Abu Dhabi-based Nexpace, the blockchain arm of South-Korean gaming giant Nexon, has officially launched MapleStory N, a PC MMORPG that blends the nostalgia of the 22-year-old MapleStory franchise with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and a custom Avalanche subnet. The game went live worldwide on 15 May 2025, capping an 18-month campaign to expand the IP into a player-owned, on-chain universe.
From pixels to protocols
Founded in 2023 and capitalised with US $100 million from Nexon in early 2024, Nexpace was created to “build a community-driven ecosystem” where players shape, trade and even mint in-game assets. Its flagship project, MapleStory Universe (MSU), is envisioned as a “virtual-worlds ecosystem” of games and dApps that all tap into the same Layer-1 network—code-named Henesys—spun up with Avalanche’s AvaCloud service.
An 18-month sprint of milestones
Mar 2024 – Strategic partnership signed with Avalanche.
Jun 2024 – The Genesis pre-launch campaign opens to the public.
Jul & Nov 2024 – Two “Pioneer Tests” stress-test servers and tokenomics.
Apr 2025 – Mainnet Henesys goes live; technical white-paper released.
15 May 2025 – MapleStory N launches globally in blockchain-friendly regions.
During the Genesis phase alone, MSU logged 31.5 million on-chain actions, drew 506,000 unique wallets, and kept roughly 48–54 percent of testers coming back week after week—numbers that Nexpace says rival many live Web2 titles. Average play time clocked in at 26.9 hours per account over three weeks.
How the economy works
Instead of an infinite “cash shop,” MapleStory N caps each item’s supply and lets market forces set prices. All drops are time-released at fixed intervals; once the batch is claimed, players must wait for the next wave—or trade on the NFT marketplace. Enhancement fees also float: if everyone upgrades the same weapon, the cost rises; if demand falls, prices slide, creating what Nexpace calls a Dynamic Pricing loop.
The ecosystem’s fuel is $NXPC , unveiled in August 2024. Beyond buying gear, NXPC lets community creators design entirely new items that become first-class citizens in the universe, shifting content production “from developers to players,” according to the project’s white-paper.
What’s next?
Nexpace says MapleStory N is merely “the first application in a growing constellation” that will include a Marketplace, an Item Navigator, and additional Synergy dApps—all running on the same Avalanche chain. Meanwhile, policy decisions such as how many items early testers can carry into the live realm, or which regions will be onboarded next, remain open as the team weighs fairness and regulatory hurdles.
For MapleStory veterans, the promise is familiar side-scrolling action with a new economic layer; for Web3 die-hards, it is the latest stress test of whether NFTs can deepen, rather than cheapen, a beloved game loop. Either way, Nexpace has turned the next page of Maple World—this time on-chain.
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