User:BuLaN
BuLaN a.k.a Okami is the administrator of server.
OM2 project known as OldMetin2 start in the winter of 2022 with the promise of providing the best Metin2 Oldschool, classic experience, as we all remember from the good old days, this server is the creation of Okami as a hobby - made with a lot of coffe and đ¤ - refined with the help of the community, with it's first open-beta release on 13 January 2023.
Official release (opening) of the server was 27.01.2023 at 20:00 CET.
Story of OldMetin2
In January 2023 the server had over 300 active users at the opening, jumping to about 700 players in less than a week, however many users left after a few days, due to the difficulty of the gameplay and lack of systems (and QoL).
In January 2023 Seg came into the staff, few days after the server opening (formly as Trial Game Master) and bring up some event ideas that cheer up the community.
As Seg begun to move the server and get close to the community, he made a series of suggestions to Okami to improve the gameplay and keep players on the server, the community contributed a lot to the server we have nowdays.
The server was very hard at the begining, almost 1:1 to the official servers back in 2009, there was no costumes, pet, mounts or any other addition, not even the Reinforce and Enchant Items drop that we have today, everything was vanilla and you could get some of this last mentioned items from events.
Item shop only contained a few buffs such as Third Hand, Double Drop, 50% Experience etc., along some other small boost items (Wind Shoes, Green & Purple potions), and MD Vouchers - this move made the server enjoyable as everyone had the same advantages since you can't get bonuses and push items from item shop.
The item shop hasn't changed too much since the begining, more on that, the prices were adjusted according to the community's input.
Updates and QoL
First major changes were done on 02.02.2023 when Enchant/Reinforce Items were first introduced as permanent drop at some Metin Stones, the community feedback was very consistent and everybody seem to be very happy about the changes, the following days more changes were introduced to improve the QoL.
On 31.01.2023 the server introduce it's first major Quality of Life (QoL) systems - the offline shops and channel switch.
This two systems created another spike into the server (especially into the server's economy) and the market finally start to move on, even the server was in a continous decent (still lack of QoL and the server was very difficult).
11.02.2023 was also a considerable update for the server and the start of Automatic Events - with it's first release of Moonligh Event as automatic on every Friday from 18-21 server time.
Beside the Moonligh Event, on the same day, there was a few more notable changes such as Spirit Stones upgradeable, Monster bonus on Ninja & Shaman helmets, Golden Horse Medal and other small changes.
Following the update on 21.02.2023 the server got a few more drop changes as players start to raise in level, the most notable changes here are the drop of Exorcism Scroll and first pet available Reindeer Calf. Another QoL requested by the community was the Level display which also came in the next day (yes, OldMetin2 was that classic you couldn't see the level of other players in game - many tought this is a bug and complain a lot about this feature).
March 2023 didn't bring too many changes but a lot of bug-fix, however the most important change according to the community was the ability to walk trough other players in the OX arena, remember we had about 700 players and some of them were blocking others from crossing the O/X line, leading to a lot of players being disqualified.
02 April 2023 bring a new event âEasterâ and a new QoL: inventory pages (4 pages) and inventory expansion. In April the server got a few small bug-fixes and the most notable changes were the raised drops - the server suffered a very bad downfall in players count, some of the changes came in too late and the server had about 50 active players - 75 to 100 in the most busy days, from now on the team only focus on keeping the players on the server and constantly tried to revive the server.
The updates list continues and can be seen here on forum.
Issues and a stronger team
On 20 June 2023 the server database was corrupted and players lost progress to the quest part, the issue was handled by Okami with the help of players Marmo and marioradu05 which came up with ideas on how to fix the issue without putting players in too much difficulty, a very notable work was laso carried out by Seg which is already a Game Administrator now, Seg contributed a lot to help players in game with guidance and solving the problems of the Biologist quest while Okami carried some work behind the server to make sure everything works properly.
Shortly after, Marmo becomes a Trial Game Master and takes care of the server market and economy.
What's worth to mention here is that OM2 attempt to create a stronger team, by having a Game Master to each language, a few players were recruited for TGM role, but many failed or become inactive shortly after they were accepted into the team, this leads to a stronger team as SA/GA and GM (Marmo) carried out the work with the server, the idea of having a GM for every language was eliminated from the staff vision.
Another issue was also the strike of OM2 discord which lead to confusion between players as a lot of updates, announcements and progress was stored into that discord server.
In between
After the April's update, the server continues it's decent till patch 0.0.5 in June 2023 where the server start to stabilize due to the involvement of two players into the server economy: Marmo (which also become a Trial Game Master) and PrayForLove which gives a lot of ideas to the team on how to combat the inflation and keep new players on to the server. After a very short time the server start to ascent, thanks to the market and drop ideas that comes from this two players, more people from the community start to get involved and the server seem to be on a good path.
The most notable changes that help the server economy stabilize are: DR Vouchers price corrections, respawn time for bosses increases, reduction of drop rate on some important items to keep value overtime.
April is also the month where Okami takes full care of the server as it's partner (originally known as BuLaN) left the team because he quit the Metin2 industry and start focusing on real life stuff.
Okami then takes a âdesperateâ decision of opening a event server (a.k.a speed server) called âTriviaâ in order to attract new players and some of the players that quit Global server after the opening. The decision was considered as âa very bad moveâ because the community claim that a new server will devide the playerbase which was already very small.
Trivia server wasn't very succesfull as Okami expected - but contributed a lot to the server image and bring a lot of advertising to the server trough the RO/DE players. Trivia start on Friday 30/06 at 20:00 CET. You can see the original theard announcement here.
Trivia will merge with server Global on September 30 at 18 CET when the Trivia server was also shut down and the player base combined with the Global server, this made a lot of excitement to have a bigger trading market and the existing players of Global server happy, for meeting new people and have some interaction with the other community.
September 23, 2023 - another announcement made the community more excited as ex server of Okami called âMetin2007â was also combined with Old Metin2. This update brings a lot of new players and OM2 start to have a lot of activity because players of Metin2007 came back to play on hearing the news - as Okami took more care of the OM2 than Metin2007, the community of Metin2007 felt left behind.
As OM2 community wonder where this merge will affect the ecomony of the server, Okami proceed to remove a lot of players content considered and seen as âabusiveâ, such as Reinfoce, Enchant Items, Blesing Marble/Scrolls and other important items which potentially destroy the economy of the Global OM2, the original reference theard can be seen here.
What is also important to note here is the update from 04 September 2023 with Marmo's (and ex Community Manager of Metin2007 - [CM]Yujun - a very skilled person who bring a lot of ideas and events to the Metin2007 server which we still use nowdays) ideas to add additional bonuses to the useless weapons with the update called âNew values for weapons - nerfs updates.â - can be seen here. What's important to note here is that, Marmo came up with the idea of nerfing the weapons, stones and some accesories, where the monster and class balance ideas came from the [CM]Yujun in Metin2007 server and used by Okami for OM2 server.
New updates and a new era
After all this work the server start it's ascend even more, the server had about 75 daily players and about 300/24h and the ascend continues. The market is flowing and players are very happy in general as the team gets more involved into the server and came up with new events ideas.
By the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024, ther's a lot of informations missing, a lot of updated and announcements were deleted with the strike of the OldMetin2 discord server. After this small incident Okami start to post and index as much infomations as he can to the forum and this wiki, where the informations are safe and far from being taken down.
However in November 30 2023, OldMetin2 got a new QoL and event: the Battlepass
The original post can be seen here.
The Battlepass was a success and players are very happy because they have something new to do every month, besides the usual activity in the game.
A few more bug-fix updates were made in between, but informations are lost or incomplete and they are not worth being written.
Fast forward to the middle of 2024 where the server had a very good spike in players count, this time reaching numbers such as 400+ players daily and 1000+/24h. This progress seems constant nowdays, almost 9 months after this increase, the server still growing up slowly.
We can't remember exactly the date, but the server got an amazing update - the PvP Dojang event which was introduced somewhere in January 2025 (?), this enables players to PvP in the Arena, where the winners gets rewarded.
Also we stay in January 2025 where the server got another major update, this time was more about the market corrections and deflation combat, the sale price of some items was raised and the spirit stones sale price was increased as part of the team effort to stabilize the market. More infos can be seen here. Whats's also worth to mention here is that, the offline shop system got a refresh, introducing a lot of QoL features that OM2 community wanted for so long - that it made a lot of old players to come back - and they still play nowdays!
Here comes the first attempt to give high level players something new to do and a better farm spot - introducing two new stones for the Grotto of Exile, the Crystal Stone and Dragon Egg, this stones are part of the effort to keep high level players active, but more on that comes the next month in February.
One month pass and February 2025 bring some other changes - this time to the Resistance bonuses - for the first time the Lighning, Fire and Wind bonuses are finally working. Some other important bug-fixes and optimizations were made in this update âPatchnotes 0.1.1 - Lighning Bonus and other fixesâ - can also be seen on forum -> patchnotes. 20.02.2025 - after more than one year of players complains about the drop of some bosses, some work has been done in this direction in order to make them more competitive and give a better reward, Ice Witch and Azrael were the first ones to get improved and now players are fighting over this bosses.
Closing
That's the story of OldMetin2 till now, thank you very much for choosing OldMetin2.
In the future this informations will be updated.
With love,
Your OldMtin2 Team.