"I Miss Old Maple"

I miss pre-potential Maple Story when you were invited to groups because you spent time farming and scrolling good gear. I don't like that to get anywhere with potential you have to spend a massive amount of time farming mesos to buy cubes off of another player or pay for yourself. There are characters out there that can deal 2-3x more damage than I can even at lower levels. It really destroyed the concept of fun for me. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the rebalances and extra content. I just think potential was quite possibly the worse move for a game whose promise was "paying for NX items will not give an advantage to those who do not pay."