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Nexon takes 20-year-old MapleStory into web3 with Haechi’s help



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Nexon, one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, is wading into web3 like some of its peers in Asia. The developer of MapleStory is creating a blockchain-powered ecosystem based on the twenty-year-old massively multiplayer online game, where players can trade in-game assets like outfits, equipment and virtual pets in the form of non-fungible tokens.
Around 160,000 people in South Korea are still playing MapleStory today, the company wrote recently in a blog citing data from KMS.
Blockchain games have been cropping up everywhere in the past two years, but few have entered the mainstream and even the popular ones, like the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, have been short-lived.
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