MapleStory: Encyclopedia II - MapleStory - Cash Shop

MapleStory - Cash Shop

Since playing MapleStory is free, the developers of MapleStory introduced the Cash Shop to generate revenue. This is a virtual shop where players can buy items using real money. However, most items do not give bonuses to the character. The items sold in the Cash Shop include clothing items, haircut coupons, pets and many more.

Cash shop items are mainly for looks, and can only be obtained through the Cash Shop itself. Other than fancy equipment that the players can wear, some other items from the Cash Shop can also grant the players special abilities, such as negating the experience points lost from dying and giving players a 2x EXP gain bonus (only available in some versions of the game). Pets can be useful apart from looking cute, mainly through the fact that they can be trained to pick up items and mesos for their owners, speeding up your training process, but to use these features, you have to buy extra items, for an example, if you want your pet to pick up your Mesos for you, you must buy them a meso magnet from Cash Shop and equip it to them. However, all cash items bought will disappear after 90 days.

Players who are not able to afford these items due to real life monetary constraints, might trade the in-game currency, mesos, for the Cash Shop items. Scamming is likely to happen in such cases, which is why trading of in-game items for Cash Shop items is a bannable offense.

Cash items for sale are available in the Cash Shop. The currency of Cash Shop is Nexon Cash, frequently shortened to NX Cash. MapleStory Points is another currency used in the Cash Shop. These are purchased outside of MapleStory through the MapleStory web site. MapleStory Points, however, can be earned through special events. Paypal is the only accepted method in MapleStory Global, although Wizet has stated that they will soon implement direct credit card transactions. Additionally eChecks are currently not being accepted.

In MapleSEA's case, in addition to credit card payment (through PayPal), it has also released Prepaid cards that are sold at a fixed price of SGD$10.50 [Tax inclusive](approximately USD$6.30) per 10,000 A-points (which can be used to convert into MapleCash) or MYR$24 (approximately US$6.40) for 24,000 MOLePoints (which can be used to purchase 10,000 A-points).

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Cash Shop", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki