Authentic Old-School Mabinogi Experience
Posted at 09-02-19, 09:17 pm Link | #
Posts: 172Hi guys it's me, Patoots. Through the many years I've been on pro many things have happened, groups have come and gone, I've had my ups and downs, and we've all struggled to keep things going as we try our best to provide a sustainable service for you to play. Recently, personally, I've found struggles being able to interact in any fashion in a way that doesn't feel forced and frustrating to the point I end up lashing out at players. This is unacceptable as a GM, let alone the community manager and I take full responsibility for my irate behavior. But I want to just share my thoughts with the community. It's high time I at least let you guys know what's going on, why I'm not around, and what I'm feeling, what I've been feeling, and more.
It is obvious that there will always be many groups of players with varying preferences who will not always enjoy or appreciate the content we make or the way we, mostly I at this rate, handle decisions, punishment, content directions and more. This is fine, I am glad, thrilled to have a community so diverse in idea and preference because it keeps things fresh and prevents things from stagnating if things are done well enough. I'm not writing to you all to complain about all of that, far from it. But what I have also noticed is that there is never a time where I do something that I'm not called a tyrant, or a fascist, or this or that, which causes other players to defend my decisions and divides the community. This has always torn at me, but I never really do anything but complain about this on the off due to how much it honestly gets to me. It has, how ever, topped with the times in the past where negativity and insidious behavior plagued our community, worn me thin and close to my last nerve. I would be lying if I say I have never thought about leaving my position entirely, and leaving this project to its own devices. But I always know that I appreciate this community too much, I know we get new players a lot, and I know we have loyal players too who would be lost if things got even harder for our team to pull together.
Though things have been stressful, our teamwork has gotten harder to flow more smoothly as has been publicly explained in the past due to time restrictions and draining interest from people here or there which has lead to multiple people leaving our content team causing us to try and bring more along, and roadblocks seem to come at every turn both due to concerns on how the community will handle this or that, or due to interest or time restrictions preventing key aspects of development on future content from proceeding along, even with all of this trouble it would leave an incredibly bad pit in my mind to just up and leave, as I want to see things succeed, I want us all to enjoy the game, I want our projects to flow, I want our content to be well received, I want our community to thrive and I want to be able to proudly say that I was there to at the very least help it all happen.
That being said, my own interest and spirit has drained over the past several years. Dealing with a community is hard, but trying to keep them happy with such a nuanced demographic is incredibly tiring, time consuming, and genuinely destructive to your mental health when you try to handle it all the best you personally can only to cause issues or otherwise make players feel like they are being treated unfairly, getting the short end of the stick, keeping communication between the team proper with the players as to keep you all not feeling abandoned and more. It's been truly exhausting, and I can't decide personally to myself whether or not this experience has been a rewarding hassle or just, after a point, an uphill battle with no end. I don't have fun doing this anymore. I only think of the bad things when I get on, and it only further sours my mood towards the whole thing. It's a mental block that I personally have found extremely difficult to climb over.
With that in mind, it's a very complex situation that I find myself in as I don't want to abandon you all, or our awesome team. I want this to be positive, I want more content to come out, I want things to get fun again, and I want us to all experience that fun together. I've stuck my neck out for this project multiple times with multiple risks, and I can't help but think it would all have been a waste, a huge waste, if I just left and everything were to fall apart shortly after. I'm very thankful for all the experience I've had with you all, I'm very proud to be your community manager and I try my best, despite my frustration and personal issues, to do things as best as my abilities allow.
I'm not resigning, and as for now, I'm not going anywhere, but if things are to improve it's going to take a lot of hard work, energy, and positivity from both our team and community in order to rekindle the momentum we had a couple years ago. I sincerely appreciate all of our loyal players, and I hope you all continue to enjoy the game. I may not be around much, but you are always free to reach out to me personally if you have anything you need to talk about, if you have concerns or more, and I'll do my best to respond. In this situation it's very hard to be outspoken when you feel so defeated at every turn so it is hard for me to spark a fun public appearance without losing my positivity, but it's much easier to speak and initiate positive engagement if I am encouraged or approached about something first. I'm still here, and I hope to be for a long time.
Love you guys, I'm sorry for venting my frustrations and stress, but I thought you should know how hard it is on me to force myself to be here sometimes. I'm glad I do, but that doesn't make it easy. Thanks for reading, and please enjoy yourselves as you play our game, it's what makes this all worth while for me.
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Boof
It is obvious that there will always be many groups of players with varying preferences who will not always enjoy or appreciate the content we make or the way we, mostly I at this rate, handle decisions, punishment, content directions and more. This is fine, I am glad, thrilled to have a community so diverse in idea and preference because it keeps things fresh and prevents things from stagnating if things are done well enough. I'm not writing to you all to complain about all of that, far from it. But what I have also noticed is that there is never a time where I do something that I'm not called a tyrant, or a fascist, or this or that, which causes other players to defend my decisions and divides the community. This has always torn at me, but I never really do anything but complain about this on the off due to how much it honestly gets to me. It has, how ever, topped with the times in the past where negativity and insidious behavior plagued our community, worn me thin and close to my last nerve. I would be lying if I say I have never thought about leaving my position entirely, and leaving this project to its own devices. But I always know that I appreciate this community too much, I know we get new players a lot, and I know we have loyal players too who would be lost if things got even harder for our team to pull together.
Though things have been stressful, our teamwork has gotten harder to flow more smoothly as has been publicly explained in the past due to time restrictions and draining interest from people here or there which has lead to multiple people leaving our content team causing us to try and bring more along, and roadblocks seem to come at every turn both due to concerns on how the community will handle this or that, or due to interest or time restrictions preventing key aspects of development on future content from proceeding along, even with all of this trouble it would leave an incredibly bad pit in my mind to just up and leave, as I want to see things succeed, I want us all to enjoy the game, I want our projects to flow, I want our content to be well received, I want our community to thrive and I want to be able to proudly say that I was there to at the very least help it all happen.
That being said, my own interest and spirit has drained over the past several years. Dealing with a community is hard, but trying to keep them happy with such a nuanced demographic is incredibly tiring, time consuming, and genuinely destructive to your mental health when you try to handle it all the best you personally can only to cause issues or otherwise make players feel like they are being treated unfairly, getting the short end of the stick, keeping communication between the team proper with the players as to keep you all not feeling abandoned and more. It's been truly exhausting, and I can't decide personally to myself whether or not this experience has been a rewarding hassle or just, after a point, an uphill battle with no end. I don't have fun doing this anymore. I only think of the bad things when I get on, and it only further sours my mood towards the whole thing. It's a mental block that I personally have found extremely difficult to climb over.
With that in mind, it's a very complex situation that I find myself in as I don't want to abandon you all, or our awesome team. I want this to be positive, I want more content to come out, I want things to get fun again, and I want us to all experience that fun together. I've stuck my neck out for this project multiple times with multiple risks, and I can't help but think it would all have been a waste, a huge waste, if I just left and everything were to fall apart shortly after. I'm very thankful for all the experience I've had with you all, I'm very proud to be your community manager and I try my best, despite my frustration and personal issues, to do things as best as my abilities allow.
I'm not resigning, and as for now, I'm not going anywhere, but if things are to improve it's going to take a lot of hard work, energy, and positivity from both our team and community in order to rekindle the momentum we had a couple years ago. I sincerely appreciate all of our loyal players, and I hope you all continue to enjoy the game. I may not be around much, but you are always free to reach out to me personally if you have anything you need to talk about, if you have concerns or more, and I'll do my best to respond. In this situation it's very hard to be outspoken when you feel so defeated at every turn so it is hard for me to spark a fun public appearance without losing my positivity, but it's much easier to speak and initiate positive engagement if I am encouraged or approached about something first. I'm still here, and I hope to be for a long time.
Love you guys, I'm sorry for venting my frustrations and stress, but I thought you should know how hard it is on me to force myself to be here sometimes. I'm glad I do, but that doesn't make it easy. Thanks for reading, and please enjoy yourselves as you play our game, it's what makes this all worth while for me.
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Boof
Update: The maintenance has been completed at 12:40AM 10/14/19 EST.
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Dear Milletians,
Mabinogi Professional will be undergoing scheduled server maintenance during the following time:12:15AM 10/14/19 to 12:40AM 10/14/19 (EST)
Reasons:
- The Bamboo Warrior Z puppet kit was added to Kenta's secret shop
- Added new Glue recipe to handicraft
- Added new weapon and instrument recipes to carpentry
- Added the new prop pet, Storage Barrel, to carpentry
- Added the new prop pet, Magic Closet, to Shyla's shop
- Enabled and rebalanced Peaca Beginner
- Added Peaca Beginner passes to Lucas and Fleta's shops for 250 gold
- Silver Blade and Snow Sword got a description change to better describe them
- Fixed a bug where the Dragonfly's Token Treasure door won't open.
- Fixed a bug where, If the Door on Viridius Caverns is already open, your key will not get consumed, and based on the character's position of the door, will correctly move you to the desire location
- Thank you for your continued support, and enjoy!
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We apologize for any inconvenience.
-MabiPro Staff
Update: The maintenance has been completed at 02:52AM 10/24/19 EST.
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Dear Milletians,
Mabinogi Professional will be undergoing scheduled server maintenance during the following time:02:00AM 10/24/19 to 02:30AM 10/24/19 (EST)
Reasons:
- Fixed a bug where the Closet pet cannot equip items with mixed race tags.
- Adjusted some faulty coordinates regarding doors in Viridius Raid dungeon when the door has been previously opened.
- The 2x Red Coin drop event will start in 10/24 and end in 11/1
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○∞ Hang on just a little longer. ∞○
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Boof
We apologize for any inconvenience.
-MabiPro Staff
It has been a long time since any official mention of the next content update in any serious capacity, but today we are proud to announce to all of our wonderful players old, new, returning and current what we have worked so tremendously hard on all this time. We are very grateful and hope you are as excited as we are!!
A2 is expected to be released this month!
(We are aware the video is bugged on the main page. Watch it on the post!)
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Boof
Update: The maintenance has been completed at 04:22AM 11/08/19 EST.
All servers are running normally.
Please update your client.
Thank you for your patience.
Dear Milletians,
Mabinogi Professional will be undergoing scheduled server maintenance during the following time:02:30AM 11/08/19 to 04:00AM 11/08/19 (EST)
Reasons:
- Drahan broke the precious thing
- Drahan proceeded to fix the precious thing
- (This means timezones are fixed for real this time)
- A2: Crossing of the Fomors has been released ○∞ We have been waiting for you. ∞○
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Boof
We apologize for any inconvenience.
-MabiPro Staff
Posted at 11-09-19, 01:07 am Link | #
List of known bugs: Alchemy reloading
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Let's both add onto this, and share our thoughts! Hopefully it's positive!
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Boof
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Let's both add onto this, and share our thoughts! Hopefully it's positive!
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Boof
Posted at 04-19-21, 04:43 pm Link | #
-The Goblin Squad"
Goblin Tag has Returned to The World, and in no small part thanks to the feisty king of swift and furious tag himself!
-To face him you must find a Goblin Tag Pass from any monster drops. Bosses have a much higher drop rate!
- It can be brought to any standard dungeon in Uladh.
- Upon dropping in a party of up to 8, you will be swept away to a special field via goblin magic!
- Players will receive a star for every Racing Goblin they can chase down and defeat.
- After 10 minutes, the game is over and chests will appear in the center to be opened with your Stars!
- The more players present, the more chests appear!
We eagerly await for you to participate, so give it a whirl and give it your best shot!
Players of all levels may participate, though at lower levels it is suggested to bring friends.
Please be sure to report any bugs you find that might have crept into the event since its first run!
See you in the tag fields, Milletians!
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Boof
Posted at 08-19-24, 12:52 am Link | #
I would say a smaller community, custom content, and old school mechanics that Nexonogi abandoned. It's to mabinogi what OSRS is to runescape, except we actually got creative with it sometimes 
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