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OdinMS Sued, CakeStory Downed. Who’s Next?

Posted by Savage On July - 1 - 2008

MapleStory forums and websites have been buzzing with the news of the OdinMS lawsuit over the past few weeks. Many have decided to shut down, while others have put things on hold. Very few continue to run their servers, which is quite a shock to many. LocalMS, a highly popular MapleStory private server with over 100,000 accounts to date, is one of those servers. One reason why the NEXON Corporation is not taking action towards LocalMS is because they took all their files from OdinMS, which was the developer of almost all the private server software and updates. You could say that NEXON is trying to cut off the head of the snake, hoping that without OdinMS providing updates for other private servers, people will just give up and come crawling back to MapleGlobal and other MapleStory versions. But like many stories and issues, even if you get rid of the head…there can always be someone else who wants to build on what previous people have done.

By suing OdinMS, NEXON isn’t really solving anything. Although they’re trying to make a point, there will always be people who make private servers for games. It can’t be avoided and other games such as World of Warcraft have accepted that. Maybe NEXON should too. It’s hard to say which private server will be next. From what I can speculate, if any other private server comes out as the head honcho amongst the array of private servers unhappy with MapleStory, they may be the next to either shut down, or pay the hefty fee of over $500,000. We’ll just have to wait and see, but this certainly does bring new meaning to the phrase “If you mess with the bull, you get the horns.”

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60 Responses so far
  1. Rawr Said,

    Fuck Nexon. Local will be shut down as of 7/7/08. I’ll miss you all!

    ~Ease

    Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:16 am

  2. N00b Said,

    CakeStory Was Shut Down cuz
    They got fed up of doing the private sever and they where bored thats why its shut down

    Posted on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 am

  3. Anonymous Said,

    ArberMS was also shutdown otherwise it was gonna be sued for 400 Grand.

    Posted on July 5th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

  4. B0WJOB Said,

    well written man, nice read :)

    Posted on July 6th, 2008 at 7:18 am

  5. ccplz Said,

    its…kinda sad, actually. reading everyones goodbyes on the localms forums and on the cakestory website.

    Posted on July 6th, 2008 at 10:44 am

  6. Savage Said,

    Thanks for the wonderful comment Josh, no one really says stuff like that to me.

    And I felt the same way ccplz…it is sad.

    Posted on July 6th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

  7. NEXON can kiss my ass Said,

    I HATE NEXON DIE DIE DIE NEXON CAN KISS MY ASSS

    Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

  8. xfaithx Said,

    “You could say that NEXON is trying to cut off the head of the snake, hoping that without OdinMS providing updates for other private servers, people will just give up and come crawling back to MapleGlobal and other MapleStory versions.”

    Well, Nexon is wrong about one thing.
    We will NEVER come crawling back to GMS. They may think they’re getting back the thousands of players that left to play private servers…but they are WRONG. There are MILLIONS of private servers out there and they can just TRY shutting them all down…and fail horribly.

    Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

  9. Anonymous Said,

    GET USED TO IT NEXON, WOW’S OKAY WITH IT. WHATS YOUR PROB?

    Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

  10. Triock Said,

    There’s no way the private server players will come back to Global MapleStory. They’ll either find another of a hundred private servers around, or they’ll just stop playing MS altogether.

    The last server I was on that got shut down, half the people named off dozens of private servers they were all going to, the other half said “I’ll just take a break, and either join a private server later, or quit for good”.

    So you’re not bringing anyone back, you’re just preventing them from playing, without you getting 100% of any possible money available.

    Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

  11. Gary Said,

    Don’t blame Nexon for shutting down private servers. You should thank them because that’s the company that turned you players into MapleStory addicts.

    Posted on July 9th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

  12. Justin Said,

    heres an email i sent to them:

    fuck you you fucking motherfucker why the hell did u shut down cakestory why the fucking hell do you ass holes have to be so greedy ur such bitches

    Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 10:34 am

  13. Savage Said,

    @ Justin.

    Talk like that isn’t going to get you anywhere. By cursing at them it just makes you seem immature and weak.

    Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am

  14. Justin Said,

    well there such ass holes

    Posted on July 12th, 2008 at 6:50 am

  15. Macha Said,

    What if you sued them back? You’re not making profits so they have NO right to shut down these servers. If you want, you can turn maplestory into a game no one will everplay again. Just to make sure when you do that you block/change your IP so they cant find you.
    MapleStory is just a couple of desprete adults trying to get rid of these private servers so they wont have to worry about being chased out of their dreams. Don’t give up. They have no right.

    Posted on July 12th, 2008 at 9:49 am

  16. mapleboy555 Said,

    @ xfaithx.

    True! I agree. Once Nexon shut down all servers, i will go to Maplesea or find another game. Not if Nexon makes MapleGlobal 500x exp MUAHAHAH

    Posted on July 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

  17. Spada Said,

    If Nexon shuts down all the private servers, im quitting MS and prolly play WoW or GunBound.
    If they think suing them is gonan solve anything? It’s not. Most ppl go there so they can use NX items which they cannot afford. Personally, i have the cash but no means of buying an NX card.
    So Nexon, stop trying to win money of kids and try to make us good ppl.
    But they are making us good debaters ^^

    Posted on July 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am

  18. BOB Said,

    nexon are dumbasses gawd sueing private servers are not gonna help them. They just made them selves the most hated people in the gaming world. GMS= Ghey Maple Story

    Posted on July 16th, 2008 at 9:14 am

  19. Justin Said,

    fuck them there such bitches i made my own server go to http://www.freewebs.com/gamemasterstory

    FUCK YOU NEXON!!!

    Posted on July 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am

  20. Justin Said,

    O ya and also theyre just losing players by doing this, most people will just quit maplestory. And if they think theyre getting players back by doing this…

    WRONG…
    3 quarters of CakeStory Has quit maplestory and went to somthing like rakion or gunbound and also if they think they can take out EVERY private server…

    WRONG AGAIN!
    There are more then 1 Million of them out there! and at this rate (1 at a time) theyle never get them!

    Posted on July 22nd, 2008 at 9:26 am

  21. nexonisgay Said,

    private servers are just fan sites

    Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 10:37 am

  22. Justin Said,

    uhh… no their not

    Posted on July 27th, 2008 at 9:08 am

  23. WTF Said,

    To be honest, I see no reason why people play the original MS at all.

    There’s way too much mindless grinding and repitition to make the game fun.

    It’s a wonder how people manage to get to fucking level 200 in GMS.

    Posted on July 27th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

  24. AfterHourz Said,

    If any of you had developed a game such as MapleStory and made money from people playing and buying NX Cash, you all would probably try to fight back at people making rip offs of your game and therefore cutting off profits…I know I would.

    Posted on July 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  25. Daniel Said,

    dude. play p.s. and i don’t want to lose all my stuff. JUST LEAVE US ALONE NEXON! how come we gotta play regular bull shiity gms? im not very rich so i use p.s. so i can buy nx and look like the ppl i wanna buy who are such rich queefs who blow like 400$ a week on regular ms, which btw is a TOTAL WASTE anyways

    Posted on July 29th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

  26. ITMS Said,

    Quote:__________________________________by: Mucha__
    | What if you sued them back? You’re not making profits so they
    | have NO right to shut down these servers.
    ————————————————————————————-
    That is a good point, but if you look at some of the P.S. such as Sakurams and Dagonms. They give you special stuff if you donate to them, but otherwise ….yeah. This isn’t helping Nexon at all.

    Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

  27. Jay Said,

    nexon are total losers… They are fat drunken asses who cant do shit and if they keep sueing im gonna quit ms. THEY;re really annoying

    Posted on July 31st, 2008 at 6:30 am

  28. AnnoyedPrivateServerer? Said,

    Well GuardianMS has been shut down because of Nexon. Why can’t they just come to some sort of agreement, instead of sueing them. Nexon hasn’t heard of the word compromise (or of the words technical support while i’m at it). Either compromise with the Private Servers, or learn to accept that they will exist, no matter what you do. Nexon, want to know why there will be private servers? Because Maplestory is such a grind. Almost no one wants to spend 3 years to get to level 200. That’s also why there are hackers in GMS. They just don’t know about/don’t play Private Servers. Well in conclusion, Nexon should grow up and learn to compromise, or accept a certain fact they don’t like.

    Posted on July 31st, 2008 at 7:30 am

  29. Duncan Said,

    IF nexon was smart, theyd offer alternate servers with different exp rates where people could take a break from grinding, or test servers where people could try out the game at any level/ job

    There would be absolutely no bugs, and it’d be so perfect no one would want to play private servers

    Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pm

  30. Duncan Said,

    This would fix alot of hacking issues, It’d be a brilliant solution.

    Why play on a private server with half the skills working and tons of bugs / server crashes when you could play on a perfect server with a good community and good exp rates? They should even allow people to start a password protected server that they and their friends can play for like nx cash or something, cause then you wouldn’t have to worry about server hosting or any of that other nonsense. And you could set your own rates.

    WAKE UP NEXON
    There’s so many more solutions to this “problem”

    Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 7:47 pm

  31. mapleboy555 Said,

    Umm… One thing nexon…

    FUCK YOU

    By the way, this is the list of Private server sued

    - GuardianMS
    - CakeStory
    - RefundStory
    - OdinMS
    - LocalMS
    - MapleClassic
    - MapleGeek (Probably)
    - ArberMS
    - ShangrilaMS
    - Old FinalStory (xplicitstory)
    - MaplePopStory

    Anymore sued? Please continue this one.

    Posted on August 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 am

  32. MapleSoldiers Said,

    Wow this was lame i mean they force litle kids in buying there crap there game goes downhill and they sue?i admit id probably do the same but unless they want to sue like 10 of thousens of private servers its pointless and even if they did ppl would jsut make them private and no one exept them an there buddies could play so nomater what do they get somehting nope.

    MapleSoldiers.tk come check us out

    Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

  33. NiL Said,

    - GuardianMS
    - CakeStory
    - RefundStory
    - OdinMS
    - LocalMS
    - MapleClassic
    - MapleGeek
    - ArberMS
    - ShangrilaMS
    - Old FinalStory (xplicitstory)
    - MaplePopStory

    Existing P.Server MapleCrusade

    Posted on August 5th, 2008 at 2:43 am

  34. MapleVeteran Said,

    In my perspective, Nexon sueing Odin will not help their situation at all. The way they’re enraging us private server players will cause us to despise Nexon even more than we already do, I mean that’s true isn’t it? The only reason we left Nexon is because Nexon doesn’t even HAVE a branch in their company for customer support. If they were to connect with us players, we would’ve developed a sense of loyalty for Nexon and never would’ve betrayed Nexon.

    Personally, I completely agree with the original post, and I’ve quit MS myself. I know a few friends starting it again, so I try and prevent them from buying NX. Supporting Nexon is like paying for a prostitute.

    Posted on August 5th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

  35. Pop4life24 Said,

    OK Nexon messed up… who wants to waste countless days playing maplestory, Instead of just wasting a day or not even an hour to get to level 200.And Nexon is a rip off!
    Nexon cash cards are too expensive
    and forcing kids to steal of thier parents.also if nexon didnt like the private server because of the donating and people quit in maplestory just buy the private server!

    Posted on August 8th, 2008 at 10:53 am

  36. mapleboy555 Said,

    ummm if nexon thinks destroying private servers can make global more populated.. theyre wrong.

    Do you think people from brazil and some other countries enjoyed their IP ban on mapleglobal? i dont think so.

    And why did they spread all maplestory versions to many? Thats one cause of Ms leaving too…

    They’re just blaming PSes because of their ignorancy.

    and about Nx cash.. well.. Wizet made their Nx cash low priced because THEY do not let their wanting of money to rule on their company.

    Nexon, well on the other hand, always make NX cash items to make the innocent kids to buy those NX. They let their greediness rule.

    So i want WIZET BACK

    I WANT WIZET
    WIZET RULEZ
    NEXON SUCKS.

    Thank you.

    Posted on August 9th, 2008 at 12:44 am

  37. Nexon Said,

    Hello guys i am a G@y retard company

    Posted on August 9th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

  38. Xylite Said,

    I cant say i disagree with nexon on this, nor that i can agree, i would play the normal ms, because none of you programmers, know how to incorprate new jobs, or raise the max level, or do any of that crap.
    The way i see it, you just wait to try and get gms’s source, and you add crappy stuff to it, and make the exp x500, i owned a pserver once, and i shut it down, because of stupid people begging for stupid crap, and a possible revolt because i only had x5-10 exp. The only thing that i changed in my server, was i added party quests, and i made a job resseter, btw i was the original one to come up with that idea, now that i see that all over the web. any ways, they probably wouldnt have been sued had they not been asking for donations.

    Posted on August 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

  39. NexonRulez Said,

    Go Nexon! They did the right thing, you kids are just mad because you can’t get fast exp and free items.

    Posted on August 11th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  40. WhiteMage Said,

    Okay. If nexon thinks that shutting down private servers will make people go back to global they are far off wrong. They have to deal with the fact that there are private servers out there because who wants to spend like 2 years grinding to get to level 200? I know i don’t.

    Seriously, I think nexon should stop with the nx cash because first of all, its expensive and second of all, it only lasts like 3 months and then what? We find kids wasting 300$ on nx a month or something. In the halloween patch, there was this map where you had to have nx to get in? What a rip off.

    People are going to quit global or simply join another private server. Maple story was fun when it was wizet, but after nexon took over i started to dislike it. Nexon has to deal with the fact that there are private servers or something or just get on with their lives. People are going to keep making private servers so nexon, suck it up.

    Posted on August 11th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

  41. Brother Said,

    lol I miss cakestory :/ ign was Brother

    Posted on August 12th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

  42. Anonymous Said,

    I hope Finalstory is next. It’s one of the worse servers out there. It bans people for nothing!!!

    Posted on August 13th, 2008 at 4:12 am

  43. Mateo Said,

    CakeStory was a retarded server, they quit because “it was getting boring, and we dun feel liek being gm’s anymore” And to the anon above me, you weren’t banned for nothing. There’s always a reason

    Posted on August 14th, 2008 at 12:37 am

  44. _|_(^ - ^)_|_ Said,

    when nexon wins the lawsuit, odinms will be a dead project but that dont mean other emulators would be created in the future based on odinms framework its unstoppable now since the code is public

    Posted on August 15th, 2008 at 2:53 am

  45. Justin Said,

    Since you don’t seem to enjoy reading the rules about advertising and have no common sense, I’ve censored your MapleStory Private Server. Trying to advertise your Private Server here is pretty idiotic considering NEXON probably reads our articles to get information on who to take down next?

    Idiots.

    ~Edited By Savage

    Posted on August 17th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

  46. Justin Said,

    o srry :P

    Posted on August 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

  47. john Said,

    yeh finalstory, when i 1st played it was xplicitstory, that was when laoshi was da owner, after mateo came. he told every1 da server was shutting down T.T, but then couple days after it was just a prank call

    Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 11:18 am

  48. Justin Said,

    o well… my server got shut down also…dont believe me? http://gmstory.net
    its not a very good idea to make a private server

    Posted on August 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 am

  49. ArberMS Said,

    hey remember the ranked #1 ArberMS? it was perfect, great staff, good community, awesome guilds (i lead BlackBandana) and someday nexon sent arber an email threatening him, 1 day later ArberMs was up for its last,
    Tom

    Posted on August 23rd, 2008 at 9:14 pm

  50. Joe Mama Said,

    I hope Finalstory shuts down soon. Right now its the number 1 ps on xtremetop100 but it doesnt deserve that spot as number 1. The server is down like half the time and crashes, rollbacks, lags every single day. And their GM’s are retarded as ever, abusing their GM power. Finalstory better watch out >:P

    Posted on August 26th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

  51. kevin Said,

    i feel so sad so many shut down and i agree with XfaithX that just cuz they r taking about our servers dont mean we r crawing back to thier stupid ones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted on August 28th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

  52. Fucking Nexon Said,

    fuck u nexon good thing my server isnt out yet if it was out imma be dead idk who will be nes but im not fucking going back to nexon!!!!!!!!!!!! u can kiss my ass and ppl who got to level 200 are a nexon freak nobody is going back to ur stupid game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I QUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted on August 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

  53. Nexon is a fucking tard Said,

    nexon you suck i have a server yeah its name is Classified so you wont find out… i got friends who play no one else only friends so try to find my server its not like im looking for donations or anything….

    and btw soon they will probably come out with a combat arms p.s or a mabinogi p.s and you will be in even more trouble no NO-ONE WANNA SPEND ALLOWANCE ON 10$ GAME CARDS AND 25$ GAME CARDS
    IF THE STUFF JUST EXPIRES IN 90 DAYS

    Posted on September 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am

  54. that guy who thinks nexon is *** Said,

    im learning html makin website which my mom and dad bought and are hosting for me, planning to make server called amplemaple anyone want to help me with coding and stuff?

    btw i play gms sometimes just for fun on my 4x page

    Posted on November 22nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm

  55. that guy who thinks nexon is *** Said,

    btw i made error my mom and dad bought url name not website*

    Posted on November 22nd, 2008 at 5:24 pm

  56. i hate real maple and lov priv servs Said,

    hi all maple priv servs lovers i am gonna report to maple that im gonna make a priv server IN SWEDEN IN GOTHENBURG AND THEY ARE GONNA COME HERE AND FUCKING SUE ME TELL THEM THIS AND I AM GONNA SHOOT THE FUCKING HEAD OF THE REAL MAPLE CREATORS THEY CAN GO AND SUCK SOM HORSEDICKS AND STOP SUING ALL THE FUCKING TIME THEY EARN ENOUGH FUCKING MONEY and something else like why the fuck shutdown odinms for ?
    they are so greedy that they are comp nerds that sit there and gets nothing of them they can come here to sweden and ima roundhouse their asses

    Posted on November 24th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

  57. i hate real maple and lov priv servs Said,

    go to wingedms and add HoboStrike ^^ i love priv servs for maple cuz there they give u a chance to get the things like pets nx cash and lvl 100+ but in real maple its impossible without being a nerd or nx wh0re

    Posted on November 24th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

  58. i DONT HATE REAL MAPLE BUT I THINK NEXON ARE @SSHOLES. Said,

    I hate real maple and lov priv servs
    __________________________________________________________

    |hi all maple priv servs lovers i am gonna report to maple that im gonna make a priv server IN SWEDEN IN GOTHENBURG AND THEY ARE GONNA COME HERE AND FUCKING SUE ME TELL THEM THIS AND I AM GONNA SHOOT THE FUCKING HEAD OF THE REAL MAPLE CREATORS THEY CAN GO AND SUCK SOM HORSEDICKS AND STOP SUING ALL THE FUCKING TIME THEY EARN ENOUGH FUCKING MONEY and something else like why the fuck shutdown odinms for ?
    |they are so greedy that they are comp nerds that sit there and gets |nothing of them they can come here to sweden and ima roundhouse |their asses
    __________________________________________________________

    duude.. u just gave us swedes a bad reputation.. FFS learn how to spell! and u cant just think ur goin to “bust a cap in their ass” when/if they come here… btw they dont even need to get here. there are bills u know.
    And srsly.. how old are u “i hate real maple and lov priv servs” srsly… grow up. u think ur soo cool behind ur computer huh?… If u made a game that took u like thousands of hours to make, and it got sucessfull and u think like: “WOHO! SUCCESS!” and u gain money on it and everything is just nice. and boom suddenly theres 1million Privateservers out there which steals like half of ur money, players.. then u probably wouldnt be so happy either.. imagine the serverbills for example. but still.. its not smart by nexon to just “suearound” u should make an own “privateserver” a server that u can join with higher rates but maybe W/O NX or just have normal price for NX they wouldnt lose anything and every1 would be happy again. and GODDAMNIT nexon u gotta go out and talk with ur players… i have NEVER seen a GM in my 2.5years of mapling. we players would feel alot more appreciated if atleast sometime GMs come and just.. talk normally or do sumthing fun or sumthing. instead of WHEN they are showing themself (that happens about 1time every 2nd year) they just like.. summon a rog, press f2 and dissapear…

    Posted on February 9th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

  59. i DONT HATE REAL MAPLE BUT I THINK NEXON ARE @SSHOLES. Said,

    P.S|
    ___|

    Nexon… u cant just sit and hide all the time. as i said. i PROMISE that the players would love if the GMs showed themself, helped the people. like give them advices around quests and items and such. instead of just.. like log in 1 time per week and just be invisible and go around and like: “OH! A HACKER”, “banned” “*gaasp* that was hard.. ima log out now..” look at ALL the successfull privateservers. they all got friendly, helpful GMs. they do fun things like summon bosses in ludi from time to time and just being friendly, helpful.. instead of just walk around with the “hide” skill enabled 24/7 and just ban people..

    Posted on February 9th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

  60. TheVictor Said,

    kisiera saber si este maple funciona lo ke estan jugando x favor hablen me le doy mi msn victor141994@hotmail.com gracias

    Posted on April 6th, 2009 at 6:48 am

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