Dev Blog: One Giant Leap

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Hello again Maplers!

One of the things we love about the MapleStory community is how passionate you are about the game. We know that many of you follow news about other versions of the game and talk about what youd like to see in Global MapleStory, and we think thats awesome. Lately the discussion has centered on the Ascension title floating around the MapleStory website and forums, with many of you guessing that the Ascension update will bring the content that was released in Korean MapleStorys Jump! Youre right, but theres a lot more to the story of Ascension including why its not quite Jump!

What is Ascension?

First, lets go over the basics. The Ascension update will include everything that was released as Jump! in Korean MapleStory, including a total skill revamp for all Warrior, Magician, and Bowman classes, the introduction of Monster Park (a multi-level party play zone), three new party quests, and revamps for six existing party quests. There are also some technical improvements including the addition of an event calendar to the UI.

While this content was released over the course of three updates in Korea, weve chosen to release it in one. This was due in part to our decision earlier this year to focus on having fewer but meatier updates. Additionally, the full Jump! content contained a lot of improvements that we wanted to implement immediately. Naturally, putting them all together in one update has taken a little extra time, but we felt the wait would be worth it.

Whats Different?

Remember when I said that Ascension wasnt Jump!? As your dev team, it is our responsibility to not just take what comes out of Korea and drop it in Global MapleStory. We evaluate the content to figure out both what works well with our version of MapleStory and what pleases our players. In doing so, we made some significant changes to the Jump! content:

Party Play: Korean MapleStory chose to remove all Party Play bonuses other than Monster Park. We knew that many of you were disappointed by this news, so we listened to our community and retained the bonuses in Ascension.

Weddings: Ascension will introduce a new, simpler wedding system. The update will give you more options for weddings and make the required quest both faster and easier to complete. We are also debuting 30-day and 100-day renewal ceremonies for couples that are already happily married!

Events: Weve added some cool events just for Global MapleStory. Details are coming soon, and I think youll really like them!

Im Ready to Ascend Now!

Were really excited about Ascension so much so that we had originally planned for it to be ready by now. While preparing the update over the past few months, however, it became clear that our servers need some significant upgrades. While weve continuously made small changes and improvements while working on updates, what we really need now are some major changes requiring a dedicated effort from the MapleStory team.

With this goal in mind, weve decided to first complete what were calling a server update. This is a pure backend update that wont include any player-facing content. We knew that it would be frustrating for players to have to deal with a downtime and an update only to log back in to the game and find that nothing had changed, so I wanted to let you know that it was coming. While you wont see any changes after the server update, it should greatly improve the game in the long run.

Dont worry though, Maplers. We still plan to deliver Ascension to you before the end of the month, and we promise itll be worth the wait!

Until next time Maplers,

Eurydice

The MapleStory Team

Ugh.
A jump pun.

also a 'ha ha FU' from Nexon to everyone who insisted all three at once couldn't be done / didn't make sense / whatever.

Party Play: Korean MapleStory chose to remove all Party Play bonuses other than Monster Park. We knew that many of you were disappointed by this news, so we listened to our community and retained the bonuses in Ascension.


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This is not the nexon I know. They made a good decision. AM I IN NARNIA?

Nice but...why do I get the feeling that they'll retain the Party Play bonus, but nerf the monsters anyway?

Anyway, nice font.

Probably. Whatever, leveling to 200 is already the biggest joke ever compared to even 2 years ago, why not make it even easier, no big loss at this point.

Nice but...why do I get the feeling that they'll retain the Party Play bonus, but nerf the monsters anyway?

Anyway, nice font.

i feel like that last comment is tantamount to saying "i'm not being a plantain" before being a plantain.

Well, at least this will stop the tons of threads about rumors.


Jeeze... GMS just got the final patch of Chaos in August and already is getting Jump in September. Nexon America sure knows how to rush content.

Funny how Big Bang and Chaos had polls for whether they should change the name or not, and those were kept the same. Yet for Jump, they had no poll and changed the name to Ascension.

I actually quite like these. They make the Nexon team seem like actual humans.

Those events better be "cool".

There goes the high levels at monster park..

Dont worry though, Maplers. We still plan to deliver Ascension to you before the end of the month, and we promise itll be worth the wait!

....What??

AND Nexon actually doing ALL this?? SOMETHING'S AMISS!

yay for no annoying monster park training for 150+

Ugh.
A jump pun.

also a 'ha ha FU' from Nexon to everyone who insisted all three at once couldn't be done / didn't make sense / whatever.

xP I got a giggle out of it~

And =o all at once, eh? Coolio, I can plan accordingly then~

I'm a bit sad that we're keeping party play though =S I'm very much a solo trainer, and I wanted to try the weaker version of LHC eventually ><

But I'll get over it, eventually I'll find my way into a party to train there correctly.

Oh hey an update that might make me play again, oh wait no pirate updates...dammit...
Back to Monster Hunter I go

Party Play: Korean MapleStory chose to remove all Party Play bonuses other than Monster Park. We knew that many of you were disappointed by this news, so we listened to our community and retained the bonuses in Ascension.


.....

This is not the nexon I know. They made a good decision. AM I IN NARNIA?


Probably. Whatever, leveling to 200 is already the biggest joke ever compared to even 2 years ago, why not make it even easier, no big loss at this point.

I approve of this, even though I haven't trained at all since Chaos.

"we planned on getting Ascension out already, but out korean team hasn't replied back yet."

Party Play: Korean MapleStory chose to remove all Party Play bonuses other than Monster Park. We knew that many of you were disappointed by this news, so we listened to our community and retained the bonuses in Ascension.

Thank you based devs. F'uck Monster Park.

This patch is going to go disastrously wrong.

Why are all of you happy for party play staying..that's a stupid idea and it ruins the point of even putting monster park in.

Why are all of you happy for party play staying..that's a stupid idea and it ruins the point of even putting monster park in.

Monster Park sucks anyway.