Notice Regarding Limitations on Certain Item Functionalities in New Areas
Attention Maplers,
We’d like to share with you regarding our plans to limit certain items’ functionality usage in future Lv. 300 and above areas. In new Lv. 300 and above areas, a limitation will be placed on using item functionalities that affect the overall game balance. This change was decided after thorough and careful consideration, so that the current gameplay of players who own these items would not be largely affected while still taking into account the health of the future game environment and new player experiences. There currently are no plans ready to share regarding the implementation date of Lv. 300 and above areas. However, we wanted to give our players advanced notice so that you’ll have enough time to take note of these future changes before they take effect. We hope you understand.
The following items will be affected by this change in the new Lv. 300 and above areas:
<*> Breath of Divinity <*> Lucid’s Earring <*> Reaper's Pendant <*> The Ring of Torment <*> Firestarter Ring <*> Battle-Roid (M)/(F) <*> Frenzy Totem <*> Wild Totem
You may be curious about how Kanna’s ‘Kishin Shoukan’ skill will behave in the new Lv. 300 and above area, as the skill provides similar features to some of the items listed above. Our teams have been reviewing the ‘Kishin Shoukan’ skill in detail and since this skill has a unique effect on the overall balance of the game, we plan on reducing its effectiveness next year. We will share the finalized, detailed plans with you as soon as we have them available.
We plan to execute the following changes to avoid any potential confusion going forward:
Add a notice regarding the item usage limitation on the description tooltip of the items listed above during our v.230 patch update maintenance.
New areas implemented with Lv. 300 and above condition will retain the item usage limitation even if their level condition gets adjusted to below Lv. 300 sometime in the future.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support of MapleStory.
- The MapleStory Team
[Completed] Scheduled Minor Patch - December 22, 2021
[Updated January 11 at 10:08 AM PST] The maintenance has been completed! We have extended Cash Shop items for 4 hours. Please make sure to restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client.
[Updated January 5 at 8:18 PM PST] The scheduled maintenance on January 6 will be postponed and tentatively rescheduled to January 11. We would like to take some extra care and time to ensure that the additional period of Magical Miracle Time is without any issues before we release the event. We apologize for this additional delay, as we know that those who were affected by the issues on December 25 and December 26 are eager to "make-up" their missed Magical Miracle Time. We really appreciate your patience and understanding while we prepare for the event.
We will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Tuesday January 11, 2022 at 7:00 AM PST (10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CET / 2:00 AM AEDT Jan. 12). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 3 hours, concluding around 10:00 AM PST (1:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM CET / 5:00 AM AEDT Jan. 12). Thanks for your patience!
Times:
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 PST (UTC -8): 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST (UTC -5): 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM CET (UTC +1): 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM AEDT (UTC +11): 2:00 AM (Jan. 12) - 5:00 AM (Jan. 12)
All-CM Holiday Livestream Event
Happy Holidays Maplers! Bring some hot cocoa and join all of the Nexon Community Managers as they come together to celebrate the holidays! Join us on the Konosuba Twitch channel on Monday, December 20th at 1:00 PM PST (4:00 PM EST). The Community Managers will be creating different holiday crafts and there will be giveaways for all participating games!
[Updated December 25 at 3:26 AM PST] As mentioned on our Magical Miracle Time Issue in Reboot World post, we discovered that the Magical Miracle Time event's time slots that coincide with that of non-Reboot worlds (December 25 at 8:30 AM UTC & December 25 at 10:00 PM UTC & December 26 at 3:00 AM UTC) do not work as they should for players that registered for those days in NA and EU Reboot worlds. Thus, the remaining available Magical Miracle Time event will be for those that registered for December 26th during the following time slots in Reboot worlds:
v.229 - On Air: An Absolute Unit Patch Notes
Receive a mysterious invitation to Ramuramu and meet the Guardian Angel Slime! Challenge this new boss to obtain the Guardian Angel Ring, a new part of the Boss Accessory set! New daily quests are being added to the regions of Morass and Esfera to earn additional Arcane Symbols. Maple LIVE continues with additional events such as Sky Sovereign and Puzzle Master! To help you level even further, pop all of the summoned Maple Gifts during Gift Show! ...Show! ...Show! for a map-wide attack and additional EXP! Are you ready to keep leveling? Tera Burning Plus Part 2 arrives to help you level another character to Lv. 200. It’s time to bring out your inner holiday spirit and decorate ornaments with Maplemas Merrymaking entering Maple World!
Read the On Air: An Absolute Unit Patch Notes here!
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[Completed] Scheduled Game Update - December 15, 2021
[Updated December 15 at 12:03 PM PST]The maintenance has been completed and we have extended Cash Shop items for 6 hours. Please restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client! Thank you.
We will be performing a scheduled game update onWednesday, December 15, 2021 at 6:00 AM PST (9:00 AM EST / 3:00 PM CET / 1:00 AM AEDT Dec. 16). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 6 hours, concluding around 1:00 PM PST (3:00 PM EST / 9:00 PM CET / 7:00 AM AEDT Dec. 16). Thanks for your patience!
Times:
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 PST (UTC -8): 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST (UTC -5): 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM CET (UTC +1): 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM AEDT (UTC +11): 1:00 AM (Dec. 16) - 7:00 AM (Dec. 16)
Community Livestream - v.229 On Air: An Absolute Unit Preview
Join Community Manager Ezrabell as they provide a sneak peek into MapleStory's v.229 update, On Air: An Absolute Unit! Join us on any of the platforms listed below this Friday, December 10th at 2:00 PM PST (5:00 PM EST).
The Community Manager will be providing an overview of new content, features, and events that this update will be adding! There will also be giveaways throughout the stream so join us for an opportunity to win some exclusive Lara Stickers and Wall Scrolls! Make sure you don't miss out on the fun~ See you Friday!
MapleStory Community Livestream will be available on the following platforms:
v.229 - On Air: An Absolute Unit Update Preview
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[Completed] Scheduled Minor Patch - December 9, 2021
[Updated 10:32 AM PST December 9] The maintenance has been completed! We have extended Cash Shop items for 5 hours. Please make sure to restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client.
[Updated December 9 at 10:08 AM PST] We will be extending the maintenance for about 30 minutes to verify the final checks before opening the servers. Thank you for your patience.
We will be performing a scheduled minor patch maintenance on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 6:00 AM PST (9:00 AM EST / 3:00 PM CET / 1:00 AM AEDT Dec. 10). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 4 hours, concluding around 10:00 AM PST (1:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM CET / 5:00 AM AEDT Dec. 10). Thanks for your patience!
Times:
Thursday, December 9, 2021 PST (UTC -8): 6:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST (UTC -5): 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM CET (UTC +1): 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM AEDT (UTC +11): 1:00 AM (Dec. 10) - 5:00 AM (Dec. 10)
Maple Memo: A Team Member Returns
Hi Maplers,
For those that don’t know who I am, my name is Dennis, one of the Producers here at Nexon.
For those that do recognize my name, it may have come as a surprise to see me a couple of weeks ago at MapleStory Fest and see this memo coming from me today. It’s been a little over two years since I stepped away from working on MapleStory to produce other projects, but as some of you can guess, I’m honored to announce that I have rejoined the MapleStory team.
Working on other projects at Nexon was immensely fun and rewarding, but it would be insincere of me to say I didn’t miss working on MapleStory and helping the entire team deliver this game to all of you. Much of the knowledge and experience that I used to help those other projects succeed was developed in the five or so years I had worked on MapleStory. So I’m excited to jump back in it with all of you. However, I know my experiences are probably not what you want to hear about, so perhaps I can elaborate about them another time.
Let’s talk briefly about MapleStory.
First of all, as I mentioned above, we have had a fantastic team working on MapleStory, and one of the largest parts of my responsibilities now is to allow them to do the best work that they can. The past two years have brought amazing growth to MapleStory and I only hope to help this team continue that growth with our future updates and plans.
Of course, I understand that there are many ongoing topics and issues that you would like more communication about, and as you can see from our recent Pink Bean Bulletin about recent bans, we have even more ways now to speak to these concerns. Also, as I’ve mentioned in past memos and you’ve no doubt heard from other Producers as well, it can become difficult for us to strike a balance between working on addressing the issues and feedback you all have behind the scenes and communicating with you all about that work. Please continue to bear with us as we keep working on that balance.
We also want to thank you for your patience with our teams these past few days as we investigated and resolved the ongoing stability issues with NA Reboot channels. Although it seems like the channels are relatively stable for now, our teams are still looking into the root cause of these issues to determine a long-term solution. We are currently testing some of these fixes and hope to apply them soon in an upcoming maintenance.
Aside from the above, I don’t have much to discuss in depth this time, so I’ll keep this memo brief.
However, I do want to mention that we’ve heard some of you have been excited to see things like a 64-bit client and Yeti x Pink Bean World released in other services. While we can’t 100% confirm these things will be coming to Global MapleStory, we have been actively discussing the possibility of releasing them in a future update. Please stay tuned for more information from our teams about this and many other topics in the future.
Lastly, I just want to personally say thank you to each and every one of you for continuing to support MapleStory with the passion and dedication that you all have. As I mentioned in my last memo, MapleStory is an important game for Nexon and for all of us who work on it, so we ask that you continue to help us to grow and improve this game with you.
Thank you,
Dennis ‘SavageAce’ Bernardo Senior Producer – MapleStory
