Still, it's going to filter down to where no one participates in the content. What's the point in participating when you get absolutely nothing in return, f3.... Sometimes I believe when they say something along the lines of Making Maple better actually means, we're going to make things harder to try and force those F2P players to spend money.
The recent "update" to the Mu Lung Dojo I think is a monumental mistake. First, to obtain any points you have to be in the top 51% of participants. A lot of people (in Scania anyway) rely on the dojo to make mesos (myself included). If only half the people that participate receive any points, it's only going to be a matter of time that they stop participating in the dojo. Lets say you have 2000 participants, only 1000 will get points. When the 1000 that got nothing realize they'll never get points they'll stop participating. So now you only have 1000 participants in which only 500 will get points, and the cycle continues until eventually you'll have almost no one at all participating. It simply wouldn't be worth the effort. I for one have already stopped participating, being a F2P player, only 2 of my characters are strong enough to rank so what's the point in wasting my effort?