G13 has pretty much all of the content and balance from the original developers. What you're talking about, I assume, is aura which is very incomplete but also promising.Quote:
I've been playing since closed beta.
But my point is, other than client-fixed crap, like the UI, pretty much almost everything else can be emulated on a non-official-leak server.
You want the old combat? Done.
You want the old quest line? Can do.
You want the old whateverelse? Sure, why not.
Personally, I prefer the new UI over the old one.
If the G13 Japanese version gets leaked it would be easy to remove all of the new content that made players overpowered. After G13 that would be much more complicated to do. IMO the 3 main issues with mabinogi are:
1) Lag. Most players have to play on California servers with over 100 ping, when its a game designed for 10 ping players.
2) Mabinogi wasn't carefully balanced. Players are too powerful and it lacks a sense of achievement.
3) The PvP after G13 was pretty much ruined. It wasn't perfect beforehand because they didn't allow rulesets like the duel arena in runescape(this is something that could be added in a private server), but as long as someone didn't use potions or transform it was balanced. Now its always broken.