Reminder: MapleStory Direct Launch Ends March 23

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news//21093/

Please remember that on Thursday, March 23, we will be discontinuing the ability to direct launch the MapleStory client by double-clicking the GameLauncher.exe file within your MapleStory game folder.

We are fully focusing on Nexon Launcher as the means to download and update most of our games going forward. Nexon Launcher is a unified central location for accessing all of Nexon's games. It automatically keeps your game client up-to-date by updating in the background, even if you're playing MapleStory or another Nexon game.

The majority of our players are already using Nexon Launcher, and by discontinuing the older systems including direct launch, we will be able to focus our attention on making improvements to Nexon Launcher and providing a smoother patch experience for all of our upcoming updates.


You can download Nexon Launcher by clicking the button below:



Once you log in to Nexon Launcher, you will receive a prompt asking you to import your existing MapleStory installation into your Nexon Launcher game library. For a step-by-step guide to the import process, click here.

As an added incentive, we will be giving out rewards! If you logged in to MapleStory using direct launch any time between 12:00 AM PST on January 1, 2016 and 12:00 AM PST on February 13, 2017, you can receive the following rewards if you log in to MapleStory using Nexon Launcher between 12:00 AM PST on February 13, 2017 and 12:00 AM PDT on April 7, 2017:

• Safety Charm (x5): 30-day duration.
  
• AP Reset Scroll: 30-day duration.
  
• SP Reset Scroll: 30-day duration.
  
• 10,000 Reward Points: 30-day duration.
  
• Power Elixir (x300)
  
• All-Cure Potion (x100)
  
• Extra Character Slot Coupon: 3-day duration.
  
• Golden Apple (x5): 1-day duration.
  
• 1 hour 2x Drop Coupon (x3): 7-day duration.
  
• 1 hour 2x EXP Coupon (x3): 7-day duration.
  
• Gorilla Robo Pet: 30-day duration.
  

The rewards will be given out in each week's scheduled maintenance. You will be able to claim your rewards after the maintenance by clicking the gift box icon on the left side of the screen before 12:00 AM PDT on April 30, 2017.

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Time to watch the buggy mess explode in Nexon's face.

To ask why? Something that needs to be sent to the developers for working in the field at the branch offices that are half a day behind the developer's time zone. Either that or branch management needs to think more on the region they are operating in compared to the home base. But alas, this day and age has the bull of immigration law and reality not really working together.

Hence why we have the tomfoolery that said screw the crafting of flames and kept the nebulites. Or a myriad of other reasons which are looking much like a trashed skeletal horse at this point.

You know how we're always saying Nexon staff don't play the game and that's why we have so many bugs and misfeatures?
Well, their QA testers definitely don't use Nexon Launcher.
If they did, they'd have known the last patch made it not work for anybody, and we wouldn't have needed the March 2 unscheduled maintenance.

So yeah, they're forcing us to use something they don't use internally. Always makes you trust a restaurant when you know the chef doesn't eat their own cooking, right?
They also haven't fixed any of the lacking features people complained about in their forums thread about the direct launch removal.
It's just "this is how we at Nexon want things to be, deal with it."

And [MENTION=1743]Bahamut X[/MENTION], it's not going to explode in Nexon's face. It's going to explode in our faces. They don't seem to care in the least if many of their (few remaining) users can't play the game. Launching has been problematic for months, requiring perfect timing in skipping the video, choosing a region, and selecting a character, or the game crashes. The last couple of patches introduced C++ Runtime Library errors, and customer support has no help for that (their help page for it says to download C++ Runtime Redistributable 2013, when in fact their latest patch requires 2015. And for some people it's not the C++ runtime that's the problem at all, but DirectX or something else).

I bet when they see the number of concurrent users drop after the 23rd, they'll just pat themselves on the back and say, "See, the multi-clienting meso-bots were thwarted!"

And I bet that when the hackers figure out a workaround (if they haven't already), Nexon will not let legits have GameLauncher back. So, as usual, hackers will be only temporarily inconvenienced, but legits will be forever frustrated.

thanks nex, for the notice, i guess.

the end of my time in maple. farewell

though not too sad since game is hardly playable now. even logging in for hot day gift is very laggy and slow