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[quote=SlyAriel]where did all the meso come from? did all of the meso that is currently in the market come from mob drops and occasional quests?[/quote]

Yes.
That and a few isolated things like Cash Shop meso bags which really don't add that many mesos to the game.
Except for things like that and quest rewards, mesos come from monster drops either directly as mesos or as equips sold to NPCs.
There's no way anyone can add mesos to the game otherwise.

Just think about all the hundreds of thousands of monsters being killed every single day in every single map of every single world. And almost all of those drop mesos.
Constantly, 24 hours a day mesos are being added to the game via monster drops.
Just in the time it took to read this, millions more mesos have been added to the Maple economy from monsters that have been killed during that time.
Not all of them are picked up, so some of them don't get added to the economy, but still there's a huge influx of mesos every day.

Of course- If the game was allowed to work as it was intended, there would be far fewer mesos in the game.
Cheaters who use hacks and bots have added huge numbers of mesos that were never designed to be handled by the game designers, so there's rampant inflation due to the money supply being unchecked.
When the money supply rises, prices tend to rise along with it so there's an ever-higher spiral in prices and a constant devaluing of the currency.

Most of the money comes from Meso exploits and chinese meso farmers.

Even without meso farmers there would still be trillions in the economy. You can make millions just npcing armor and potions, some quests give mesos, then there's meso sacks (rip off, but they add the the economy too). The game has been around for 9 years. that's over 3,000 days. So if just 1 person got 1mil a day every day that's 3bil. Now imagine that with thousands of players and that's trillions spread out among all the legit players. And 1mil a day is a lot less than some people get just killing things in the game.

And like the others said, this game doesn't really have anything that eats away at mesos. So the total amount of mesos in a server is always increasing with nothing to really decrease the numbers.

dude maplestory has been up for over 9 years now i know i used to be able to get like at least 1m in grinding a day + npcing (old stuff used to npc for alot more) also now doing hilla Daily you can make 1m easy from npcing pots. now. x 365 days a year + how many people ever play maple at once like ....idk 1mil? o.o 9 Years (not to mention mesos packs in cs)

Currently meso farmers are the one that inject currency into the economy. If there weren't meso farmers, the economy would look a lot different since there aren't many [i]real[/i] meso sinks.

Because there aren't any big meso sinks so it just keeps getting passed around through players.

I am sure the hackers are the ones bringing the money into the economy. They are pretty much the ones that control the value of the items. When they dont hack, the mesos has more value and things start to drop in price just to stay in ratio to the accumulated meso from everyone in the server.

TONs TONs TONs of Meso Farmer