Why So Empty?

• Singleuseonly wrote on 2010-11-13 05:13

  Quote from Tally;213394:

  Well, for one, I can say this.
  
  For some reason I cannot comprehend (I'm totally not a fan of PvP), most people exaggeratedly prefer PvP to PvE. The problem with this is that not only is Mabinogi not built for PvP, its PvP system is entirely broken. As in it favors archers to an unfairly strong degree. Granted, the balance has been threatened somewhat by charge and evasion, but any archer with half a brain can still thwart these, and they have some bad cooldowns anyway.
  
  On top of this, losing in any GvE PvP means you get camped, and there is no way to escape other than persistance or leaving your computer until the other guy gets bored.
  
  
  As for other things... there don't appear to be too many people playing with randoms anymore, and I can kind of feel the influence of that myself. "What will I get out of this? I'll probably be playing with some noob who does nothing but gamble rushes at his enemy."
  
  The game is also heavy on some non-combat grinds as well. Especially if you're doing life skills. This generally tends to bring people down, and it's quite undesirable for most.
  
  
  Granted, these are problems that have plagued Mabi before, so I don't know why that would contribute to people leaving now, but it should hopefully shed some insight.

  
  
  ^ Pretty much everything I hate most about Mabi.
  Horrid PvP = no fun breaks between grind fests
  Lifeskills...take forever to do
• Adelynn wrote on 2010-11-13 05:35
  Nexon destroying their own game definitely doesn't help. Customoer service is pretty bad. They have back-ups only because they mess up soooo much.
• Razeekster wrote on 2010-11-13 06:26
  It's because so many people have become disappointed with how Nexon is treating Mabinogi as a whole and it's players.
  
  Maybe I am imagining this, but when I first started playing Mabingi the events were much better, and didn't include so many events where Nexon Cash was required to be able to enjoy the event.
  
  I think what truly started the decline of Mabinogi's players was the start of G9 where all kinds of bugs, crashes and other problems were introduced (such as Nexon trying to suck as much money out of it's players as possible).
  
  A lot of my friends have quit Mabinogi since G9-G12 because they feel as if Nexon is simply just ignoring Mabinogi and it's players. They never reply to tickets and if they do they are automated responses that aren't helpful at all.
  
  Not only that, but now the website and the forums are filled with advertisements which probably like me, others find quite annoying.
  
  That's just my take on it.
• Phanterz wrote on 2010-11-13 06:48

  Quote from Razeekster;213799:

  It's because so many people have become disappointed with how Nexon is treating Mabinogi as a whole and it's players.
  
  Maybe I am imagining this, but when I first started playing Mabingi the events were much better, and didn't include so many events where Nexon Cash was required to be able to enjoy the event.
  
  I think what truly started the decline of Mabinogi's players was the start of G9 where all kinds of bugs, crashes and other problems were introduced (such as Nexon trying to suck as much money out of it's players as possible).
  
  A lot of my friends have quit Mabinogi since G9-G12 because they feel as if Nexon is simply just ignoring Mabinogi and it's players. They never reply to tickets and if they do they are automated responses that aren't helpful at all.
  
  Not only that, but now the website and the forums are filled with advertisements which probably like me, others find quite annoying.
  
  That's just my take on it.

  
  
  I think that the thing we're missing from C1 is the party play and mutual cooperation we used to get. Also, everything is focused on combat nowadays, while earlier I guess the life skills were fun?
  
  Combat is always more fun in a party, unless all your partymembers fail hard. It's better when you are partying with friends also. I notice that obviously, we have an extreme lack of party play nowadays, even with shadow missions that are supposed to encourage group runs.
• Razeekster wrote on 2010-11-13 07:48

  Quote from Phanterz;213814:

  I think that the thing we're missing from C1 is the party play and mutual cooperation we used to get. Also, everything is focused on combat nowadays, while earlier I guess the life skills were fun?
  
  Combat is always more fun in a party, unless all your partymembers fail hard. It's better when you are partying with friends also. I notice that obviously, we have an extreme lack of party play nowadays, even with shadow missions that are supposed to encourage group runs.

  Indeed.
  It seems as if its quite hard to get a party going now a days.
  Everyone just want to hoar around dunby...
• Justified wrote on 2010-11-13 08:08
  I lol @ grind-heavy.
  
  Seriously. Aside from like... Blacksmithing, Enchanting, and maybe Alchemy Mastery, Mabi isn't anywhere near as grindy as other MMOs at all.
  Especially with 2x pots and events tossed around every month or so, along with 2x skill training pots, the game gets less and less grindy as it goes. G13 is gonna slash that even further with 2x skill training from job classes and 3x weapon proficiency (<-- according to our resident KR player).
• Razeekster wrote on 2010-11-13 16:01

  Quote from Justified;213876:

  I lol @ grind-heavy.
  
  Seriously. Aside from like... Blacksmithing, Enchanting, and maybe Alchemy Mastery, Mabi isn't anywhere near as grindy as other MMOs at all.
  Especially with 2x pots and events tossed around every month or so, along with 2x skill training pots, the game gets less and less grindy as it goes. G13 is gonna slash that even further with 2x skill training from job classes and 3x weapon proficiency (<-- according to our resident KR player).

  Yes because I a, sure everyone wants the class system put into place...
• Razeekster wrote on 2010-11-13 16:01

  Quote from Razeekster;214020:

  Yes because I am sure everyone wants the class system put into place...

  Fixed.