An update for August 28, 2019 includes merging worlds into one world. So far there are 2 groups of worlds. The first group of worlds merged will now be one world called Elysium and the second group of worlds will be Aurora. The reason for this update is to help find parties and make new friends. It is a wonderful idea given the state of the game. There is no need for Nexon to tell us if the game is dying. This update shows us the state of the game.
By the way all I have is MapleStory ever since my beautiful game WonderKing was taken away another copy of MapleStory. MapleStory is all I have left. I will be sad if MapleStory is gone.