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Nope, the NA free-repeat (no crappy rewards like potions) saga system, daily saga system, and this daily quest system are all NA-only so far. Which leads me to think NA is doing badly or could have more active players. . .

NA 'exclusivity' is mainly to update the game more to the NA community's needs and wants, rather than to the KR market. NA players looks down on grinding more than KR players.

In any case, Nexon NA making the game 'easier' in a way and more interesting would garner more attention and revenues than disappointing people through grinding and cash shops.

It's much easier to hook addicted players and influence them to 'invest' in cash shops than to frustrate players to grind as a f2p in order to push them to use cash shop as a means of convenience.

Nexon has a tried and true style of appealing to as much players as possible, within reasons, to hook em, and then with a large quantity, to filter through a additional cash shop content, but not restricting the f2p players by any means to 'wait' for them to be ready to enter the cash shop filter. Other publishers tend to rush players into cash shops and scare them away from the entire game instead.

It's like catching fish with a wide net in an ocean, selling the big ones, but filtering the small fishes in a area so they 'grow', rather than throwing them back into the ocean.

Exactly, so what I'm predicting is, they're probably doing this because Mabinogi NA isn't doing so well. It is possible they're doing well and they just want to do better but I have a feeling something is making them need to.

Actually, Mabinogi NA is actually quite successful given the track record since it's release.

It's one of the many games where a lot of people come back to, given how there's loads of other MMOs that can't hold you for a week or month or year before their real intentions deter you away from it.

At best I play those MMOs for a month, at worst a day.

I don't spend NX on Mabinogi anymore, nor is there a need to, but I've already invested over $300 worth over the course of 3 years already, which to Nexon, means it's already successfully in getting my money. A few dozens of MMOs I played over the course of months gets zero in that case.