MapleStory Classic World is live. Grand Launch opened on Wednesday 21 October 2026 at 11:00 AM PDT, free for everyone on the Nexon Launcher and Steam, and the Founder's Access characters that started on 6 October carried straight over.
Launch day is when everyone who skipped the Founder's Packages arrives at once, so Victoria Island's best maps will be busy and channel-hopping pays. Everything below is from Nexon's Grand Launch release notes and maintenance notice, checked on 22 October.
Nexon ran one global launch at 18:00 UTC on 21 October, after a maintenance that took every Classic World server down from 6:00 AM PDT. If you're reading this just after launch, here's what the opening looked like where you play:
Nexon promised "brand-new content" for launch without saying what. The release notes fill that in. Nothing here raises the level cap or opens Ossyria, but there's more of Victoria Island to play than Founder's Access had.
Yes. Nexon went straight from Founder's Access to live service with no wipe, so Orange Mushroom and Zakum package owners kept their characters, levels and mesos. Package sales closed on 14 October, a week before launch.
Three events opened with the servers and run until 18 November. Start the daily check-in on day one: rewards go by how many days you've claimed, not the calendar, so every day you skip pushes the Store Permits back.
Classic World keeps the old player economy. You trade face to face, and the Free Market is open: a Store Permit from the Cash Shop lets you list up to 12 items at a time, and the launch check-in event hands out two 7-day permits for free.
