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Nexon just released their Q2 2025 Investor Presentation report which gives Investors an overview of how the company is performing and also includes potential upcoming content in the pipeline.
Nexon is the publisher and developer of MapleStory and oversees the Korean and GMS versions of the game. They also handle many other franchises worldwide like Dungeon & Fighters Franchise, FC Online and The Finals.
These Investor Presentation reports are posted for each quarter, and we've just got the Q2 2025 report published on August 13th 2025.
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MapleStory Franchise Revenue Growth
The Q2 2025 report shows MapleStory saw revenue growth in both Korea and GMS. The Korean version saw a 91% year-over-year growth for Q2, whilst the GMS version saw a 36% growth.
This comes after GMS made changes to how MapleStory was being developed in the West, including hiring new in-house developers and implementing custom content that no longer followed the strict Korean MapleStory development schedule.
The report also mentions that MapleStory Worlds saw a 7x Y/Y growth following it's worldwide expansion in April 2025. MapleStory Worlds is a platform that allows players to create their own custom games using MapleStory assets, such as Old-School MapleStory Servers.
They note it is particular popular in Taiwan, which makes sense as Artale is one of the most popular games streamed on Twitch by Taiwan players.
A new upcoming spin-off game called MapleStory: Idle RPG is set to launch later this year also!
MapleStory Universe's launch of MapleStory N (the cryptocurrency version of modern MapleStory) was also noted.
There was no mention of MapleStory Classic in the Investor Report, but this could be due to MapleStory Classic being a part of the MapleStory GMS game.
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