Nexon



Nexon Co. Ltd. is a South Korean video game developer and publisher. It was founded in Seoul in 1994 and its headquarters are currently located in Tokyo, Japan.

History
Nexon was established in Korea on December 1994 where it published its first title, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, two years later. Many title releases followed such as Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying, Elemental Saga, QuizQuiz, KartRider, Elancia and Shattered Galaxy; some of which are maintained by a company spun off of Nexon, Kru Interactive.

In 2003, Nexon developed MapleStory in Korea, which later became its most successful title. The game was localized in many locations such as Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, North America, Europe, Brazil and Vietnam.

Originally founded in Korea, Nexon is currently based in Japan. It has four corporations running; they are located in Korea, Japan, United States, and Europe.

Nexon currently has eleven subsidiaries: Nexon Networks, Nexon Mobile, NeoPle, Nextoric, Nexonova, GameHi, NDoors, CoPersons, Nclipse, ExcGames and Xeogen.

Nexon went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on December 13, 2011 in an initial public offering, the largest in Japan for 2011 and the second largest by a technological company in that year worldwide.

Games
NX (originally called NX cash or NX points) is an optional virtual currency that is purchased with a real payment in order to purchase virtual goods that are used in Nexon games. NX might be transferable to various Nexon games under the same account of a customer, being restricted in use to that account only. NX can not be transferred between different customer accounts.

Trivia

 * If players type variations of the word "Nexon", such as "nexon" or "NEXON", in every chat boxes in the game (lobby, channel, clan, whisper...), it will be censored.