If you were looking to play a little Mabinogi to kick off the new year, you might want to make alternate arrangements. Nexon has taken the free-to-play sandbox offline in order to deal with the recent spate of "malicious activity" going on in-game.

Mabinogi went dark yesterday, and Nexon says that it does "not
have a specific time for the service to re-open." This is the second
time in the past three months that Nexon has disabled the game, as the
company dealt with a rash of unauthorized RMT issues and botting as
recently as October of 2011.
As per usual when MMO security issues crop up, the company has not
released any details, saying only that "we feel that we have no choice
but to take the game down in order to prevent any further malicious
action."

botting is a major problem in most F2P even P2P geting into trouble
its a big war comming botting companies hackers vs the game companies

Mabi just prolly not that profitable anymore

The game isn't getting any updates anymore
It is past its prime
Dev Cat made Vindictus

Dev Cat already finished the 10 promised episodes for Vindictus
Dev Cat moved on to making Mabinogi2 which will have better graphics and physics then Vindictus

So yea I bet in the near future (a year or 2, earlier for non EU version) Vindictus might end up in the same shape like Mabi right now
And Mabi despite being an awesome game is probably done for now ~

Snow wrote:

Mabi just prolly not that profitable anymore

The game isn't getting any updates anymore
It is past its prime
Dev Cat made Vindictus

Dev Cat already finished the 10 promised episodes for Vindictus
Dev Cat moved on to making Mabinogi2 which will have better graphics and physics then Vindictus

So yea I bet in the near future (a year or 2, earlier for non EU version) Vindictus might end up in the same shape like Mabi right now
And Mabi despite being an awesome game is probably done for now ~

why they make a 3th part of Mabinogi we first had old Mabinogi then Vindictus (Mabinogi heroes) and now Mabinogi2
can they not make something new what wil that make that game any beter

Mabinogi is 1 time frame

Mabinogi Heroes (Vindictus) plays itself BEFORE Mabinogi (a lot of these heroes are mentioned in Mabinogi itself)

Mabinogi 2 will be after the events of Mabinogi

Mabi2 will have better physics and graphics (joint system, creatures/characters will have kind of bones inside of them, making impossible hitboxes not possible awesome physics and better then Vindictus graphics on top of it)
While bringing same awesome sandbox gameplay which Mabinogi had making it not just a game to wait for but making it one of the best games that will be coming out within the coming years
Unlike Vindictus, Mabinogi was an open world, so the chances are big this awesomeness ll be an open world too

ok thx for the info snow but i go deeper and now i no why Mabinogi 2 wil be great
am sure alot of players like this :P


its all about the boobs

looks good btw cant w8 ^^

Told ya awesome physics XDD

Nexon has brought Mabinogi back online, and the company tells Massively that "the issues that led us to temporarily disable service have been addressed."

The free-to-play sandbox was offline for nearly 40 hours last weekend,
and Nexon will be compensating players with 5,000 NX (the company's
cash shop currency), a two-day extension of VIP/Premium/Inventory Plus
service, and a forthcoming double XP event. Nexon also tells us that
players who were directly affected by the recent malicious activity will
receive an additional 5,000 NX (10,000 total) and will have their lost
items restored.

If you think you've been affected by the recent attacks, contact Nexon Support directly, and be sure to provide the following info when submitting your ticket:

• 
  account name
  
• 
  character name
  
• 
  character server
  
• 
  date of malicious activity
  
• 
  items missing/removed
  
• 
  name of malicious character (if available)
  

Finally, affected players should include the keyword MUGWORTS in their
support ticket summary field to assist in filtering and processing.

[Source: Nexon press release]

mugworts LOL