Mabinogi: Heroes' Frequent Maintenance Irritates Players

Nexon's Mabinogi: Heroes, which started its open beta in South Korea on Jan. 21, has irritated players with its frequent server maintenance.

According to the announcements issued on the game's official site, Mabinogi: Heroes has carried out server maintenance 29 times since its official open beta started 13 days ago, and time spent on the maintenance has totaled 29 hours. During the maintenance, players frequently encountered errors with in-game characters, mini-maps and item application etc.. Some were even unable to login for up to 15 times.

To ask for players' understanding and forgiveness toward the server maintenance, Korean game producers, have brought forth a so-called "Honeymoon Time". Although Mabinogi: Heroes has now adopted this "Honeymoon Time", it still has not alleviated the strong player dissatisfaction. The reason is that time-restricted cash items have been sold in Mabinogi: Heroes and it is as though Nexon is treating the open beta as a "Grand Opening".

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What annoys players is that time-restricted cash items are sold along with the frequent server maintenance.

On Jan. 9, before this so-called "Grand Opening", Mabinogi: Heroes opened its Beauty Shop to the players in net cafes and those buying Premier Packages, and started to sell time-restricted cash items used to customize in-game characters. Such items include character underwear and hairstyles. The prices of these items, which can be used for 30 days, range from 1,900 to 3,900 Won.

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