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Maple Story
MapleStory
Developer(s) Wizet
Publisher(s) Nexon
Shanda
AsiaSoft
Gamania
Release date April 29, 2003 (SK)

December 3, 2003 (JP)
December 5, 2004 (CH)
May 11, 2005 (NA) & (GL)
June 23, 2005 (SG) & (MY)
July 4, 2005 (TW)
August 16, 2005 (TH)
April 12, 2007 (EU)
November 1, 2007 (HK) & (MU)

Genre MMORPG
Mode(s) Multiplayer
Age rating(s) ESRB: E10+
Platform(s) PC

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Credits | Soundtrack | Codes | Walkthrough


Maple Story is a FREE 2D side-scrolling Massively multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG. Created by Wizet and distributed by Nexon among several other distributors, Maple Story offers many elements found in other MMORPG games, inclding an immense level of customization through character creation, equipments, and one-of-a-kind items bought through the Cash Shop found inside the game. At over 50 million subscribers in all of its versions, Maple Story is quickly becoming a highly popular game possibly rivaling other high end MMORPG games.

Maple Story in itself is about traveling through the various lands of the "Maple World," slaying monsters and developing your characters, as in many typical Role-playing games. Players have many options to interact with each other such a chatting, trading, partying, and playing various mini-games. Players also have the option of banning together and forming guilds and "buddies."


Gameplay

World

In Maple Story, there are multiple servers called worlds that distribute the gaming population. Players may create up to three characters per world, but are unable to move characters to different worlds, unless you have bought an item from the in-game Cash Shop to do so. In each server, there can be up to 20 sub-servers in which shows the relative density of the population and in which the player can join in any of the open sub-servers.


Characters

Players begin as a Beginner class character on the tutorial island of Maple Island. This is where players can get familiar with the controls and mechanisms found within the game. Upon reaching a certain level, players have the option of leaving Maple Island to the primary maps of Victoria Island where they can choose to advance their skills in various jobs including Thief, Warrior, Magician, Bowman, and Pirate. At later points, player have the option of advancing their respective classes to even more powerful characters gaining new abilities in the process. or just be a hero

Quests

There are many quests offered by the many non-playable characters, or NPCs, throughout the maple world. Many of these quests differ in difficulty and requirements, but many offer satisfying rewards that make these quests worthwhile to perform and complete. Quests become available as your character levels up and can be viewed through the quests options menu.


Economy

The currency in Maple Story comes in the form of gold coins or stacks of dollar bills called "Mesos." These can be used in buying new equipment at shops, used in trading new equipment and items between players, and can even be use as weapons by certain classes. Although the Mesos economy will vary from server to server, it is typical that high end equipment and low stock items will be very expensive, making newly created worlds a difficult place to buy and a good place to sell early in the server's lifespan.

Mini-Games

There are several mini-games that can be played in Maple Story. Such mini-games include:

  • Omok
  • Match Cards
  • Gachapon
  • Other various mini-games


Special Events

There are many special events that occur in the Maple World, including weddings and holiday related events what offer special items or an enhancement for characters. There are almost always something going on so you should always check to see what events are occurring and what evens are being planned.


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