Do you think...

• User495 wrote on 2011-01-04 07:55
  That DEVcat is willing to just dump Mabinogi , if they decide that Mabinogi 2 is going to be a seperate game? (considering that they're still updating it, and plans to for at least another generation)
  
  Cause Mabinogi 2 is a sequel, there wouldn't be much for Mabinogi 1 in terms of a storyline At that point
  
  Just a random thought
• Cannibal wrote on 2011-01-04 08:04
  Dump as in stop updating? Possibly. It can only go so far if Mabi2 is a sequel, unless they decide to add in a bunch of totally non-related things.
• Dixon wrote on 2011-01-04 08:06
  >Mabinogi 2
  >Not a separate game
  
  

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• Cannibal wrote on 2011-01-04 08:08
  There's no proof either way. It's pretty much left up to our own imaginations. You really don't have to put down other people's ideas and discussions all the time, it's starting to get old.
• NewbieNub wrote on 2011-01-04 08:13
  It would be nice if we could transfer everything over to Mabinogi 2.
  
  But if you have a stable and professional userbase, the game is bound to go stale faster than you think.
• Dixon wrote on 2011-01-04 08:16

  Quote from Wrath;275426:

  There's no proof either way. It's pretty much left up to our own imaginations. You really don't have to put down other people's ideas and discussions all the time, it's starting to get old.

  
  
  Everything they've shown leans more towards 'new game entirely' than 'graphics / engine update'.
  
  It'd take a lot of unnecessary effort to undergo a graphic / engine update on Mabinogi, and considering how unbalanced and in a state of 'running out of ideas' the combat system is now, it'd be a waste of time too. Why would they want to prop up a declining game when they could be instead working on a superior continuation?
• Cannibal wrote on 2011-01-04 08:22

  Quote from Dixon;275433:

  Everything they've shown leans more towards 'new game entirely' than 'graphics / engine update'.
  
  It'd take a lot of unnecessary effort to undergo a graphic / engine update on Mabinogi, and considering how unbalanced and in a state of 'running out of ideas' the combat system is now, it'd be a waste of time too. Why would they want to prop up a declining game when they could be instead working on a superior continuation?

  
  It would be easier to make a new game, and sure all they're shown leans more int that direction, but we still don't have any proof either way, now do we? Like I said before, there's no use in you putting down other people's ideas.
• Jando wrote on 2011-01-04 08:25
  Could be just another update and all we have to do is patch or redownload client.
  
  Then again the maintenance would be hell, especially from changing engines.
• Dixon wrote on 2011-01-04 08:27

  Quote from Wrath;275436:

  It would be easier to make a new game, and sure all they're shown leans more int that direction, but we still don't have any proof either way, now do we? Like I said before, there's no use in you putting down other people's ideas.

  
  
  I'm expressing my state of disbelief that anyone still holds such an idea after the animation reveal late last year.
• User495 wrote on 2011-01-04 08:31
  Animation doesn't mean much when the entire game is basically animations put together
  
  Mabi has gone through a graphics update before hasn't it?
• Dixon wrote on 2011-01-04 08:34

  Quote from Sevian;275443:

  Animation doesn't mean much when the entire game is basically animations put together
  
  Mabi has gone through a graphics update before hasn't it?

  
  
  An incredibly minor one as far as I can find. Like, basically just a reskin of Tir Chonaill. Nowhere near Mabinogi 2, which graphically resembles Final Fantasy XIV.
• Offspring wrote on 2011-01-04 08:40

  Quote from Wrath;275423:

  unless they decide to add in a bunch of totally non-related things.

  
  Sounds like g9-g12 to me.
  :pick:
• User495 wrote on 2011-01-04 08:41
  You've seen Mabinogi 2's graphics?
  
  From the video I saw it was just a blank character model
• Jando wrote on 2011-01-04 08:48
  Mabinogi 2 is going to be Vindictus-on-steroids like graphics.
  
  They're changing the engine to a new one (forgot the name of it) which is what is making this such a big issue since what will happen to mabinogi 1 and if mabinogi characters can be transferred or not.
  
  Mabinogi 2 will fail if Mabinogi 1 characters cannot be transferred to it so making it a separate game is pointless which strengthens the hypothesis that its just going to be a 'massive update' and take 'insert an amount of time here." All they have to do is (Nexon) is have mabinogi 2 ready to go with all the content that mabinogi 1 has at the time, copy (not cut) the characters from mabinogi 1 and paste them into Mabinogi 2 while converting them (Laymen terms used).
  
  That is how I see it.
• krpr wrote on 2011-01-04 09:25
  it will be a separate game. One good example is ragnarok online and ragnarok online 2
  funny how ppl still prefer the 1st instead