Nexon introduction
NEXON Corporation, also known as “넥슨” in Korean, published its first title, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, in 1996. Known as Baramue Nara in Korea, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds is the world’s first graphic MMORPG. In 1998 NEXON released Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying which was loosely based on the Korean game Legend of Darkness, using the same server technology. The North American version of Dark Ages was developed by David Ethan Kennerly.
NEXON Corp. also released a few unsuccessful games to the North American audience in beta form which have since been dropped. They include Elemental Saga, QuizQuiz, KartRider and Elancia. QuizQuiz never left beta stage in North America but was later released through the Japanese division of NEXON, NEXON Japan, in a Japanese version. QuizQuiz has since evolved into the exclusively Korean and Japanese. Online game Q-Play, while Elemental Saga was eventually cancelled. NEXON has eight games exclusively available to Korean players such as Elancia, and Crazy Arcade. In 2001, NEXON Inc. released Shattered Galaxy, published through TriSynergy. Though it had previously won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the 2001 Independent Games Festival, hosted through the Game Developers Conference, the game floundered when it was released to retail. It was subsequently maintained exclusively through KRU Interactive. Shattered Galaxy itself was a heavily localised and customised version of its Korean parent game, Tactical Commanders.
In 2003, Wizet created a hugely successful game called MapleStory, which eventually had clients in South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Southeast Asia, North America, Europe, Brazil, Vietnam and players from many other places. NEXON then merged with Wizet and jointly controlled MapleStory. More than 95 million people are playing MapleStory today.
Nexon Cash (NX)
With it’s traditional free-to-play model, the Nexon charges in game money for game character appearance and other. The Nexon Cash is is known as NX through Nexon America and Nexon Cash elsewhere, which you could redeem and buy wealth in game.
