Is Maplestory "Cheaper" then before?

Empress Cygnus isn't out yet so I obviously didn't metion her.

The point is that just because you can do something doesn't mean it's worth your time. I can play this game without NX but it's extremely harder/unbearable. You can kill the training monsters, but I can do it faster, thus level faster, and get to the better parts of the contents faster.

It's efficiency.