MapleStory Statistics

MapleStory is a free-of-charge, 2D, side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by the company Wizet. As a nearly new online game, MS is warmly welcomed by players especially younger ones in school.

Wizet company has gained 200 million US Dollars just from the game service just in South Korea till February 2006 and another 110 million US Dollars by selling the license of this game to other countries.

Game population:

In 2002, 200,000 subscribers in Korea, 14 million subscribers (total)
In November,2003, 9 million subscribers in Japan
In December, 2003, 25 million subscribers in China
In July 2005, 3.5 million subscribers in Taiwan, China
In August 2005, 550 thousand subscribers in Thailand
In June 2005, 550 thousand subscribers total in South East Asia (mostly Singapore and Malaysia)
In May 2005, 3.5 million subscribers in North America (Global)

MapleStory players are mainly gathered in North America and outside of East Asia. It is reported that there are total more than 3 million subscribers in Southeast Asia and Europe. Now, MapleStory has a combined total of over 50 million subscriber accounts in all of its versions.