Taking part in the Nexon PEAK Post Challenge

PC online games these days feel so nice to players!

Back then, even if you just wanted to do one quest, you had to open a guide site, dig through community posts,

and search for everything first.

I can see how that might be part of the appeal for some people,

but for me, it was also  one of the reasons I didn’t really play much in the mmorpg genre~

It’s a game, but somehow it felt way too exhausting

But games these days seriously tell you almost everything right in the game now???

For busy people~~

The systems in games have gotten really smart too!

I really felt that change while playing 마비노기모바일!!

With old online games, the first step was always searching

If you used to play old online games, you’ll probably relate to this

An NPC would suddenly say something like

"Find the person somewhere in the northern forest."

...Okay but where even is the northern forest ㅜㅜ

So in the end, you’d open your browser,

go into a guide cafe,

search the game boards,

and even dig through other players’ comments before you finally found it.

I even spent over an hour wandering around just trying to get a single quest item once.

Back then, I think that was just the normal game culture

An auto-guide that gets it done in one tap!

But wow, recent PC online games really have changed a lot

One thing I really liked while playing 마비노기모바일~

was the “Adventurer’s Compass” feature, where you just click the quest and it finds the way and guides you automatically!

And on top of that,

things like recommended growth routes and equipment growth guides,

which used to be stuff you had to look up on outside sites, can now mostly be handled right inside the game!!

Thanks to these helpful features,

it was really nice being able to focus more on the game itself when I played~

That old-school unfriendliness is kind of nostalgic too!

Of course, sometimes I miss that old-game kind of unfriendliness too.

Getting lost and asking another player,

everyone wandering around together and laughing,

there was a certain vibe to finding the answer buried in the comments on a guide board too.

Still, I think it’s a good change that games now save players time,

and have changed in a way that makes them easier for more people to enjoy.