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Well I started to play the game because of the unique concept of having a character learn everything with enough time, and the fact the combat was rather tactical. I always enjoyed tactics and expérimentations, doing things in a way others dont.
My experimentations drove me to get a pretty strange "Inside" view of the game, where I started to instinctively break down mechanics, and sequences to analyze and build my own tactics from it. It resulted in a kind of encyclopedic knowledge which I loved to share. I would remember "old ways" and advocate for them, even as others found cleaner, more efficient ways to proceed. Time was not an issue for me.
The number one reason though ? My guild. I experienced the game with them, and through them, the people who taught me were in it, and the people I taught in turn joined it. My guild is central to the game for me, I was influencial in it for a long time as a pseudo lead, and am still appreciated in it, even as I serve no practical function in it now. Mabi always seems to attract very colorful personalities, the type of personalities that just makes the end of the day that much more enjoyable.
I use to be on 4-10 hours+ a day every day (2-4 hours when i was in high school/elementary, FYI i am 27 now), i would like to get back into mabinogi but been hard to find people to find materials for/with or even help with just basics.
i made and had many friends in mabinogi, helped make and run guilds (stonekillers, Soulssect) and had a girlfriend that we had a relationship that lasted 5 years.
i was even there for the "unofficial guild wars" back in the day.
Why am I still playing Mabinogi for 10 years? Because it is the only game where I feel the connection through my character's journey, from being a noobie to senior. There's something about my character being special. I am getting rusty but I am still playing it at least not much to do. Mabinogi feels so outdated now and praying at least get some renovation of beginner's guide and hairstyles (who want those beginner's hairstyles?).
During the summer of that year, I've finally was able to login to the game. From that very year to this I've had the grandest time enjoying the game from it's first events to it's newer updates, Like when we first obtained horses, the introduction to style tab, and the selection of a brand new race(s). But I didn't come alone on this journey, my twin sister as well has played alongside me and we've both have a love for this game like no other game we've played.
I do hope that what anyone tells you about Mabinogi in general even with all the flaws, This game holds a very special place in our hearts.
update old content or replace it dont just add new things on top, cant do it to the game then make a new version please
spirit weapons meet erg, fashinogi meet 6 colourable parts per (new)clothing,giants still cant buy armour outside of physis but they can craft stuff in the hillwen mines,btw why dont hillwen and magic craft have there own talents-to few skills- just look at merchant
However in December 2009 I was alerted by a dutch friend that MabinogiEU had just opened a closed beta, and I managed to snag a code from a promotional website!
I'd never really played an MMO before, but it wasn't long before I made a bunch of friends that, **9 years later**, I still speak to daily, and even hang with irl.
Unfortunately, in 2012 MabiEU announced it would be ending it's services. We felt it was coming, NexonEU clearly didn't put effort into managing or advertising the game to it's fullest potential, and we believed the rumor that the Mabinogi EU team was made up of 4 people, and were pretty sure only one of them knew how the game worked. However, NexonNA opened it's doors to us in the wake of it all, and my friends migrated from Morrighan to Mari. (And then we crashed the server... oops)
Meeting the NA community opened me up to even more friends, and we all were incredibly creative. About 2 years of us bonding over our love for this game and the characters we'd created through art and writing has left pleasant memories, even if most of them have put the game down to play other things. I still see them slide back into Mabinogi for a couple days. Kinda like visiting grandma. Me on the otherhand? I still play. Pretty casually due to life, but I still play.
Why?
The Core game?: Outside of the memories this game has for me, I found the unique playstyle and freedom this game has is unrivaled by any other game on the market. Nothing holds up to what it offers. Though other, newer games are certainly more intuitive and fun nowadays, I always find myself going home to grandma when I get bored, and all with it's clunky fun.
The Gameplay?: As someone who suffered from abysmal lag and was the weakest of my friends, I didn't enjoy the gameplay early on. However life skills gave me the oppurtunity to help my friends where i failed in combat. Now, I'm just grossly overpowered and the objective is to simply do enough damage to ignore most of the core mechanics that the game is based on. It feels... good, though. To finally be that strong.
The Community?: I stuck with my friends, and had bad experiences with guilds, but Mabinogi has always drawn out a weird desire to interact with others. In the past, the towns swarming with players to a point where my Laptop pulled the trigger on itself was beautiful to see. Nowadays in Mabinogi it's heartwrenching to see the towns empty...
The Setting and Story?: WHOEVER WROTE CHAPTER 6, I LOVE YOU. Yup, this is the one. I genuinely ADORE the Irish influence in Mabinogi, and the writing, although a bit... odd in places (Saga...) I find foreshadowing to future mainstream quests keep me eager for the next story update. I love the characters, I love that the story isn't rediculously nitty gritty but it's still capable of being dark, I love the personality that was given to the Milletian player's character and how it acknowledges the unbalanced, overpowered powercreeping nature of the player. It feels meta. I like meta. I feel like I can forgive the power creep based on the fact that it makes SENSE.
My child?(!?): No, not an actual child. I'm talking about my Mabi character. This one's a little sad, not tragic, just... really pathetic. But one of the major reasons I keep playing this game is because I'm attached to my Mabinogi character. I've adopted her as an Original character, given her depth and character as a writer. I don't view her as my avatar but as her own character. She's looked nearly the same for 9 years. My goal in Mabinogi, currently, is to simply rank all of my skills to 1. This way I feel like I've completed her. Additionally, I wish for my writing to one day be aknowledged. I don't ever intend to seperate it from the Mabinogi universe to make it my own original works. It's my love letter to the series that held my hand growing up.
In a Nutshell: I am attached to this game. Unbelievably emotionally attached. I get this weird empty feeling every time I complete the latest mainstream expansion knowing that it'll be a while before we see the next. All my old friends even returned to the game in the summer and we played for about 2 months before they put it back down for the next expansion. I want to support the game more! I hate Gacha but it's really the only thing I can do to support the game. I wish I could buy merchandise or something, but even if NA released merchandise, I'm european, and it probably wont ship overseas...
I wish there was something I could do to actively support this game and keep it going for a little while longer.
Giegue's baby pictures: This is when I bought her signature outfit on MabiEU
Even in Maplestory 2 I play Mabinogi.
9 years later she's just a little shinier:
Edit: Writing this post made me late for work.
Hi Mom :V
plus i love how u can create your own character so no one looks the same completely
sure it may be hard in some areas but u just got to get strong and there are other people to help u for ideas how to beat bosses and things if ur stuck.
Why do I play Mabinogi? I really enjoy how unique it is to other games. So much freedom, no pressure to level anything. The skills and combat are great. The events are fun! I loved the anniversary one this year! The fact you can dye stuff based on hex code makes it feel limitless, and I never see people look identical unless planned. The music stuff is awesome too. I enjoy listening to people play at the banquets.
One of my favorite reasons to be in Mabi... is the rain. I love sitting somewhere quiet and just watch the rain fall. It's not much really, but so few games have a weather system, and I appreciate those little things the most.
TLDR I play Mabinogi for its unique, social aspect and pixel'd rain.