This Month in Our Past: October

Welcome to October’s edition of This Month in Our Past. I am pleased to say that this is the 1st anniversary of the This Month in Our Past series. This means that posting these will be quite a bit easier since I can just copy and do some small edits to last year’s posts, and update it with last year’s content.

October has truly been one of the greatest months for Global MapleStory where content updates are concerned. From the biggest update to the game in terms of sheer amount of content pre-Big Bang to the launch of the cash shop, the NXGames (Nexon) takeover and the release of the three MapleSEA-original areas: Singapore, Malaysia and Ulu City (three separate years).

October 2005

Client Version Update: 0.08
Game Update Name: –
Game Update Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2005

• Nexon logo placed in the game
• Opening of the thing that keeps the game alive, the cash shop
• Publishing service taken over by Nexon under the name NXGames
• Critical purple damage numbers

Welcome to Nexon!! Nexon officially reentered the North American market remotely from Korea on October 18, 2005 under the name ‘NXGames’. The cash shop, the feature that keeps the game free-to-play, was also opened on this date.

[EMS 0.76] Lion King’s Castle, Ultimate Explorer, Explorer and CK Updates, Guild Revamp, Master Monsters

Europe MapleStory’s October 2011 v76 update has gone live on October 5, 2011. It is quite the equivalent of GlobalMS’s AfterShock update. This puts EuropeMS safely ahead of ThailandMS in amount of content and further concertizes EuropeMS’s place as the fastest updating service of the game.