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Mabinogi Direct Launch Ending March 16th
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Could've just done it without telling them, but I do hope you have fun should legal get called down upon you.
It only gets dumb when the log in servers have a small heart attack like they did this weekend.
I think this is a move happening with all of their games, so the Mabi team may not have much choice on waiting. It blows, but it's not the end of the damn world like half this thread is making it out to be. Also worth pointing out that the NA team doesn't create the fixes in the game, the new content, or events: that is almost entirely done by a development team based in Korea.
If them trying to push users to use a launcher program that they have been pushing for the past year and a half is what is going to push you out of the game for good, you were already three-quarters of the way out the door. They aren't trying to make you quit, so stop trying to make it sound like they are.
I seriously doubt that OS or internet speed are going to cause issues with the Launcher (though Mac OS hates everything), and I don't think specs alone would kill the launcher. But if people have legit issues, they need to report them through Tech Support so that the dev team can be informed that the issues are there. Most of the complaints are pretty vague and won't help them too much, so if people would just fill out a report fully perhaps some of the prominent issues can be fixed in the coming week.
Ok I'll clarify that a bit: I doubt that the OS or internet on it's own will make the launcher completely error out and cease functioning. The launcher won't work without internet access, clearly, but it shouldn't error out in ways people are yelling about just because your internet is being funky. OS is a little bit iffy, but pretty much the same unless you're running something that isn't Windows.
The launcher running in the background and hogging resources hasn't been an issue for me, but I do recall people a while ago saying it was using a lot of CPU. It's definitely not ideal, but you can stop the process in task manager after launching until a general fix is made.
GM Dreuk
Hi Himochi! This is GM Dreuk. How may I help you today?
Himochi
Not sure you can, but hopefully! People just aren't getting a lot of answers via the forums, and inquiring minds want to know!
With the removal of direct launch, does that mean that players will ONLY be able to play Mabinogi via the Nexon Launcher? Or is the Steam platform version still going to be an acceptable way to login?
The Nexon Launcher has an unfortunate history of a) causing a lot of lag for players with older computers since it runs additional software in the background and b) being prone to bugs such as the Play button not functioning every time you try to load.
GM Dreuk
Yes.
Players can access the game via the Nexon launcher and Steam launcher only.
The Nexon launcher is being updated and fixed over time. So, there will be no problem with that.
Himochi
I kind of thought that might be the case, and I'm very glad to hear it.
Thanks for posting this so we finally have a solid answer ^^ Very glad the Steam version should still work after the 16th. It is sad the direct launcher is going as this will cause us to lose mabi players. However I still prefer Steam over the crappy nexon launcher.
I disagree. There's no acceptable reason to end the Direct Launch. And the reason why people are thinking its the end of the world is because Nexon Launcher is an utter load of crap for many; they have the same problems as the few people who can't get the Direct Launcher to run; if anything, they should just end the Nexon Launcher.
Faith? If this was any other company, I'd try to have faith. But having faith in Nexon?
Guess I'll raise a ticket myself.
It's not that extreme to me. If the launcher is that bad people can go to steam where it will work. I just can't see ANY company forcing a broken launcher onto us without trying to fix it at all. They might take their time, but they'll fix it, just like how they eventually got Mabinogi and their anti-hack program to work on windows. It'll be fine.
Yes lets have faith in bloatware. Lets have faith that apple knows what we want better than we do when they remove the headphone jack right?