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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G-Star 2024: Nexon teases Supervive, Project Overkill, and Arc Raiders as it celebrates its 30th birthday
Nexon brought its A-game to G-Star 2024 in Busan, South Korea, and by A-game, we really mean its whole game because the company has...
Nexon Q3 2024: DNF Mobile and MapleStory propel Nexon to record-high revenues
Nexon is celebrating its Q3 2024 financials this week - and we do mean celebrating, as the company claimed "record-breaking quarterly revenue" of ¥135.6B...
The Daily Grind: Which dead MMORPG needs a resurrection *and* has a possible path to get it?
A while back, our team was working on a MapleStory piece when we did something we often do when writing about MapleStory: lament the...
Nexon’s MapleFest and Next On tease MapleStory’s Dark Ride, Mabinogi UE5, Nakwon Last Paradise, and more
Nexon has been busy hyping its MMOs this week with both MapleStory Fest and its Next On event, so let's dig in!
MapleStory Fest, which...
MapleStory Worlds makes its soft launch as it tries to entice creators with monetary incentive programs
Korean fans of MapleStory have already had their hands on Nexon's MapleStory Worlds since April, but now it's time for players in the Americas...
MapleStory’s Midnight Carnival arrives for the Halloween season
Don't look now, but MapleStory might be crushing the competition with its Halloween update this year. The V.254 release arrived on Wednesday with the...
MapleStory’s player-made creation game MapleStory Worlds confirms October 16 soft launch in the Americas
Have you ever wanted to make your own MapleStory game world but couldn't land a job at Nexon America? Well that dream became a...
MapleStory’s MapleStory Fest returns for its seventh consecutive year on October 26 in LA
Hey, west coast Maplers - and anyone else with the will and the way to travel - today's MapleStory announcement is for you. Nexon...
The Daily Grind: Do you expect MMORPGs to maintain full regional and platform parity?
Earlier this year, the team behind the western/global version of MapleStory announced that it was planning to fork away from the Korean version, basically...
Nexon’s mobile MMO MapleStory M can now be played on PC
Show of hands: Who here was hoping that the mobile MMO MapleStory M would come to their PCs? Look, it's entirely possible that's a...
Nexon Q2 2024: Dungeon & Fighter Mobile drives a record financial quarter
The parade of financial reports continues this afternoon with Nexon's Q2 2024, which saw record revenues for the gaming company thanks to Chinese mobile...
The MOP Up: EVE Echoes is going to let you drill into the moon
EVE Echoes -- please remember that this still exists -- offered up some balance and market adjustments along with a preview of some new...
MapleStory adds new nodes and even more events in part two of its Go West update
Last month saw the first part of MapleStory's big giant Go West update release, and as scheduled, the second part of the udpate came...
Vague Patch Notes: How widespread free-to-play impacted MMORPGs
In 2009, Dungeons & Dragons Online went free-to-play, which was a pretty big deal at the time. It was especially important to me, since...
MapleStory’s ‘exclusive, localized updates’ begin with this week’s Go West content patch
MapleStory has been making a lot of noise about the fact that its western version will be completely separate from the Korean version, starting...
MapleStory’s two-part Go West update adds new events, revamps Angelic Buster, and maintains currency earning status quo
Back in April, the western version of MapleStory resolved to "follow its own direction," with updates intended to move away from direct parity from...
MMO Business Roundup: Nexon’s Q1 2024, Microsoft’s AI fiddling, XDefiant’s monetization
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! This time around, we've got only one first quarter report to...
MapleStory adds a new class and a 19th anniversary zone, maps out future May and June updates
It's time for MapleStory to mark 19 years of operation by opening Mayple Island. And no, that misspelling isn't a twisting of the MMO's...
MapleStory superfan transmutes promoted stream into Nexon critique and quit
What was likely meant to be a watershed moment for MapleStory PR ended up being an alley-oop to the MMO's own live dunking: Niru,...
MapleStory gears up for its 19th anniversary, launches MapleStory Worlds in Korea
While MapleStory 2 has become a distant memory for many of us, the MapleStory franchise is still going strong in 2024. In fact, Nexon...
