Mabinogi Million Misclick

Since started playing Mabinogi to write a paper about its economy, I had to sell commodities on the player market. Over the past 10 weeks I've been diligently keeping track of what I've sold, how much I sold it for, and to whom. In the paper I turned in about 2 weeks ago, I included my records up to that point in the appendix. As you know, I set my sights on earning enough gold to buy Spaika Silver Plate Armor which costs 700k, so my sales didn't stop at the 476,960 gold mark (which is when I turned in the paper). In fact, my sales didn't stop until I had 1 million gold in my pocket.

A retelling of my quest can be found here. It is a Word document hosted over on Archive.org. Blogger isn't friendly with tables, so posting my sales record this way was the only reasonable workaround.

In the end, my total revenue was 991,150 gold, which is about 9k shy of the million. However, from quests and gold drops, I actually had collected closer to 1.1 million when considering the rest of the money I had lying around.


To celebrate my accomplishment, I bought the Spaika Armor for 735k (35k being game tax) and was very please with myself for about a minute. That's when I accidentally sold the armor back to the NPC for 50,000 gold for a net loss of 685,000. In other words I just reset myself back to mid February.

I am speechless, really. I have no idea how to feel about losing that much money (and time and effort). I wasn't robbed, but I got literally zero value out of that 685,000 gold. I wrote a post earlier about Mabinogi not doing a good enough job at getting me to spend my money, but I suppose their UI is plenty capable of destroying it for me. Just...unbelieveable.