More EE hacked weapons gone

This is the part I have problems with. You're not competing with players, you're competing with non-player characters. The only thing preventing anyone from making a level 1 and leveling it to 200 without interacting with any other player between now and then is a sense of practicality and a shortage of time/desire. You letting the dupes get to you is a detriment to your experience, not the dupes themselves.

You want to be efficient at what you do, you can't make money, nothing you find will be worth anything, the meso drops are minimal, there's really no room to grow on this game without someway spending NX. It's a free to play game with such an overwhelming difference on hackers/nx spenders that it's not reasonable.

It doesn't matter if my stats directly affect yours or not, what does matter is the standards that the community sets based on the current market which predetermines if you're worth their time. Maplestory has became a solo game, duping caused this, potential caused this, and the attitude of the community has caused this. You can sit here and tell me until your blue in the face that maplestory is about vs artificial enemies, not eachother, but maplestory is not going to be fun for you when you're playing by yourself.