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MapleStory’s History – Interviews from 15+ Years Ago!

It’s been a while since I’ve done a non-patch related post. If you guys have been reading for many years, you might remember some of my really old posts like the MapleStory character relationship chart and the one about the various MapleStory published books/artbooks (it’s funny to look back at this, I said that I wanted to own them one day and I actually did just get them, 10 years later!). I also got the Aran and Eunwol remaster books so maybe I’ll do a post on those if people are interested.
Anyways, a while ago, I was looking through some really, really old MapleStory news and I found a bunch of official articles/streams/interviews that were archived by a user called mazefind (some of you might remember them as they used to upload a lot of KMS videos on YouTube). These streams included interviews with the development/design teams and they mentioned a lot of little tibdbits I thought would be fun to share.
It’s a bit of a long post but I hope there are some people that might enjoy this kind of ‘behind-the-scenes’ stuff.
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.397 – MapleStory X Demon Slayer!

KMS’ first anime collab (unless you count Frozen which they did back in 2014), MapleStory X Demon Slayer, has been released! The main event is being able to play as Tanjiro, a limited-time job! You can also train with Zenitsu and Inosuke, and of course, tons and tons of cosmetics. I’m gonna end up buying everything because of my FOMO…
The schedule looking forward is the showcase pre-stream on December 5 (probably not much if any news there), MapleCon from December 6-8, and the Winter update NEXT showcase on December 7! Usually they open up KMST soon after the showcase, and the first patch of the Winter update on the official server will be on December 19.
Read more…MapleStory Next, MapleCon & KMST ver. 1.2.180 – Demon Slayer Collaboration

The previously announced Demon Slayer collab has been released in the test server, and it’s slightly different than the version that JMS got. There’s such little non-event content in this patch that I barely had anything to translate for this post 😛
While the actual KMST patch was a bit disappointing (albeit expected), there’s some exciting news!
First off, the showcase for the MapleStory winter update, MapleStory Next, will take place on December 7! In addition, the MapleCon will take place that same weekend, over 3 days. This is a legit convention at a hall with multiple booths, prizes, and merchandise which looks very very cool!
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.396 – Azmoth Canyon & MapleStory X Dave the Diver!

The third fall update, featuring the new roguelike content that provides mesos, Azmoth Canyon, as well as the Dave the Diver collaboration has been released! The Dave the Diver event is really extensive and actually very fun! Might even have to pick up the real game after this.
Next month will be the Demon Slayer collaboration, which was already released in JMS, and it should be mostly the same here. But I’m hoping they have some actual content to go along with it.
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.395- Tomb of the Gods, Tallahart & Skill Balancing!
The second Fall update has been released to the official servers. This patch contains the level 290 area Tallahart, as well as very drastic skill balancing (with some additional changes from the test server) and various QoL improvements!
Next month, we’re going to get Asmos Canyon, which we don’t know much about. In the Milestone showcase, they said it would be a new type of system that rewards enhancement items equivalent to mesos or something like that, which is pretty vague.
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