Nexon Wrote:

[Complete] The maintenance is complete as of 11:45 AM Pacific. Cash items in your inventory have been extended to cover the amount of time the game was unavailable.

[Update 2] The maintenance has been extended by another 30 minutes. The expected end time is 12:00 PM Pacific (3:00 PM Eastern).

[Update] The maintenance has been extended by 30 minutes. The expected end time is 11:30 AM Pacific (2:30 PM Eastern).

We will be performing a scheduled game update beginning on August 27, 2014. It will last approximately 6 hours.

Thanks for your patience!

Time: Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Pacific: 5 AM - 11 AM
Eastern: 8 AM - 2 PM


What will be unavailable:

• All MapleStory game servers.
  
• Website login and the billing system will be unavailable from 5 AM - 10 AM Pacific.
  

Changes and Updates:

• MapleStory will be updated to v153.
  
• Equipment that received a Potential rank downgrade from the Bounty Hunter event's Master Craftsman's Cubes will be reverted to its rank from before the downgrade.
  
• Characters on which the downgrade bug occurred will be given back the cubes they used on the downgraded equipment after the downgrade.
  
• Characters on which the downgrade bug occurred will receive the following item through the gift box notifier as a special present: Epic Potential Scroll 100\%, Unique Potential Scroll 80\% (x2), Red Cube (x5).
  

Installer:
The v.153 full client installer is available for download. If you experience issues while using the regular downloader, please click to download the four files listed below. You must save these files to the same folder. Then simply run the MapleStorySetupV153.exe file to install MapleStory normally.

• MSSetupv153.exe
  
• MSSetupv153.z01
  
• MSSetupv153.z02
  
• MSSetupv153.z03
  

If you encounter any problems, please let us know in our Technical Support forums.

Manual Patcher:
The v.153 manual patcher is available for players who currently have v.152 installed.

1. Download the manual patch by clicking this link: ManualPatcherv153.exe
   
2. Double-click on the patcher.
   
3. Select the folder where the game is installed. For most players, this folder is C:NexonMapleStory
   

If you see this message: "maplestory.exe not found," MapleStory must be located in a different folder. Please select the correct folder.

Thorr Wrote:It's a game update because they are pushing the version to 153. The amount of content is irrelevant. If they were going from 152.2 to 152.3, they would call it a minor patch.

Nexon's terminology has been very precise for a good few years now.

Zerard Wrote:From what the patch itself did, it sure seems like a minor patch. But to each their own

Green4Ever Wrote:Is it just me or does the game take way longer to boot up with this new security bull shit?

Marksman Bryan Wrote:It feels like every time I kill a monster I lag now.

CakesXD Wrote:Yahoo, Bounty Hunter exploit.

Stay away from Special Potential Scrolls/Bonus Potential Scrolls/Golden Hammers/Master Craftsman Cubes that look like Meister Cubes (and some other stuff that I may have forgotten to mention) with durations on them.

hadriel Wrote:Seriously...? Again? While I don't know how it works, I think things like these should have been corrected from lessons in the past. tsk tsk.

Hadriel

Justin Wrote:Oh just NexonNA coding at its finest. It distributes the item to the player before checking all 3 slot types. If the check fails it doesn't complete the quest, despite already giving the item. What kind of coders do they hire to do this crap? This is like the 5th time this EXACT same kind of exploit has happened.

CakesXD Wrote:They don't have the resources to hire decent coders after they fill a solid gold swimming pool up with $100 bills.