Eralea

Greta wrote: »

Let's also point out that people outright eat you alive if you try to say that you are planning to report gold sellers/buyers and modders.

So proud of this community.

Correct, I know folks who have been kicked from parties because they were trying to draw attention to the cheating. It's toxic and runs deeper than people think.

The botters were so brazen, at one point, the leader of a certain endgame guild was found botting skill training in Tir Chonaill ch1. We know he was botting because we managed to lure the foxes and trap his character onto a fence, where he did this little sequence of twitching around and throwing out an occasional focused fist.

Eventually the actual human being came back to log into his other character for daily public girg raids. (NGL I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he found himself stuck on a fence.)

Can you imagine publicly cheating at Tir ch1? They were just that confident that Nexon wasn't gonna ban them. He still plays to this day.

Don't name them if you know who, it's unfortunately against the forums rules. Speaking of which, I'm probably more likely to get banned for bringing up the existence for RMTs, than they are for actually doing RMTs. Just a few months ago there was someone on these forums screeching about gold inflation when I've personally seen them offering paypal for stuff before. Gee, wonder what's the real reason they're so upset about the real world gold value getting worse?

Helsa wrote: »

Inflation is a problem but it's also an unsolvable issue. If players can choose to avoid gold sinks they will. If they enforce using gold sinks then the cure is likely going to be worse than the cold. The only way to be immune to inflation is to be a seller yourself. The super-rich in this game are so because they put the time, effort, and in many cases expense into being so; it's a game, no one was born wealthy. Unless everyone is willing to do the same there is just going to be a two-tiered virtual society. Doesn't this kind of thing happen in every multiplayer online game?

Don't talk like the massive amounts of gold in Alexina wasn't brought in by cheaters botting shadow missions, and MA tourney after missions got nerfed. This isn't "time and effort". It's automation and abuse of the terms of service.

Don't talk like there isn't a real world value for Mabinogi gold.

Don't talk like there isn't a huge RMT market on Facebook/Discord buying and trading gold and that abusers simply pay for the gold they need to buy gear and fashion.

Don't talk like Nexon didn't drag their feet when it came to banning the cheaters. Don't talk like Nexon didn't let the cheaters off easy even if they caught them. Don't talk like Nexon didn't unban the cheaters when they pleaded.

I know most low-to-mid level players aren't in the loop for these issues and maybe you aren't either, but if you are - pretending that Alexina's inflation is some kind of natural economic growth is wilfully ignoring the outright CHEATING done by certain endgame cliques on the server. Stop letting them get away with it.

The reason many legit endgame players left is because they didn't see the point in playing a game where you could simply bot in all your money to buy gear and rebirth potions. Why waste time playing when no rules were being enforced? There is no fun in playing a game with cheaters.

Do you know those cheaters view legit casual players with contempt and disrespect because they aren't as strong as those who cheated their way up? Players like you are less than dirt to them because you play legitimately. Let that sink in for a bit. This is the cancerous mentality we're dealing with.

Do you know how they justify their cheating? "It doesn't affect other people, only me". Yeah right, as if the huge price tags on everything don't scare off new and returning players alike. As if it doesn't create an additional unnecessary hurdle for those of us who don't buy gold.

Stop pretending that this is normal. The inflation is caused by player abuse that went unchecked for far too long while Nexon dismissed reports and complaints.

And for those of you who realise that the abusers have moved to Nao and that you're already seeing the effects - it might not be too late to put a little more pressure onto Nexon to get this disease stopped. I mean, if you're not part of the problem. I know certain forum members are.

Lately I keep seeing people misusing items or just flat out not understanding events or game mechanics and instead of thinking "am I doing something wrong?" they go straight for "it's broken" or "it's a lie".

Like, there are plenty of actually broken things to complain about, you don't need to make up new ones out of the few functional things we have. Nexon can't fix PEBCAK errors.

Arjune wrote: »

Eweca is still the pink/red moon XD

dang beat me to it



I've just come to accept that the red moon reflects blue light somehow. Forget physics, it's a magical moon anyway.

Will those rocker wigs ever become Beauty Coupons? I kinda have an overwhelming dire need for this hairstyle.

... should only apply if the price is 90% higher than average.



Please. No one is worried about buying something that's 90% lower than average. In fact, it would be fantastic if I could buy everything at 90% lower than average price.