Korean game giant Nexon announced that it is building a new Web3 game "MapleStory Universe MapleStory Universe" and will cooperate with Polygon to launch an independent subnet. However, the specific game content and token details have not yet been disclosed.
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Nexon, the largest game company in South Korea , is creating a new Web3 game "MapleStory Universe MapleStory Universe" for the popular online game "MapleStory Universe". This game will cooperate with Polygon to launch an independent subnet. This powerful game IP is brought into the blockchain world.
Maple Valley has already deployed Web3
Since its launch in 2003, MapleStory has been one of Nexon's greatest success stories. The game has generated more than $4 billion in revenue so far, with a total player count of over 260 million recorded on the Steam gaming platform page.
It is understood that MapleStory Universe will be an NFT-centric game. NFT will not have any pre-sale activities, and can only be obtained by playing in the game, and can be traded or transferred through the game market. It is understood that the game will launch native encrypted tokens and token economics, but the relevant details have not yet been officially announced.
In fact, as early as June last year, it was reported that Nexon Chief Operating Officer Kang Dae-hyun said at the Nexon Developer Conference that Nexon would plan to introduce the original game content into the blockchain technology and re-launch it. At that time, the focus was on developing Game sandbox, SDK and other tools, but now the memorable characters Gugubao, Xuejila, and Lushuiling are really on the chain.
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Nexon chooses Polygon due to its focus on future transaction volume
Nexon announced Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that the new game will launch on a separate subnet on Polygon . MapleStory universe team leader Hwang Sun-young also expressed satisfaction with the Polygon team:
We look forward to expanding our game by building the NFT ecosystem envisioned by the MapleStory universe on Polygon .
Polygon is an Ethereum expansion network, and its Supernet is somewhat similar to Avalanche's Subnet, both of which provide dedicated subnets for a single project to use. They offer some custom designs for game developers, Urvit Goel, vice president of business development for global games and platforms at Polygon , said in an interview with Decrypt:
In terms of the capabilities and expansion of Maple Valley, the general shared blockchain cannot accommodate them, and it must be built independently for them.
Goel also spoke about Nexon and its planned subnets:
Since the MapleStory game itself and this IP are very large, they have very high expectations and demands for the transaction volume of future games.
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