Doing the Nexon PEAK Post Challenge.

When you go through the main quest in Mabinogi Mobile,

there’s stuff like collecting ghost stories and all that,

so yeah, parts of it do have this slightly horror-ish vibe.

But what I actually want to talk about today is,

the most memorable villain = Producer Rollroll,

who somehow got turned into

this superstar that makes both the antis and the diehard fans lose their minds,

like overseas football’s Nalgangdu

or that Mr. Hong national team coach kind of figure.

No matter how much you dig, it’s ghost story after ghost story.

That’s the angle I’m going with.

If you look on Namuwiki,

apparently Mabinogi Mobile

has had a ton of incidents and drama.

They made the character designs all PC-washed (and, uh, ugly),

- like the Tir Chonaill NPCs,

who were apparently just normally pretty women in the original.

So people were even like,

“wait, did some freak from a weird community make this or what,”

and then because that suspicion was already going around,

they used dog and pig illustrations in the art, which apparently weren’t even there at the time,

so that sparked the whole “what, do they see users as dogs and pigs -.” controversy.

Hmm…

Ah, so it wasn’t even that incident….

After they canceled the boss-kill event because people complained,

they went right back to a puzzle-piece event (randomly handed-out fashion tickets)..

They stream like once every one~two months,

then toss out stuff like fashion tickets,

and last stream, they couldn’t even book a guest,

made everyone wait 30 minutes, and then.

just did a quiz (raffle) event and speedran the ending.

Back in the day it was generous too…,

Ah, wait, no, it was stingy back then too,

people just complained a lot — especially the spenders — and that’s why they caved..

It’s a mobile game, but there’s even this rumor that it’s so annoying to play on mobile

that people just do it on PC.

Back then, if you hit change character,

it would just take you straight to character select…

Then with the 1st anniversary island, storage, and Stella Dome,

they made it ask if you want to enter,

and if you skip that, it just cancels.

Then when people started complaining that they hated Molly talking to them during Deep runs, they made Rona talk to you after the dungeon instead.

After the Season 2 update, once you clear one dungeon,

they added an exit button so you can’t go straight into the next one,

stuff like that.

Anything to make you move just a tiny bit more,

user-friendly … what’s the opposite again?

user-hostile patches,

to the point people were like, are they actually picking a fight with the playerbase?

Stuff like that is out there too.