Maplestory was in the works in Korea for a while before we got it, and was in the minds of Nexon and Wizet, and was probably created by someone who has tight ties with those companies. =D
No, Maplestory is made by Nexon while La Tale is made by OGPlanet. It is however a "copy" of maplestory. Edit: Actually, Maplestory is currently being published by Nexon. Maplestory was developed by Wizet. Also, La Tale's publisher is OGPlanet and it's developer is Actoz. Have a nice day.
Nexon
Mabinogi, a game made by Nexon, is similar to Maplestory, only it is three dimensional.
Wizet made MapleStory, then Nexon bought Wizet.
if you meant "what do maplestory private server do?" then they basicly are custom-made-and-hosted maplestory servers, like increased rates (a 5x exp rate server has all their monsters give 5x more exp than the offical servers) or anything custom-made, like shops, player commands, etc
Maplestory and Combat Arms Were both made by nexon so really they are both as good as each other depending on your likes in game genres if you like 2D RPG's then maplestory but if you like free FPS's then Combat Arms
Talk to the guy who you made the ring from, beware, costs tons of money.
Scania...
Maplestory.
MapleStory happened in 2003.
There are many MapleStory's like MapleSEA which is MapleStory in Asia. MapleGlobal which is America Maple Story and there is KoreaMaple which is MapleStory in Korea. There is many more soon to be launched and the game MapleStory was inspired by the anime "MapleStory".
Yes they are. They are payed to be GMs and play MapleStory all day.