Official Site:Â MapleStory
Studio:Â Nexon
Launch Date:Â May 11, 2005 (NA); April 29, 2003Â (KR)
Genre:Â Fantasy Sandbox
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform:Â PC
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MapleStory’s Midnight Carnival arrives to celebrate Halloween all through October
The month of October is Halloween. This is now an inalienable truth because most of the internet has decreed it so, and it's being...
The MOP Up: Soulframe releases a soundtrack tidbit
Soulframe fans starved to hear something -- anything -- about Digital Extremes' upcoming fantasy RPG were thrown an audio morsel this week in the...
MapleStory’s Halloween update, the Midnight Carnival Nautilus, is almost upon us
MapleStory understood the assignment: Halloween is en route, and it's spooky and adorable all at the same time. Nexon revealed the Midnight Carnival Nautilus...
Battle Bards Episode 228: Cheery MMO dungeons
Not every dungeon has to be a drab and dour affair — a fact that sent the Battle Bards searching for the cheeriest tunes...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs you’ve already forgotten ever existed
Falling into obscurity and then being completely forgotten is the nightmare of any creative artist. This tragic scenario is compounded when it comes to...
MapleStory’s fan convention returns October 14 in-person in Los Angeles
Are you ready to celebrate all things MapleStory at an in-person convention? Then you're ready for MapleStory Fest, which is coming back as an...
New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion is about land on the PTS
If our deep-dive into New World's Rise of the Angry Earth expansion already has you pulling out your wallet and anticipating the launch, maybe...
The MOP Up: EVE Online’s Fanfest has officially sold out
Well, that's it: EVE Online's Fanfest is officially sold out this year, so if you were hoping to snag a ticket at this late...
Nexon Q2 2023: Revenues perk up 12% QoQ thanks to multiple online games
While its competitors turned in disappointing financial quarters, Nexon has actually seen a surprising resurgence in Q2: Its quarterly revenues were 12% higher compared...
MapleStory M introduces its newest playable character and celebrates its fifth anniversary
The mobile MMO MapleStory M is combining a celebration and a new playable character release with its latest update, which rolls up the introduction...
The MOP Up: MapleStory rebuilds the legendary guild castle
MapleStory broke out the second part of its two-part summer Savior update which is "packed with a new mystical land to discover, a new...
Lord of the Rings Online just offered a first look at the new Hobbit premium housing
Yesterday, Standing Stone Game's senior world designer Matt "Scenario" Elliot was kind enough to spend an hour showing off my next house in Lord...
MapleStory brings new area, guild castle feature, and preparations for its sixth Job in next update
MapleStory's Savior update continues to unfurl through this month as its v.243 update looms on the horizon, bringing with it a new area, the...
Loftia is yet another ‘cozy solarpunk’ life sim MMO in the making
You know what's a recent trend we can get behind here at Massively OP? The rise of so-called "cozy" multiplayer life sims that prioritize...
MapleStory opens Shangri-La and guild castles for all — and has a new class on the way
Nexon's 2-D MMO is jump-starting summer with a vibrant content update that includes a new class, leveling path, and luxurious restaurant in which to...
MapleStory brings a new class, improved leveling, and a new event in its Savior update
MapleStory is once again getting another big content drop on Wednesday, June 14th, in the form of the Savior update, which will introduce a...
MMO Business Roundup: Krafton and Nexon break records in Q1 2023, Ubisoft lays off 60 workers
We're continuing our May roundup of MMO and gaming business news, which means it's time for Business Kitty to make her comeback as well...
MapleStory celebrates 18 years of operation with a host of new activities
It's a happy 18th birthday to MapleStory, which means its time for players to hope Nexon won't decide to delete another character or a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 420: The New, Mad World of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's content cadence, the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, Blizzard's messy financials, WoW's 10.1 patch, the end of forums for New World and Lost Ark, the death of a whole class in MapleStory, the messy launch of Mad World, and the surprise return of Fractured, plus adventures in LOTRO and Star Trek Online.
MapleStory is deleting a whole character – Jett – after 11 years in the global version
I'm having a hard time remembering the last time an MMO developer deleted an entire class from an MMO. The NGE, maybe? Regardless, it's...
