I've been playing Mabinogi for a little over a year now, and the one thing that pulled me into it at first was the community. It was fun, friendly, and you could always meet new people. Back when I started, in G2S2 a common site would be campfires. Campfires with people sitting around them, talking. Often there would be a bard among them playing some music. If you sat down at a campfire, it was almost a certainty that someone would offer to share food. And once the fire went out, you were almost sure to here this line: "I'll go get more firewood.". Sometimes you'd leave a campfire with a few new friends. Sometimes you'd leave the campfire on a trek to Ciar Dungeon with those newfound friends. Sometimes people would just put up parties at Ciar for normal runs. Not because they needed help or they wanted to clear it quickly, but because it was fun. It was fun to run a dungeon with other people.

Now Mabinogi has become a lot less like that. It's become much more of a competition to see who can be the best, and people just aren't always as nice as they used to be. But the old ways can still come back. And I really hope they do. If you play Mabinogi, then you can help restore what was once a great community unlike any other online community. Just simply carry around a gathering axe with you and make a fire once in a while when you're in a town. Carry around food sometimes to share with people. And make dungeon parties just for the hell of it. People will want to go back to the old ways and new players will want to join the game more readily if we can recreate the mood that Mabinogi once was.

TL;DR: My milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard and they're like, it's better than yours, damn right, it's better than yours.