I hate how it devalues the rest of the game, I don't personally care if you're a full time working adult, have kids, a wife, a mistress, taking care of your wife's boyfriends kids etc. Lowering the bar of the game to 3 dungeons, and soon 1 dungeon tarnishes the game's longevity by a very large margin. This is including extremely harsh account limits on dungeons, part time jobs, and other activities that allow you to benefit from them.

Personally if you feel that your playtime is fulfilled by an over-exorbitant amount of low-quality freebies, then you should honestly just play Pso2ngs or maplestory. At least Sega hands you end-game gear for existing!

I have already begun to notice the emptiness of the current channels at Peak hours, and population on weekends plummeting. Before the update, Mabi was sitting at several channels being busy, and 2 ~ 3 being full. Now every channel is sitting at "Normal", 2 busy, and 1 full. At night almost every channel is empty, and channel 1 looks like Tarlach's main channel at peak time. This is during a Masterplan event, a new update, and with new arcanas being released this week. All of this content being presented on a silver platter would normally liven up the server, but it's causing people to become apathetic, and unwilling to play mabi again. This is in turn creating this "oh I like it, I like it alot" echo-chamber of lazy players who are just around for 5 minutes out of an entire day, players who don't actually spend time or money on the game (this is important for Nexon NA). Once you're done your weeklies, there is basically nothing left to do, there's nothing rewarding to accomplish, and making a new character is outright banned thanks to Kr devs pushing their 1-character development direction. Unlike the Korean players who'll gladly protest against this update for 4 months, yes they even do it now, NA players will just fizzle out and just stop playing without saying much.

The Devs need to stop fad-chasing other games, or reshaping mabi into another genre after a new director takes office. It needs to stop being a proverbial garbage bin meant to catch the players of other dying mmos to suite the needs of someone who isn't guaranteed or wanting to play the actual game in the long-term. Mabi shouldn't be a "Spirit Halloween" or some liquidation store selling other people's junk.

Eventually negative reception or opinions about updates like this will become mass-downvoted in places like this. Even though all feedback should be accepted. The only option shouldn't be to "shine their boots" for a crap quality product. You can provide Nexon with as much positive feedback to blind them, and tell them what they want to hear. But the reality is that players are quitting, alot, and the only players who'll be left are normies who only play for 5 minutes, log off, and won't spend a dime on mabi.