Nexon Partners with Bitpay to Accept Crypto Payments for In-Game Items

Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind MapleStory and Dungeon Fighter Online, announced today that they partnered with BitPay to accept crypto payments (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Doge, etc) for in-game microtransactions across most of their games.

“Nexon listens closely to feedback from our players, including the many who have requested we include cryptocurrencies as a form of in-game payment,” said Nexon America General Manager Kenny Chang. “Effective immediately we are pleased to offer this innovative payment feature for our players.”

While I doubt many players with actually use crypto to make payments in Nexon games, crypto as a payment method is slowly gaining wider and wider adoption. Seeing Nexon embrace crypto in their games shouldn't come as a big surprise as the company purchased $100 million worth of Bitcoin back in April, 2021 as an investment; they paid an average price of $58,226 per bitcoin back then (Bitcoin is ~$48,000 today).