Dear Maplers,

Over the last few days MapleStory has experienced intermittent server instabilities that have interrupted many players’ opportunities to play MapleStory. The cause of the issue was a result of malfunctions of certain server hardware. To identify problematic areas we had to keep the servers online despite the inconveniences our players endured, and for that we greatly apologize.

Because players lost items and mesos during the server instability, in addition to abusers trying to take advantage of the situation, MapleStory will be restored to a previous status point of 8PM Pacific on Tuesday, January 24. All items, experience and transaction gained between the restore point and before the maintenance will be overwritten. We found this to be the only method to rectify the influx of economy damaging goods.
As a thank you for your patience and loyalty we will be providing all players affected by the instability and the restore point the following items and events:

• All NX spent between 8PM Pacific, January 24 to 3PM Pacific, January 27 will be returned.
• Players who were logged in between 8PM Pacific, January 24 to 3PM Pacific, January 27will receive 5,000 Maple Points.
• 48 hour Cash item extension on top of the 48 hour extension that was previously applied (total of 96 hours).
• 3x EXP and Drop starting from the end of the maintenance today to the end of the day Friday, February 3. The event will run during all hours of the event days.
• The Evolving Ring III event will be extended to February 6.

The first three of the following items will be available for one character per world on your account if the character was created before 8PM, January 24, so make space and choose which character wisely! The two Cash items will be available for one character on your account if the character was created before 8PM, January 24.

• 10 free AP points
• 1 Storm Growth Potion. This item instantly raises your character one level.
• 4 free slots in each section of your item inventory
• 1 Hyper Teleport Rock (7 Days)
• 1 Premium Cash Shop Surprise

You will receive a message from the Maple Administrator upon logging in to a character to collect the first three above, and your character must be level 15 or higher to receive them. You will receive a message in the Cash Shop to collect the two Cash items. You will be able to collect these items until the end of the day Friday, February 3.

Thank you, Maplers, for bearing with us during this time. We hope you enjoy all the events and items made available to help recover your Maple journey!

- The Maple Team -

Sauce

The Evolving Ring III event will be extended. The last day of the event will now be February 3.

Nexon Europe has announced that they will take over the publishing of the Global service of the popular MMORPG Dekaron as of February 22, 2012. Dekaron was previously published by Nexon subsidiary Gamehi. This comes just months after Nexon America took over the Global service of Sudden Attack from Gamehi. This also comes very soon after the announcement that Nexon Co. Ltd. had acquired the global license to Shaiya Online, which I expect to begin appearing on Nexon’s global publishing arms soon.

Although I had been expecting that either Nexon America or Nexon Europe would take over Dekaron, it’s actually a pretty big surprise to me that Nexon Europe is who is taking over Dekaron and not Nexon America. It is not usual for Nexon Europe to publish the Global service of games, especially if that game is available in English only.

For more details on the transition process see the official Dekaron website.

Sudden Attack is developed by Gamehi which was acquired by Nexon in May 2010. Nexon began major restructuring of Gamehi after the latter reported disappointing financial results for the first half of 2010. Gamehi received an awesome new logo that’s similar in many ways to the Nexon logo in April 2011. The global service of Sudden Attack transferred publishers from Gamehi to Nexon America on November 16, 2011.

Did you know that Nexon is the world’s 3rd most valuable company in the industry globally? Nexon went public in December 2011 when it was valued at approximately $7.6 billion. This is third in the world behind Blizzard Entertainment at $14.2 billion and Electronic Arts at $7.7 billion.

In 2010 Nexon’s revenues were $878 million. This compares to $4.4 billion for Activision Blizzard (the holding company for Blizzard Entertainment and Activision) and EA’s $3.8 billion. Remember, the value of a company depends not only on yearly revenue, but also on profits and growth, among other factors. Nexon’s 2010 revenues were up all of 56% from their 2009 revenues of $561.5 million!

I patiently await Nexon’s 2011 revenue report and I am expecting great news.

Shaiya Online is a popular free-to-play MMORPG developed by CHIOROCK and published in North America and Europe by Aeria Games. Check out http://shaiya.aeriagames.com/!

The quotes above were from a press release from Nexon Co. Ltd.