Mabinogi: An Exclusive Interview with Ray Cheon

[Cody Bye]

When MapleStory was released on November 28, 2006, many North American industry journalists and critics wrote the game off saying that it was too childish and the graphics were sub-par. However, the game now sports millions of users and generates a massive amount of revenue for its development company, Nexon. Now Nexon has released their latest offering, Mabinogi, which is another venture into a world where anything is possible even if it means a simpler style of graphics. Even with a review already published about the game, Ten Ton Hammer’s Cody “Micajah” Bye sat down with Ray Cheon, Product Manager and Senior Associate for Game Planning and Design for Nexon, to get a few intimate details about the future of the game!

Ten Ton Hammer: Now that the game has been officially released, what's next for the title? When will players begin hearing about the first free update, and what will that include?

Ray: I can't reveal too much information about our future updates but we are going to release Generation 2 Season 1 (G2S1) of Mabinogi in May. In this update, we are going to release Generation 2 Mainstream Quests, more maps, more dungeons, more items, more skills, and much more. Soon, we'll have plenty of details about G2 update on our website at http://mabinogi.nexon.net.

Read the entire Mabinogi interview by clicking here!

[Cody Bye]

So, how many of you have taken the dive into Mabinogi?

What would it take to get you to install the game and give it a whirl?

[Chippen]

Originally Posted by Cody Bye

So, how many of you have taken the dive into Mabinogi?

What would it take to get you to install the game and give it a whirl?

Have started to play and like the look of it.

Just lacking time to really get into it (work keeps getting in the way). Will definitely persist though.

[Chandria]

I've been with Mabinogi since the second Closed Beta and I am definitely going to stay around for a lot longer! I love the graphics and the total lack of pressure to level, level, level! You can develop your character in any way you want to, even if all you want to do if fish or cook all day! Great fun!

[Kralle]

To bad that Mabinogi uses GameGuard as "Hacking Prevention", my Comodo Firewall has a Anti-Rootkit Module wich is causing conflicts with said gameguard.

That means I get a blank reboot everytime I try to start the game, there are several posts in the Comodo and nexxon forum about this issue (it seems a lot of free-to-play games gave GameGuard and it is causing problems with better firewalls and security software)

Oh well, maybe with one of the next updates it will be better.

No Kralle-Kun for now