This Month in Our Past: April

April has been a quiet month of the Global service of MapleStory, excluding the ‘New Creatures, New Features’ patch of 2009. Globally, however, past Aprils have been very eventful. Let’s start with Global MapleStory April events.

April 2006

Client Version Update: 0.20
Game Update Name: -
Game Update Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2006

- Easter events

April 2007

Client Version Update: 0.37
Game Update Name: -
Game Update Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007

- Korean Folk Town
- Death of Channel 20

It was April 2007 that channel 20 was removed from all game servers. One of the least popular towns of Maple World, Korean Folk Town, was also added.

[AO] ijji Players Can No Longer Log Into Atlantica Online

If you haven’t already heard the innovative and successful free-to-play turn-based strategy MMO Atlantica is making the transition to Nexon America tomorrow, March 30, 2011.

For quite a while, NHN USA has been channeling Atlantica on their ijji portal. This means that although the operators of ijji (NHN USA) do not publish the game, users have been able to log into the game using their ijji account, ijji holds a few exclusive events and ijji gets a percentage of the revenue made off of the game.  The actual publishers of the game’s North American service are Ndoors Interactive, a subsidiary of Nexon Corp.

Nexon has decided that when the game makes its transition and comes fully into their hands, ijji will no longer channel it. Therefore, as of 5:00PM Pacific (8:00PM Eastern), ijji service of Atlantica has been permanently discontinued and the website is no longer accessible. Ndoors Interactive users will have until 10:00PM Pacific (1:00AM Eastern) on March 29 until their service will go down permanently as the transition maintenance begins.

ijji users will be able to convert their ijji Atlantica accounts to Nexon accounts on March 30, 2011 in order to continue playing the game. Ndoors Interactive users, however, will have the option to log into their game using their Ndoors account information until April 26, 2011. Following April 26, 2011 only Nexon IDs will be able to log in to the game.

As of tomorrow Atlantica Online’s game website will be atlantica.nexon.net.

[NXKR] Nexon Star to Close in Korea

Just a few days after the announcement that Husky Express will close, Nexon Korea has announced the closure of another game, casual social game Nexon Star. Nexon Star was originally launched in Korea just a little while ago, in the summer of 2010. The game’s playerbase has been in decline since launch.

It seems that this closure applies to the Korean service only, because Tiancity has not yet announced the closure of their Chinese service of the game. Tiancity brought Nexon Star to China in 2010 as ‘Happy Planet’.

Nexon Star was developed by Nexonova, an internal studio of Nexon Group and the same development studio behind the closed MapleStory iTCG Online.

[DFO] [NXMob] Nexon Mobile Withdraws Dungeon Fighter Slayer Edition

Just one day after its launched, Nexon Mobile has pulled Dungeon Fighter Slayer Edition from the English App Store. It is believed that this is due to the extremely bad reviews the game had been getting in the hours following its release. I hope we will see the game re-released in the near future after Nexon has gone back to the drawing board.

[AO] Migration Maintenance

Atlantica Online will be going through its final maintenance under Ndoors publishing on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. This is likely the largest and most intensive maintenance ever executed on Atlantica Online. The maintenance will begin at 5:00PM Pacific (8:00PM Eastern) and will last for approximately 11 hours. During this time, the website will be unavailable. You can join the Atlantica team on their Xfire Channel “Atlantica Online” for updates on their progress. The Atlantica team thanks you for your continued support and patience as they become a part of the Nexon family!

After they re-launch the website, you will be able to find Atlantica Online at
http://atlantica.nexon.net

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