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A slog you say? Barri Normal even with the revamp is still pretty easy peasy to blaze through though. Stuff like the revamped Fiodh Normal on the other hand will tear a newbie apart in mere seconds...
It's hard to estimate, but I'd guess that at this point, Mari has roughly 300-400 people left who spend more than 20 hours a week in-game doing not-AFK things.
Umm nexon would have to ok it getting another publisher as Nexon owns Devcat who develops it.
This isn't like other games like DFO that were just published by nexon for a time, and moved.
Even if it were hypothetically possible for another publisher to take over the game it's not like there's any other F2P MMORPG publishers out there that are better. I mean hell even with how bad Nexon NA can be at least they're not Aeria Games! Aeria Games has published and driven so many MMOs into the ground over the years alongside being P2W to the extreme that it's beyond ridiculous.
Though as far as milking players through gachas goes, that's something found in just about every F2P MMORPG in existence. Given it's been proven to be a model that works for making companies tons of easy money. Sure it feels really scummy and frustrating from the point of view of a non-gacha spamming player. But from a business point of view it's pure genius. Given the number one thing all MMORPG publishers care about is making money. So if anything the blame really lies with the fact that there's people out there with way too much disposable income that enable these publishers to keep pushing gachas so hard. Since they wouldn't be doing it if it weren't so darn crazy profitable.
(I can't speak for you, but the MMOs I still frequent don't milk their cash shop anywhere near as hard as NA Nexon milks theirs.)
I only said it was "genius" from a business perspective. In the sense of maximizing profits while minimizing operation costs. Since from a business perspective (not a player perspective) that's surely ideal for a company like Nexon.
Also, I feel the need to point out that Nexon can't lose Mabinogi like they lost certain other titles. Because Mabinogi is made by DevCAT Studios and Nexon quite literally owns them.
1 this is an mmorpg if you can't do something on your own party up that's part of the point of the game hell that was the main reason most people like playing mmorpg's.
2 ok first thing blacksmith is worthless while yes the main reason most people do it is very much worthless aside from a few weapons due to gacha the stats it gives aren't worthless as it gives stamina something that is quite useful.
secondly you aren't going to slog through barri to let them get ore because mobs have "2000hp" then don't someone else will do so.