I'm so filled with rage right now as I write this blog, the incomprehendable amount of unbelievable situations that I've gone through rises on a daily basis.

As the title says, I plan to make this blog about Mabinogi Heroes, a game that was released on December 16th, 2009 in South Korea by devCat and published by Nexon Korea.

Mabinogi *Fantasy Life is a cute and cuddly weeaboo's dream come true that is very popular in most countries, and it is also one of the biggest money sinks out there. I'm not going into detail about that, but I am going to say this: Mabinogi is an ironic RPG, the only "successful" people at it are the ones who spent the most of their parent's money on the game.

Enough of that dreck, let's get on to the big problem here.

At first, I didn't believe that Mabinogi Heroes was going to be released outside of South Korea so quickly, it had only been a few weeks since it's grand opening and then it was suddenly announced to be coming to North America. I stopped caring after a while in lieu of playing other games and was in fact more pre-occupied with Dungeon & Fighter and hoping that Phantasy Star Portable 2 came out here as well.

Then I finally looked on TVtropes for fun and linked a friend to the "Mabinogi*Fantasy Life" page and then I saw it. Then I looked on wikipedia, and sure enough, it's coming. I'm shocked that such a game would be brought over so fast, especially since Koreans are very stingy with their games (Continent of the 9th comes to mind). But see, why would that be so bad? The game is freaking amazing, it uses my most favorite engine, the Source Engine, for graphics, and the game has a VERY unique feel to it's gameplay, you should just watch videos to see what I'm talking about.

But you ask, WHAT is the problem here? I mean, it's not like it matters much to me, since I'm from South Korea and I have a Nexon Korean account and I could play the Korean version if I desired, but my friend is very interested in that title, along with many others I would venture a guess. Guess who is releasing it?

Nexon North America

I have not a clue which branch this bumbling group of fools originated from, but I think Nexon North America is spun from the Nexon Japanese branch, and we all know how much the Japanese hate Americans. It would make perfect sense. If you read my Dungeon Fighter Online review and checked out some of my blogs, you'll know where this stands. All of Nexon NA's releases and titles are a few patches behind the Japanese version after all. Hell, they could be Chinese for all we know, because the Taiwanese and Chinese versions of Nexon's titles (In China and Taiwan the publishers known as QQ and Gamania respectively) are behind the Japanese versions bit by bit as well.

Nexon Korea is the main headquarters, and let it be known, they have no idea what is going on over here. I'm sure that devCat and NeoPle would be pretty pissed if they found out how poorly these games are being released overseas, with bugs and glitches not being fixed since the open beta. In Mabinogi, there STILL, since the game was released, is a glitch that if you are talking to a friend in the game's in-game messenger system, if you type too much in one bar, it actually starts SLOWING THE GAME DOWN. Also, unlike all the other versions, if you talk to an NPC in mabinogi's American version, there is a very brief 2 second HITCH, LOCK UP of the game before their chat box appears.

I desperately need to consult a thesaurus to find more ways to bash on this company, as I always revert to saying they refuse to fix their glitches and technical faults, and they intentionally release games with the intention of scamming the money of the children's parents. Also, Dungeon Fighter Online has been out for, what, 7 months, and it's still being called Open Beta, and on Nexon NA's homepage, they still label Dungeon Fighter Online as being a NEW release. Wow.

The people playing any of Nexon NA's games are just kids who do not understand the true value of money, that's all there is to it. No matter how many times someone tells them what they're playing is absolute garbage, they'll put their hands over their ears and start making loud annoying sounds to block out the truth.

It's a shame. My friend was really interested in Mabinogi Heroes, but with their current track record, Nexon NA is just going to find some way to release Mabi Heroes in a shoddy way with a fully designed cash shop. That's all this is to them. Money. I have no idea what to say about it anymore. How anyone can support this company is just sickening, but I guess that's a sign of the times.

I simply don't understand what it is with certain foreign publishers, what do they have against Americans that it makes them just want to skim the money from them and not even try to release a game properly? Of course, I'm not saying ALL foreign publishers and developers do this, tri-Ace(Can't wait for Resonance of Fate!) and a few others have been good to us for a long time.

I don't believe that the Koreans would do that, though. As much as Magna Carta series was lackluster, they still released it here in it's original condition. So it furthers my belief that Nexon NA has no communication with Nexon Korea at all.

I wonder if there is any hope for some of these shining titles and MMOs that South Korea has developed to come to this nation in their untainted form?