Is Maplestory "Cheaper" then before?

The point is that just because you can do something doesn't mean it's worth your time. I can play this game without NX but it's extremely harder/unbearable. You can kill the training monsters, but I can do it faster, thus level faster, and get to the better parts of the contents faster.

It's efficiency.

Not to mention that seeing cash users in a "free to play" game do 1000x better than you ALWAYS and you'll never be able to catch up in the slightest makes the game extremely depressing and undesirable.