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How many more years do you think Mabi has left?
Mabinogi is like my second home. Played it during beta and from time to time ill come back to mabi. But player base is decreasing which means mabi wont be making much money to keep it running. I'd hate to see that day come but it's bound to happen.
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I've seen games with playerbases of less than 100 still live even now, if one can even call it living.
As long as players exist and things are bought, I don't see mabi going down for many years.
As far as an IP, like Nilrem said, so long as there is a playerbase, the IP will live on.
Japan and Korea will probably still be operating long after. If you are talking about virtual reality and such, those are mainly just a painful to play fad, as is the movement based controls before it. (Seriously? I don't want to #$@!ing move my entire body, that is too much work.) In any case, the graphics are not as painful as World of Warcraft, as it is harder to compare animations styles and graphical advancements. At this point, there may be a peak for normal and high quality graphics, just as we usually do not go over 60 frames a second. Not sure.) I am not sure if we are getting anything on SAO's level, but I won't hold my breath till the next ten years if Kurzweil's prediction can be taken as accurate.
That being said, Peria Chronicle is coming up. The general notion that a Massive Multiplayer Game will ultimately die on graphical power alone is pretty inaccurate.
And then you have the people who claim they're gonna sell all their stuff off and leave but they either 1.) can't get the stuff to sell so they're here until they do for who knows how long, or 2.) they sell their stuff and stay anyway after. I see this happening a lot, at least on Tarlach.
^This. I came back for the first time in about a year the other day and said "Screw it, I'm gonna play like a noob because that's when I had the most fun." I redressed myself, changed my active talent to cooking (Not that cooking is less than any other talent; I just hadn't spent much time with it) and just started doing simple things. In the first day I had three different people approach me with random things: a regular conversation, help with fusion bolt, stuff like that. I can guarantee you that if I had stayed how I was, and outside of anything that I would have initiated myself, that would be more interaction then I would see in a month.
That all being said, I think the game has a lot of players still and a number of which still drop a pretty penny on things like gacha. I doubt the game will die within the next couple years but anything beyond that is simply unpredictable imo.
I feel like if they were to do this, they would just release new clothing instead of updating old ones, and just kinda mix and match which race gets what in terms of new clothes in gachas and stuff, if that makes sense.
These features have been available for like 20 years
WooWee! That sure was a grueling half hour dungeon run (ignoring the time it took to even get an advanced pass)! Take this gathering knife!!
lmao no kidding
With stuff like the above, Nexon will end up doing to Mabi like they did to DFO sooner than later. Before, I would have said 10+ more years, but now I am doubtful. I don't trust Nexon NA anymore at least.
I don't really care if people disagree with that, it's just my POV. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(i am weak to pixel gachas aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
I understand that, I've been here about 3 years and I know I've spent somewhere over $100 on gachas, outfits, and pets. I just sorta realized it's easier to buy with gold, especially with how unlucky I am at gachas. Just sucks when some things end up 100m+ in gold, those ones I can't get basically until they're rereleased XD
Nexon NA is actually my bigger concern as I've been trying to join a guild on this return, only to find that the guild I applied to expired shortly after. Basically, I'm stuck in a guild limbo. Not part of the guild I applied to, but can't join others. People have had this issue for a month and Nexon NA is still "looking into it". It actually makes me wonder how many of them know how to code and fix stuff and how many of them just translate and add content.
I'd love to see Mabinogi continue on for years to come, but I do wonder if Nexon NA feels the same way.