Yes the seller does have the upper hand in this situation indeed. But as seen during the private server there was 50-60 players concurrently playing and this is just considering it was just told on epvp who knows the total amount that actually played it actively
Ainna wrote:
people that currently play mabinogi (1)
I assume they mostly play because there are friend/guildies also play but let's say they didn't have any more friends/guildies to play with would they still play then? I don't know about other people but I wouldn't I played on the private server and made some friends I really enjoyed talking with people having fun doing the same quest with them but so far I don't think it's going to go anywhere unless they encourage other players to join in somehow for example
let's say your best friend on mabinogi decided to leave, he told you this in game/skype that he wanted to go play on the new private server that just came out. He just wanted to play it for reasons let's say. You decide to join him because you agree with said reasons, what happens to your other friends that liked you and what not and what about your best friends, friends? they start wanting to join because two already left and sooner or later the whole guild goes toward that server and there you have some players already playing but the question is what about your friends outside the guild? they go on skype and ask you what happened and you just tell them you joined a new server and it keeps on going on and on and on, the moment you got one of the biggest players or even hard core players that are well known in some random server to join the private one, the others will start following too something like the butterfly effect
but of course It seems very unlikely to happen or that I might be really stupid
Ainna wrote:
people that played mabinogi before but stopped due to reasons (2)
I am going to assume most players quit because of the genesis update with the new combat and what not
and also some EU players quit because of the lag issues I myself feel their pain when I played on mabi na it lagged pretty badly during combat I don't know how the rest of them still play maybe I just have bad luck with mabi na I dunno really
but when I played on the private server one not much lag there was of course this one time when the pet lag came in it was pretty annoying because of the hosting I assume
there seen to be a lot of na players who played the private server for reasons I don't really know I assume because of the genesis stuff but I doubt it
again I might be really stupid it's pretty much my experience with mabi na
Ainna wrote:
people that never played mabinogi (3)
I invited my friend who plays mmorpg games he never once played mabinogi or even heard of it before
I agree he didn't really understand the game that well he quit after 1-2 weeks since he really didn't know much about it I think he would have lasted longer if he didn't have to use the wiki to actually guide himself via g1 - g3 quests
but of course most people don't play private servers without actually playing the official servers first
in my opinion I only play private servers with games I only know a good amount of
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but mabinogi private server was a special case I quited mabinogi around the time Mabi EU closed
I lost a good amount of knowledge about mabi after about 2-3 years later or whenever it closed
but once every 1 year - 3 months I would start looking for a mmorpg that I liked since I could never find a new one and always wanted to go back to mabi since I remembered the good old mabi eu days
then all of a sudden I seen a private server on epvp I went on the forums and joined it at around dec I missed the beta signup but I heard there were major problems during the beta such as rbs not working and what not since orbay decided to host it on his pc.
anyways I waited for around 2 weeks hyped then came 11th jan I joined in and was happy that it was like mabi eu I played for around 2 weeks until it closed down
I was pretty annoyed as to how he closed it down so fast not even a month fully
I decided I was going to wait for it again if it ever comes back I hopped into mabi na (I checked my last rb on it, it was around 685 days)
and I was disappointed I played for around 2-3 hours just started the g1 quest it was too easy too much ap was given but the lag taken me off the game the most so right now I am just wondering around the forums looking for some random ass mmorpg to play but sadly there isn't any for now and will be like last time 1 year - 3 months hoping for a another private server to come online
but again this is my experience of the server so far I don't know about what other think of mabi na if it's good or bad since I didn't waste years on it
Ainna wrote:
"If they try to monetize by selling pets for 5$ or whatever then they would probably die in a few weeks."
I seen that they added a donation shop ingame with some items so it wouldn't only be just pets I heard Flip wanted to add custom items to gachapons until the day the server shut down and he only said good bye in epvp not even in the chat but i digress there could be some ways to add some more money but I don't know what
Ainna wrote:
(group 1) give up all their pets, levels etc just in order to buy all the shit again?
I don't think anyone would mind since there levels and pets will still be in mabi na
I would assume most would just want to run a trial with it and see if they want to invest their time in it and buy it again but I don't know lots of the players that play don't really care they have loads of levels and pets but they still want the server to be back again for some reason. Either way, most people don't want to support nexon anymore and I assume that's why people will be coming to private servers as one of their main goals
but like always I don't think my assumptions are right
Ainna wrote:
"So... how much worth are files that you do not own no matter what you do and take work/effort in order to be presentable to the english audience?
From the legal standpoint = nothing. From the "imsogonnagetscammed" standpoint = what seller / buyer thinks is right."
there is some crazy gamblers out there that would waste money on this just to see the private server community alive
but I guess it's better then gambling in a casino since you just giving a turkish ass some money and that's it
Ainna wrote:
" On paper the buyer wouldn't own these files because it is still property of nexon.
Also because there is no sort of legal standpoint / contract or anything, the seller could still do whatever he wants with those files."
You head the nail on the dot there is always a chance that the seller could just make the files public and boom the buyer can't do crap the files are out, the money was wasted, the seller happy and all that ends well only the buyers feel a pain in the ass