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MapleStory (Korean: 메이플스토리) is a free-to-play, 2D, side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game, developed by South Korean company Wizet. Several versions of the game are available for specific countries or regions, published by various companies (such as Nexon ).
The first known instance of a loot-box system is an item called "gachapon ticket", introduced in June 2004 in the Japanese version of MapleStory. The tickets were sold at the price of ¥100 each. Like real-life gachapon machines, players attained random game items when they used the ticket on "Gachapon", in-game machines distributed across the ...
In gacha games, players pay virtual currency (bought with real money or acquired in-game) to acquire random game characters or pieces of equipment of varying rarity and usefulness. This is a variant of the loot box mechanic where players spend currency to acquire an entire set of random game items.
Nexon Co., Ltd. (formerly Korean: 주식회사 넥슨) is a South Korean video game developer and publisher.It develops and publishes titles including MapleStory, Crazyracing Kartrider, Sudden Attack, Dungeon & Fighter, and Blue Archive.
The gacha game model arose in the early 2010s, faring particularly well in Japan. [21] [22] Gacha can be free to play. Rare or valuable gaming items often need to be obtained through special gacha purchased with real money. [24] The games may feature different tiers of gacha pulls, which give different sets of rewards.
MapleStory would go on to become a major player in the new market for free-to-play MMORPGs (generating huge numbers of registered accounts across its many versions), if it did not introduce the market by itself. In October 2003, Lineage II (NCsoft's sequel to Lineage) became the latest MMORPG to achieve huge success across Asia. It received the ...
MapleStory Adventures was a free-to-play, 2D, side-scrolling social network game developed by the South Korean company Nexon for Facebook and launched in July 2011. MapleStory Adventures was a simplified version of MapleStory ' s basic gameplay and included creating an avatar, fighting monsters and completing quests.
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