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No. I did not get a beta key, so I didn’t get to play with real peo­ple… not like I ever wanted at this moment

I. Bet­ter Graphics

Despite peo­ple may call SC2 “car­toony”, its graph­ics lives up to the pres­tige and era.  War­Craft 3 looked good, and I’m happy that this game looks sig­nif­i­cantly bet­ter.  There’s an immense amount of detail to each piece of tex­ture and ani­ma­tion to be dis­cov­ered… which I do when watch­ing AI play­ing against each other~  It’s also a plus which PC with very high to very low specs can run SC2… in dif­fer­ent graph­ics details.

II. Less Microing

The amount of micro-management and the less casual stuff , such as APM, really turns me off from the orig­i­nal Star­Craft.  I now applause the fact that SC2 is more about play­ing the game rather than play­ing a sport.  Don’t get me wrong though, a pro is still a pro with many aspects of play­ing SC2 can be trained opon.  Now it’s really about build, attack, expand, etc… all the macro-management where it is faster to learn and get a grip about.

Again, the game is still in “closed” beta test­ing.  Too bad I don’t get to see yo mommaship’s ownage before she got too fat, lol.  I guess even though her old skill sounds totally over­pow­er­ing, so it’s good to see things got more bal­anced this way.

In con­clu­sion, StarCraft2 does not dis­ap­point me at all; quite amaz­ing, so def­i­nitely I’ll get a copy of the game once it’s released :p

Or maybe it’s not that tragic; the mas­sively unpop­u­lar changes in Mabinogi NA’s pre­mium pack­age pol­icy seems to stand firm in the sea of crit­i­cism and dis­con­tent.  I have naively thought that, maybe, Nexon isn’t that regres­sive and maybe, just maybe, given time, the in-game items that have since become unob­tain­able will be brought back.  Since I’m con­vinced that things will not get bet­ter any time soon, I shall ded­i­cate this post to my favorite attrac­tive micro-transaction sys­tem for all times that no longer exists.

To make this as con­struc­tive as pos­si­ble, I strongly rec­om­mend a Mabinogi player like you–whether you’ve been caught in the wave or not–to read this neat lit­tle essay first.  It gives a good intro­duc­tion on the sit­u­a­tion and focus on impor­tant impacts which new ser­vice could inflict to the com­mu­nity.  Though (by the look of it) the essay is writ­ten some­time right after the announce of the new ser­vice, hence the more the­o­ret­i­cal word­ing.  Allow me to elab­o­rate the argu­ment by list­ing some casual obser­va­tions on how the Mari server has changed since the G9 update.

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Life is tough.  I’m still learn­ing how *not* to spell focus with “focous” while writ­ing titles of Monthly Focus.  After the spring semes­ter started, keep­ing up with updates and other stuff proved to be a bit over­whelm­ing… espe­cially now I picked up Mabinogi once again xD  In case you noticed this site’s down­time a just a few days ago… it is because my yearly domain con­tract expired, again. –_–

Pathetic excuses are pathetic.

Jan­u­ary was a quiet mohth, except when cel­e­brat­ing Kagamine twins’ 2nd birth­day.  (PS: to accu­rately doc­u­ment Rin and Len’s age, please use 14+n nota­tion :p for exam­ple, now they are 14+2 years old)   12/27 was their birth­day… and 1/30 was Megurine Luka oneesan’s birth­day… yet her anniver­sary songs are still being made, we’ll see about them in the next issue of Focus.

“There is no doubt­ing it. Redire’s power level is over 9000. ”

It’s one of the “n won­ders of Mabinogi Main­stream quests”.  Here is an ana­lyt­i­cal report, writ­ten by kitaek27 and is backed with facts and sta­tis­tics, on how and why Redire is one of the leetest NPC in Mabinogi.  Be warned, though, as it is obvi­ous that the topic con­tains Gen­er­a­tion 2 and 3 spoiler ~

But Fer­ghus is still »» all.

Hav­ing the tam­ing part fin­ished for Gen­er­a­tion 8, it is only mat­ter of time when the entire generation’s main­stream quest is fin­ished.   I over­es­ti­mated the chal­lenge posed by the final boss and the fun of killing it…   But here, Taunes rid­ing his newest pet uni­corn in <SPOILER> is worth to see, at least. :p

With Nexon being sur­pris­ingly gen­er­ous, I reached lv70 for the first time on my char­ac­ter… never again this shall hap­pen, I assume, because I have no plan of pay­ing for dou­ble exp pots >.<

With G9’s arrival mate­ri­al­iz­ing just beyond the hori­zon, I have some­what final­ized my skill set–lastly, with rank­ing up my newest favorite skill.  Now, hav­ing achieved most of my goals in skills, pour­ing AP into Alchemy skill can be done with­out hesitation ^^

Thanks go to all who helped me with the final boss and more impor­tantly, I shall express my high­est grat­i­tude to peo­ple ran with me in Karu dun­geon for many times ^^

Here you see (the new) me with a fierce-looking boar, tamed.  I would like to con­grat­u­late myself for pass­ing the hard­est part of Gen­er­a­tion 8’s main­strem quest of Mabinogi.

It all started with the sim­ple and stu­pid mis­take I made when I ended my long absence from the game.  The plan was to rebirth as a female and bor­row a Rac­coon Cub Wiz­ard Suit from a friend… but then I for­got the fact that the suit requires age 17 to wear; the tragedy ensues when I rebirthed to an 11-year-old loli.

Six weeks of wait­ing is too long.  Mean­while I did my part in spam­ming Karu parts dun­geons and got 3 –cp enchants, and finally a female light armor with the 4th –cp enchant from (the god-knows-how-many-good-stuff-he-has) friend.  Then I looked like on the screen­shot, in a set that I call my sadis­tic “train­ing” suit. :3

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