MapleStory News

[Updated 12:01 PM PDT August 25] The maintenance has been completed, thank you for your patience and enjoy the v.225 Goo Island Getaway! We have extended Cash Shop items for 7 hours. Please make sure to restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client.

[Updated 10:56 AM PDT] We have increased the planned maintenance time by 1 hour. The maintenance will now last until 12:00 PM PDT. Thank you for your patience.

We will be performing a scheduled game update on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 5:00 AM PDT (8:00 AM EDT / 2:00 PM CEST / 10:00 PM AEST). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 6 hours, concluding around 11:00 AM PDT (2:00 PM EDT / 8:00 PM CEST / 4:00 AM AEST August 26). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Wednesday, August 25, 2021
PDT (UTC -7): 5:00 AM - 11:00 AM
EDT (UTC -4): 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
CEST (UTC +2): 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM 
AEST (UTC +10): 10:00 PM - 4:00 AM (August 26)

• What will be unavailable:
  • All MapleStory game servers.
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • Server Upkeep.
  • MapleStory being updated to v.225.1.
    
  • Patch notes for v.225 Goo Island Getaway are now available. 

 

Hi Maplers,

Thank you for your patience and we apologize for the delay in updating our Communication Improvement plans. While it may have seemed as if no changes were being done, our internal teams were bustling to come up with ideas and discuss ways to improve our communication with you!

In our April 6 Maple Memo, we mentioned that we will brainstorm better ways to comment and explain changes that players need to be aware of, other than the Maple Memo posts, to improve our communication with you. Considering how Maple Memos often introduce notable game changes from our Producers, there was difficulty in posting as frequently as we’d like since they require information about upcoming plans and a thorough review on the accuracy of the details. We deemed there was a need for other ways to provide updates, especially with community-focused information. To better communicate with you in addition to the Maple Memo, we would like to introduce you to the Pink Bean Bulletin!

Pink Bean Bulletin will be a new communication webpost that will mainly focus on covering community-focused topics such as ban wave concerns, inconvenient bugs, or relevant event feedback. An exciting part of this post is that we hope to hand over the pen from time to time to other Nexon employees that you may not be as familiar with. The author of this post will not be limited to our Production team but can also include Nexon employees from other teams that are fit to explain the issue and/or concern. Thus, it may be more casually written than our usual news posts but that’s how we’d like it! We have different teams collaboratively working together for MapleStory and you might get a glimpse of more of us through the Pink Bean Bulletin.

Now that we’ve introduced this new webpost with you, we’ll be sharing relevant community topics through Pink Bean Bulletins as they are needed. Until then, enjoy our upcoming v.225 Goo Island Getaway update coming soon this Wednesday, August 25th!

P.S. Special thanks to our dear friend Pink Bean, who graciously gave us permission to use its bulletin...

Thank you,
Ghiblee, Anna and the MapleStory Production Team

EU Region

• PDT (UTC -7): Friday, August 20, 2021 11:00 AM - Friday, August 20, 2021 11:30 AM
• CEST (UTC +2): Friday, August 20, 2021 8:00 PM - Friday, August 20, 2021 8:30 PM
• AEST (UTC +10): Saturday, August 21, 2021 4:00 AM - Saturday, August 21, 2021 4:30 AM

NA Region

• PDT (UTC -7): Friday, August 20, 2021 4:00 PM - Friday, August 20, 2021 4:30 PM
• CEST (UTC +2): Saturday, August 21, 2021 1:00 AM - Saturday, August 21, 2021 1:30 AM
• AEST (UTC +10): Saturday, August 21, 2021 9:00 AM - Saturday, August 21, 2021 9:30 AM

Event Details:

• Alert, Maplers! Monsters are invading Henesys and we are asking your help to defeat them all!
  
• Worlds: All NA and EU worlds at their respective time slots.
  
• Location: Channel 14 in Henesys.
  
• Note: There is a small chance of character death during this event, particularly for lower-level characters, so please avoid the noted channel if you do not wish to participate during the noted times. Additionally, players may automatically be removed from the maps once maximum capacity is reached.

EU Region

• PDT (UTC -7): Friday, August 20, 2021 11:00 AM
• CEST (UTC +2): Friday, August 20, 2021 8:00 PM
• AEST (UTC +10): Saturday, August 21, 2021 4:00 AM

NA Region

• PDT (UTC -7): Friday, August 20, 2021 4:00 PM
  
• CEST (UTC +2): Saturday, August 21, 2021 1:00 AM
  
• AEST (UTC +10): Saturday, August 21, 2021 9:00 AM

Event Details:

• Our MapleStory GMs will be holding a brief meet-and-greet to interact with our players. Come hang out and receive buffs while you mingle with our GMs!
  
• Worlds: All NA and EU worlds at their respective time slots.
  
• Location: Channel 14 in Henesys.
  

Join Community Manager Ezrabell as he provides a sneak peek into MapleStory's v.225 update, Goo Island Getaway! Join us on any of the platforms listed below this Friday, August 20th at 1:30 PM PT (4:30 PM ET).

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 limited edition Keychains! Make sure you don't miss out on the fun~ See you Friday!

MapleStory Community Livestream will be available on the following platforms:

• Twitch
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Twitter
• Steam

 

[Updated 4:45 PM PDT August 19] The maintenance has been completed! We have extended Cash Shop items for 2 hours. Please make sure to restart your Nexon Launcher or Steam to make sure that you get the latest client.

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance on Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 3:00 PM PDT (6:00 PM EDT / 12:00 AM CEST August 20 / 8:00 AM AEST August 20). We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 2 hours, concluding around 5:00 PM PDT (8:00 PM EDT / 2:00 AM CEST August 20 / 10:00 AM AEST August 20). Thanks for your patience!

Times:

Thursday, August 19, 2021
PDT (UTC -7): 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
EDT (UTC -4): 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
CEST (UTC +2): 12:00 AM (August 20) - 2:00 AM (August 20)
AEST (UTC +10): 8:00 AM (August 20) - 10:00 AM (August 20)

• What will be unavailable:
  • All MapleStory game servers
• Changes and Updates (Additional Changes TBA):
  • Server Upkeep.
  • Fixed an issue with upcoming Cash Shop sale.