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One of the "selling" points about permadeath gaming is it encourages realistic decision making. For example, in permadeath you couldn't say step through a door see what's in the room, die, revive, equip yourself with the proper equipment THEN step through the door again and live. To be honest permadeath actually sounds good, on paper, but can only work in a game not only where a player invests a moderate amount into their avatar, but also has a clear ending. There is an example to follow here: Minecraft. I used to play in ironman mode strictly. I could handle it and I can honestly say it made me a better player of the game, but try building a world in ironman and then die stupidly. Stupid deaths happen ALL the time, even in the real world. Well, it didn't take me long before I started making copies of my game first before playing on so I could reconstitute it if I died. Because, if you spend two months making a sea lantern factory in ironman and then die stupidly, guess what, your not having fun. At that point why bother with all the trouble and just play in Survival instead. So, now in Minecraft, I still play ironman, but those games are ones where I make the bee-est line to the Enderdragon, and once I kill it, I stop playing that game. Survival is where I make all my farms and so on the hard way and just keep playing. Mabinogi is a just keep playing kind of game.

So the end result here is although the concept of a permadeath situation has some things of interest, Mabinogi isn't the right game for it.

48% stake? That's a whole lot different. He may be the largest stockholder in the company but that is not technically a controlling interest. This story is looking more and more like a nothing-burger.

Kensamaofmari wrote: »

Sebastian wrote: »

Rajinsu wrote: »

so does that mean if its sold off we would have to redownload the game under the new owners site and start all over agin?

It would be in their best interest to secure the progress of the current playerbase. But the truth is we have no idea what's going to happen. It's wiser to wait and see rather than speculate, which would quickly devolve into FUD if left unchecked.

The only way we would redownload is if whoever buys out, decides to fold operations of Nexon NA and switch it onto their own server, or if they bought out the server rights for the game.

Having to manually re-download is unlikely. What's the point of buying Nexon? For their ground breaking technology? Doubtful. It's for their money making assets. That includes the servers hosting Mabinogi, the personal maintaining them, the building they are housed in, the IP addresses, and the website, to name a few. What this means is "Under New Management" won't mean anything unless the new owners decide that Mabinogi doesn't cover their opportunity cost and make their expected rate of return. So keep spam buying those gacha's boys and girls if you're worried about it. If a new owner say decides to swap out the Nexon logo for their own, then that will be done as part of a regular update.

At the end of the day I think everything will be fine. According to the story this guy owns 98% of the company, so what he did then was make the smallest possible IPO to create a public entity to shield himself from any potential litigation rather than continuing with a private company and remaining vulnerable. This kind of thing is normal in business. It's was just bad luck for him that the legal troubles he got into were ones that could be pinned to him rather than the company. He won that fight in court but since it was probably "South Korea vs Kim Jung-ju", first-world governments having VERY deep pockets for these kinds of things, it must've come at quite a cost, made clear when his legal team said "Congratulations, here's our bill." Likely he has to sell stock to pay his lawyers and who knows maybe it costs a ton to keep his wife in furs. The way the story is written implies he's selling it all, but that may not actually be true.

IIRC the error is the use of the % symbol. If you take % to mean "parts" then convert to percentage it works out. For example say some recipe has two ingredients; one listed as 50% and another as 70%. The first one will be 50/(50+70) =5/12 = 42%. The other will be 70/(70+50) = 7/12 = 58%.

Kensamaofmari wrote: »

And elf and giant guards don't even aggro anymore. Wait, what is their existence for now?

Public answer: atmosphere.
Private answer: it was a lot less work to just set their passive flag to permanent than to remove them.