Posted May 15, 2006 at 04:12PM by Rushan S. Listed in: News, Wi-Fi, Maple Story
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Here's an interesting bit of news that has gone largely unnoticed. Maple Story, a free 2D MMORPG by Wizet and published by Nexon, will be hitting the Nintendo DS. It looks like Nexon is actually collaborating with Nintendo on the project. If there is any MMORPG that could work with the DS, other than Pokemon, it's this.


For now, whether or not the game will be released outside of Korea is unknown. However, this announcement was at E3 so who knows? I might actually go back to playing it if it's on the DS... I quit after Wizet backstabbed its fans by deleting their beta characters after repeatedly denying it would happen. Still, it's a good game for beginners to the MMORPG genre. The learning curve is not very great at all and it's completely free to play. It's not a flash game, you'll have to download the file at their official website.


Thanks to Trunks for the lead.


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   by nintendowned (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » ?

anyone ever played this game?

   by Rushan S. (QJ. NET Staff) - 2006-05-15
 » Re: ?

I did. That's me in the screenshot. Forgot to mention, that's from the PC beta-build of the game.

   by Bearmon (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » cool

Aww...pretty! When is it going to be available ?! :)

   by Vager (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » website

You can play the pc version at:
http://www.mapleglobal.com/

I played it till lvl 14 then got bored. But still, it really is a great mmo.

   by dingdong (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » blank

haha vager is noob lv.14 and got bored :O

   by ok (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » What a waste

This MMO is a heavy grinder with an awful community...

   by bob (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » dont think it is possible

play this game currently a lvl 40 archer on official and i used to play beta also. i dont think this game will be exactly as the maple on pc probably a lesser version with online multiplayer for DS players only because the pc version is already very crowded and the ds would just explode trying to play it.i would buy it thought just to see if it is fun

   by grat (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » Awesome!

i think this will be a huge break out for Nexon and the DS. Knowing that many people love this MMO they would like to have it in their hands considering that people dont carry around laptops or even have laptops. i dont have a laptop and it would be very convenient to play at a friends house when they dont have the game.

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   by dreary79 (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » YES!!!!

I love this game and I love the DS. This game has no PVP and it gets old over time, but all games get old for me. This is very exciting. =)

   by Vager (Unregistered) - 2006-05-15
 » MMORTS plz!

I would rather have Shattered Galaxy as a Nexon port for the DS due to the fact that the DS should be king of the RTS genre, MMORTS anyone?


"haha vager is noob lv.14 and got bored :O"

It takes very little to bore me, like the guy said above "heavy grinder".

   by Lucky7Bandit (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » lalala...

haha kool btw i play official used to play beta..now lvl 77 chief bandit!! WOO for wizet!

   by o.o (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » o.o

I love MS but the people kind of suck and there a lot of hackers. >__

   by chibichibisan (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » ssuupp

yo firestorm u where godlier than mildsoss, he was jsut a human bot you where a real player

   by Jesus (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » Meh.

Looks cool.

Mild was legit, and so was Ninja. They grinded a lot, so they leveled fast. My only personal memory of Mild of when he was around level 90, and I sold him my 60% claw scroll. He said for me to wait in Perion, and he went from 97% to 100% in just 30 minutes. That's probably legit.

   by That man over there (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » Wonder how they'll pull it off?

The community has it's bad people, majority probably, but it also has it's nice people. You have to make sure to talk to a lot of people. Connect with others. That's the point of any MMORPG, and in this game it's very easy to just talk for hours on end.

And if you're going to make a character, there's too many assassins, clerics and dragon knights. Their items will be super expensive so beware.

   by iCeyWoLF (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » Awsome ^^

I swear.. I will seriously

   by Teh iCeyWoLF (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » Go for it! ^_^

Omg.. my message got cut off.. I lagged. =)

Cont.....
"I swear.. I will seriously" buy a DS + the Maple Story game.. whatever if it really comes out.

Most likely I'll joyfully beat Wizet to death

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   by MS player (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » There is many Maplestory players

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapleStory

Look there for info..it just say that there is over 50 million MapleStory players :D


   by Bearmon (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » hmm

Really ? PC VERSION ? It is endless ? Or it is going to have the end story ?

   by Eddie (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » Dope

yeah ive played this game...Im a level 62 Assassin and Loving it. I sure would pick up a DS and Buy this game.

   by hksmrchan (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » im a maple player

i play maple:P im lv 50 on global, i would so buy this and i wish u can transfer your chars, but i hope clerics are use in single player or use if ther isnt any wifi

   by Spenny (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » Yesh!

Excited for this. Oh and Vager, level 14 is next to no grind. Don't say that you quit at level 14 because of horrible grind because the grind only starts getting worse at around level 28+

   by greekice (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » Buying for sure

i play this game too im a lvl 37 ice wizard and its really fun. And the bad community thing isnt all that true, the only rude people that play are 10 year olds.

   by Vager (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » ...

Grinding is when you kill monsters over and over again to lvl. most or all mmorpgs has it, so I get bored if its killing the same monster over and over again for an hour or so.

You might think there is no grinding but it just depends on how you enjoy the game.

   by Mike (Unregistered) - 2006-05-16
 » Level Grinding; On the Go!

nocomment

   by Rushan S. (QJ. NET Staff) - 2006-05-16
 » RE: #13 and #14

Cool, someone recognizes me =P Mild and Space (Ninja) were both legit. They were friends of mine and I still talk to Space often and Mild every once in a while. Neither of them botted. They were just very efficient and dedicated a lot of their time to the game.

Maple Story is boring along, but fun when you have a bunch of friends playing with you.

   by Admiral_N[D0A] (Unregistered) - 2006-05-17
 » oh meye gawd

How is Wizet and Nintendo gana pull this one off? I play the MMO as a lvl46 fighter, and belive me, the "10 year olds are the bad ones" are completly TRUE. Don't that that stop you from playing ;) They are only kids.

Anyway, you'd think game play would be SOO much different on the DS. And I highly doubt that you could connect the DS version to the online version. This is deffently somthing we'll all have to be listening to about! :)

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   by chainedwind (Unregistered) - 2006-05-17
 » "grinding"

Lol.... I guess I don't get bored because I have an obsessive personality and don't get to play often.... I've got a level 41 ice/light.

   by kakiller (Unregistered) - 2006-05-17
 » MS on DS

i play the pc verson, lvl 43 f/p mage, 40 sin, 21 swordsman (aka - packmule) and i think its a great game, this makes me want a DS :-O

   by Mike (Unregistered) - 2006-05-17
 » Updates?

DS has no hard-drive built in, so how do you think MS is going to be able to add updates for the DS MS? No updates?? On an MMO? DS MS is not happening.


   Re: benjy (Unregistered) - 2006-10-23
 » reply....

Ninty does have WiFi and as they have just anounced this it will probably be released when ninty releases there next console....


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