[CMS 1.02] The Visitors

I have a terrible headache right now so bear with me.

In their v102 update ChinaMS receives the Visitors event incorporated into the alien invaded New Leaf City. Also included in the update will be the nebulite system and several other events.

http://act.mxd.sdo.com/project/v102/index.html#

Off to bed now.

[TwMS 1.43] [CMS 1.00] Advance of the Union

I’m a little late on this. I honestly wasn’t expecting it so I wasn’t looking out for it. But Taiwan MapleStory and China MapleStory have received their first Advance of the Union update on February 29, 2012. This despite the fact that they do not yet have the Arkarium boss.

Check out the campaign sites at http://tw.beanfun.com/maplestory/ (Tw) and http://act.mxd.sdo.com/project/v100/ (C).

Both of these services ended their Legends updates on February 1. Interesting how quickly they’ve moved from Legends into Union.

Meanwhile, ThailandMS which received Big Bang in March 2011 and the Mechanic update soon after has yet to receive any more content updates.

[CMS] [TwMS] Remaining Legends Updates Release Months

Global MapleStory, China MapleStory and Taiwan MapleStory all receive the first Legends update, Cannoneers, on December 7, 2011. Although it has been confirmed that GlobalMS will receive their second and third Legends updates on December 19 and in early January, respectively, Shanda Games and Gamania have announced that the Mercedes and Demon Slayer updates in ChinaMS and TaiwanMS will be released in January 2012 and February 2012, respectively.

[CMS 0.98] Legend

I was right. The Chinese service of MapleStory, published by Shanda Games, will join Global MapleStory and Taiwan MapleStory in their receiving of the first Legends update on December 7. This update will include the Cannoneer class. Mercedes class previews will also begin on this day.

[MS] International MapleStory October 19 Content Updates

October 19 will be a busy day for MapleStory players all over the world as several services of the game will be going thorough patches to add in content.

Japan MapleStory 2.04: Legend

JapanMS’s first Legend update is here! Included in this update are the Cannon Shooter and Mercedes classes. JapanMS has decided to merge the Jump! and Legend update in two patches, on October 19 and November 16.

[MS] “Fastest Updating” and “Most Updated” Rankings: Q3 2011

It’s the final week of the final month of the quarter and that means it’s time for Msupdate’s “Fastest Updating” and “Most Updated” Rankings.

This project started in April when I compared the content of all the services, but specifically KoreaMS, GlobalMS, MapleSEA and EuropeMS, in Content Speed Comparisons: KMS, GMS, MSEA, EMS . The last rankings were “Fastest Updating” and “Most Updated” Rankings: Q2 2011 .

Due to its closure on October 31 and the lack of updates since December 2010, BrazilMS has been removed from the rankings.

To quite understand what I mean by “fastest updating” and “most updated”, why I feel that EuropeMS remains the fastest updating service and why additional, original and exclusive content cannot be counted in how fast a MapleStory service updates (*cough* JapanMS), please read Content Speed Comparisons: KMS, GMS, MSEA, EMS.

Fastest Updating

Current Rank	Service	Move Since April 2011
1	Europe MapleStory	-
2	Global MapleStory	-
3	MapleStory South East Asia	+5
4*	China MapleStory	+1
4*	Taiwan MapleStory	+1
6	Korea MapleStory	-2
7	Japan MapleStory	-4
8	Thailand MapleStory	-1

*China MapleStory and Taiwan MapleStory are tied. This is not a mistake.

There has been a pretty major shakeup in the Fastest Updating rankings with JapanMS falling 4 places and MapleSEA rising 5.