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woohoohelloppl wrote on 2010-08-11 04:30
Basically for fun and to kill time when I have nothing else to do. Mabi is my escape from the real world and other MMO's, I guess.
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silentselene wrote on 2010-08-11 04:43
I see Mabi as a more social thing, since I've made some really great people playing. I have zero willpower for grinding, so I only get about 20 levels per rebirth, but what I am good at is learning a lot about the game. So even with most of my skills at Rank F, I can still get by and have fun. Of course, even small character growth contributes in the long run, so I'll catch up soon enough.
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Chillax wrote on 2010-08-11 04:57
Quote from abc33kr;120777:
i play mabi and do my hw on my free time (from mabi).
but i still don't flunk in school.
is there something wrong with me?
Depends on if you're in high school or college, what college you're in, and if you're in college, what major you're in. If you're a science major in a competitive college, most likely you won't be able to get above 60/20 in Mabi.
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Zid wrote on 2010-08-11 06:20
Quote from Rysterz;120742:
I used to be all about the grind and competition with some of my choice Mabi friends.
Now though it's more of me just quite literally making my own character and i guess identity in the game. I have a great deal of things coming up on my plate that I may even end up temporarily leaving the game so I've stopped trying to be the elite and trying to just be me which has never been elite just well traveled if you get my drift. I still spend far too much on this game but it's my only source of entertainment anymore outside of randomly going out for a bit or watching my movies at home so I don't mind as much. Better than me getting wasted every weekend spending a hundred bucks on booze like I did before in my mind.
My purpose is just to play with my good mate and now online bro, a few friends and playing the game the way i used to play it. Sure i'm low level and rank F virtually everything again but it's all good because I already have an arsenal of high level characters if i ever want to go into that elitist atmosphere. Play to have fun not play to be the best.
I'm sort of like this. Just being this one person I want to be, and taking on my desired identity.
Friends are a good reason to stay too. But we all try to get strong... so that we can beat the storyline in a flashy, intense way.
Just today, I helped a friend with G3 Baol (The other party member d/ced near the beginning of the 2nd floor). No rewards, but good time and strength of being together through the struggles. And that pretty epic feeling of toppling overwhelming odds with your friend is awesome. And a bravo finish to a story my friend started on.
I grind and get stronger to help friends and guildies through their trying times at what they're doing, and make sure it's a wonderful experience for them, whatever they decide to do. There's not a lot in Mabinogi that is as meaningful to me as going through G3 Baol with friends; to see the fruits of your grinding labor, to help them enjoy their experience with no rewards but satisfaction of the fun and the paying-off of your grinding, is fulfilling in that sense.
The problem is the extremely high lvl cap to this game. There's a sense of achievement in getting everything to be the best, and this game just tantalizes a lot of people to put incredible amounts of time into it to be on that path. Some hook Mabinogi has that makes people play it despite its almost abysmal grinding pit.
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Shirayuki wrote on 2010-08-11 06:49
I originally joined Mabi just for the hell of it and played for fun mostly. I guess the grindy skills like WM and some Lifeskills took some time from my real life, and I guess made me a whole lot lazier when it came to actual stuff to do... And of course playing Mabi cost me maybe a hundred dollars in NX? If I had that money right now I would've had a new comp in front of me xD Now I guess I just continue Mabi for my friends, since they never log on MSN(</3) :l
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Zephy wrote on 2010-08-11 08:06
When I'm not hanging out with friends, I play Mabi to kill the rest of the time, assuming I have nothing else important to do.
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Aubog007 wrote on 2010-08-11 10:19
My purpose right now is to build up my character to what it should be before my previous one was deleted.
Max strength skills and max HP skills.
Problems it brings me is that getting 90/20 a week at TL 300-800 alienates a lot of my friends on the game because I focus on the game and not the people.
Soon it will all be over.
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Phunkie wrote on 2010-08-11 11:40
I like to run lots of Shadow Missions and level up like crazy, but being in a guild kinda hinders my progress a little.
It's not that I don't like helping others, but some of my guild members just depend on me too much. Phunkie, help me with G8 Final. Phunkie, help me with G9. It's like, uhhhhhhh... I wanna do other things as well.
Some of them get mood swings too. It's kinda strange.
But I like my guild. They make the game interesting, albeit frustrating.
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paladin wrote on 2010-08-11 11:53
Quote from Ninjam;120757:
My purpose in mabi is to play with my friends
No real problems with mabi per say, but i used to have a problem with video games sapping all my time and being too shy to make friends.
Now its fine though, cause im addicted to anime more now, and i figured out theres an anime club at my school, so both problems are gone at the same time.
This
But yea to socialize mainly and have fun
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December wrote on 2010-08-11 11:57
I have mixed feelings about MMOs, while I dont know when I will quit mabinogi, they're inevitably a time that I wil. I wonder sometimes whether its a waste ot time, pouring effort into something which one day you will abandon, but I suppose their is no substitute for "fun", thus I continuing playing. My goal really is to reach that 'elite' level though while I get stronger and stronger, the bar gets higher and higher T.T
Quote from Yogurticecream;120719:
My answer to him is that I am playing this game AND I do not want to be played by this game.
Thats a quote worthy comment
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Kept wrote on 2010-08-11 13:48
I played at first for the grind. I loved dueling and dungeon-ing and spending more than half of my day just beating players up and killing monsters. Then I quit the game for six months. Now that I've come back for, like, less than a day, I've finally found the distraction I've been needing from any troubles I might have in real life.
You could call it an escape of sorts, this game. Personally, I think "The Fantasy Life" is no exaggerated alternative name for it. I literally forgot everything real in my life. Relationship problems, family troubles, my uncle talking in his sleep behind me, and even time itself I forgot.
My purpose in playing Mabinogi now is to completely cut myself off from the world if only for a short time. I know that sounds very get-a-life-ish but it's nice forgetting sometimes. I had fun coming back. Hopefully I'll have fun staying.
EDIT: I meant to ask somewhere in this post...
I read all of the replies in this thread and I can't recall any one of them not being near grammar-perfect. Does this site have some sort of automatic spelling and grammar function or some'n?
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Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-08-11 15:21
Quote from Kept;121283:
EDIT: I meant to ask somewhere in this post...
I read all of the replies in this thread and I can't recall any one of them not being near grammar-perfect. Does this site have some sort of automatic spelling and grammar function or some'n?
Nope.
You can try firefox browser though, it has spellcheck.
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Bankai231 wrote on 2010-08-11 16:18
Its my life. I have no friends.
NAHH.
I used to play because I could never really invite friends over to hang out or anything. But now since Im level 800+ Id rather not waste what ive done and continue playing this game. Its a great game. Ive played many mmos and this one tops all of them. Its addicting x.x
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Karmel wrote on 2010-08-11 19:51
i in the end want to be a produceing force so stronge that i can lower the price of everything and ruin price gougers out of them game ( gogo walmart powers)
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paladin wrote on 2010-08-11 19:59
Quote from Zid;121019:
I'm sort of like this. Just being this one person I want to be, and taking on my desired identity.
Friends are a good reason to stay too. But we all try to get strong... so that we can beat the storyline in a flashy, intense way.
Just today, I helped a friend with G3 Baol (The other party member d/ced near the beginning of the 2nd floor). No rewards, but good time and strength of being together through the struggles. And that pretty epic feeling of toppling overwhelming odds with your friend is awesome. And a bravo finish to a story my friend started on.
I grind and get stronger to help friends and guildies through their trying times at what they're doing, and make sure it's a wonderful experience for them, whatever they decide to do. There's not a lot in Mabinogi that is as meaningful to me as going through G3 Baol with friends; to see the fruits of your grinding labor, to help them enjoy their experience with no rewards but satisfaction of the fun and the paying-off of your grinding, is fulfilling in that sense.
The problem is the extremely high lvl cap to this game. There's a sense of achievement in getting everything to be the best, and this game just tantalizes a lot of people to put incredible amounts of time into it to be on that path. Some hook Mabinogi has that makes people play it despite its almost abysmal grinding pit.
The thing is about the grind is
With the how social it is
and everything
Few things even feel grindy