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Mapler Appreciation Events
As a continuation of the 2x and 3x EXP events last week as a “thank you” to the MapleGlobal community for sticking with Nexon throughout the turbulence of the last few months, Nexon has rolled out another week of EXP events, giveaways, and Cash Shop sales. Needless to say, we’re impressed that Nexon is following through on their promises and legitimately trying to engage the community with some pretty cool (and useful) events. Let’s hope Nexon will continue these weekly events in good times and bad, because it’s brought a Mapler like myself (who has been playing since MapleGlobal beta was released in 2004) back to the game and friends from long ago are starting to take notice through the MapleStory Facebook and Twitter pages. Finally using Social Media the right way. We approve.
Check out some of the events you can look forward to until April 11 below.
Dear Maplers,
April is here, and so are eight days of 2x EXP and DROP events that will help you level up those characters! Couple that with the Mapler Appreciation EXP Booster Event and thefree 2x EXP Cards, and your head will be spinning from the sweet EXP Read the rest of this entry
The End of Spadow's Blog?
As many of you guys know (or should know, at least), Spadow is a Blogger that writes about KMS/T information and other stuff on his blog. He has been a great help to us when it comes to reporting new information to our site as well. Today, Spadow posted a new entry on his blog, titled “The adventure has come to an end…” Here’s what it read, word-for-word:
This was a really hard decision for me. I have decided to pull the plug on my blog.
Most of you readers will probably be disappointed in me because of this, but I have to do what is best for me.Lately, my life is interfering with this lovely hobby, which is blogging.
My mission of Spadow’s Blog was to give everyone rich news about the latest content in the Korean version of MapleStory.
In the beginning my entries were sloppy and not that great, but I have grown in time and become better in it.
It’s quality over quantity what I was aiming for.
For me, creating an informational post with translated info, images & videos from my own and other sources is not easy.
Most of the posts required a lot of hours. Though, it was hard but my blog proved to be a success.A lot of events have occurred in my personal life, so I really need a break from blogging.
Blogging on the internet is really a passion that I love to do. Did you know that I didn’t like it at first?
I, really am thankful to all my (loyal) readers who visited my blog over the past 2 years and 10 months.
All your comments have been read by me and I’m sorry I could not answer on all your comments.These days, I don’t spend a lot of time in MapleStory, but I will definitely keep playing, though not much as I used to.
I intend to keep going with uploading videos on my YouTube account and I stay semi-active on Twitter.Today is a really sad day for me because I put a lot of effort in this blog and now I suddenly have to leave you.
Visitor, it was an honour knowing you. Again thank you very much for sticking with me till the end.
Goodbye.Maybe… just maybe I will come back…
Bang!
We at Maple-News would like to say that we will miss you Spadow. Live long and prosperous. *nerd face and Spock hand*
Source: Clicky!
Breaking News!Rats in Maple Story Private Server Dev!
Breaking News: Rats in Maple Story Private Server Dev!
Hey Guys, ICY here! It’s been forever hasn’t it? 
In recent news on MS PS Dev, we have seen many big server be shut down after a long time, such as NidoMS, RydahMS, and many more. The lawsuits, and all the DMCAs. Among all of this there seems to be a “rat” in between this mess. It seems that someone, or people have been relaying information to NxNA. No one, can be sure who the “rat”, or if their or more than one may be, but he or she may be responsible for all the recent rapid shutdowns. I have received much information on people having a grudge against others in the MS PS Dev world, and from there giving some server information to Nexon. It may not just be because of a grudge, but something else, but we cannot be certain. The “rat” has been hopping from server to server getting into the staff, and relaying information to Nexon which can lead to the shutdown of the server. There have been many issues in MS PS Dev before, and from all of these events we can conclude that in the MS PS Dev world 1. One cannot trust another, and 2. there will always be someone that turns on you!
These words may seem harsh, but they seem to be very much true.
Recently on RageZone there has been a thread that has been stating that many of the well known Server Owners them selves could be “rats”, but we can never be sure.
What are your thoughts on all of this? The recent river of closing, about Nexon, about the “rats” that could be in this? Let us know below in the Comments.
Till Next Time Guys, I wish you all a Happy Valentines Day!(Feb 14 for you guys ;] )
-ICY
-RWJ Outro Music-
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Google, Ragezone.com
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FarmerStory and NidoMS have both Closed Their Doors!!
NidoMS, another one of the top Maple Story servers to close this week. Just to clear all the speculation, NidoMS was not DMCA’ed, but the owner, Flav, had a talk with Lloyd Korn, and they came to the aggreeement to drop the project. NidoMS was the only v90 server, and at a time was Neck to Neck with Nexon NA.
This is what was left on the NidoMS webpage:
Dear visitor,
We always said that if once NEXON requests us to shutdown NidoMS we will do so because it’s not worth fighting for something that we know is wrong. Flav talked to Lloyd Korn who works for NEXON and decided it’s the best drop this project, though it’s really not easy for us. NidoMS is done for good and there won’t be another server based on our source as we deleted all copies of the client and the server source, so please do not bother us regarding this.I guess there’s not much more to say, if there is we will update this page again, so make sure to check back whenever you have time. We just want to thank all of you for the great time we had together and we really hope that we can keep in touch with all our loyal players.
We will most likely not put the forums online again but if you want to talk to each other again to share your email addresses you can do so in our IRC channel.Rest in Peace, NidoMS!
At least we reached our goal and made it to #1 on the toplists in less than a year and reached more than 1,000 users playing at the same time!
Regards,
NidoMS Administration
FarmerStory has been reported Shut Down by Nexon. They were one of the most popular Maple Story Server out there, and have lasted for a while. They are now closed.
This was left on the website of Farmer Story.
Hello to all reading this. This is the announcement regarding FarmerStory that I don’t to announce, but in the end I have decided my future over your temporary enjoyment (because, in the end, you’ll quit again).
I have worked in MapleStory servers for about two and a half years, with a broken segment after SydneyMS was gone. I was proud to bring on the legacy of the standardised chickens in conjunction with high meso rates and Max Stat Items in SydneyMS (Max Stat Items thanks to Gwen who got to 32767 all stats first…which gave me the idea), a completely random and broken down PokemonMS which actually taught me a few coding tips to lead on to FarmerStory, where I continued the occupation legacy.
But now it’s time to face the truth. FarmerStory, when I came back from exams, camp and work experience, was already dying. The economy was urgh’d and the respected players of the community seemed to have lost that. Most of my good friends from the old days now have a life to attend to and since I’m starting Year 11 (or, in American, 11th grade), my life isn’t going to be as simple anymore.
So, yes, FarmerStory will be shutting down, but not because of the sole purpose of letting you guys down for my life enjoyment (although that should be a good enough reason…) but also because of Nexon. They have been on the rampage since the end/beginning of last/this year. They claim to have taken action against Rydah, which explains the quick shutdown notice, Destiny’s shutdown and Krypto, a major fighter pro MapleStory Emulation. The term I reached with him to avoid a lawsuit was thus;
‘Do not sell, release or distribute the website or its source and/or source code to another person or entity and do not make any plans to start another Nexon-related private server site……you will put a message on your site that after talking to Nexon…copyright infringement is wrong and unlawful and that you also strongly suggest that everyone that has a private server site shut down for their own good.’
So indeed the website has shutdown, no I should not start another private server, not WILLINGLY GIVE OUT IT’S SOURCE –cough Nathan stop trying to steal it- and that I should shutdown FarmerStory (which I had to anyway so I guess it was an interest, but not the best). As for copyright infringement, I’ll just leave that there because it was part of the agreement. I guess it’s also my job to inform you…DELETE DA CLIENT OR YOUR PRIVATE SERVER NOW. I highly doubt most of you will follow, though, but I guess I tried my hardest.Now I consider myself lucky that I have the chance to post up this long farewell message for you to know as much as you can whereas others left you essentially with nothing. You should consider yourself lucky that I bothered.
Back to the point, I am not going to leave FarmerStory without a proper farewell, which incorporates both this message and many events on my Sunday and Monday (which includes free occupation changing, really high exp rates and chocoloads of Magic Scales…) The website had to be shut down but he never mentioned the server, so I’m going to abuse it a little and say the final moment of FarmerStory will be on Tuesday, 11 January at 12AM (AEST), or Monday 10 January at 6am (PST), just before Korn has to get back to work.
The forums will be up for the next two months. Additionally, I’m planning to make my own 2D mini-RPG game for those who are interested…details if I actually get some of it working on the forums. Come back and visit now and again before the end of February so you know what’s up.
So now I guess it’s time for credits for building the MapleStory spoon-fed dream! This may be a long list so bear with me for a moment:
There it is, now Officially two of the best Maple Story servers have been closed down only days before the release of the Final Big Bang Update. NidoMS, and FarmerStory have both been around for a while, and both were successful. I am sure many people will miss them. We just hope this can kind of set a perspective for many people, about Private Server, because it’s never going to be anything permanent. As you can see, NidoMS, and FarmerStory administrations, both agrees that it is wrong to run a Private Server, and have stepped down, when finally asked to do so. It isn’t something to “rage” at Nexon over. They are a company, and a large corporation that is trying to do what it is supposed to do, and that is make money, and provide millions of players around the world many good games to play. Maple Story has changed a lot in the past year, and it will keep changing a lot more, I am sure anyone who got to level 200 on NidoMS, can surely get close to it on the Global Servers. Especially GMS, it is much easier than we anticipated.
We all here at Maple-News.com, hope you all had great holidays, and Thank You for being our viewers.
Impulsively,
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* Thank You. Flav. for kindly trying to notify me on the closing.
