The Rebirth of Maple World! (big bang)

That would be stupid. Completely utterly stupid. Maplestory's revamp would be overshadowed by WoW's revamp. Besides that, you're gonna see the new Xbox Dashboard update, LittleBigPlanet2, Gran Turismo 5, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and probably more in November. Big Bang is supposed to make it easier for casuals to integrate into the Maple world, but if it releases in November, all those casuals will have their attention on new products. Don't forget FF XIV releases at the end of this month too.

Do you guys SERIOUSLY believe Nexon would release Big Bang after October? No chance. It would be a wasted investment. Its best chance is to release Big Bang ASAP.

Nexon isn't trying to compete with CoD using Maplestory; that's comparing apples to oranges. Every other Nexon games are market laggards: Counter Strike and Sudden Attack both lose out to XBox giants like CoD and Halo; other 3D MMORPG just don't have the market share. Maplestory is Nexon's biggest franchise and its only real market-leading product. I already mentioned Final Fantasy XIV and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm as possible threats, but only because those two have international recognition and hoopla enough to make people jump into another dimension (literally).

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Maplestory is also not a very social place; hardcore gamers go to console FPS and 3D, top-of-the-line MMORPGs. It's not as people-oriented as SNS like Facebook or Mixi or Pixir nor as mobile phone sites like GREE and Mobage. It's in a precarious place between actual gaming and social networking. 'ts very successful at it, but people will always find some place they fit in better

Average Bang.

Small Bang
Bang Bang
She Bangs

Will it be ready? Three weeks after the patch goes up, yes. Emergency patches? Lots. Will this be tolerable? If they have backups, yes.

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