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An independent archive of official Digimon Masters Online news — patch notes, notices, and events — captured from every regional server and kept with its original source. The table breaks the game’s history into service streams: one row per region and operator era. Rows grouped under a shaded header are the same service over time (for example, the global GDMO server was rebranded to NADMO in 2022). A complete tag means the full public list for that section has been archived; “—” means it isn’t archived yet.

GameOperator / eraPeriodPatch NoteNoticeEventGM NoteDev Note
GDMO → NADMO — one continuous service on dmo.gameking.com (GDMO was rebranded to NADMO in 2022 when LADMO split off). Steam is an access platform for it.
GDMOJoymax2011–2015637complete262complete210complete
Joymax → MoveGames2015 (Aug–Oct)8complete28complete6complete
GameKing2015–2022100complete838complete173complete
NADMO (ex-GDMO)GameKing / MoveGames2022–present21complete588complete250complete
↳ SteamAccess platform for GDMO / NADMO2016–present81complete1,289complete354complete
KDMO — Korea (the original service, since 2009).
KDMOMoveGames / MOVE Interactive2009–present1,019complete2,000complete100complete131complete
TWDMO — Taiwan. Operator changed in Oct 2019 (Wasabii/CayenneTech → GameKing/MoveGames). The old posts were NOT migrated to the GameKing site.
TWDMOWasabii / CayenneTech2013–2019
GameKing / MoveGames2019–present60complete1,239complete
HKDMO — Hong Kong. Operator changed in Oct 2019 (CayenneTech/Wasabii → GameKing/MoveGames). Old posts were NOT migrated to the GameKing site.
HKDMOHong Kong CayenneTech / Wasabii group2013–2019
GameKing / MoveGames2019–present62complete1,390complete
THAIDMO — Thailand (VPLAY / Move On).
THAIDMOVPLAY / Move On2013–present193complete1,023complete380complete48complete
LADMO — Latin America: one game server (in-game “Alphamon”) split off from NADMO in 2022 (account transfer 2022-11-23), served via two language websites — Spanish (spladmo) and Portuguese (ptladmo).
LADMO ESGameKing2022–present
LADMO PTGameKing2022–present
Aeria DMO / Seraphimon — a separate historical service by Aeria Games; closed in 2018 (no account transfer to GameKing/Steam).
Aeria DMO / SeraphimonAeria Games2012–2018

Who runs Digimon Masters?

Most of these names trace back to one Korean company and its own service platform; the rest are regional partners or earlier third-party publishers.

MOVE Interactive / Move Games / Digitalic is the Korean developer and licensed service operator behind Digimon Masters — the same company under three names: Digitalic Co., Ltd. (2002) → Move Games (2012) → MOVE Interactive (2022). It launched the game in Korea in 2009 and has company-history entries for Digimon RPG, Digimon Super Rumble and several Power Rangers titles. It isn’t the rights holder for the Digimon IP itself — copyright is credited separately (Akiyoshi Hongo / Toei Animation).

GameKing is that company’s global publishing brand — a Move Games subsidiary set up in 2015 to run the non-Korean regions, now under MOVE Interactive. It’s the publisher/platform for the global → North American service plus TWDMO, HKDMO and LADMO, while Korea (KDMO) stays on the core company. It is not a rename of Move Games — the two run side by side.

In 2022 the global service was split by region: North America stayed on as NADMO and Latin America spun off into LADMO. Community and secondary sources (PCGamingWiki, player reports) date the rollout to Aug–Nov 2022 — Steam blocked outside NA (Aug), the GameKing site geoblocking non-NA players (Oct 31), and non-NA IPs fully blocked in-game (Nov 10). NADMO branding also shows up in the official notices in this archive from mid-2022.

Move On (2012) Co., Ltd. is the Thai operating partner for THAIDMO, served through VPLAY (“VPLAY by moveon”). The Thai site credits both Move On (2012) Co., Ltd. and Move Games Co., Ltd.

Before MOVE took more regions in-house there were several third-party operators: Joymax ran the global English service until the 2015 transfer; CayenneTech / Wasabii (紅心辣椒) held Taiwan / Hong Kong / Macau until the 2019 contract end and direct Move Games operation; and Aeria Games ran the separate Seraphimon service, which closed in 2018 without a transfer to GameKing or Steam.

Companies & operators over time

MoveGames (the Korean developer, renamed twice) and the brands it set up: GameKing (global) and Move On / VPLAY (Thailand). Hover a bar for details.

200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025now
DeveloperKorea
GameKingglobal publisher (brand)
VPLAY / Move On (2012)Thailand (partner)
launch / startoperator transferservice closedrebrand / splitfounded brand

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Servers & versions over time

Each bar is an operator era on that service; a ▸ is a launch, → a hand-over and ✕ a shutdown. GDMO continues into NADMO at the 2022 split (animated dashed link).

20092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025now
KDMOKorea
GDMOGlobal (English)
NADMONorth America
Steamaccess to the NA service
TWDMOTaiwan
HKDMOHong Kong / Macau
THAIDMOThailand
LADMOLatin America
SeraphimonAeria — separate, closed
launch / startoperator transferservice closedrebrand / splitfounded brand

Hover or focus a bar for exact dates and key events.