Hello, considering I've helped revitalize Maplestory a while ago in a BIG way with my suggestions, which turned into the "Maplestory Reboot" update, which saw a massive increase in players & still has the most players out of any other Maplestory server, I hope you'd take my feedback seriously!
This is a list of suggestions to be done IN ORDER:
1. Merge all current servers. (The population of all of them is much to low currently.) This will be server 1.
The following suggestions will all be in regards to a second, new server. This will be server 2:
The following is more or less a list of suggestions for a NEW SEPARATE SERVER, that is more akin to the way Mabinogi was originally, a competitive/"hardcore" version! NONE of the following suggestions will effect the current servers,(unless you want it to, otherwise don't worry about it if you don't like the suggestions, as they won't effect your current version of the game! Everybody wins! Yay!)
Nexon still needs to realize something, that they don't seem to currently be aware of when most people play games. Competition, & Socialization.
Just like how Maplestory previously went downhill because of this lack of awareness, it's now happening to Mabinogi as well, but I'm here to help fix it, because I love both games!
There are a few main reasons, players end up quitting this wonderful game.
Firstly, the cashshop is a big reason! Many players want a sense of achievement & competition. Please take a look at the most played multiplayer games, ALL of them are fairly balanced, extremely competitive, and you can't BUY any advantages in them with real money. At best the only thing you MAY be able to buy in some of those games is UNTRADEABLE COSMETIC items, and nothing else.
Many players also will care about the in game economy of the game. The decisions made to Mabinogi over the last few years have totally ruined ALL of that, and as a result you see the decline in players. Many current players will DEFEND such bad practices because they still love the game dearly and are afraid that if they say something negative about this beloved game that it will hasten its death. I love the game enough to say that I will not stand idle and help dig Mabinogi's grave, instead this is my attempt to save it before it's to late! I'm here to tell you the truth about your dying game, if you shall care to save it!
Nexon, please understand, any time you allow players to obtain items/pets or exp services for real money or through limited time events, you are ruining your own game because many players, whether they admit it or not, care about competing with other players, many care about the economy when they want to buy or sell items, and many care about having a sense of accomplishment or achievement. When you make the content so easy to do like how you toned down the first few generation quests to make them so easy, or implemented memoirs to gain such massive amounts of EXP & rebirths to the likes of which I'm many times higher level than I'd ever been able to be before in this game, or chain blade making the game extremely easy killing almost anything with 1-2 hits, it's time to go back to your origins for this game!
Let me give you an example,
if I want to "compete" with other players for who has the most money or best items in the game? All I need to do is spend real money..
The next example, what if I want to have the highest level out of all of the players? Oh, look theres Blaanid and her memoirs, now I'm past level 5,000 in a few days, there's no point to levels now!
What if I want a sense of accomplishment or achievement for doing those very challenging generation quests? Oh, wait all of those have been made ridiculously easy to do now!
What if I want to get some of those exclusive time limited event items, but I'm not able to log in? Oh I guess I can't!
What if I want to play with my friends who are on a different server? Can't I transfer my character & pets? Oh..I can't. (Please note if my suggestions are implemented, please do NOT allow server transfers(from the current version of the game) to this server as it would totally defeat the purpose of it.)
What if I want to play with my friends who are from different countries? Oh, I can't..They are purposely being blocked from playing this version of the game!
What if I want to make some new friends? Oh most of the players are AFK or fly away before I can reach them on their flying mounts!
What if I want to do some of the generations quests with some other players? Oh, noone wants to do that content because they are busy AFKing at the events.
What if I want to do some part time jobs for NPCs, those give me good rewards right? Oh..they definitely don't.
I can make some money by leveling my life skills though right? Oh, compared to the cash shop items, they are barely worth anything at all..
What if I don't want to use Windows to play this game? Oh.. I have no choice but to use Windows.
What if I want to do some dungeons with other players? Oh, they are either busy afking at events or, noone does that content anymore, they race through boring shadow missions at Tara/Tailteann instead.. In fact, every shadow mission I joined, the players had raced through and defeated every monster and completed the whole mission before I could even reach them.
I'm a player who enjoys competing with other players and feeling like I actually achieved something when I play games. Nexon, (not asking other players) I want to hear it from Nexon, please explain to me the need to invalidate the majority of your game's content just so that I can reach a high level and do the newest content only to make me consider quitting because there's nothing left to do at that point? Guess what Nexon, World of Warcraft tried that to, and guess where that got them? They are releasing a Classic World of Warcraft server now to bring back millions of players they lost from implementing such poor decisions!
Continued list of suggestions for Second Server:
2. Create a new, second server. (This is needed for the revitalization plan.) It would not be a good decision to make all these changes to the current server/s as there would be no point to doing so, since so many players already have so many unfair advantages in a competitive setting we need a separate server for the following.
3. Completely remove all of the cash shop & any microtransactions from the new Mabinogi: Origins server, except for 'VIP premium service'.
Since Nexon is a business, you want to make money of course, but I can prove to you that you can make more money in the longterm with a monthly fee than charging for gachapons/pets etc. The fee of the VIP premium service may be raised if need be in the interim.
4. On this new second server, VIP premium service will be needed to do any of the generation quests, access Belvast/Iria & rebirth once a week, otherwise without premium you can only rebirth every two weeks, and you can't do any generation quests or access other continents. I would like to discuss this with the other players to see what limitations they think may be better suited, because there NEEDS to be a limitation on players who aren't VIP, as Nexon has to make money somehow, it's just that we want it to be in a fair way for competition, instead of through unfair cash shop.
5. Remove summoning time from all pets, & make them last permanently, EXCEPT for flying pets/unfair advantage pets. All pets that would give an unfair advantage need to have a reduced summoning time. Flying pets should be the rarest pets and have a low summoning time. Unfair advantage pets would be those that are stronger than the player themselves or give the player access to abilities that most other players would not have access to/in an easier way.
6. Remove ALL of the exp increase items, training potions, exp crystals, nao soul stones, "bomb items", remote blacksmith/shop coupons, basically all of the cheat/unfair advantage type of stuff.
7. Put all of the pets/cash shop items except the unfair/cheat type items, into the game itself as rare drops from monsters/chests.
8. Remove the enhanced EXP gain from VIP premium service.
9. Remove the random items you get every day from VIP premium service.
10. Merge the VIP inventory tab with the normal one.
11. Make style tab permanent.
12. Make ALL past, present & future events, last permanently in game. NEVER put cheat/unfair type of items in events, and NEVER give EXP bonus/training etc. Most people don't even like the events, and just do them to get the items, that's honestly the majority of your players, they only like the "events" because of the items they can get from them. I'd suggest instead of these normal "events", when you make new events, you simply permanently add the event items to rare drop tables of monsters/chests. I think your players will have way more fun this way, honestly. You constantly have these "events" where the majority of your playerbase is standing around AFK and not even there!
13. Make VIP players able to rebirth only every 7 days, remove all rebirth potions.
14. Decrease the massive amount of EXP gains from Blaanid/memoirs.
15. Put all the generations back to how they used to be in terms of difficulty before they were changed to make them so trivial to do.
16. Increase the gold/item rewards from doing part time jobs by NPCs.
17. (Missing due to inability to edit the post initially.)
18. Remove "pon" from the game. Any things which required pon can now be obtained in the game through normal means.
19. Remove gender specific requirements for items, so now players can wear whatever they want no matter the gender of the character.
20. Allow players to use their flying pets to fly in Emain Macha & Bangor.
21. Reduce the massive amount of damage that Chain blade/slash skills can do to reasonable levels.
22. Remove all kiosks & player shops, and increase the amount of auction slots you can have to unlimited or as much as possible, (I'd say hundreds of slots. 500 Seems like a good amount! Also allow us to sell pet medals in the auctions to!)
23. Make a better trade channel instead of people using the party channel. We need to remove all the party channel spam. It's so bad that I can't even see what people near me are saying most of the time because the party channel spam makes it scroll off the screen.
24. Increase the duration of chat messages on the screen and the length of time dropped items stay on the ground. Many times when I'm fighting in a dungeon, by the time I finish fighting, all of the items that dropped have already despawned!
25. This will be a controversial change but I suggest removing the Tara & Tailteann shadow missions, OR decreasing the EXP of them enough so that the regular dungeons would give more EXP/items than doing Tara & Tailteann shadow missions. In my opinion they just aren't as fun as the dungeons & are laid out very poorly compared to the linear dungeons.
26. For the new generations you create in the future, go back to your roots, Generation 1-2 were the best generations and could be expanded upon so much with new storylines/content. Wouldn't it be fun to have much more of the other world to explore and do quests in?
27. Some places like Avalon/Iria, are so large that they are not filled with enough content. If you compare how the original continent is compared to Iria/Avalon, you see that there's content every few steps you take, but in Iria/Avalon it's spread out so much just to make the place seem bigger. So I'd suggest filling those large empty spaces with more content in the future.
28. Remove the ability of players to fly without a pet OR put a time limit per day of how long they can do so with the particular item/wings etc, and make sure said items are as rare as the flying pets.
29. Remove all unfair/cheat type of titles from the game.(You can keep the titles themselves but remove the insane amount of bonuses they give)
30. Increase the requirements for breaking the seals to new areas. Make sure there are seals at EVERY entrance to every area now.
31. Increase the amount of advertising you do for the game. I speak to many new people on a daily basis and I can assure you, there are thousands of people who play videogames that have NEVER heard of Mabinogi, and can't even PRONOUNCE the name of it, which is a TERRIBLE thing! You can't have brand recognition like this. So to further this suggestion. I present the following:
32. Rename the new server version of Mabinogi as, "Mabi: Origins".
33. Release the game a second time on Steam under a new name, such as 'Mabi: Origins'. This will get people to actually SEE this game and possibly take interest in trying it!
Thank you for your time & consideration. I love Mabinogi & wish it a long life!
