Recapping Gamertell’s Mabinogi assistance and analysis week

In case you haven’t noticed, from October 13-17, 2008, Gamertell has been running stories on the various premium services for Nexon’s MMORPG Mabinogi. In case you missed out on some of the articles, or want to recap before deciding if its the free-to-play with premium services MMO for you, here’s a brief directory of the five stories that ran this week.

• How To: Pick a Pet in Mabinogi
  All pets in Mabinogi cost real money. This means you can’t just pick one without at least a little thought. After all, you don’t want to spend $5 on a pet that isn’t going to compliment and assist your character…
• How To: Pick out a Mabinogi Premium Service
  The Premium Services in Mabinogi are a helpful way to make gaming a bit easier in Nexon’s free-to-play MMORPG. They aren’t necessary, but all four options make adventuring quite a bit easier, if you decide to take advantage of them. Plus, all four options will allow you to take part in the story quests, which is an automatic bonus…
• How To: Determine if you need a Mabinogi Premium Character Card
  Mabinogi has two character card options. Every account starts with a basic Character Card, which allows you to create your first character. However, you can later rebirth that character, or add another character to your account, via Basic and Premium Character Cards purchased in the Premium Shop…
• How To: Get started in Mabinogi
  Mabinogi doesn’t offer any in-your-face or lengthy tutorials when you first begin playing. Instead, you receive a spirit weapon which will answer any questions you have while playing, and owls will deliver scrolls with quests to your. So people familiar with RPGs or MMOs shouldn’t have any problems jumping right in. Those who are new to the genre may need a bit help to get started…
• 5 questions help determine if Mabinogi’s storyline quests are worth paying for
  A unique aspect of Mabinogi is that it has a constantly expanding storyline with special quests that people subscribing to premium services have access to. When you first visit the game’s homepage, you’ll likely see an announcement discussing Generation X Season Y. This is a quick way to determine what the latest game updates are and the most recent storyline…

If you’re a Mabinogi fan, keep an eye out. In the coming weeks, Gamertell will be posting a featuring discussing the Generation 1 storyline and quests.