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Play through the main quests in Mabinogi Mobile and,

between things like collecting ghost stories,

you get some storylines with a little horror vibe going on.

But today's topic? Yeah, that's about

what made my pick for most memorable villain

none other than Mabinogi Mobile's producer 롤롤,

a superstar who somehow drives the haters AND the fanboys equally insane,

like football's Scamnaldo, or a certain Mr. Hong coaching the national team.

모비노기. Peel back a layer, find another horror story.

That's the theme today. Let's get into it.

Check Namuwiki and apparently Mabinogi Mobile

has quite the collection of incidents and controversies.

They made the character designs PC (and ugly),

—those Tir Chonaill NPCs,

apparently they were just normal, pretty women in the original.

Apparently that got people asking whether someone

from some weird online community was behind the designs,

and with that suspicion already hanging over them,

they used illustrations of dogs and pigs that hadn't been there at the time,

which apparently kicked off the whole “so you think we're dogs and pigs?” controversy.

Hmm…

Oh. This wasn't even the latest incident…

(Where'd the writer go...)

Complaints got the boss-killing event canceled, and then,

right back to the fragment-collecting event (random fashion ticket handouts)...

They used to stream once every month or two,

handing out stuff like fashion tickets,

but last stream? Couldn't book a guest,

so everyone got to sit there waiting for 30 minutes.

Then they did a quiz (raffle) event and speedran the goodbye.

They used to be so generous, though…

Oh, wait. Nope. Stingy as hell back then too,

they just caved when loads of people—the paying players—complained...

Here's a horror story: a mobile game so hard to play on mobile,

people play it on their computers.

Used to be, you clicked change character,

and went straight to the character selection screen…

Now, for the 1st anniversary island, storage, 스텔라돔, and so on,

you get asked whether you want to enter,

and skipping the prompt cancels entry. Of course it does.

People complained about 몰리 talking to them

during Depths runs, so their answer was to make it so, after a dungeon run,

Lorna talks to you instead.

After the Season 2 update,

they added an exit button so you finish one dungeon,

and can't go straight to the next one. Stuff like that.

Gotta make you move around just that little bit more,

user-friendly… wait, what's the opposite?

User-hostile patches. Like, are we having a power struggle here?

The Season 2 update

brings 10-star runes, brings Abyss,

but raids come later—how incompetent do you have to be

to miss the planned all-at-once release and drip-feed it instead?

Just some of the horror stories going around.