Online Games & Holiday Benefits: A Flood of Opportunities

[디지털데일리 이학범기자] To celebrate the Lunar New Year holiday in 2026, major domestic game companies held a ‘reward party’ for users. This year’s Lunar New Year is attracting the attention of users by providing unprecedented benefits such as essential items for growth just by logging into the game, recovery tickets and special summoning tickets that are usually difficult to obtain.

According to the gaming industry on the 14th, major domestic game companies such as Nexon, Netmarble, and NCSoft are holding various Lunar New Year events in the games they are servicing.

First, Nexon is holding an event that provides generous rewards to commemorate the Lunar New Year in a total of 19 titles, including 12 PC online games and 7 mobile games. ‘Maple Story’ will be holding the ‘Tell me your New Year’s wish’ event from the 16th to the 22nd. If you sequentially complete the three missions to check the wish note with a character of level 101 or higher or a zero character who has completed the story quest, you will receive a new ‘New Year’s Wish Chair’ and ‘VIP Sauna Pass’.

‘FC Online’ encourages users to log in through the ‘Lunar New Year Burning’ event from this day (14th) to 18th. When accessing the game at home, it provides an opportunity to obtain ‘TOTY-N Lessons 5-6’, and when accessing a PC room, enhanced rewards such as a ‘50% fee discount coupon’ and ‘BLD·BDO·CU Lesson 11 box’ are provided. Furthermore, prizes such as Apple Watch and gaming keyboard will be given away through the communication video ‘Locker Room Talk’.

There are also abundant benefits in the shooting genre. ‘Sudden Attack’ holds a burning event that provides ‘polar bear’ themed items to users who complete missions by the 26th, and doubles the opportunity to obtain rewards on weekends and public holidays. ‘First Descendant’ will hold an on-time event from the 16th to the 19th, paying out 2,026,000 gold and various growth goods such as Kuiper pieces as daily rewards.

Various events are also held in mobile games. ‘Mabinogi Mobile’ will be holding an event until March 5th where you can get the ‘Quiet Morning Hanbok Costume Set’ and traditional play activities such as lucky bags, top spinning, and kite flying. ‘Dungeon & Fighter Mobile’ will hold the ‘Lucky Lunar New Year Draw’ event where you can obtain the ‘2026 Lunar New Year Box’ until the 26th, and an event that will provide effects such as reducing skill cooldown time along with a fortune confirmation message upon attendance on the 3rd.

Netmarble is also holding a variety of Lunar New Year events in a total of 13 games. ‘Seven Knights Rebirth’ will be a mission event that provides various rewards such as ‘Yui Lunar New Year Costume’ along with a special summon to summon ‘(old) Seven Knights’ heroes (characters) until the 19th. A combination event is also provided where you can collect rice cake soup ingredients acquired through adventures, raids, etc. and exchange them for special summon tickets.

The benefits in the multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) genre are also noticeable. ‘Vampir’ operates a ‘New Year’s Day Restoration Ticket Roll’ that allows users to recover a total of four types of items, including weapons, armor, accessories, and grave goods, until March 4th to reduce the burden on users to strengthen their equipment. ‘RF Online Next’ provides Lunar New Year special rewards, including ‘Ctrl+Z coupons’ when attendance missions are performed, and benefits related to guild content are also strengthened.

‘Only I Level Up: Arise’ allows users to obtain 100 ‘Custom Recruitment Tickets’ just by logging into the game until March 12th, providing an opportunity for new and returning users to quickly strengthen their power.

NCSoft is holding events in 7 types of games. On the 11th, ‘Aion 2’ released four new hanbok costumes, including ‘Moonlight Celadon Hanbok’ and ‘Moon Shadow Hanbok’, and ‘Cotton Cloud Haechi’, a pet exclusively for Lunar New Year. In addition, the attendance event ‘Shining New Year’s Journey’ and ‘Red Horse Festival’ will be held, and considering the period that overlaps with Valentine’s Day, various buff item production events that increase attack power, flight speed, and movement speed will be held through non-playable characters (NPC).

In ‘Lineage M’, through the ‘Aden’s Warm Lunar New Year’ event until the 19th, special dungeon use time will be extended by 1 hour and trial dungeon rewards will be tripled. On Lunar New Year’s Day, all users are given a generous gift package through the mail, including rice cake soup, New Year’s money envelopes, an all-purpose charging stone, and a mysterious lottery pack box to boost the holiday atmosphere.

Kakao Games is distributing the ‘Legendary Weapon Shape Summon Ticket’ for free during the service period in ‘Odin: Valhalla Rising’ for the first time. Through this event, which runs until the 25th, users can acquire powerful weapon shapes and receive up to 66 additional ‘Summon Tickets of Light’ when logging in during the 3 days of the holiday.

‘Battleground’ will hold a three-line poetry event until the 22nd and give away up to 1,000 G-Coins, and rewards will also be paid to users who share Lunar New Year concept coordination images. The casual game ‘Friends Popcorn’ provides fun through a mission stage that can be enjoyed while traveling home and a 60-second ranking match event where family members can compete against each other.

Wemade organized the event around key items that help the growth of its flagship MMORPG. ‘Mir 4’ will present a ‘Legendary Dragon God Material Selection Box’ through attendance until March 11th and provide a ‘God Dragon’s Blessing Ticket’ to restore equipment, lowering the burden of challenging high-level equipment.

‘Night Crow’ will be holding an attendance event until March 5th, providing ‘Clemens’ Coupon’ and ‘Summon Brilliant Guardian Spirit’. Upon completing the mission, you will receive three additional ‘Clemens’ Platinum Coupons’, and if you collect lucky bags through field hunting, there will also be a collection event where you can craft them into various reinforcement items.

Com2uS will hold the ‘2026 Daily Lucky Bag Event’ in ‘Summoners War: Arena in the Sky’ until March 1. Users can obtain ‘6-star legendary grade runes’ and the character ‘Devilmon’ with lucky bags obtained through playing content in the game. Additionally, you will also receive a ‘Lucky Magic Box’ voucher that allows you to obtain the maximum number of collaboration summons through the surprise store.

The baseball game lineup ‘Com2uS Pro Baseball 2026’ and ‘Com2uS Pro Baseball V26’ also offer abundant benefits. Key power-boosting items such as ‘Epic Player Pack’, ‘Impact Team Selection Pack’, and ‘Signature Recruitment Joker Card’ were offered as rewards, and in the case of Com2uS Professional Baseball V26, more than 4,000 stars along with special coupons are provided on Lunar New Year’s Day to enrich the holiday season.

Pearl Abyss is holding a connection reward event that will provide up to 3,000 Cron Stones to ‘Black Desert’ users until the 24th. Until the 25th, it provides effects such as 1000% combat experience and 400% technical experience to support rapid growth, and content has also been prepared to exchange red sea bream caught through fishing for a bountiful New Year’s box.

In ‘Black Desert Mobile’, you can obtain 45,000 breakthrough recovery tickets through the ‘New Year Lucky Bag Event’ until the 18th. Starting on the 16th, a ‘2026 Lunar New Year gift box’ and 1,000 Black Pearls will be provided through the Lunar New Year attendance register, and special gifts such as remaster-related tokens will be given through the GM Quiz event, which involves answering a total of 6 quizzes every day.

Mgame provides experience points and New Year’s money through the ‘Red Horse’ NPC in ‘Hot Blood Online’ and installs a large Yutnori board. In the new work ‘Ghost M’, ‘Tteokguk Making’ and ‘Yut Play’ are held, and the daily buff effect is strengthened through the ‘Lunar New Year Lucky Card’ event. In addition, in the Lunar New Year login event held from the 14th to the 18th, you will receive a relic summoning ticket and experience increase items when you log in every day.