Heloise

Hey, not that it means anything to anyone else but I've been playing Mabi on and off for at least ten years now and I'm really glad to see it still going! That being said, since the Laighlinne partner was released I've been trying to have money at the same time as one of the very infrequent sales of it and, being on and off, I seem to have missed every opportunity. Not that it should be brought back just because I don't have it, but I've heard others say it's been a while too and I'd just like to cast my cheer forward to have it brought back again please! I'd buy it right up, and nothing would make me happier in the game than to be able to set up in Dunby like old times and play cool music with a partner and bandmate

Either way, thanks for one of the few games that has a fun musical component to it; here's to hoping the Unreal update will take the music aspect to the next level like they did with Maplestory 2 (before that sadly tanked ;_; ). Maybe MIDI controller implementation? *wink*

There really isn't too much point arguing about it except to share dissent. The results, regardless of opinion, speak for themselves: Alexina is becoming a husk, and Nao is the greener pasture. Again, regardless of opinion, as this becomes more apparent it brings up other issues such as a stagnating market, or lack of population for dungeons and raids. This will happen with or without dissent, it's just a fact. What dissent will do, however, is at least be another factor in how Nexon should be making their next choice in terms of server maintenance, the key word being SHOULD. What I foresee is that before they even consider another merge, they'll give incentives for players to join Alexina in attempt to balance things out, but if that doesn't work they really won't have that much of a choice. If enough people get upset about the state of things now, it's possible it could speed things up a bit.

Well, I'm at least glad to know that people are talking about it XD

CapnRecon wrote: »

It's amazing reading and trying to analyze the mental gymnastics in some of these posts. First people beg for a server merge, and now that it's finally happened and the in-game community is far closer than before with the arbitrary walls brought down, people complain about it. If it were up to me, Mabi would have one main server with a bunch of channels hosted in different parts of the world, similar to how RuneScape does things. I've always hated there being four arbitrary walls that only serve to seperate the community of the same game. I logged into my old Mari character after the merge just to check things out, and ended up practically abandoning my Alexina character because I just enjoy playing in the newly merged Nao server far, far more. There's people everywhere, and the world feels like it's actually got stuff going on in it at all times. Before the merge, everything felt stagnated. You'd be hard-pressed to find a group for Girg raids and the like, even in Alexina. You'd have to wait around for certain times of the day or join one of the select few massive guilds (In Alexina's case, Asesinos and Prudentia come to mind) to do a raid or two.

For me at least, Mabi after the merge feels like an MMO again. I'm actually meeting new people and making new connections. I know they all played on the other three servers before the merge, but that's the thing; I would never have known these people or got to enjoy the game with them if the servers didn't merge. Again, all seperate servers do is put up arbitrary walls in the community in my eyes. I remember meeting people IRL that happened to play Mabi, and talking to them about it. Then when the inevitable question, "Which server do you play on?" came up, it's always a 75% chance they aren't in the same server.

So yeah, guess you could say I'm glad the servers are merged.

Xaden wrote: »

To be Honest, Alexina server, doesn't want the overpopulation that Nao has right now. things are laggy, shop channels are denied to get into. but its getting better as days as passing and more people go back to being away from the game for a bit.

And to you. Stop speaking for Alexina if you don't even play in it. I've played in Alexina for six years, and we have people actively leaving Alexina to play in Nao. Alexina was a stagnant hellscape before the merge, and it remains even more so after. The guild of people I played with in Alexina for all those years have all migrated to Nao because it feels like the game is actually an MMO over there.

I wasn't going to put my two cents in because up until I read this thread I wasn't aware that the merge left out Alexina - the server I just so happen to be on. I for real thought the game was so dead and I was going to try everything I could to start playing again despite that. Now that I've read through this thread, and your post, I have something to say about it.

What an absolutely narrow-minded thought process.

You have the ability to stand on your foundation because you found it feasible to make a server jump. "Abandon ship," as it were. And since you made that decision, suddenly the game had meaning for you. So because you decided making the call to jump to Nao was worth it based on the resources you could expend on leveling an entirely new character, means that people should accept the server merge and be happy with it?

What blows my mind is that this company - famous for being absolutely and cringe-tastically awful with customer relations - and anyone that justifies the server situation in it's current iteration could be in a line of thinking that accepts abandoning a server that people have dedicated hundreds if not thousands of hours (and, to those with expendable incomes, hundreds if not thousands of dollars) to and leaving them in a vacuum that's being created by people evacuating for fear of being in an empty server (coincidentally, the main thing that CREATES an empty server). I'm more inclined to give Nexon a LIIIIITTLE benefit of the doubt and believe some of those in this thread that are saying this is a sign of yet another potential merge in the future. I can believe that and be patient.

What I can't be patient with is the idea that a character I created (almost ten years ago, now) and poured resources into, on a game I patronized and supported, for the explicit reason of being with a high population that I could interact with (as I am wont to do with most games), can be summarized by "just delete it and make a new one on Nao."

Haha, such hilarity.

No. Why? Because younger me worked a crappy school job in the cafeteria so I could occasionally splurge on a horse pet and be excited to go home and play. Because a younger me spent sleepless nights playing music in Dunbarton so I could pursue my love of music ingame and compose long and wonderful melodies to play for other random online players. Because a younger me spent days running dungeons with guildmates so I could loot that super cool weapon that I'd spend more days upgrading and working on. Because a younger me wanted desperately to get that new instrument that came out and some friends pooled together to get it for me so I could compose more cool songs for all of us to play.

Me now? I'm coming back to try and remember how to do things. But I still have those weapons in my inventory, I still have those music scrolls that I cherish, and I still have those instruments that I spent years collecting on pets that I spent money on. You're going to tell me that because of a merge that I had no choice in causing a population discrepancy that's not my fault should be dealt with by erasing the ten years of work I put on that character and start fresh on a new server I never had to pay attention to until today?

No. No no no. Not just because of what I had put up with, or because of the memories I have here, or even because of losing my progress. It's that I don't have the kind of time I had then, nor do I have the mental capacity I once had. In those ten years I was hit hard with Major Depressive Disorder and anxiety, and lost a lot of my interests and lifelong endeavors as well as good friends. I doubt I'll ever find another community like that again, and I miss them, but Nexon didn't force that on me. I did. What I won't allow Nexon to force on me is the unfair product of their mistakes. In this case, the death of the Alexina server. I'm not jumping to conclusions; like I said, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is just par for the course. The server will merge again, and probably not too far from now judging from how badly things are going.

In the event they won't, and Alexina becomes a ghost along with the rest of the game, I'll pack my bags, accept my losses, and move on. But right now Mabinogi isn't dead yet, and I want to have as much enjoyment from what's left of it. Nexon has the resources to fix this problem, and they should, but nobody can say that this was a success to the community as a whole, when so much of the community is left behind.

It's still Nov. 9th, the Laig partner is gone. I've been waiting a long time for this and could not get money until now, and you're telling me that on the day the sale extends to, you take down the sale? It's 7:00 here, exactly what time warp have you gone through that makes half the day constitute as an ending sale date when you only have the sale going on for a week?

This was going to be what brought me back into Mabinogi. For ten years I've played this game, and frankly there wasn't enough really keeping me here so it's not really the biggest letdown in the world. But this is pretty much what finishes me ever returning to this game again.