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I have waited so long to give Mabinogi a try. I watched all of the trailers and read all of Hyuk's guides. I've tried to distract myself with other MMOs but mehh, who am I kidding? I want to play it soo badly.

   So after being very patient today I downloaded the client, I had already registered my account and I a proceeded to the routine struggle with gameguard to make the game work. I think gameguard is a device that guards you from running the game in your first attempt. But oh well, I'll save my bullets for gameguard, because they need a post of their own.

   Long story short, FilePlanet made a deal with Nexon and got the first 24 hours of the game exclusively for "North American" members of their Free MMO Club in their words: "Free-To-Play Online Games with Bonus content for Suscribers". It doesn't even sound good…Anyway, I was just desperate to try this game, so I signed up for an account with my "Spam me, I don't check it anyway"-email and click through the activations like fire to get my open beta key.

That was when the ordeal begun, this is what I got:

   In case you haven't read my About Page, I am from Mexico and we are a part of North America. This just straight down pissed me off, I can't believe that such an established company like IGN Entertainment would do something so stupid. For those who don't know here are some websites that are property of IGN Entertainment:

 

 

 

    Now you have an idea of the magnitude of this stupidity, this publishers are like "pros" because they have well known sites. but apparently they need Suki to drag their butts back to Elementary School.

 

Therefore, Welcome to Suki's Geography for Dummies

 

Chapter 1 North America

Lesson 1

What are the countries that the term "North America" include?:

Anyone with at least 1 neuron can Google it, here is the image that I found from the United States Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.

The Green Area Represents North America

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<sarcasm>Nexon's  wide target audience for Mabinogi</sarcasm>

  Image Courtesy of Nigger