MapleStory's Future

Funny. I remember this same topic in 2007. "Hackers have taken over! Nexon just wants our money! Meso buyers have KILLED the economy! This game won't last another year!". Where are we now? 4 years later and the game is as strong as ever. It has more players than ever, and though it's declining, Nexon has gotten a good enough cash shop that for the most part they make much more money per person than they used to. Things aren't great, but I can't see 'maplestory 2.0' fixing things unless it's a full replacement of ms with character and item transfer. Nobody that has played an mmo wants to just drop their progress and every hour they've put into a game and just move on to ms 2.0. The more likely scenario is that ms 2.0 is just a rewritten version of the same game with better security. Aka, big bang 2.
What's really needed is validation checking on inputs, packet checking, and better software than hackshield. 99% of the exploits we see now are simply "record packet 1, change value, spam new packet", or some variety of that. If they did simple things like validating input, scanning packets for abnormal values, or replacing hackshield with whatever that old one was that fixed hacking for a few years we'd be much better off.

I doubt it's the same topic. I did say that hackers are taking over again, I don't care about nexon and I don't care if they're greedy or not, meso buyers have ruined the economy but I never said the game has it days counted or that it won't last longer. I actually said it will last for who knows how long. This is not nexon bashing or maplestory hating and hoping it closes*.
By reading all posts, specially yours, I now notice that Nexon does step up sometimes and saves the game from all the threats. One way or another they find ways to sporadically reduce hackers to a minimum. The economy is ruined but it could be worse (probably was?)... if we still were pre bb I can only imagine meso buyers, hardcore players and nx hoes being able to get avg/decent/godly equips and supplies. It's true that after bb patch fm isn't as needed and one doesn't need that many mesos to train efficiently.

*I'm completely ignorant when it comes to hacking, coding and legal ways nexon could use to stop hackers, therefore meso sellers too (to certain extent). All I want from this thread is see educate guesses and arguments that tells me if there's a solution to all these problems if they ever get worse. I know the game won't close soon but we all know that if hackers keep doing their things and releasing them to the public, things could go awfully bad any time. I won't bother arguing//asking how they will handle near future hack/exploit cases because I can guess that myself. What I wonder what is the "big" solution if we ever need one? What are the tools they can use to save the game? We can guess if they will use those tools or not just looking at how they have handled things in the past and right now but we can't know that yet... however that's not what I asked for.