Don't take me rong(this is for old school players of WoW like myself) but the time were we run Naxx pre BC? its long over mates, Blizz WONT bring back the old good times were being good was more then having some epic's, you actually had to know how to play, atm they want to make it "quick and easy" to sell.
Another thing I gotta point it out about World of Warcraft, now not poking into blizzard again(they just took 3\4 years to deliver something they COULD actually give the players since vanilla, you know...stuff that players asked since then..."Transmogrification", is a good example, simply putted, changes the 3D models of your armor) is the community, it was LONG time ago that we had a good community on that game, again, for the old school players that still play, don't take me rong, there probably a few cool guys still around, but 90% of the community is made of WoWtards that if you point a flaw in the game, they don't cut your neck because they can't, else they would do it.
Moving on to Final Fantasy XIV, little people talk about this one nowdays, with 1.19 comming out soon, adding AirShips and Chocobos everyone gets worked up, soon they will finally change the system how the "classes" work to a (we HOPE) better one, re-working the whole battle system with it too.
For the ones that don't know, FFXIV(Final Fantasy XIV in shorts) failed even before the release, the game was so HEAVY bugged that the community simply didn't played to test it out(some people coudn't even log on, amazing isn't it?) time passed and the game launch'd in a miserable state.
After a bit of time, Square Enix realised the fail, since their player base wasn't good already on the release, but was going down even more with time kicking in, they changed the game into a "free to play" model, you just need to buy a key, and you play for free, in order to keep the players on it, worked, but they had to actually MOVE THEIR ASSES to fix the game, else they would lose everything.
Funny thing, Square Enix is aparently a company that learns with mistakes, and 1.19 almost out proves that, the game since the release changed A LOT, guildleves balance, class\graphic\quests\etc etc, everything got a re-work\re-balance at some point, make the game playable until the new "big changes" hit on it.
Community wise, FFXIV doesn't have trolls\idiots\fanboys running around, thats a plus, but, on the other way, the community is very closed in on themselfs, if your not in a Linkshell(Aka Guild) you rarely obtain help, you rarely group with someone, you rarely see people speaking if your not in one of the main towns were people shouts all the time.
Going strait into it this time, Nexon EU continues to(at least seems that way) not give a fuck about whats going on the servers.
Some of the questions of the player base are quite simple;
The heavy hacks\mods that were striking on NA\TW aparently, some of them work on our version, some idiots(don't take me rong fair macha players) from the macha server, in a dispute of idiocity started a war with Morrighan, heck with the one that aparently started this knowing how to use hacks\gold duppes and whatnot, he invaded Morrighan and started to buy "rare items" for x15 of their normal price, with dupped gold, some players not knowing this sold the so called "rare items" to him, regreting soon after, because last notice I got about it, the idiot used the dupped gold to buy, and then NPC the items in order to NO ONE obtain them again(at least those he had buyed).
This made the economy that wasn't good already before, to go worse.
"Supidity moved from the Forums&Facebook to the game"
Nowdays everyone uses forums, everyone haves F.B(FaceBook) even gamming companies have their own little "game profile" for each o their games, Nexon isn't diferent, altough they stopped to aparently manage their F.B, and then moved that inactivity to the Forums\Servers(mabinogi ones, at least is the game I have my eye on atm, not much into C.A(Combat Arms)&M.S(Maple Story).
How come stupidity moved from one place to another, these days you don't know when your opening the Mabinogi forums and you find...how should I put it, aw! "+18 pictures", simply putted, an idiot found a way to hack into the forums accounts and with that, if someone goes agaisn't what he likes, or puts him on the wall, he logs into the account of that player on the forums and posts that kind of stuff.(probably same idiot not long ago created fake F.B profiles and posted the same kind of images on Mabinogi F.B page\profile.)
*1-an picture were that could be a good example of what I'm saying, were the white guy is Nexon, the spider is Mabi, and the blue one is us, the community.
Some players even with this continue to play the game, not as before but they try it at least.
Player base droped from 100% to 40% active players, 40% is still a lot, but then again, not enough on my point of view for such a game.
Mabinogi if it was properly managed, would be an epic game.
With the lack of activity from Nexon EU, I now fear that their trying to really kill the game.*1
"I Hate you!"
"what dose devicat do?"
"Do you have a hard time saying nice things, or do you just refuse to?"
Some of the lines will for sure ring the bell and remember you who said them, then again, if your not a Nexon EU Mabinogi forum follower, you will probably find this wierd(advice you to check the forums from time to time.)
Random-ness, lack of moderation, annoying kids, kids that should know how to writte in english better then me and they can't even writte "does" properly("for godsake he's from the UK!" - anonymous) this is the current state of the forums nowdays, with no light at the end of the tunnel I wonder were this community is going, the more a person says that they are doing it rong, the more rong they go.
I quitted for a long time already to put sence on that community, but I had hopes that someday, they actually open their eyes and see that its a game, if you don't respect others around you, don't expect respect...
Not sure were "Tabinogi" is going headed, but I fear that if this keeps up, Nexon EU may really close the game, scammers roaming around on the game, duppers\hackers fk'ng up the whole server\forums, this makes me wonder too if I should rlly keep playing this...
For the ones that got refered and didn't like it, directly and indirectly, just got one thing to say
/rant mode off-
