maplestory

Official Site: MapleStory
Studio: Nexon
Launch Date: May 11, 2005 (NA); April 29, 2003 (KR)
Genre: Fantasy Sandbox
Business Model: F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Nexon’s Q3 2016 financials ‘solid’ thanks to China, MapleStory, and Dungeon&Fighter

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Nexon's third quarter financial report is out this week, and the company is calling it a "solid" one, with revenues boosted higher than expected...

Massively Overthinking: Our five favorite MMORPGs of all time

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Earlier this week, Redditor maxpower888 started an epic thread on the /r/mmorpg sub asking everyone to chime in and name his or her top five...
We all go together.

Superdata’s September report shows Destiny, WoW, GW2, SWTOR, and TERA doing well

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Superdata's September games market report is up, and the console revenue rankings have a new old king: Destiny. Yes, Destiny has returned to the...

Battle Bards Episode 85: Desert Calling

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The desert is calling the Battle Bards, but are they willing to make the trek across these vast wastelands to see if the music...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2016

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"Two things I did on Hallows Night: / Made my house April-clear / Left open wide my door / to the ghosts of the...

The MOP Up: Aima gets a death sentence (October 16, 2016)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Nexon pumps out a half-dozen new mobile games in Korea

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Nexon is continuing its assault on the mobile games market with a planned release of a half-dozen titles this fall in Korea and China....

The MOP Up: The Black Death’s knights vs. outlaws (October 2, 2016)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Throw wide the gates to let us pass once more.

Rob Pardo of World of Warcraft fame launches Bonfire Studios

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Rob Pardo is the former lead designer of World of Warcraft, but he's since moved on from Blizzard. Now, he's embarking on a new...
All of the ladies in this game seem to have an actual class of Clothing Avoider.

New report says South Korean MMORPG companies are ‘facing a crisis’

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The Financial Times blog has a doom-and-gloom report out this week on the gaming market of South Korea, specifically the MMO genre. "The country’s online...

Global Chat: When MMORPG raiding becomes a job

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When does a game go from fun to obligation? Xenophics wrote a gut-wrenching confession about how raiding in World of Warcraft became his "office,"...

MapleStory kicks off summer content series June 22

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MapleStory is touting the impending arrival of the first chunk of its summer content update series, Heroes of Maples. Arriving on June 22nd, the first...

MapleStory introduces the telekenetic Kinesis

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MapleStory is not an MMO that is lacking for classes, boasting over 30 so far in its roster. In the off chance that you've...

Nexon slips a little in first quarter but has confidence in its future

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Nexon has come out of the gate in 2016 looking strong. The MMO publisher posted its Q1 financial report this week, stating that the...

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters

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After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG could use a good reboot?

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MMORPG reboots might be impractical and inadvisable, but games from Darkfall and DUST 514 to MapleStory and Linkrealms are all giving (or have given)...

The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 gets a promotion (February 21, 2016)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Massively OP’s MMORPG Valentine’s Day 2016 roundup

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If you're one of those gamers who needs goofy real-world holidays in your MMOs, then this weekend is for you, as sappy pink hearts,...

The MOP Up: RuneScape’s TCG wraps up closed beta (February 7, 2016)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Losing in a way that's incidentally the same as not in fact losing at all.

Superdata says League of Legends makes more money than any other game you play

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Let's just get this out of the way: Superdata is a research firm that sells its data analysis. It doesn't disclose its methodology or...

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