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[GMS]Scheduled Server Maintenance, 7/6/11!

A server check that we have needed for a while..

Hello Maplers!

We will be performing routine maintenance on MapleStory on July 6, 2011. During this period, all game servers will be unavailable. The game maintenance will last approximately nine hours. Name changes and world transfers will NOT be processed during this maintenance.


Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

-Time-

Pacific: 10:00 PM Wednesday, July 6, 2011 – 7:00 AM Thursday, July 7, 2011
Eastern: 1:00 AM – 10:00 AM Thursday, July 7, 2011
 

-What-

The following will be unavailable:
All MapleStory Game Servers

-Cash Shop Update-
- Hyper Teleport Rock in 1-day and 7-day versions
- Aura Pendant
- Permanent Pet Equips back on sale!
- Carrot, Baby Bottle, Pink Polka Dot Bow, Blue Polka Dot Bow


-Changes-
- HackShield update
- 6th Anniversary items that were originally tradeable are no longer trade blocked.

-Fixes-
- Distribution of two-person Mount Coupons to affected players.
- Big Headward accepts Royal Hair Coupons.
- Visitors maps are no longer accessible.

– The Maple Team –

Impulsively,

Impulse

[NexonIsOnline]All Nexon Games and Webpages offline and Poptag is closing!

The update has been finished for a few hours now, and most of the updates may seem well and put together, but when you go to use them they begin to not work. Many functions you try to do result in a

500 Internal Server Error


nginx/0.8.54

Now, one of the main reasons for this update must be to make the Nexon America Webpages much easier for casual gamers, but even after 15 or more hours of maintenance there still seems to be issues with this update that could get in the way of many players.

I hope they release a little announcement on this, just not more downtime..

It is 5:54 pm est and the Nexon portal and Games seem to be online,  The Earning Free NX Section still seems to be on its way to be fixed, but it may just be a little error. Everything seems quite nice. The new portal does look better than the previous one. yey.

The Maple Story Facebook page has been recently updated it is 4:25 pm EST :

Sorry, folks, the website maintenance and update has run into a few snags. At this time we do not have an estimated time when this process will be completed. We will let you know once we do. Thank you!

The update was given 3 minutes ago. It seems this is going on and on.

 

 

 

Another update, which I can only find on the Dungeon Fighter Online Facebook page, at 4:07 PM EST:

The game and website maintenance is taking longer than we expected. We will inform you guys when we have a clear ETA.

 

:C, this makes many sad.

 

We have gotten this update from the Face Book page:

The game and website maintenance has been extended. New eta: 1PM Pacific.

It seems we will have to wait some more, :C!

 

There will be a big maintenance that will have all Nexon.net games, forums, etc offline for 12 hours. Here are the full details:

Dear Players:

Nexon will be performing a maintenance to implement the new portal on Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 10 PM Pacific for approximately twelve hours. During this time, the following will be unavailable:

* All game servers
* All game, website and forum login
* All Nexon websites
* Nexon account registration
* All billing functions (including charging and spending NX and redeeming Nexon Game Cards)

Please note that all games will come down and all game Start buttons will become disabled and will display the following message once the maintenance has started:

“We’re implementing our new portal! Check the websites for updates.

Once the maintenance has been completed, you will be able to access all of these functions as usual.

-Time-

Pacific: 10:00 PM Thursday, June 23, 2011 – 10:00 AM Friday, June 24, 2011
Eastern: 1:00 AM – 1:00 AM Friday, June 24, 2011

Thank you for your patience.

The Nexon Team

Yeah, They always seem to mess up the Eastern time, but we know. There was a scheduled maintenance last night, but there were some complication so that was not able to be posted, my apologies.

Some prolonged news that we have been unable to post for you guys due to some other complications: Poptag will be closing on July 14th. Open beta for Poptag began on 1/26/10 and now 1 year 5 months and 14 days later they will be officially closing North American service of Poptag. Here is the official announcement from the Poptag webpage:

 

Greetings players,

It is with a heavy heart that the PopTag! team must announce that we will be closing the service effective Thursday, July 14, 2011. This was a difficult decision based on multiple factors including the ability to deliver new content regularly due to the limited resources we had available for the game. Based on these criteria, we felt that we could no longer deliver a satisfactory experience to our players.

Nexon America is truly grateful to our wonderful community of PopTag! players. Thank you all for your support.

There are many more Nexon games to check out, and we sincerely hope you all continue to be part of our family.

Please note that the PopTag! service will continue until July 14 with the following changes:

· Effective immediately NX items will no longer be available. However, the following NX game items will be available for in-game Lucci.

· Any PopTag! items purchased for NX currently in the possession of PopTag! players will be refunded. More details will be available on July 14.

Please keep an eye on the official PopTag! site for any further developments.

Once again, we thank the PopTag! community for supporting the game. It’s been a valuable experience for us as we work to bring even more exciting online games to life in the future.

Sincerely,

The PopTag! team

It seems that yet another one bites the dust..

Chaos is on the way! We will be having a variety of things going on for MNNs 4th Anniversary!

MNN Tip of the Week:If you want something done, do it yourself. Don’t rely on others, most of the time, they will let you down.

Impulsively,

Impulse

[GMS]Exploited Glitch causes Unscheduled Server Maintenance, 6/16/11!

Update:

[Update]

Attention Maplers,

The maintenance will end at 7:30 PM Pacific (10:30 PM Eastern). During this time, we will address the following:

-Fixes-
* Hoblin King PQ Flaw
* Disconnection Issue
* Trade Block Issue

-Compensation-
* Cash Shop items purchased before the maintenance will be extended by 24 hours.
* 2x Event will run this Friday and Saturday.
* Store permit and hired merchant compensation is being planned to address the frequent Free Market disconnections.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience.

We are currently investigating 4596 accounts in regard to the Hoblin King PQ flaw. We will take action after our investigation is complete.

-The MapleStory team-

Thanks to Hime. It is quite interesting how they released the number of accounts they will be investigating. What will they do?

 

The cause of this unscheduled maintenance seems to be a glitch/exploit. A user by the name of lhackNexon on http://w8baby.com released instructions on how to exploit a glitch in the Hob PQ earlier today. The glitch allows you to gain massive amounts of exp in about 20 seconds.The thread has gotten 8,152 views since it has been posted on the popular hacking forums.

No news on what Nexon will do trying to fix it, no news on when the game servers will be back online.

Here is a video of the exploit, provided by one of our newest Staff Members, Shikage!

 

 

Hmm, a not so unexpected unscheduled server maintenance:

Dear Players,

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance on MapleStory on June 16th, 2011 to address some serious issues. During this period, all game servers will be unavailable. Updates in regard to the duration of the maintenance will be provided when they are available.

Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

-What-

The following will be unavailable:
All MapleStory Game Servers

Let’s see how long it takes them to give us a time table.

Will this lead to yet another compensation 2x exp and drop ?

 

Impulsively,

Impulse

 

Source(s).

http://w8baby.com

http://maplestory.nexon.net

And So It Begins…..Chaos!

Chaos is almost to GMS!

 

MapleStory Chaos
Chaos
The Big Bang came and we endured the brief return of the Black Mage. Then the Resistance came, heroes fought back and victories were won. We believed we were on the path to victory and declared a time of Jubilation!
But the party’s over. Chaos is coming!
Click on the timeline above for details!

Does that quench your thirst? No, than here are some videos by Nexon.

 

 

Treasure of the Crystal Chests!

 

Ah, summer. A time for packing the cooler and heading out with friends to… hunt monsters? Kick the season off right in Maple World with the Summer Crystal Chest Event!

Between June 15th and June 28th, 2011, monsters all over Maple World will be dropping Crystal Chests, more informally known as coolers! Double-click on the chest to open it and enjoy a refreshing reward!

Crystal Chests can hold:

* Summer-themed consumables – ice pops, sundaes and fruit to help you recover HP and MP!
* Summer-themed temporary face accessories – with stats!
* Surfboard weapons
* A coupon for a powerful, temporary Flower Tube weapon
* A coupon for a 7-day Orange Mushroom mount
* An Icy Guitar Pick – collect 100 and trade them to NPC Mrs. Bo for a one-day Pendant of the Spirit

Kick off your quest by visiting NPC Cassandra, and start soaking up summer!

Sounds quite interesting!

 

 

This weeks maintenance:

Hello Maplers!

We will be performing routine maintenance on MapleStory on June 15th, 2011. During this period, all game servers will be unavailable. The game maintenance will last approximately five hours. Name changes and world transfers will be processed during this maintenance.


Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

-Time-

Pacific: 10:00 PM – 3:00 AM Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Eastern: 1:00 AM – 6:00 AM Thursday, June 16, 2011

-What-

The following will be unavailable:
All MapleStory Game Servers

-Fixes-
- The disconnect issue in the Free Market and other maps has been resolved.

– The issue of being sent to Orbis after accepting a raid envelope invite from certain locations has been fixed.
– Once the Cake v. Pie donations reach 95%, only one alert will be generated at the bottom of the screen.

-Cash Shop Update-
– NEW ITEMS: Chaos Specialist Package and Chaos Expert Package
– Ruby EXP Coupon (1.5x) is back on sale
– Drop rate has been increased in Gachapon for Timeless and Reverse items until June 22nd
– Meso sack sale has been extended until June 22nd


– The Maple Team –

There are some interesting additions. I guess they are really pushing for another increase in players for the Chaos Patch!

Impulsively,

Impulse

 

ArikuMS Second v.90+ Private Server!

ArikuMS has been a v.83 Maple Story Private Server, and has had banners saying “v95 testing on weekends only!” for quite some time. They have finality opened their doors as a v.95 Maple Story Private Server. On, June 11, 2011, ArikuMS had wipes and began Beta Testing of their v.95 server. ArikuMS is currently rank 43 on http://gtop100.com/maplestory. Usually, many servers like this would be a “troll” or “joke”, but not ArikuMS. ArikuMS seems to be very legit and is the real deal.

ArikuMS may seem like the first v.90+ Private Server, but they are not. ApexMS, which was shutdown back in January by Nexon(http://maple-news.com/2011/01/22/apexms-shutdown/), was the first Public v.90+ GMS Server. ApexMS was closed within a month of being unveiled to the public, and When contacting the owner of the now defunct ApexMS (The first v90+ server), RaptorJesus said “They’re only 6 months behind me and Simon, but more power to them for developing the server and defying Nexon.” ArikuMS is the second GMS server to have Big Bang up and running. There are several MapleSEA Private Servers with Big Bang, but GMS is much more attracting to most of the Private Server Community.

It was been about two days since the unveiling of ArikuMS v.95 Beta Testing, and for now it doesn’t seem like any action is being taken. We will monitor the server and bring you an update as soon as we get one.

 

Impulsively,

Impulse

 

 

 

Source(s).

http://maple-news.com/2011/01/22/apexms-shutdown/

http://arikums.net

RaptorJesus, Owner of ApexMS.

 

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