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No to banning guys that play as girls. By that logic, if anyone decides to play a character of the sex opposing your own, then that person is to be banned. That doesn't just follow guys playing as girls, but in turn girls playing as guys. That's idiotic because people will play as whatever gender they want to. The majority of the playerbase would be banned by such a rule and would limit the playability of the game. Legal clustermuck notwithstanding in regard to having to prove said sex to the game company.
I've made a lot of friends through Mabinogi through the years and it's never concerned me what the sex of the player behind their character. All that mattered to me is if they were friendly or not creepy. Unfortunately, I've had a bit of creepiness back in the day, but I would just blacklist the troublemaker and move on.
Part of playing the game is interacting with others. Granted not everyone does this, but by interacting with one another, you run the risk of being deceived as you can't look this player in the eye when you meet them. Therefore, you need to police your interactions. If someone is asking for 100m gold or to borrow super expensive equipment (and you do not know them), then that's a red flag that someone is just attempting taking advantage of you. Same as real life, except in real life, perhaps your friend wants to borrow $20 or your favorite jacket and never return them. It's a sad state of affairs that you can't trust everyone, but that's life and this fact is not exclusive to male or female. If you agree to hand over the gold or item, the fault lies with you if it turns out you have been scammed.
If you're being pestered for money, instead suggest ways how the player can earn money. What's the saying? Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime. This will also give you an opportunity to see how they react. If they won't do for themselves, why should you do for them? Be sure to include varying ranges of possibilities in accordance of their capacities.
Going back to Blissfulkill's post where this is mentioned:
'What if this beautiful female elf named Blissfulkill is really a guy player? Aren't they deceiving me with that beautiful elven swagger? I wouldn't have helped them or talk to them for 5 hours if they weren't female. Give me my time back!'
If you find yourself saying this after spending time with another player (and they haven't attempted to scam you), perhaps you should look inward as to why. Why are you against spending time with other players you've been friendly with. Why wouldn't you hang out with a guy rather than a girl or vice-versa? You were ok with Player when you thought they were male/female, but not anymore, knowing they're female/male. Why?
In regard to people/players deceiving others, one can also look to dating sites for the same issue. Catfishing in stuff like Tinder is a common thing. Basically, for example someone uses their friend's picture for their profile while they message someone of interest and the person in question wants a date and find that they're not who they say they are. As Bliss uses players falling in love with others online, you run the same risk of people not being who they appear.
Deception requires intent. Intent is wherein the problem mentioned in this post lies. It lies with the intent of the player. It doesn't matter WHAT the character looks like, but rather the INTENT of the actions behind the player that are the issue.
It's getting closer to the eve of Halloween, Milletians! On that Thursday of fright, we're due to have a maintenance that's going to remove the Dungeon Reward Rate Increase Event and the Shadow Brigade Supplies sales and give us the next chapter of the Moonlight Dreams Event. So get those last runs in for those items that never drop no matter what you do and by yourself a stack of gacha if you want it! And to everyone, have a Happy Halloween!
@ Finity I'm pretty sure that if Nexon could extend the Premium/VIP, they would have in order to avoid all the issues resulting from it. Also, Nexon NA (our branch) doesn't handle any of the actual programming with the game, that's the Korean branch. Unfortunately, we will highly unlikely hear back about anything until at least Monday as Nexon NA has to request a fix from Nexon Korea and that's hoping they got the request out Thursday night.
Best thing you can do is to take screenshots of the combo card's boosts so you can hopefully get them reissued once the issue is resolved or get your revival cards (whichever solution they go with).
If anyone had a guild go down too, submit a ticket.
In the meantime, everyone just remain calm and wait for news from Nexon. Personally, I'd much rather they take their time fixing something and make sure it's fixed.
