Maple Story is one of most successful MMOGs in Korea. Its popularity is not limited to Korea. Recent presentation article(written in Korean language) by the studio boss of developer(Widget of Nexon) shows that the game would be the first Korean game that has truthful world-wide player base. Following facts are from the article.
In Korea
- The game launched in year 2003
- The number of accumulated subscribers(as of Feb. 2006) amounts to 14M.1
- The number of concurrent users is 200K.
- The total revenue during 3 service years is 200B Won(1,000 Won = 1 USD).2
- The total revenue from licensing during 3 servicing years is 110B Won.3
World-wide service situation
(the number of subscribers is as of Feb. 2006)
- China since Dec. 2004, 18M subscribers
- Japan since Nov. 2003, 9M subscribers
- Taiwan since Jul. 2005, 3.5M subscribers4
- Thailand since Oct. 2005, 550K subscribers
- Singapore/Malaysia since Oct. 2005, 550K subscribers5
- Gobal(US) since Oct. 2005, 1.5M subscribers
Sample world-wide revenue profile
- Monthly world-wide revenue of Feb. 2004 was 2.1B Won.
- Monthly world-wide revenue of Feb. 2005 was 5.0B Won.
- Monthly world-wide revenue of Feb. 2006 was 16B Won.
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Good data! As I noted on my blog, it would be awesome for someone to put the numbers together on the Asian MMO market from both a size a dollars perspective!
http://playnoevil.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/395-Great-Metrics-on-Maple-Story-Very-Popular-Korean-Asian-MMO.html
this is one of the best games that i have ever played
Best addictind game i’ve played SO FAR.
other than dota and WW.
next would be Pangya - Golf game.
Worst MMORPQ would be Water Margin online.
totally waste of time with poor support site and dont know what im playing for.
that game has no soul.
Maple Story Rulez!!!!!!!
Hi,
I have played Maple Story in Thailand Version for 1 month.It is my dream comes true. However, I have many new friends too.
I would like to know about player’s age in this game.Please, do you have information?
regards,
Mohabbatein
Now, Maple Story is internationally popular game!
At least in Korea, general population of the game is dense at children in their elementary school years. One of enduring fun-factors in the game is the reputation competition among these younger players.
Hi,
It is my second time report from Thailand. Maple Story just had 1st year
anniversary on Novvember, 19th 2006.
I am surprised that the registration queue for Maple Birthdy very very long. And, I read from Thailand Maple Story BBS that this took long time from morning till 19.00 pm. It is proved How popular it is.
However, I am Magician at level 29 and today I will up level to 30 to be
Cleric. Thanks Maple Story. I love this game.
I have question Who is programmer
to develop this game. It should have
a book about the history of Maple Story.
I would like to study how this game
developed as What where why when and How.
Regards,
mohabbatein
At first, let me show you my personal short knowledge on the game.
Maple Story started it service at Apr. 29th of Y2003. It was developed by very small company named, Widget that is now integrated into Nexon. The mastermind behind the game has very unique taste about online game. Before he started his own company, Widget, he developed one of early popular casual game in Korea, Quiz Quiz. It is just plain Quiz show, but users was very happy to play the same old one by Internet. When Maple Story launched, many analyst looked down on it for its anachronism. Few did read the potential that friendly 2D graphic-based game environment has such a great charming to gaming population.
Actually, there are little to say about the inner and behind story about the game, because Korean gaming developing society is not familiar with such a record on its own history.
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. I plan to write more about Maple Story in this
BBS. However, I would like to share my study to more places.
If you have other topics about this game please tell me .Where?
or if you have other website to
guide me please tell me, too.
Regards,
Mohabbatein
I recently read somewhere (but now forget where) that Maple Story had reported 50M subscribers globally - these numbers come up just over 30M (still HUGE!). Is that 50M accumulated subscribers (who may not be active), or just a bogus ‘marketing number’? Any idea? Thanks
It’s not marketing number definitely. As you well know, it is free-to-enter game. So, subscription number do not mean high revenue directly.
Still, the number itself is huge, and the revenue from micro-payment business model is still more surprising than the number.
Hi,
I think the huge number is possible because it is free online game. In my opinion, the game quality is superb.
However, the revenue come from the refill card in thailand named A-CASH. I enjoy to use this card sometime with the option to where
many of masks as bear, duck ,etc.
It helps to make more surprising in this game when nobody will have exactly same outfits.
In Thailand, all options will expire in 30 days after that you have to buy A-CARD to recover the previous again. It is o.k.
This is really a very good game. I have an 81 Axe Sader in Global. I’m in my mid 30s yet I find this game very addicting. I’ve been playing video games since my elementary school days and I think Maple Story ranks among the best.
I want to play KMS, too, and I have a level 45 fighter. I just play it in an Internet Cafe but I want to play it at home, too. But after downloading the game client and installing it, I get an error message. What should I do?
Actually, the game started with Wizet company, which was a project off Nexon. They then merged a few months ago…
Great game though
@ VoltesV
Well, I got that error message too and I tried everything until I realized that the only way is to recover my computer through System Recovery or Destruction Recovery if System Recovery does not work. After I tried it, I’m happy to say it works.
If you tried recovery if you have one on your computer and it did not work, then it might be your outdated motherboard.
Hello plz help me with maplestory i have problems like gamegaurd error 340, plz help me.
P.S Im lvl 33 fire wiz, and i have been playing now for 1 month a 3 days, also i got married 4 days ago.
Hello plz help me with maplestory i have problems like gamegaurd error 340, plz help me.
Im lvl 33 fire wiz, and i have been playing now for 1 month a 3 days, also i got married 4 days ago.
srry i wrote two but plz help me.
i would say this game is one of the best next to Rakion
but i would give this a 10/10 if you would score it
the fantasy put into the game makes it feel so “YOU”
i would recomend this game to anyone with a taste of
fantasy.
I need tips on how to level
I need tips on how to level AND I LOVE MAPLESTORY, I THINK ITS REWENING MY LIFE THHOUGH CAUSE OF ADDICTION
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