Items, Inventory, Cash shop, Free market

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         Items
Items can be acquired from monster drops, purchased from other characters or shops, or as rewards for completing a quest. In some versions of the game, items can be obtained through cash with the gachapon system. Players buy gachapon tickets with cash and each of these tickets can be exchanged for a random item. Unnecessary items can be dropped (where they can be picked up by any other character), sold to any shop for a sum of meso, or sold/traded to other characters. Generally the stronger the monsters are the better the items they drop. Due to the time required to sell valuable items to other players as well as the quantity of items received, many players create a mule account to store excess items and act as a dedicated trading account.

 Inventory
There are five different item categories in the game: Equipment (clothes, accessories, and weapons); Use (potions, scrolls and other consumables); Set-up (decorations); Etc. (monster drops, ores, and quest items); and Cash (items bought from the cash shop). In the inventory window, each category has its own section, each of which is only able to contain a limited amount of items; however, extra inventory space can be purchased in the Cash Shop. Extra inventory space is also awarded after each job advancement.

Equipment can be upgraded by using item upgrade scrolls which give stat bonuses to equipment. Using a scroll on an item can only be attempted a limited number of times irrespective of the scroll's success or failure. The number of attempts varying with the item type. Scrolls have a certain percentage of success, and the lower the success percentage, the higher the stat gains provided by the scrolls. Scrolls can only be used when you have equipped the item that you wish to upgrade, but in KoreanMS and JapanMS, there is a new beginner skill that allows you to scroll an item without the need of equipping it.

 Cash Shop
Since MapleStory is free, the developers of MapleStory introduced the Cash Shop to generate revenue. This is a virtual shop where players can buy items using real money. The items sold in the Cash Shop include clothing items, appearance-changing coupons, pets, and usable items that provide special bonuses, such as a bonus in experience gain. Most Cash Shop items expire after a certain period of time.

 
Players are able to try out the cash item before purchasing.Pets, modeled after animals such as monkeys, dogs, cats, bunnies, pandas, and pigs, follow the owner around and can be equipped to pick up spoils dropped by enemies.

The Global Cash Shop markets items for two virtual currencies: Nexon Cash (NX Cash), and "MaplePoints". NX Cash is purchased outside of MapleStory through the MapleStory web site. MaplePoints, however, can be earned through special events.

Many people take advantage of the fact that people are unable to pay for Nexon Cash and are accepting items and Mesos to trade for Nexon Cash. People are also attracting people using referral sites that give PayPal money as a reward for doing offers. However, such transactions are deemed illegal and any user involved in such a transaction may be banned if caught by a Game Master.

On 23 June 2006, GlobalMS announced that people had been abusing the Nexon Cash "gifting" feature, and ultimately decided to disable the feature indefinitely. The reason GlobalMS has given for this decision is that many people have been fraudulent towards PayPal and Wizet itself.

In MapleSEA's case, in addition to credit card payment (through PayPal), it has also released Prepaid cards. As for GlobalMS, Prepaid cash-value cards, or "Nexon Cards", will be released shortly.

 Free Market
The Free Market is a place set aside for people who wish to sell their items amongst other players. Miniature shops can be set up in this area in which people can browse their stock. Shop permits, required to set up a shop, are only available through the Cash Shop. There are two types of store permits: a standard store, which requires the presence of the player, and the "Mushroom House Elf", which does not require the presence of the player.

One can meet with players located in other towns, provided the town contains a Free Market entrance. However, one cannot use the free market to travel between towns. There are entrances to the Free Market in many of the various towns; including Perion, Henesys, El Nath, Orbis, Ludibrium, Omega Sector, Aquarium, Riprey, Wuling, Hundred Grass Village, Showa Town, Yu Yuan Garden, Night Market, and Thai Floating Market.