2016-05-09, 05:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-09, 06:45 PM by maplefreak26.)
maplefreak26 Wrote:I have a very slight slightly unreasonable suspicion that EMS would eventually merge with another service of MapleStory. Seeing as how the population in EMS seems to be dying off a lot more quickly than it is in GMS and in MSEA, I've always held a thought in the back of my head that they would eventually merge EMS with another service (a la Mabinogi EU and Mabinogi NA (edit: they didn't merge, they only allowed EU IPs)). I thought it would be with GMS + EMS but MSEA + EMS is definitely a possibility as in terms of the game content, they're much more alike and they're also relatively the same in terms of content update speed.
Ha! I totally saw this coming.
Nexon NA's recent inclusion of EU regions in Dirty Bomb, GITS: FAO, Riders of Icarus, and LawBreakers (Mabinogi, too) was a major hint that they're focusing on NxA becoming the only publishing arm for both NA + EU. They threw me off when they announced a merger with Combat Arms, with the EU game becoming the "main" game. Then again, CA NA had a severely low population and the EU game was doing decently. EMS hadn't had an update in 6 months (though they just started to tease Kinesis for some reason???), and they've been only doing events after events for the past 6 months. That definitely started to raise my suspicions (6 months of inactivity seem to be the gold standard timeframe for Nexon to begin to merge or terminate game service). That and the recent network and Nexon Game Platform maintenance we had.
I'm curious to see how this will affect Nexon EU games that don't already have a version in NA. I know they said they'll merge it into NA, but I wonder if they're going to keep the same game popularity standards that they had with NA games. If they did, I'm sure War Rock would shut down about as quickly as Sudden Attack did. Combat Arms would once again be in the bubble (if CA EU didn't exist, I was positive it would've shut down instead of merging). I wonder how this will affect Counter Strike Nexon Zombies, too since I don't think Valve would be okay with having a CS game from another publisher in the NA market.
PS:
United Eleven is shutting down. http://united11.nexoneu.com/en/notices/s...formation/
And Dekaron is being transferred to another publisher. http://en.dekaron.nexoneu.com/NXEU.aspx?...rrent_News
Combat Arms: Line of Sight no longer published by NxE
CALOS will be self-published by the devs (it also looks like they're dropping the Combat Arms brand in the name). https://www.facebook.com/LineOfSightGlobal/