Highlighting the level of nefarious activity experienced by games, especially blockchain games, Nexon’s web3 arm Nexpace has detailed its continuing measures to deal with players trying to gain unfair advantage in MapleStory Universe.
As explained in a Medium post, Nexpace says it’s banned 640,000 accounts since the launch of PC game MapleStory N.
This is 37% of the 1.75 million lifetime accounts total that was announced a couple of weeks ago. However, the good news is Nexpace says the result of such efforts has been a drop in “such activity by 82%”.
This impact can clearly been seen in terms of the number of new wallets logging into the ecosystem, which peaked at 70,000 in June 2025 before Nexpace introduced its first wave of anti-botting measures, including its Credit Level system.
But the battle never ends, with Nexpace detailing its new KYC reverification system, which attempts to deal with abusers purchasing pre-verified accounts or bypassing its KYC requirements in other ways.
To-date, this system has identified 28,000 accounts for further checks, which were completed by only 155 accounts.
The success of this approach means Nexpace will be rolling out reverification more aggressively, including use of a credit card-based verification option, which it believes is low friction for legitimate users but high friction for at-scale malcontents.
In this context, it’s interesting to see that MapleStory Universe has been maintaining a fairly steady rate of daily active wallets of between 60,000 to 70,000 over the past couple of weeks.