MS is already almost as bad as RuneScape, RS is mostly stopped by only a few things.
1)Browser-based
2)Pay to play to some extent, but they do hear out free players as well.
As it is, 'p2e'(pay2enjoy) is killing Maple, and it's becoming something that many games are adopting, but not to such an extremist way, Maple started great, and continued as such until Nexon came back in the picture (Boo!), and now it's just either pay, or don't play basically, especially with those weapons, that although leave upon logging out, well... you don't need to log out (Besides patches), and due to such they're probably easy to get, and already as strong as a semi-godly/godly weapon of it's lvl without being scrolled. :/ You also get a free+7 for 100%ing it, making it even better! I'd just carry 100 100% scrolls for my weapon, and go train there, good thing I saved 10k NX :/ MIGHT be worth it...