2016-08-24, 06:21 PM
Pythagoras Wrote:It sounds to me that Nexon wanted to synchronize the 5th job update for every servers, which is quite a good news to us!
They consolidated their overseas development team, and it is now no longer separated between the JMS/CMS/TMS/GMS & MSEA/EMS dev teams. Since EMS is being merged, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have one dev team for just one overseas version of the game and have another team for all the other overseas versions. Whatever the big four will get, MSEA will get it around the same time as well (at least, by the end of the year), keeping their commitment made earlier this year in the first ACCELERATE patch to having faster updates.
(This also explains why Heroes of Maple is coming out late Summer (when it should've just been the Summer update), why the Zakum revamp came out so quickly (relative to MSEA's old update schedule), why they got the big four exclusive Detectives event lately, and why they're getting the Cygnus v. Resistance watergun fight in a couple weeks)
If I had to guess the reason for this, it would have be because Asiasoft pushed for faster updates during contract/license negotiations (or Nexon pushed for better support for the game from Asiasoft). Also notice how they changed their logo from MapleStory Episode (or Season) [insert number] to MapleStory SEA (mimicking the EMS logo which always has Europe in it; which is probably the result from the contract renegotiation) whereas Asiasoft used to be a bit loose between saying MapleSEA/MapleStory/MapleSEA Season (or Episode) X.