Nexon, a huge gaming company from South Korea known for ‘MapleStory’, will use the Polygon (MATIC) network for its latest project. The game, called MapleStory Universe, will use non-fungible tokens (NFT) and will be supported by the Polygon network, which in turn runs on Ethereum (ETH). These plans were announced in a presentation.
Gaming applies blockchain
MapleStory is one of Nexon’s most successful games with 180 million players. With Polygon, Nexon wants to make it possible to collect NFTs and the in game promote the economy.
The choice of Polygon as the blockchain network for the game is no surprise. The supernet applications of Polygon are very ‘customizable,’ or adaptable. The developers of Nexon can fully customize the applications according to their own wishes.
We recently talked about the large share that the gaming industry has in terms of blockchain activity. In January, no less than half of all blockchain activity came from the gaming sector. Together with decentralized finance (DeFi), the gaming sector is currently at the forefront of the actual application of blockchain technology.
Nexon breaks barrier
The implementation of blockchain technology by Nexon is striking. At the end of last year we wrote that despite the advance of NFT games, many large gaming studios are still hesitant to take the first step in crypto land.
Nexon falls just outside the top ten largest gaming studios in the world. The argument of major game developers at the time was that there is still no clear revenue model for the use of NFTs in games. Nexon’s step shows that the interest and potential are indeed there.
With the adoption of the Polygon network, Nexon is one of the first big names in the gaming world to adopt crypto. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see other major gaming studios take similar steps in the future.