what the fu.ck

Even though I initially winced too seeing that much money paid for NX, I don't think we can begrudge this person for how they're using their money. Most of us probably won't spend a spare $1,000 on NX but why are we calling this guy out for doing so? I wince too when I hear of people spending hundreds of dollars on booze in clubs, or buying brand name clothes but that's because that's not how I'd choose to spend money either. Those people, or anyone else who spends money on entertainment or non-essentials, aren't any better or worse than the person in the video.

Money is just something we use to get stuff we want or need. Many of us save as much of it as we can, not for its own sake, but because we might want to use it for something later. Money itself doesn't have any more intrinsic value than what we assign it. The person in the video has decided that they want to use $1,000 on a game, then well so be it.

I don't think a good argument to say "ah but the money's spent on a CRAP game", well maybe this person really enjoys the game. Maybe he has heaps of friends on Maple, or he's really invested in his character or he gets a really big kick out of having awesomely potentialed weapons/armour. Or maybe the person's great at MTSing and intends to merchant his way to a healthy profit. Who knows.

The thing is, money spent on a "crap" game isn't a good use of money. When you're spending money online, you're expecting your investment in whatever you spent your money on to be secure. As stated numerous times before, Nexon does not do a very good job on security, so there's going to be a giant arrow pointing to him saying "HACK ME NOW", which will inevitably happen. Another thing that was stated before was that when you're giving money to a company doing a very poor job, you're encouraging them to remain the same. So, by spending large amounts of cash on Nexon, you're encouraging them to stay the same; you're encouraging their lack of service, the lack of security, the lack of any care whatsoever on the game.

When we're calling the game "crap" as you put it, we're talking not talking about the entertainment value of the game; we're talking about how good of a job the company in charge of the game does. I don't think you've fully understood this, so I will highly recommend that you go back to and reread the comments in this thread without skimming over.