31/1 - Characters' max level is increased to 250!

The grind my friend, and sorry to say, but yes the satisfaction is taken away when others can do it in an illegit manner, and take away your rank. Not all who enjoy the grind, enjoy the top spot, but some do. I enjoyed hitting number 1 Mihile in Bera, not for other people to recognize me, but for my own knowledge that I did it. I play this game for the grind. I actually feel like quitting everytime I hit 200 on the newest Warrior. Of course, I do not. Instead I just build up for the next class I'm interested in.

Not all players are honest enough to work toward a substantially difficult goal such as level 200. For those who are doing it "For their own satisfaction", hacking may come into the equation. The more time you spend agonizing over the way that they play, the less you will enjoy for yourself. Maplestory will never be hacker free. Hackers will always exist, and will always do some thing or another to create imbalance within the rankings and the economy, whether the players and Nexon like it or not. This isn't just the fate of Maplestory, but of all insanely popular games, and especially those who utilize rankings and online play. I know that at least a couple of people will pomegranate this post and retort with something along the lines of "You like hackers! You support them!". That simply isn't the case. I'm just being realistic.

And I agree with AltCtrlDlt through his comment on Blizzard, comparing the way the two balance things. I remember a comment by Dustin (forget the guy's last name) about how they had scrapped the idea of adding more playable races into SC2 because of the complications in game balancing that it could potentially create. More classes does mean more work in that regard, and more difficulty making things fair. If I never saw another new class past today, I don't think I'd enjoy the game any less. In fact, I'd most likely enjoy it more.

High level content released already. Wow. go nexon.

...If you complete all the quests in Root Abyss

...And theres some content that I'll never see, as an unfunded level 17x BaM who can't even hit 10k per hit with Finishing Blow on normal mode Pierre.