The point of the damage cap?

How is the problem escalated if Nexon leaves a few leftovers behind but removes mostly everything? A few people have the gear. Big deal. The "average standard for damage" is now lowered. Yes, in your elite circle of friends, maybe a lot of people still have the gear, so it might seem that the "average damage standard" is much higher than the pre-dupe standard. However, average as in, number of hacked equips/number of players, or total "damage/total players, removing most of them got the average much closer to "pre-dupe" standards so everything is much better.

I know you have problems seeing past your condescending attitude but let me elaborate why it's still a problem. You have an entire generation of players with gear that is unmatched by legitimate means. It's as the phrase goes, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. The demand of these items will only increase, do you know why? Because you can't replicate it. And it will be years before that gear is overlapped by something greater.

Another FYI is it's retarded to contain everyone who plays maplestory as a legitimate average of damage. When it get's down to it's a low ratio of who actually participates to end game content. Also thinking about the long term effect's, which I'm sure you have no idea considering you probably have been playing since like 08, is that this gear becomes priceless, until something completely over takes it, which means a very large method of making bank, so they still benefit from those exploits.

This is all assuming nexon can ever remove all equipment. Things like attack masks/vss, will always be in the game because there's really no proof at this point if it's plausible or not, including scrolls to scroll it. Maplestory can attempt to heal itself again, but frankly it just makes it even more inprobable that a new generation will ever get accomplish things an entire illegit generation has.

Also to elaborate, I did skim your post, as soon as I saw you suggesting that nexon's business model was actually adapted to benefit off the hacker's general business, I just saw all your credibility go down the drain.