On the Issue of Power Creep and How It Relates to Nexon

Are you playing the same game as everyone else here?

Words like "probably" and "top percentage" without statistical data aren't gonna make you go far, kid.

Your fatal flaw is that you are assuming this is only from a perspective of possibility, not plausibility. Yes, you can do all these things without potential (well, ok, some of these things, as you dismissed your own point when talking about bosses); is it what you do? Is it what anyone does? I don't know a single player who still plays Maple like it's pre-BB because everyone's gone with the flow of the game. Why? Because you can't play old Maple since there is no old Maple [that isn't a PS].

You just affirmed the problem of power creep in your final sentence btw, so I really don't understand the point you're trying to make. Perhaps you didn't understand the video or didn't watch it all the way through.

Statistical data? Well just talking about my experiences with Scania, Pre-bb but post potential my mules were still good enough without any % stat gear to get invited to bosses, and my mage was one of the only ones who could solo the bombstage in Alien PQ meaning I'd get into multiple PQ's daily.
In Nova, with people with months ahead of me in level/gear me and my friends were able to soon take over the server being the strongest/richest/fastest lvers what ever title, people still refer to our character as The God of Nova. There still is old maple, you can use pre-bb gear to great effect compared to a player who hasn't payed out the ass in cubes. And in my last sentence about power creep, I admit that is power creep but wanna know why? Nexon can't balance the game around the power money/cubes give you not around the content they put out.

I'm not saying that the top percent from the before time isn't still in the top percent, but honestly? I find it a bit unlikely until I see some pretty substantial evidence.

And sure you can kill most bosses that you can't make a profit on, but are there really many other bosses worth killing in game at this point? Zak and maybe HT you can solo without funds but it's a tough call.

I still feel like there's a point in MapleStory where there is just so little you can do with in-game currency. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just tedious to the point of ridicule.

That is my whole point, you can play maple without spending a dime on it and still experience every boss/pq. And

And sure you can kill most bosses that you can't make a profit on, but are there really many other bosses worth killing in game at this point? Zak and maybe HT you can solo without funds but it's a tough call.

You are not supposed to solo anything in a multiplayer game.