Nexon USA claims continued growth in Q3

According to Nexon America, the MMO company saw revenue jump more than 36 percent in the third quarter, a sign, according to Nexon America, that customers are enthusiastic about the company’s slate of games and new content. What helped Q3 numbers the most were revenue numbers for September, which jumped 44 percent, compared to September 2008. This goes along with the company’s growth trend during this past summer when Nexon America’s revenues grew 35 percent in July and 32 percent in August compared to the same time frame last year.

Daniel Kim, Nexon America’s CEO, said that the positive revenue numbers reflect the activity of Nexon’s games — MapleStory, Combat Arms, and Mabinogi — which have all been in service for more than a year. Combat Arms, the most recent addition to Nexon’s service, launched October 1, 2008.

Let’s see how long the trend continues.

Another record month of growth for Nexon America

Nexon America seems to be having a great year. In July and August of this year the online gaming company best known for Maple Story’s success in North America posted record revenue growth, with 35 and 32 percent respective increases over the same months last year. The company announced today that September is looking even better with 44 percent growth in revenues compared to last year. The company says that this is particularly good news because September is traditionally a slow month.

Growth in actual game numbers continue to climb as well with Combat Arms reaching the 3 million registered user mark and MapleStory has exceeding 70,000 concurrent users several times in the last few months.

Happy Birthday, MapleStory

MapleStory has been running in North America for four years, by Nexon USA’s count. I remember a former coworker of mine carrying on about how his niece had fallen in love with the game when it was still in beta. It was at that time that the game had taken off like a wildfire among the tween set, and then adults, intrigued by that fascination with the game, started to play it in droves. Obviously, the number of users since that time has dropped off considerably, but the game apparently still enjoys a fair share of subscribers. Of course, it’s no Runescape.

Nexon USA is celebrating this milestone - four years surviving in the rather vicious North American MMO market, by offering a number of items and events for subscribers. Some of the goodies being offered to subscribers include Fourth Anniversary Maple Weapons (Maple Hats, Maple Shields, Maple Earrings, or Fourth Anniversary Scrolls), weapons upgrades using Maple Leaf drops, a level up event (again, involving Maple Leaves), GM events, the ability to transform into a monster, 1,200 prizes over the next 40 days, a special Maple Quiz and a whole lot more.

Learn more by checking out maplestory.nexon.net.

The Rundown: March 10, 2009

Welcome to the New York City edition of The Rundown. As you can see from the shot above there’’s no money in this month’s budget for socks or shoes. Oh well, if General Washington’s boys can do it, why can’t I? Thank you very much Mr. President. Actual news is available after the jump, I swear..

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