Is MIR4 Still Worth Playing in 2026? Players, the WEMIX Hack and a New Owner

MIR4 turned five with a new class and a levelling server. Its Steam players are down 21% in a year, the WEMIX$ hack froze its crypto features and Wemade changes owners on the 30th of October.

By Nyx Databorne, News Host, Author, Analyst

Published on October 15, 2026 · 10 min read

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MIR4 turned five worldwide in August 2026, and Wemade marked it with a new class and a fresh server. ^[1] ^[2] The same summer, a hack shut most of the game’s crypto features for more than three weeks, and Wemade’s founder agreed to sell the company to a China-linked buyer. ^[3] ^[4] Over the last 30 days, about 11,500 people were playing MIR4 on Steam at any given moment. That is 85% fewer than in its busiest month, November 2021. ^[5] Here is where the game stands now, and who it still makes sense for.

What MIR4 is

MIR4 is a fantasy MMORPG from the Korean company Wemade. It launched in South Korea in November 2020 ^[6] and worldwide in August 2021. ^[1] The global version adds crypto. Players mine a resource called Darksteel and can smelt it into DRACO, a token on Wemade’s WEMIX blockchain. Characters can also be sold as NFTs. ^[7]

It was a hit. Wemade has said MIR4 reached 1.4 million players online at once across all platforms. ^[8] On Steam alone, it peaked at 97,125 in November 2021. ^[5] By August 2026, it had 24.4 million accounts and 40.1 million characters, and players had smelted DRACO 138 million times. ^[1]

In the game Mir4 Global, a player character is engaged in combat with a Blade Viperbeast Assassin in a grassy, rocky landscape while nearby characters appear and health statuses are displayed.

How many people still play MIR4

MIR4 also runs on phones, but Steam is the only platform with public player numbers. In September 2026, an average of 12,023 people were playing on Steam at any moment. That is 20.9% fewer than in September 2025 and 30.4% fewer than in January 2025. ^[5]

The average number of people playing MIR4 on Steam at any moment in each month, October 2024 to September 2026. Steam only, mobile players are not counted. Data: Steam Charts.

1. 1 August 2025. 4th anniversary (August 2025)
2. 1 July 2026. WEMIX$ hack shuts MIR4's blockchain features (26 July)
3. 1 August 2026. 5th anniversary update and server merges (18 August)

Month	Average players
2024-10-01	15,398
2024-11-01	15,671
2024-12-01	18,018
2025-01-01	17,283
2025-02-01	16,564
2025-03-01	15,220
2025-04-01	14,298
2025-05-01	13,749
2025-06-01	13,150
2025-07-01	12,473
2025-08-01	13,787
2025-09-01	15,196
2025-10-01	14,255
2025-11-01	12,794
2025-12-01	11,519
2026-01-01	11,114
2026-02-01	11,034
2026-03-01	10,818
2026-04-01	12,631
2026-05-01	11,779
2026-06-01	11,128
2026-07-01	10,463
2026-08-01	11,373
2026-09-01	12,023

The anniversary helped a little. The average rose 8.7% from July to August 2026. Even so, August 2026 averaged 17.5% fewer players than August 2025, so this year’s bump was smaller than last year’s. ^[5]

The longer view is starker. The October average has fallen every year, from 46,059 in 2021 to 14,255 in 2025. Over the last 30 days it was 11,561. ^[5]

The average number of people playing MIR4 on Steam at any moment in each October, and in the 30 days to the 15th of October 2026. Data: Steam Charts.

Period	Average players
October 2021	46,059
October 2022	36,129
October 2023	27,592
October 2024	15,398
October 2025	14,255
Last 30 days (2026)	11,561

On the 18th of August 2026, Wemade merged 50 of its global servers into 25. ^[9] Merges like this keep each world busy as the player count shrinks.

What’s new in MIR4 in 2026

The 5th anniversary update on the 18th of August 2026 added the Spirit Summoner. It is a ranged magic class that calls up elemental spirits with a staff or wand, and it both deals damage and buffs its party. ^[2] ^[10] Existing characters cannot switch into or out of the class. ^[2]

The same day, Wemade opened Boosting World 4, a server season built for fast levelling. It has seven servers, three in Asia and one each in INMENA, Europe, South America and North America. It runs until maintenance on the 5th of January 2027 and then becomes a normal server. ^[11] Wemade’s press release promises up to 1,000% extra EXP. ^[10]

Inven Global reported a similar update on the 8th of October 2026. There the class is called Spirit Master, and it comes with a growth server named Deungyongmun that runs to February 2027. ^[12] The report does not name a region. Global players already got the class in August, so it is most likely the Korean version.

Bots are still a problem. On the 2nd of October 2026, Wemade said it had banned 17,030 accounts for using unauthorized programs. ^[13]

In Mir4 Global, a character named Globbitz is gathering resources in a lush outdoor environment with rocky terrain and greenery.

The July hack and what it shut down

On the 26th of July 2026, an attacker took admin control of WEMIX$, a stablecoin on Wemade’s blockchain. Wemade blamed a wrongly set access limit on the function that registers admins. ^[14] The attacker minted 5,225,525 WEMIX$ and swapped part of it for 30,736 WEMIX and $724,198 in USDC.e, then moved the money to Ethereum and BNB Chain. ^[15]

WEMIX$ was meant to hold its value at $1. It closed at $0.9878 on the 25th of July and at $0.0111 the next day, a 98.9% fall. ^[16]

MIR4 switched off all its blockchain features the same day. ^[3] Minting, sealing and unsealing character NFTs came back on the 4th of August, but NFT trading did not. Wemade said the rest would return after maintenance on the 18th of August. ^[17] That maintenance also ran the move of HYDRA and DRACO to a new mainnet, which had been delayed from June. Old tokens convert 1:1, one way, and DRACO’s trading pool now pairs with USDC.e instead of WEMIX$. ^[18]

On the 26th of August, Wemade said it would cover every loss. More than 175,000 holder addresses and 1,128 liquidity providers will get a new token, eqWEMIX$, worth about $1.14 million in all. Each eqWEMIX$ can be swapped 1:1 for USDC.e once the WEMIX$ system restarts, and the payout schedule will come later. Wemade will also buy back 500,000 WEMIX. ^[19]

It was WEMIX’s second hack in 18 months. In February 2025, an attacker took 8.65 million WEMIX, about $6.2 million, from its Play Bridge. ^[20]

Can you still earn DRACO in MIR4?

Yes. DRACO smelting was switched back on during the maintenance on the 18th of August 2026. ^[21] DRACO now trades in a pool against USDC.e that opened the same day. ^[22] On the 15th of October 2026, one DRACO was worth about $0.072, or 0.393 WEMIX. ^[23]

Guides written at MIR4’s launch put the unlock at level 40, the smelting fee at 1,000 Darksteel per DRACO and the cap at 100 DRACO per character per day. ^[7] We could not find a current version of those rules from Wemade, so check in game before you plan around them.

In the game MIR4, a large group of diverse characters in elaborate armor stands together in a courtyard within Bicheon Castle, where a quest titled ‘A Suspicious Meeting’ is displayed on the user interface.

What happened to the WEMIX token

South Korea’s five big crypto exchanges said on the 2nd of May 2025 that they would drop WEMIX, and trading there ended on the 2nd of June 2025. It was the second time Korean exchanges had delisted it. ^[24] Kraken listed WEMIX on the 7th of July 2026, a week after the sale of Wemade was announced. ^[25]

The Kraken listing did not lift it for long. WEMIX was at $0.2711 that day. Around the hack, it fell 19.2% in four days, from $0.2329 on the 25th of July to $0.1882 on the 29th. On the 14th of October 2026 it was at $0.1825, which is 99.2% below its high of $24.10 in November 2021. ^[26]

Weekly: the closing price on the last day of each week, to the 14th of October 2026. Data: CoinGecko.

1. 24 February 2025. Play Bridge hack (28 February)
2. 28 April 2025. Korean exchanges announce delisting (2 May)
3. 29 June 2026. Sale of Wemade to NeoPulse agreed (30 June)
4. 6 July 2026. Kraken listing (7 July)
5. 20 July 2026. WEMIX$ hack (26 July)
6. 24 August 2026. Compensation plan announced (26 August)

Week of	WEMIX (US dollars)
2025-01-06	0.8744
2025-01-13	0.8415
2025-01-20	0.7569
2025-01-27	0.7101
2025-02-03	0.6620
2025-02-10	0.7641
2025-02-17	0.7364
2025-02-24	0.6102
2025-03-03	0.4788
2025-03-10	0.6410
2025-03-17	0.5398
2025-03-24	0.5277
2025-03-31	0.5195
2025-04-07	0.6954
2025-04-14	0.7028
2025-04-21	0.6969
2025-04-28	0.3836
2025-05-05	0.3761
2025-05-12	0.3206
2025-05-19	0.3697
2025-05-26	0.2268
2025-06-02	0.4225
2025-06-09	0.4039
2025-06-16	0.4119
2025-06-23	0.3860
2025-06-30	0.4116
2025-07-07	0.5353
2025-07-14	0.8520
2025-07-21	1.0923
2025-07-28	0.7090
2025-08-04	0.7898
2025-08-11	0.7905
2025-08-18	0.8227
2025-08-25	0.7405
2025-09-01	0.7472
2025-09-08	0.7359
2025-09-15	0.7853
2025-09-22	0.7055
2025-09-29	0.6869
2025-10-06	0.5592
2025-10-13	0.5999
2025-10-20	0.6779
2025-10-27	0.5966
2025-11-03	0.5400
2025-11-10	0.5372
2025-11-17	0.4242
2025-11-24	0.5186
2025-12-01	0.4560
2025-12-08	0.3915
2025-12-15	0.3805
2025-12-22	0.3742
2025-12-29	0.3648
2026-01-05	0.3576
2026-01-12	0.3066
2026-01-19	0.3723
2026-01-26	0.3434
2026-02-02	0.3221
2026-02-09	0.3182
2026-02-16	0.3130
2026-02-23	0.2948
2026-03-02	0.2920
2026-03-09	0.2886
2026-03-16	0.2763
2026-03-23	0.2624
2026-03-30	0.2429
2026-04-06	0.2487
2026-04-13	0.2317
2026-04-20	0.2373
2026-04-27	0.2422
2026-05-04	0.2678
2026-05-11	0.2799
2026-05-18	0.2794
2026-05-25	0.2754
2026-06-01	0.2622
2026-06-08	0.2438
2026-06-15	0.2347
2026-06-22	0.2343
2026-06-29	0.2639
2026-07-06	0.2509
2026-07-13	0.2436
2026-07-20	0.2179
2026-07-27	0.1971
2026-08-03	0.1990
2026-08-10	0.1952
2026-08-17	0.1965
2026-08-24	0.2081
2026-08-31	0.1950
2026-09-07	0.1888
2026-09-14	0.1938
2026-09-21	0.1967
2026-09-28	0.1947
2026-10-05	0.1892
2026-10-12	0.1825

Price on the 14th of October 2026: $0.1825
30-day range: $0.1820 to $0.1988
Past 90 days: -25.9% (vs. other gaming tokens: +15.5%)
Past year: -69.3% (vs. other gaming tokens: -67.5%)
All-time high: $24.10 on the 22nd of November 2021 (now 99.2% lower)

Over the past year, WEMIX fell about as far as other gaming tokens did. Over the past three months it kept falling while they rose. ^[26]

Who will own Wemade

On the 30th of June 2026, Wemade founder Park Kwan-ho agreed to sell his 39.33% stake to NeoPulse for 920 billion won. ^[4] NeoPulse is a Korean company owned by Hong Kong’s Shengsong Investment. Chinese game company Kingnet, which settled its Mir royalty fights with Wemade earlier in 2026, is buying 49% of Neosphere, the company that controls NeoPulse. ^[27]

The remaining 828 billion won is due on the 30th of October 2026, when the deal closes. The buyers say they will focus on publishing Mir games and licensing the series in China, and that Wemade’s current teams and projects will stay. ^[27] Neither side has said what changes for MIR4 or WEMIX.

Wemade is still losing money. In the second quarter of 2026 it posted an operating loss of 21 billion won on revenue of 108.3 billion won. Blockchain revenue rose 739% to 5.1 billion won. ^[28] Wemade also skipped its earnings call, the first time it has done so since it went public. ^[29]

The next Mir game is in doubt. In March 2026, MTN reported that work on MIR5 had stopped for a rebuild and that about 60 staff were moved or offered severance. ^[30] Wemade’s August outlook still listed it for the second half of 2026. ^[31] It has no release date.

In the game Mir4 Global, a character in red and black attire is engaged in combat with several large, menacing creatures in a colorful, forested environment.

What players say

On Steam, 65% of 14,921 reviews are positive, which Steam rates as Mixed. The last 30 days look better, at 75% of 33 reviews. ^[32] Negative reviews in 2026 point to bots, pay-to-win gacha and the crypto side. ^[33] ^[34] Positive ones like the long grind, the free-to-play model and the chance to earn. ^[35] ^[36]