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MapleStory Europe pulls a Christmas cracker - News
By Ionascu Alex
Published: December 13, 2007
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The weather outside may be frightful, but MapleStory Europe is sure to
be delightful this Christmas as Nexon Europe's brilliant free-to-play
MMORPG launches a three week long celebratory event that's full of
festive fun, excitement and monsters dressed in Santa hats.
The
event, which starts on December 15th, 2007 and runs until January 3rd,
2008, invites players to explore an amazing new Christmas town full of
sparkling Yuletide trimmings. However, with the town short of one very
important holiday staple - snow! - players will need to hunt down
special Christmas items first if they want the snow to start falling
and MapleStory Europe to have a traditional white Christmas.
Like
MapleStory Europe itself, the event is completely free to participate
in, and everybody who does so receives special, Christmas-themed gift
in exchange for helping to defeat the giant Snowman boss that regularly
turns up to terrorise the Christmas town. Players also have the
opportunity to look the part too, with many new Christmas-themed items
available to buy in MapleStory Europe's Cash Shop, including festive
snowman costumes, woollen hats and gloves and a brand new Reindeer pet.
"Christmas
is a truly special time of year, and no more so than in MapleStory
Europe!" said Calvin Yoo, Director of International Business
Development at NEXON Europe. "Forget the turkey and the mistletoe: with
a whole new Christmas town to explore and an exciting new festive quest
to take part in we're certain that Maplers across Europe will be full
of the Christmas spirit come the big day."
MapleStory originally
launched in South Korea in April 2003 and quickly went on to become one
of the most successful online games of all time, with over 76million
registered accounts across the world. MapleStory Europe, which launched
in May 2007, is the latest iteration of the completely free to play
franchise, and offers gamers in Europe the chance to play MapleStory in
five different languages - English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch.
For further information on MapleStory Europe, and to sign-up to the game and take part in the Christmas event, please visit
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