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Classic World news

Nexon's announcements, newest first. Each one links back to the original post.
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An announcement isn’t in the game files, so each entry is somebody reading Nexon’s post and noting what it said. The link beside it is the post itself.

Global service only

China (Shengqu) and Taiwan (Gamania) announce their own. Four rows with the same picture are Nexon reusing one maintenance banner.

From the files: what the Public Release adds

The client's home badge: a house under a moon, in a ring of flowers

A home of your own. Henesys and Kerning City each get a house behind a gold door, and the client carries 61 pieces to put in one: furniture to sit on, lie on and switch on, storage chests, a crafting station for each of the 6 disciplines and a training dummy. Nothing like it was in the original game.

  • Shade, a level 48 boss in Cabin of the Forsaken, past a hidden door in Niora Hospital.
  • The Caretaker's Ledger: 6 quests from The Circulation Desk, a new room off the Magic Library.
  • 35 new Citizenship quests in 7 story lines, up to Citizen of Honor in both towns.
  • A Frieren collaboration: 30 hair and face coupons and outfit sets, and two staffs that call Frieren or Fern onto the screen.
The housing guideEverything new in the Public Release
2026
Launch

The Founder’s Access Cash Shop: what NX buys in Classic World

Nexon’s list of what the Classic World Cash Shop sells from the end of maintenance on 6 October. For a limited time: the Founder’s Mystery Fashion Crate (3,500 NX, or 35,000 NX for 11) and the Mystery Hair and Face Coupons until 28 October, ten-day outfit pieces and a 90-day Fall Store Permit until 18 November, and Aurora Stamps, one for each unwanted crate item, spent in a Season 1 stamp shop until 13 January 2027. The standing stock is pets and their gear, megaphones, Safety Charms, slot coupons, store permits, AP and SP Reset Scrolls, Signature hair, face and colour coupons, weather effects, and three bundles at 9,900 NX each. Gifting needs level 12, and Mystery items cannot be bought from Belgium, Slovakia or Brazil.

Nexon’s post ↗

2026
LaunchPatchEvent

Founder’s Access release notes: level 100, five bosses and two weeks of GM events

The notes for Founder’s Access, which opens at 6:00 PM UTC on 6 October. Level cap 100, 1st job at 10 and 2nd at 30, five bosses on Victoria Island with Shade among them, Crafting at 10, Citizenship at 12 and the Kerning City Party Quest at 21. Forgotten Hollow isn’t open yet. A daily check-in with the Maple Administrator runs to 20 October, alongside eight GM event sessions.

Read the write-upNexon’s post ↗

2026
LaunchNotice

Inkwell: Classic World is not a one-to-one remake, and the roadmap waits for MapleStory Fest

Nexon America interviews Hanbyeol Oh, the head of Global MapleStory, known to players as Inkwell. Classic World is meant as a slower, more social second way into MapleStory rather than a copy of the old game, and it will not replay the original update order: Grand Launch brings a piece of content not yet shown, a new boss is in development, and a fuller post-launch roadmap is due at MapleStory Fest in October. The Cash Shop is meant to avoid anything that directly affects stats or growth, and the small Classic World team was hired alongside Global MapleStory’s rather than taken from it.

Read the write-upNexon’s post ↗

2026
LaunchNotice

Founder’s Access opens at 11:00 AM PDT on 6 October, and can be prepared for now

Nexon’s preparation guide for launch day. Founder’s Access opens on Tuesday 6 October at 11:00 AM PDT (2:00 PM EDT, 8:00 PM CEST, 4:00 AM AEST on the 7th). The Nexon Launcher carries Classic World as a smaller standalone client that cannot be downloaded until that day, so what can be done now is installing the launcher and signing in; on Steam the two games ship as one build, so installing and updating MapleStory now is the pre-download. Steam players also need their Nexon account linked to Steam, which the website’s Account Settings can do today.

Nexon’s post ↗

2026
LaunchNotice

Nexon’s Classic World FAQ: both doors open at 11:00 AM PDT, and only NX is shared

Nexon’s answers to the questions it keeps getting. Founder’s Access opens at 11:00 AM PDT on 6 October and Grand Launch at 11:00 AM PDT on 21 October, on the Nexon Launcher and on Steam, with no beta key. NX is the only thing shared with MapleStory: not names, not Maple Points, not MVP status, and Challenger World does not transfer. A ban in one is a ban in both, only one of the two can be open at a time, English is supported with Spanish in beta, macOS and DualSense, DualShock and Xbox controllers are supported, and Founder’s Package items expire unless claimed from the mailbox by 11:59 PM UTC on 30 November.

Nexon’s post ↗

2026
Notice

Nexon says it is taking legal action against private MapleStory servers

A letter to the whole MapleStory community, Classic World included. Nexon says formal legal action against the operators of unauthorised servers is under way and has already closed a number of them, asks the rest to shut down and delete the content, and tells players that connecting to one breaks the terms of service and puts their credentials, their personal information and anything they have paid an operator outside anything Nexon can help with.

Read the write-upNexon’s post ↗

2026
LaunchEvent

The Founder’s Package sale opens, with a Frieren outfit set sold beside it

Nexon’s announcement post: the three packages are live, the Orange Mushroom and Zakum tiers open Founder’s Access on 6 October, and buying or upgrading closes at 11:59 PM PDT on 14 October. It is also where the Signature Style Collection was first named, a week before it went on sale: a Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End outfit box bought separately with NX, on sale until 7 October and claimable from 23 October to 3 November.

Nexon’s post ↗

2026
LaunchNotice

Steam sells the Zakum Package alone, and cannot upgrade it

Nexon explains the two storefronts. Steam carries the Zakum Package and nothing else, because Steam’s platform policies do not support the upgrade path and Nexon would rather sell one tier than risk duplicate purchases; the Nexon webstore sells all three and is the only place a tier can be moved up before the sale closes. The Zakum Package itself is identical on both, and one purchase on either platform is the whole of it.

Nexon’s post ↗

2026
Closed TestPatchMaintenance

Mobility skills lose their cooldowns and get dearer

The 11 August maintenance rewrote the new mobility skills: Rush, Wind Step, Evasion Step and Flash Jump drop to a 1-second cooldown or none at all, and pay for it in MP. Arrow Rain and Arrow Eruption lose their cooldowns outright, and Assaulter becomes usable mid-jump.

Nexon’s post ↗

2026
Closed TestMaintenance

Hired Merchants come back, with the lost stats restored

The stat-loss bug that had shut Hired Merchants off was fixed on 7 August and affected items were restored, except where a scroll had been used on them or they had changed hands. Seven other fixes shipped with it, including Safety Charms burning on town deaths and ranged hits knocking monsters the wrong way.

Nexon’s post ↗

2026
Closed Test

Hired Merchants switched off over a stat-loss bug

Equipment collected from the mailbox after a Hired Merchant shop closed was losing stats, so Nexon said it was switching Hired Merchants off for the rest of the test. It lasted a day. Five other issues were listed with it: Rush failing to push, Cash Shop misdraws, backwards knockback, Safety Charms consumed in towns, and gaming keyboards read as controllers.

Nexon’s post ↗

2026
Closed TestPatchEvent

Closed Online Test 2 release notes: Ossyria on 8 August, 3rd job at 70

The test ran 4 to 12 August, closing at midnight UTC on the 13th, on Windows and macOS with English and Spanish, three characters per account and four job paths. The Ellinia airship opened Orbis, El Nath and Dead Mine on 8 August for level 10 and up; 3rd Job Advancement sat at level 70, with a level-100 test jump from El Nath on 11 August; Citizenship opened at level 12 and the Kerning City party quest at 21.

Nexon’s post ↗

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