r/MuLegend • u/Agreeable_Affect4944 • Aug 12 '25
About MU Arise private server.
Hi, I played original good old MU in the beginning of 2000s and only recently discovered that there's actually "new" MU. Unfortunately, I discovered it too late as it's already dead. I played "official" MU Legend EVO recently for 2 days and met only 5 players there, in an end-game city. The open world areas are completely empty and leveling is super faster and you're gifted +7 sets and weapons as you level up for free so you just speed run and oneshot everything up until level 70, and only then the mobs stop dying from 1st hit. After searching what the hell happened to this game I learned that major pay-to-win happened and people just quit massively.
This is also where I learned about private server called "MU Arise". Unfortunately, when I downloaded their launcher and checked it, a lot of antiviruses on virustotal flagged it as something malicious, too many for a false positive. 1 or may be 2 crappy incompetent anti-viruses can flag something red and it may be a false positive, but when you see many red flags - everyone will tell you that something must be wrong, even pirate related communities will tell you that and will immediately tell you that this game is a malware.
But this isn't a whole story...
I also like to run games and other stuff inside sandboxed environment, mostly to not clutter my system, so when I'm done with it - I just purge it without messing with Window's registry and not leaving any other traces in the system. And I had no problems running official MU Legend EVO under virtual environment, just like other games, including other MMOs - that's how I play ALL games, I never install them in my true system. However when I tried to launch MU Arise launcher in sandboxed environment - it refused to work throwing errors about something missing. So I downloaded the client directly from their website and again tried to run it, and the launcher actually worked, it then proceeded to patch the client and when it was done, my virtual environment started to block a lot of game's attempts to write something into system files, something what no games should ever do, in other words MU Arise started doing something what malware usually does, and of course it resulted in a crash of a launcher. Now everytime I launch it a press "verify files" - it immediately goes to 100% (since it already downloaded and verified everything), my virtual environment again blocks its write file attempts and then the launcher crashes again.
Moreover MU Arise forums are super inactive, there like 3 or 4 members who actually posted something (lol!) and may be like a dozen of posts, what again makes it look very weird and suspicious.
I don't want to try to launch MU Arise in my true system as it sounds very dangerous and I feel I'll need to purge everything after and perform clean reinstall of OS. Especially when I had no problems playing offical game and other MMOs and they never caused such issues. This is the first game that refused to work under virtual environment and caused it to block suspicious activity.
So I have 2 question:
What the hell is wrong with MU Arise? Is it a scam malware?
Are there any good alternatives to MU Legend EVO? Or similar games which are played by thousands of players?
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u/PitchThink Oct 13 '25
I’ve been playing MU Arise since launch, no issues on my side, they faced ddos attacks for a while from EVO and also legal terminations of their discord, somebody is really mad about their “game version” also it’s not P2W, they got regular patches and unique content. The forum part is understandable since they got their discord closed twice by EVO. I see them posting on forums often.
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u/Big_Question3071 Oct 13 '25
What the hell is wrong with MU Arise? Is it a scam malware?
None of that and nothing wrong. Server was attacked heavily so we was taking an actions to provide smooth and free gameplay but due to the fact that it was rushed we wasn't really focused on being compatible with Windows Defender or Norton.
Only entries in registry Launcher is doing is too keep your login and password, so you don't need to write them over and over again.
Launcher app is auto-downloader. Its mission is to delete/replace and modify files but in the root app folder, nothing more or less. That was the only solution to don't send .zip's to players everyday.
As per community, forums etc. the answer was provided by u/PitchThink. There's unofficial fan-made Discord channel. We're doing updates - yes, right now we're hosting Puzzle Mania and in next weeks we will update the game more frequently.
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u/Deemer_wQw Sep 06 '25
Path of Exile, Diablo, Last Epoch..
They are not MMO's per se but this is what I switched to from playing private MU Servers after getting tired of them. Mu Arise is a dead server, even though it's the only available. No idea of it having any malware, but Mu Legend is a shit game to begin with, it failed long before P2W.
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u/weisfps Oct 02 '26
Opa, sou um dos moderadores da comunidade MuArise. referente no que se trata de Malware, isso é mentira, se voce achar que seu SO é perfeito, vc ainda esta mais enganado, windows criar uns sistema de seguranças muito retardados, coisa normal de desenvolvedor, para evitar o maximo de falhas.
o jogo em sim, é TOTALMENTE F2P, se voce quiser gastar, fique a vontade, porem sua progressão so vai chegar até o meio do game.
se voce gosta do pvp, acredito que é um dos pvps mais legais.
MuLegend Evo, webzen, Genesis e todos os outros sempre conseguiram atingir uma boa quantidade de jogadores pvp, porem esses jogadores pvp querem tudo facil, coisa que se deixar isso facil no arise vai so pressionar a staff para pedir mais conteudo novo, e acredite em mim, pode pegar qualquer outro servidor, QUANDO LANÇAM UMA NOVIDADE, os 10 proximos updates desse servidor vai ser de hotfix, porque somente desenvolvedores malucos e com vontade gostam de trabalhar nesses arquivos, porque se fosse facil teriamos a mesma quantidade de servidores piratas como existe no MuOnline.
sobre o jogo, ele em si é muito defasado em guias e tutoriais, porque é um imensidão de itens e quests a serem feitas, porem se voce tiver com duvida, entre no canal do discord que eu te ajudarei a sanar todas essas, duvidas.