Old Maplestory...

...Aren't you a teenagers yourself? I just find it funny how you try to talk down to people when in fact you're not challenging anything just making general baseless assumptions. Is that why your post is essentially ambiguous because you lack any point? Makes sense to me.

To correct you, when maplestory came out, the options for gear were minimal, money was made by playing the game. Are you seriously going to sit here and tell me the game hasn't changed when NX has become the source of transactions, where meso is worthless? You can spout all this "I'm an adult and understand how perspectives changes when people get older!" but for maplestory that started off as a game where limitations were strict which made us dependent on others as well as ourselves has clearly hit a form of exemption. The community see's no limitations which leads to us not necessarily needing anything but a great deal of funding. The game is no longer a story but MoneyStory. It's all about you funding and getting to level 200 as soon as possible, not to achieve anything but to concentrate more onto getting stronger. I'm not sure what maplestory you played but that's not the generation I played in. Sure damage whoring was a priority back then, dexless being the most efficient way, but that's because items gave us the opportunity to do that and it was more cost effective. Now people go for that damage aspect so they don't deal with the community.

As an adult I would expect your starting sentence not to be so baseless, as a teenager it's expected.

Your first paragraph is a trainwreck of random insults. Did I offend you by not complying with the norm in a nostalgia thread?

I'm 22. I played MMOs before MapleStory. You also have no idea what you're talking about. You have always been able to buy power in MS, and there has never been anything to achieve other than getting better gear and leveling up. Meso selling sites have existed for almost as long as the game has. Buying and selling leeched experience was incredibly common and a huge part of the how the game operated for years. It's fun to point fingers and blame Nexon's greed or the terrible players ruining the community, but the truth is that nothing has really changed.