takes money out of the economy, not discounts.