Black Desert Online

 PC
  • Publisher: GameOn
  • Release Date: Mar 3, 2016
User Score
6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1667 Ratings

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  1. Sogimura
    Jul 29, 2023
    0
    There is absolutely no PvP content development in the game. The developers think only about the PvE community. At the beginning of the OBT the developers promised active development of PVP and many different mechanics, but in the end they changed almost nothing and in the future they want to worsen the PVP system even more. But they made nice dances and added useless territories.... IThere is absolutely no PvP content development in the game. The developers think only about the PvE community. At the beginning of the OBT the developers promised active development of PVP and many different mechanics, but in the end they changed almost nothing and in the future they want to worsen the PVP system even more. But they made nice dances and added useless territories.... I don't recommend this game to anyone, don't waste your time and resources!… Expand
  2. njp8848
    Jul 29, 2023
    0
    Recent changes made it like Genshin Impact carebears game out of best looking pvp openworld mmorpg. Your gear and progress is meaningless. Just save your time, pick something that respects your dedication.
  3. nomaddc
    Oct 19, 2019
    3
    A good example of a fun and good MMORPG getting ruined for the sake of extracting every single conceivable penny out of the player base. The game is fun and looks amazing with a few caveats.

    Updates to old classes are rare. They mostly focus on freshly released classes and make sure they are in a good spot balance-wise and get new paid outfits (although even this was in decline lately).    A good example of a fun and good MMORPG getting ruined for the sake of extracting every single conceivable penny out of the player base. The game is fun and looks amazing with a few caveats.

    Updates to old classes are rare. They mostly focus on freshly released classes and make sure they are in a good spot balance-wise and get new paid outfits (although even this was in decline lately). Older classes get largely neglected (DK, Valk, War, Kuno, Maehwa, Tamer, Ranger) and rarely get any fixes or costumes.

    Events have been using lots of recycled old rewards, rarely we get anything substantially new for Christmas/Halloween/etc.. It's mostly stuff from several years ago.

    Enhancing. It's the only means of gear progression (besides just buying what other people enhance for disproportionally more) and it's made to be as frustrating and infuriating as possible. It's made to irritate and frustrate the player to the point when buying some outfits to melt for enhancing "protection" starts to sound like a great idea. This is where they try to milk you dry. Repairing gear? 1 memory fragment restores 1/100 durability, unless you buy with $$ some Artisan Memories, and even then it takes a good amount. Upgrading past DUO? Gear will downgrade on failing unless you use Cron Stones ("protection") that you either get from melting paid outfits or buy using silver (although it's much worse ratio than buying outfits from the market that other players sell for silver). But even then the conversion rate of $ or your time to crons is awful. Of course, you don't have to spend a dime on any of this, but what people forget to say is that your experience with the game will vary depending on how much you spend. If you don't spend odds are it will be miserable. Alternatively, you can elect to upgrade your gear using Caphras stones, but this will take disproportionately longer than enhancing to the point of not really being viable.

    If they introduced more fail protection to enhancing and reduced Cron Stone prices from in-game vendors to make them worth buying over outfit melting it would improve the game a lot. If they started releasing new outfits and balance changes for older classes instead of having Artisans memory sales it would make BDO a really good MMORPG.

    I would not advise getting anywhere near this game if you are an impulsive person or have gambling problems - it will attempt to exploit you at every turn.    … Expand
  4. MrBrocoli
    Mar 9, 2020
    2
    Farming and grinding game.

    0 gear variety

    0 coop conteny

    Atleast was free for me
  5. Nomimetacritic
    Feb 12, 2020
    0
    this is single player games that just had AFK player around you. You gonna keep grinding endless grinding for just failed enchant or P2W just for failed enchant fail again and again
  6. Joehaagaba
    Feb 27, 2020
    0
    Worst online games I’ve ever played the content is terrible the graphics are terrible and it can barely run on my xbox
  7. Jorgenn
    Dec 6, 2020
    0
    Gambling worse than any casino , bank alwayz winz and playerz just lose over and over , 20 classes now just to milk money this is a money grab monster
  8. Ragegoberts
    Nov 22, 2021
    3
    if you're like me you grew up with MMOs giving you armor for doing various things around the world. all these pieces would look different and give a certain uniqueness to your character and the looks. now take bdo this game takes that idea and puts a price on it. real cash. now normally thats fine but your base game has maybe 4 unique armor looks? and you need to be a member to change theif you're like me you grew up with MMOs giving you armor for doing various things around the world. all these pieces would look different and give a certain uniqueness to your character and the looks. now take bdo this game takes that idea and puts a price on it. real cash. now normally thats fine but your base game has maybe 4 unique armor looks? and you need to be a member to change the color it leads to everyone lookong the same and feeling like the only way to stand out is to open your wallet and that is just sad to see imo solid 3/10 for me… Expand
  9. thousandsof
    Aug 5, 2021
    4
    I read here on Reddit that it takes ~ 7000 hours to jump from level 65 to level 66. This is all, of course, fun and cool, but I'll probably stop playing.

    It was possible to do something similar to Borderlands, but not only with weapons but also with the generation of skills, so that the level could easily be at least a billion and you could get a level per week. Instead, the    I read here on Reddit that it takes ~ 7000 hours to jump from level 65 to level 66. This is all, of course, fun and cool, but I'll probably stop playing.

    It was possible to do something similar to Borderlands, but not only with weapons but also with the generation of skills, so that the level could easily be at least a billion and you could get a level per week.

    Instead, the developers broke the project's kneecaps, put it in a wheelchair, and made it trade in pearls. Another project that never went beyond the boring MMORPG genre (although it was sooo close to it).    … Expand
  10. BaldursThones
    Apr 15, 2022
    4
    Its just another grindy MMO. It has great combat and great graphics but every quest is the exact same thing.
  11. Bl4ckN1ght
    Jun 28, 2022
    0
    habe über 200 Tage in Black Desertz und muss sagen es ist für PVP spieler die reine hölle p2w bis zum geht nicht mehr klar du musst das nicht machen doch wer das machen kann ist voll im vorteil ekelhaft
    die welt ist hübsch das handwerkssystem bombe aber das zerstört das spiel
    man kann skins kaufen diese kaputt machen und kriegt dann kostenlos enchaned damit deine waffe oder rüstung    habe über 200 Tage in Black Desertz und muss sagen es ist für PVP spieler die reine hölle p2w bis zum geht nicht mehr klar du musst das nicht machen doch wer das machen kann ist voll im vorteil ekelhaft
    die welt ist hübsch das handwerkssystem bombe aber das zerstört das spiel
    man kann skins kaufen diese kaputt machen und kriegt dann kostenlos enchaned damit deine waffe oder rüstung nicht kaputt geht
    für life skiller sicherlich was für pvp spieler garnix    … Expand
  12. weallone
    Aug 1, 2022
    4
    Gear upgrade system is crap! Ruined everything good in this game. And quests like "kill 5000 mobs" is amazingly interesting
  13. erdembaba58
    Oct 6, 2022
    0
    biz bu oyunu eren diye bi amcık tavsiye etmiyor büyücüydü kendisi

    durmadan can basıyor bi sike yaramıyor araplar para basıyor ap dp araplar 1000 yapmış

    bizde enayi gibi grind attağhk bizde bok gibi oyun 0 puan nı çaktım
  14. lucidgate
    Jun 2, 2017
    0
    Xigncode3 remains on your PC after Black Desert client uninstall. One of the most common functions of this code is to monitor all of the files you have accessed in the last 48 hours. Do not install unless you like to have your privacy invaded.
  15. Ikcen
    Nov 24, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Outstanding graphics, world and physics of movement. So why I put a low score? The gameplay is simply terrible. There is very limited multiplayer PvE content. And the PvP is instanced, or not rewarded. Most of the game is singleplayer grind of resources and easy monsters. The quests are linear, repetitive and blind. The rewards are RNG. The immersion is eroded by the costumes and the animations. I mean the world has a clear landmark from Europe in XVI century. But many costumes and animations are anime alike. Most of the gameplay is grind, the rest is gambling for RNG rewards. And most important, nothing you do has any consequences to the world or the other players. In conclusion, The Black Desert is a massive online singleplayer game or MSO, instead MMO. It looks great, the movement in the game feels great, but the grind is endless and in general pointless. Anyway, if you like Diablo type of games, on easy mode, you may like The Black Desert too. And there is some PvP in addition. For me personally the open world and the amount of players online are pointless, when the game is actually singleplayer.… Expand
  16. ChikatiloZ
    Jul 9, 2017
    4
    Combat is great, graphics are good.
    The cash shop greed is unreal and the grind is masochism, as in it should be illegal?
    So get this, a couple hours in you find out everyone kills monsters while you click R to loot manually most of your time, you literally spend ten times longer looting bodies than you do killing mobs, you spend $40 to buy pets (=autoloot) Then you find out your    Combat is great, graphics are good.
    The cash shop greed is unreal and the grind is masochism, as in it should be illegal?

    So get this, a couple hours in you find out everyone kills monsters while you click R to loot manually most of your time, you literally spend ten times longer looting bodies than you do killing mobs, you spend $40 to buy pets (=autoloot) Then you find out your character is overweight after about 10-12 minutes of grinding, you spend $50 to increase your weight limit. Rinse and repeat, more annoyances come your way all the time, the game is kinda fun if you have your mastercard ready to go but without it the game is a cringefest. You have to buy this **** for every class you decide to play, dont like your class? Buy everything again, everything.

    Then theres upgrading gear, so like, you need shards to have a chance at upgrading gear, nobody sells shards since everyone needs them, you can get them (0.1% chance) by chopping trees and other mundane tasks.

    Just to explain how the upgrade system works, I have chopped trees non stop sixteen hours a day from wednesday morning until sundaynight, that got me about sixty shards, I tried upgrading my weapon with those, it downgraded to previous tier and then cost me about 100 million in repairs + 240 million silver in repairs to TRY to get it back to the tier it was at, which never happened.

    So I spent literally one week chopping trees, nothing else, just chop trees, I lost a quarter of a billion silver (50 hours of focused grind) my gear is broken and noob tier, that's how the upgrade system works. Buying the gear off marketplace would be a way better option, but you can't do that since nobody in their right mind would go through this hell and then sell it.

    Spent a lot of money on the game, all it does is frustrate me, i'm out.    … Expand
  17. megabear
    May 24, 2018
    0
    Groundbreaking of Pay-To-Win genre that takes P2W to a new level. Intense skill at spending real money will allow you to shame all other players for not spending hundreds of dollars for minor upgrades.
  18. P2W
    May 13, 2019
    0
    Scamm Cash Grab. Why i say that ?? well as you can see there is a lot of noobs saying the game looks amazing and its very easy reach lvl 50, in fact until lvl 56 its just a normal clonic asian RPG, its a clone of Continent of the Ninth Seal that was done for the same dev team, but itsnt a nice F2P like the previous one was, I have 5000 hours played on BDO and i tell you all the garbage itsScamm Cash Grab. Why i say that ?? well as you can see there is a lot of noobs saying the game looks amazing and its very easy reach lvl 50, in fact until lvl 56 its just a normal clonic asian RPG, its a clone of Continent of the Ninth Seal that was done for the same dev team, but itsnt a nice F2P like the previous one was, I have 5000 hours played on BDO and i tell you all the garbage its hiden but once you hit that wall the game dont stop ask for money.

    To play your character you need 30$ to unlock the weight limit and inventory slots of 1 char + get your autoloot function and few maids that you need for the RNG market 200$ now multiply for 16 diferent characters 3.200$ now you discover all that its garbage if you dont pay the monthly subscription, another 30$ but now each month, your character cant take all the junk that mobs drop ?? another 15$ each inventory slot expansion, you want P2W we have it aswell, for another 10$ you can fuse combat stats in your cash shop outfits over the game cap with Tailoring coupons, want RNG lottery boxes like the infamous ones of Battlefront Reddit Drama ?? we have them, so you pay to get a T4 Pet 30 bucks and you maybe get it, maybe not, maybe the game delete one of the pets you owned previously, You can also get ultimate gear and wepons (pure P2W) by metlting cash shop outfits, wich mean you pay 30 bucks for each outfit, and you buy a lot of them, then you melt them all ingame to get Endgame weapons and armor, want powerleveling? for 300 euros a chinese dude will makes you start your adventure at LVL 60, and a long etc....

    Yes the game has an amazing graphics compared to WOW wich is a pretty lame MMO in terms of graphics, but this graphics are not better than other MMOs like GTA V, or other RPGs like The Witcher 3, in fact you can buy the Witcher 1,2 and 3 + all DLCs for the price of 1 swimming clothes in BDO.

    The worst its everithing its RNG based, all your progression its RNG based if you dont pass through the cash shop, so you can play 10 years and still be garbage cuz RNG, fishing its RNG, leveling its RNG, blacksmithing its RNG, buy items in market its RNG, etc...ofc you can skip that RNG by paying but ppl here call that pay for convenince, because as you can see by the positive comments the community its kinda sectary and full of white knights and fanboys that will never accept their game is garbage cuz they sunk yet Thousand ofdollars on it, or they dont even reached lvl 56 so they dont know where the scamm its.

    So in Resumme, the game on begunning looks nice, but its procedural generated maps, so after the first village all looks the same, plane boring green forest or empty deserts, the community its Toxic like in LOL, no one play in partys or with other players, 99% of online players are doing AFK activitys so you cant even talk with other ppl, and when they are not AFK or being TOXIC, they are fanatic Fan Boys and Wallet Warriors, P2W everywhere, lottery scamms, the game its more a casino than a game, the history and lore its garbage and in general its boring unless you pay thousand of $$$ to beat the RNG with your Visa Card and use the power earned to be a bully, it dosnt have dungeons, Role Players are hunted and bullyed, it lacks of many features, you cant marry other players, or dance, or kiss other players, you cant even trade your items with your friends, the market prices are fixed and you have to win a lottery ticket to buy items on market, the game its super bugged with flying farm wagons in the sky and NPCs walking through walls, the PVP combat its broken, it also force you play offline meaning you have to leave your computer ON while you sleep to progress until your PC get burned, there is bots and hackers, the gear gap makes 1 player that sunk a lot of money in the game can bully a whole enemy guild, if you want start play now just give up, there is no way in the world you catch up, the grind fest its 100% worst than any MMO out there, the Devs dont give a ****** about the playerbase, they game itself dont give a crap about you.

    My reward for 5000 hours played its a cat and 5 memory fragments when Revelation Online gift you a flying mount the first day you play. Not worth your time. SCAMM P2W GARBAGE, 1/10 cuz the Graphics atleast are meh...    … Expand
  19. Barnews
    Jul 22, 2016
    3
    Black desert is MMORPG with a lot of great ideas. But after weeks/days of playing you will know there are a lot of bad mechanics. There good things and bad things and those bad things keep black desert from beying a top MMORPG.

    PROS - Big and beautifull world full of quests and things to do (Do not expect original quest. It is same repetitive bussines like in every other MMO) - The    Black desert is MMORPG with a lot of great ideas. But after weeks/days of playing you will know there are a lot of bad mechanics. There good things and bad things and those bad things keep black desert from beying a top MMORPG.

    PROS
    - Big and beautifull world full of quests and things to do (Do not expect original quest. It is same repetitive bussines like in every other MMO)
    - The graphics are one of the best among todays MMO's
    - Sandbox style of the game, you can be skilled gatherer, trader, fisher, cook, horse trainer, etc... Or you can skip that all and focus only on combat power of your character.
    - Itemization and overall game phylosophy. Doesnt matter what level you are, you can use same gear when you are 10 lvl or 50 lvl. You can use materials and items that you found during leveling for your high end gear and high end potions. Literally you are playing end game even on low level.
    - Levelling system (Soft cap 50 level - official max level, but you can get higher levels, but more slowly)
    - Contribution poitns system: When you play, you earn contribution points, that you can invest somewhere. For example to storage, your residence, some grinding location or some farm where your workers can gather materials.
    - Enchanting system where your gear get's more powerfull as you enchant it.

    CONS
    - Clunky PVP. Its just not fun for me. Unnecesary animations and some game aspects make PVP and combat not fun.
    - Boss scroll system is boring and not exciting.
    - Only posibility to trade between players is by auction house (marketplace) I do not have anything againts that, it fights againts gold sellers etc... But they have not implemented anything that let you give some good gear or materials to your friend you play with. You can only give potions to someone.
    - Grinding and fighting monsters is much more efficient over all gatherin, fishing or other activities. It is shame they allowed that. I agreee that fighting monsters should be essential to collect some thing you cant get by gathering, but right now it is best in everything. This part of game is not balanced and damage game itself.
    - Energy system that allows you perform some ingame actions is messed up and total chaos :-D
    - Other game aspects that are simply stupid and unnecesary.    … Expand
  20. MechVampyre
    Nov 14, 2016
    3
    graphics of this game looks very promising but beyond that it has gotten nothing really entertaining.
    you can craft many things, breed horses, get a farm, buy yourself houses, fishing, trading system and so on...
    well theres a lot of content but it feels just like all of that stuff leads you to nothing and only wastes a lot of your time. in the end you do this for the money to buy equip    graphics of this game looks very promising but beyond that it has gotten nothing really entertaining.
    you can craft many things, breed horses, get a farm, buy yourself houses, fishing, trading system and so on...
    well theres a lot of content but it feels just like all of that stuff leads you to nothing and only wastes a lot of your time.
    in the end you do this for the money to buy equip and go out to slap mobs (instead of all that boring and time wasting things you can also grind mobs the whole day, buy equip and grind more).

    fighting system is somewhat fun.
    nice animations and a lot of combos but for the pve content you just don't need to learn any combos, cause the AI of the mobs is completely stupid, there are no really special mechanics any mob has except some knockdowns here and there. so even fighting through the pve content gets boring and repetitive really quick. no challenge here.

    pvp is nothing else than one big mess.
    in pvp it all comes down to gear. you got better gear than your opponent? gg.
    even in a fight between two guys with equal gear it just comes down to who hits first with one of the thousands of cc skills.
    this pvp is not competitive, challenging, fun... nothing but a big mess.
    if you're searching for a pvp game, you'll be wrong in black desert.

    this game got way too much rng in it. thanks to all that rng nearly everything in this game becomes a true pita.
    even landing a cc in fights is based on rng.

    there are so many occupations in this game you can do while being afk. it's worse than some browsergames and so few tools which benefit any kind of playing with other people. actually it feels the other way round. people try to avoid other players the whole day long (really awesome in an online game).

    black desert could have made it to a somewhat decent singleplayer game but as it is, not more than 3 points. at least for a while it is a little fun to grind throug the map.
    not to recommend.    … Expand
  21. b19846
    May 13, 2017
    1
    RNG and also cash shop RNG. Oh also add expensive cash shop. (the game is pay to play)... And is more expensive than others free to play...
    RNG is also in game upgrading all. (Accessories are destroyed if you fail)...
    You can't play this game fine without spend in cash shop such as pets, increase your weigh limit, etc.... This game take your life, if you're new please avoid of playing    RNG and also cash shop RNG. Oh also add expensive cash shop. (the game is pay to play)... And is more expensive than others free to play...
    RNG is also in game upgrading all. (Accessories are destroyed if you fail)...
    You can't play this game fine without spend in cash shop such as pets, increase your weigh limit, etc....
    This game take your life, if you're new please avoid of playing this game.
    This game personally is wrong rate and it should be +18 ages.    … Expand
  22. OuterOcean6
    Sep 30, 2017
    3
    (Gameplay)
    Combat is the whole game that it defined it for everything in this game besides this is either dull or good or terrible.
    (Graphics) Best graphics for this generation of mmos, it has good immersion, npcs, enemies, structures, textures, buildings, etc. (System) The system like enhancing is really bad, equipment downgrades after reaching DUO gear level and nobody even    (Gameplay)
    Combat is the whole game that it defined it for everything in this game besides this is either dull or good or terrible.

    (Graphics)
    Best graphics for this generation of mmos, it has good immersion, npcs, enemies, structures, textures, buildings, etc.

    (System)
    The system like enhancing is really bad, equipment downgrades after reaching DUO gear level and nobody even likes this system. You have to build fail stacks to increase your chance of succeeding just to get your gear another level. You don't feel you even progressed even after months of grinding and repetitive questing. The whole game is based RNG, nothing in this game is guaranteed of gaining even if you're a veteran or not.

    A lot of important stats are hidden such as accuracy and dmg, you won't know if you're doing enough damage neither if you are doing so much. It's all a guessing game of agony when you are doing PvP, and PvE. There is an attendance system where it gives rewards that are not useful as a lot of the ones that they give either need you to play forever to gain, or you already can get them easily. The game doesn't explain to you if you are using the correct tools to mine, or use any gathering due to lazy devs.

    (Balance and Content)
    PvE is basically just kill trash mobs all game, there are world bosses and guild bosses you can do with people and that is just it. There is only 1 dungeon in the game that needs you to be completely high end gear and high level that takes forever to get. Plus you need 5 other people with the same type of requirements. There is a new PvE content in the game that you can just teleport to and it is very dull content. The mechanics are shoot birds with guns, slice and dice ground mobs, it is basically a horde mode.

    PvP is a mess of unbalancing and lag, nobody will get a fair fight as gear and level will always determine which person will win. There will sometimes be an rare occasion where your opponent will be in an equal level as you are, the classes almost never gotten any nerfs as dark knights can 1 shot you with or without gear, warriors will pummel you without any skill involved, etc. Desync will happen a lot, as if you used a warrior grab on someone they might be just behind you instead of your animation happening, or on their screen their behind you but you just grabbed them and knocked them down.

    Node wars and big PvP battles are such a cluster fk, you don't know what is happening and there is only 1 thing you can only do. Go from point A to point B and destroy their tower and nobody even knows if anyone will win by sheer numbers or outgearing. There is PvP protection such as Karma when if you kill a player the pker will get deducted for it, once it reaches negative their name will go red and they can get attacked from anyone even if they have pk off.

    (Mechanics)
    By the time you start in the game your whole screen will be filled with so much crap, you won't even know what is on your screen. You won't even know how to turn some of them off and some cannot be turned off. You have to look it up online. Horse mechanics are good, as horses can be bred and they all have skills that boosts your horse speed. But the bad thing is that you have to level them up to get them and it is RNG if you can get a useless or good skill, or no skill at all.

    Pets only loot 1 mob just for a cooldown of 10 seconds, the cooldown lowers as they level up. Pets provide bonus stats that increases exp gain, life skill gain, mob tracking, etc. Breeding any of pets will make you lose 1 in return of a chance of getting a higher tier pet. Horses need to be bred at the horse breeding market, the many deaths affects the chance on getting a higher tier horse.

    (P2W)
    Yes this game is p2w, you have to either buy pets to rid of the problem of spamming R to loot is either by spending months of trying to snipe pets from the market. You can pay $40 just to get 4 of the maximum pets you can get. Artisan Memories are another way to save silver on enhancing weapons, armor, accessories. They can only be bought at the pearl shot for 50 Pearls, this can be a ton of money if you only plan on enhancing and saving silver for your next upgrades. Complete now buttons have been added to worker builds to speed up on getting millions of silver by selling crates. The amount of time remaining will determine how much Pearls will be deducted.

    (Community)
    The community is really awful as players don't even care if they kill your horse, and they will cry about it if you kill theirs. A lot of the chat is based on flaming and trolling, everyone you encounter in a popular grind spot will attempt to kill you if they see you. People use karma bombing as letting them pk you so you can harass them for being dumb to do it.

    (Conclusion)
    There is so much more I can say but I am already limited. Do not buy this game if you do not want to waste time.    … Expand
  23. DarkSucker
    Apr 22, 2018
    2
    pro: Great scenery, great combat UI, and mostly ok other stuff. (crafting, trade, ...)

    con: RNG enhancing system, lots of information hiding, and unexplained UI features (no reliable manual) The game was on average OK because of the combat system. This lasted 1.5 months. Then several bugs happened at the same time they introduced a new event. Bugs included a memory leak (>58GB) and    pro: Great scenery, great combat UI, and mostly ok other stuff. (crafting, trade, ...)

    con: RNG enhancing system, lots of information hiding, and unexplained UI features (no reliable manual)

    The game was on average OK because of the combat system. This lasted 1.5 months. Then several bugs happened at the same time they introduced a new event. Bugs included a memory leak (>58GB) and another that caused instantaneous failure (the game was running and then vanished, poof). Playable for short periods only.

    The so called support was some of the worst I have ever dealt with. Common sense would suggest gathering details (e.g. log files) , clarifying details that are uncertain, and then recommending fixes. This is not how they work. Instead, they instantly recommend an action based on a single word. In most cases the action was irrelevant and that action involved serious matters that could have severe negative effects on the system (adjusting page files, installing 3rd party software to mess with the registry). Nuclear options if you will. My system was fine, and their "fixes" put my system at risk.

    Later, I went to their forum and discovered that several other users were experiencing the exact issues I was, and they had already pointed out that the exact same "fixes" were inappropriate (posted data and screen shots). Yet, the same support person had no problem recommending those "fixes" to me.

    Add insincere to superficial and nuclear.

    Buyer beware    … Expand
  24. crazyplanet
    Jul 10, 2018
    4
    STORY: (3/10) Boring and so generic (You are Naruto, born to tame your Kyuubi so maybe you can use it to save the world).

    QUEST SYSTEM: (3/10) Errand boy, Kill 500 enemies, Kill and collect stuff, Kill/gather with RNG, "snowballing" interview/survey, Choose A to become Hokage - Choose B to become Hokage. GRAPHICS QUALITY: (10/10) Best (only if you have beast PC otherwise it's still    STORY: (3/10) Boring and so generic (You are Naruto, born to tame your Kyuubi so maybe you can use it to save the world).

    QUEST SYSTEM: (3/10) Errand boy, Kill 500 enemies, Kill and collect stuff, Kill/gather with RNG, "snowballing" interview/survey, Choose A to become Hokage - Choose B to become Hokage.

    GRAPHICS QUALITY: (10/10) Best (only if you have beast PC otherwise it's still good looking).

    CONTENTS: (7/10) Rich (learn all of it from guides and tutorials on the internet, the game or the developer itself can't help you that much), Pay to look good (the best armor = mossy armor), frequent events, Dialogues are voice-acted (not all dialogues, I mean a most of them not), some confusingly in-game Wiki and item descriptions (All AP up?), mediocre cutscene.

    PROGRESSION SYSTEM: (3/10) RNG-based (Lv.58 full-DUO most likely will lose to Lv.56 full-TET), Pay to win (you can buy in-game currencies by selling microtransactions items-like costumes on the in-game market and then buy some expensive end-game gear with it), Gear (except weapon) isn't class-bound (good for trying every class).

    MUSIC: (8/10) pretty decent jukebox music

    COMBAT SYSTEM: (7/10) as long as not involving grab and war-scale battle, it is the best combat system for MMORPG (IMHO).

    CUSTOMER SUPPORT: (7/10) Responsive (DO NOT ask about internal figures like enhancement/breeding/item drop rate to game master), some people said the server is bad - some people said the internet provider is bad

    NOT-SO-SPOILER ALERT!
    RNG is going to be the one that blocks your way to enjoy endgame contents unless you have real money to spend or a LOT of spare time to mine silvers through grinding (or life skills) or just plain "lucky".

    Edit #3. Turned out BDO was a free-to-play game at first (Korean, JPN, and Russia servers) but changed to pay-to-play in NA, EU, SEA servers. Now I know why the microtransactions are BAD. So beware    … Expand
  25. Ferkus
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pearl Abyss killing pvp system for all time. It's good game if you want to play only in cooking or gathering… Expand
  26. Subastis
    Sep 20, 2016
    3
    I pay 30€ to this game and i completely regret, boring, unoriginal, pay per win, you have to play like 10 hours to get some weapon or armor and it can be ugly as hell. The gameplay dont have nothing new and you are always grinding, killing 20 monsters o gathering 20 flowers, again and again. The main quest its the same but with some easy and tipical boss. It have some things original likeI pay 30€ to this game and i completely regret, boring, unoriginal, pay per win, you have to play like 10 hours to get some weapon or armor and it can be ugly as hell. The gameplay dont have nothing new and you are always grinding, killing 20 monsters o gathering 20 flowers, again and again. The main quest its the same but with some easy and tipical boss. It have some things original like taming a horse but its almost impossible find a horse, theres is one for every hundred players and even if you find it and you are alone you can lose the minigame losing the horse and the money for the ropes. You can navigate with a boat and fishing but its really hard to get the first boat and when you are fishing literally you dont do nothing. I give the game a 3 because the graphics (not bad for a mmo) but overall its a boring grinding game like a lot others you can play for free.… Expand
  27. Dandem
    Jun 28, 2023
    1
    Posiblemente fuera un buen juego cuando salió en 2016, pero el combate y la jugabilidad se ve extremadamente espesa.
    Las cinemáticas no se puedes omitir y tienes que tragarte una historia mediocre y arquetípica sobre fuerzas del mal y salvar el mundo
  28. Genovah
    Jul 13, 2016
    2
    PvP-centric game, there is no PvE content. Despite this the pvp is pretty bad, balance issues, server lag and desync, gear>>>>>>skill.
    You are required to grind mobs in the world and gather flowers for most of your play time if you want to do anything and not get 1-shotted on sight in pvp. Do your research before purchasing the game, you'll regret it dearly if you don't.
  29. Caos
    Aug 24, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I had a number of level 50+ characters with my main being a level 58 ranger before I decided to sell my account and call it quits. The game is visually pleasing... but its designed for no lifers that play 24/7 in order to be competitive. Its a waste of time for those that have a job and families to consider. On top of this there are people using hacks and expliots to get ahead (Pyx and Others) so there fair gameplay is missing. It was kind of a dissappointment for me to be honest. I played in the NA/Europe region which is the only region that needs to buy the game in order to play it.... on top of that you have to buy cashshop items in order to be competitive. Overall a visially nice game but not very well designed against hackers and for those that have jobs... for me it was a dissappointment… Expand
  30. Falrinth
    May 28, 2016
    2
    Many people prize this game for being sandbox mmorpg. Well it aint sandbox and feels more like single player online than mmorpg. Have you ever seen sandbox mmorpg with no player-2-player trading or fixed market prices?

    When we think of sandbox mmorpg we imagine an opportinity to become whatever we like to be in that world. A warrior, an alchemist, a dedicated blacksmith for our guild,    Many people prize this game for being sandbox mmorpg. Well it aint sandbox and feels more like single player online than mmorpg. Have you ever seen sandbox mmorpg with no player-2-player trading or fixed market prices?

    When we think of sandbox mmorpg we imagine an opportinity to become whatever we like to be in that world. A warrior, an alchemist, a dedicated blacksmith for our guild, the guy to every guildie comes for a masterfully crafted equipment, part of a trading empire guild, crafting artisans, warriors, mercenaries etc. whatever we like to specialise and dedicate to. In BDO however everyone have to be everything and do stuff for themselves. Most of the time the effort and even ingredients for crafting stuff outweight the price devs fixed for the product on the market (this is just absurd). Its a sad sight to see game with plenty of proffesions have communist-like marketplace with empty shelves, cause naturally noone is bothered to give away stuff for no profit.

    Giving it 2/10 cause it kept me interested untill i realised i am playing an illusion of sandbox mmorpg, that is in fact just content-poor, cheap theme park, old "KAL Online" like mmorpg with tones of grind which is the very same path for everyone. You go the same single-player path of grind all the rest of the players go, like a lemmings. And on top of that the ultra cheap money grabs everywhere, like the retail price wasnt enough for this thing. You dont want to pay more than the retail price? Fine, just do everything 5 times slower than those who did. No pay2win whatsoever, no... Well in fact... it aint pay2win, cause its a single player :D    … Expand
  31. Vidicus
    Jul 23, 2016
    4
    As a experienced gamer (all the way back to the first video games) I see more and more lazy developers. Black Desert Online is a beautiful game, and it has so many things to do. The problem is none of those things matter. There is no end game in the game except to fight other players. So it is a MMO with no raids and no dungeons. All you do is grind the same spots over and over andAs a experienced gamer (all the way back to the first video games) I see more and more lazy developers. Black Desert Online is a beautiful game, and it has so many things to do. The problem is none of those things matter. There is no end game in the game except to fight other players. So it is a MMO with no raids and no dungeons. All you do is grind the same spots over and over and over while sometimes fighting over those spots with another player. One of the worst MMOs I have played and one of the most beautiful.… Expand
  32. kenshinwari
    Sep 25, 2017
    2
    while the game in itself could have a great future it's plagued by Micro-transactions and a heavy dose of RNG, while at the same time there is also backwards progression that results in your effort, time and money, going to waste on this game and will only leave you with frustration and a bad taste in the mouth.
  33. DrussKnightX
    Jun 15, 2016
    2
    This game looks great in still frames. Looks OK in most Utube reviews. The game seems like it has a lot of depth. And after you make the purchase and download it you will find out what it's really about. A whole lot of nothing. The combat is weak, the quests are typical. Trying to figure out how to develop your work force or even how to go about the conversation mini-game takes way moreThis game looks great in still frames. Looks OK in most Utube reviews. The game seems like it has a lot of depth. And after you make the purchase and download it you will find out what it's really about. A whole lot of nothing. The combat is weak, the quests are typical. Trying to figure out how to develop your work force or even how to go about the conversation mini-game takes way more effort than it should and don't expect any help from the community. I spent 10 minutes trying to get a simple answer to one of the games many convoluted features to no avail. In short, the game sucks and only rates a 3 because of the graphics (which aren't stellar). I'm sorry I wasted my money on it. Maybe you will be too.… Expand
  34. Hanzo_Hasashi
    Mar 28, 2023
    0
    The worst game in mankind history. The lost potential to be awesome game is just staggering. The text book example of how to not make a game. -10/10 but can't go below 0.
  35. Organnen
    Aug 4, 2016
    0
    Avoid this **** like the plague. Promises of no "P2W" from the beginning while they tiptoed and pushed boundaries, seeing how much they could get away with. They introduced an "optional" subscription to a game you already paid for. I use "optional" because the reality is you're at a disadvantage without it. It gives you more silver from selling stuff on the marketplace in-game and onceAvoid this **** like the plague. Promises of no "P2W" from the beginning while they tiptoed and pushed boundaries, seeing how much they could get away with. They introduced an "optional" subscription to a game you already paid for. I use "optional" because the reality is you're at a disadvantage without it. It gives you more silver from selling stuff on the marketplace in-game and once they realized that the whales defended their P2W, they're removing any and all cash shop -> marketplace restrictions to create a true Korean P2W **** show. 0/10. Avoid this garbage game and scummy, lying developer.… Expand
  36. Jaliver
    Apr 11, 2016
    4
    Black Desert Online is one of those MMOs that either makes it or breaks it for gamers, unfortunately for myself, BDO broke it for me. My review will be as unbiased as possible and only discuss the details.

    Pros: 1. Amazing life-like character generator, although I wish you weren't bound to a set appearance by class, BDO provides one of the best character generator systems in the MMO    Black Desert Online is one of those MMOs that either makes it or breaks it for gamers, unfortunately for myself, BDO broke it for me. My review will be as unbiased as possible and only discuss the details.

    Pros:
    1. Amazing life-like character generator, although I wish you weren't bound to a set appearance by class, BDO provides one of the best character generator systems in the MMO market, I've spent more time creating characters on BDO than any mmo before due to how in depth it is.

    2. The game has some realistic traits, due to fast travel not really being a thing, you have to explore the entire map yourself, this may seem tiresome to many but to myself, there is nothing more enjoyable than traveling around a diverse fantasy world rich in graphics and exploration.

    3. Combat in BDO doesn't really go stale, due to many different classes and possibilities in pvp matchups, no fight in BDO is similar to the next unless of course you literally play all day fighting everyone. Even PVE by yourself isn't too bad as BDO isn't a point and click mmo you need to actually fight tough enemies intelligently.

    Cons:

    1. Money Sink, this game is terribly corrupt, for a game that stands strongly with character creation, you'd think there would be more diverse options in what kinds of clothes you wish to wear. Unless you're really balling out of control in life, you'll find it kind of ridiculous to pay 30 dollars for an outfit in game when the game itself cost you 25 dollars. This game has a Free to play model which for a game you have to purchase is pretty ridiculous.

    2. The energy system, energy works exactly like a mobile game function for your phone. Basically in a mobile game you may be given a token that recharges in 6 hours or something after using one and with those tokens you can do various actions and that sadly is exactly how the energy system works.

    3. Very antisocial MMO. BDO has one of the most competitive communities in existence for an MMO and its not good. The game itself doesn't encourage players to talk to each other but instead encourages competition among each other and because of this most players will never be able to play with older players on the game. Everyone keeps trying to climb and climb the competitive ranks on the game so for every day you're not playing BDO other people are and they are passing you. This means you will not be able to get into most guilds, play with your friends who started the game earlier or later than you etc.    … Expand
  37. Teekanne
    Feb 21, 2018
    0
    The game does some things really well. The action combat feels extremely fluid and the lifeskilling has potential, however this game is a scam in that it creates an artificial problem and then sells the solution.

    Every cash shop item is a response and the solution to a roadblock in the game. The developers initially promised there would be no Cash Shop along the lines of the Korean mode    The game does some things really well. The action combat feels extremely fluid and the lifeskilling has potential, however this game is a scam in that it creates an artificial problem and then sells the solution.

    Every cash shop item is a response and the solution to a roadblock in the game. The developers initially promised there would be no Cash Shop along the lines of the Korean mode ... they lied.

    They continue to lie to this day and will vehemently deny they are pay 2 win but pay for convenience. Either way, their racket is becoming more exposed in the west and I will never recommend a game developed by PA or published by Kakao ever again.    … Expand
  38. JimbotMeta
    Apr 19, 2016
    4
    Took an almost immediate dislike to this game. Most of the bad stuff has already been said - total lack of guidance on how to do things or why you should/nt, no customisation ofr armor and bad voice acting.

    Combat is really good and that format should be the norm for mmos moving foward but the real problem...the total lack of story, the incredibly bad voice acting and translations and    Took an almost immediate dislike to this game. Most of the bad stuff has already been said - total lack of guidance on how to do things or why you should/nt, no customisation ofr armor and bad voice acting.

    Combat is really good and that format should be the norm for mmos moving foward but the real problem...the total lack of story, the incredibly bad voice acting and translations and the really bad music throughout. It ruins the whole ambiance of the game.

    There might be a lot in it and a ton of depth - but if found myself saying "why should I care" - i dont care about this world at all or any of the characters in it. There is no lore, no history no story its just absolutely awful in terms of creating an atmosphere.

    If you enjoyed Wow or Swtor or any game with story/structure like that - this game is NOT for you.

    That said if you dont care about the things i mentioned and you love PVP and good combat then this would be    … Expand
  39. BlueWolf_X
    Sep 9, 2016
    1
    After having close to 83 in game days spent with this game, I think I can give an honest review. To start off I want to say I truly loved this game, the graphics are really good, and game play in general feels very satisfying since there is so much to do here, such as: Fishing, Grinding (for levels, gear, silver, items etc.), Farming, NPC Trading, Hunting, Cooking, Alchemy, Crafting, myAfter having close to 83 in game days spent with this game, I think I can give an honest review. To start off I want to say I truly loved this game, the graphics are really good, and game play in general feels very satisfying since there is so much to do here, such as: Fishing, Grinding (for levels, gear, silver, items etc.), Farming, NPC Trading, Hunting, Cooking, Alchemy, Crafting, my favorite Horse training/breeding (to get nice mounts), Gathering, and so much more. Leveling is fairly easy up until 50 by grinding since it is the best way of leveling. Past 50 leveling will become slower but there are costumes you can buy with $30 that give +10% experience, and you can also buy consumables to boost experience. Gear has no level cap so a level 1 could have the best gear if they had the money or a main.

    There are two important systems implemented in this game which are your Energy pool, and Contribution Points that also spread to all the characters created withing your family name on the server of your choosing (meaning, at the start of the game you choose a family name that all the characters you create will have, and all those characters also share your energy pool and contribution points, as well as warehouse space/items, pets etc.). Your energy pool increases from knowledge you gather as you explore new areas, fight new monsters, talk to new NPC's, discover new recipes, etc . You use energy every time you gather materials through mining, woodcutting, butchering animals for meat, and cutting their hides, and more. You also use energy leveling nodes(areas you discover on the map that you can connect with contribution points) to get better drop rates when grinding or more resources with workers assigned to gather there.

    Contribution points you get from doing normal and daily quests. The more CP you have the better off you are, especially if you want to build yourself a big workers empire or trade route empire. You can use CP to connect nodes and then use energy to level them up, or rent equipment from NPC's.

    There is still so much I did not mention in here, such as housing, decorating your houses, having maids you can buy with real money, pets, horse armor, dying pretty much every piece of equipment, and so much more. There is a lot in this game but a huge part of this game ties down to money. Luckily I did not spend much on this game other than the $100 Conqueror founder pack, a couple of costumes, one of which is quite P2W (the ghillie suit which hides your name and HP in PVP and makes it really hard for players to see you), and a few pets. That being said, I will never spend another penny in this game.

    Before launch in an interview the company stated how they will make the game buy to play, and that they were against P2W elements but they are OK with "pay for convenience" through a cash shop implementation. A lot of players bought into the Founder packages (myself included). Before you could even start playing the game, you had to agree to an agreement at the start screen which basically said that you give up the rights for a refund if you start playing the game. So you had to accept their game and policies as is.

    Once you play longer, you begin to realize that some of those pay for convenience items are starting to become mandatory unless you want to go through a painful and slow grind. For instance the character you play has a weight limit for how much items you can carry around, and and an inventory space limit. Pretty much every item in the game has a weight attached to it, so if you plan on grinding for long periods of time at once then having a large weight limit is a must in order to have more potions etc. Also a large inventory space is needed since some items that you pick up do not stack up. Oh and unless you plan on picking up every single item that drops from monsters with an animation that takes about 2 seconds to get everything, you will have to spend real money on pets that do that for you automatically, and you can have 4 pets around you doing this.

    So what is the big deal, right? Well 6 months after launch they also introduced a subscription based item you can buy with money or lots of loyalty points that reduces marketplace tax by 30% and a bunch of other goodies (The marketplace/auction house has a 30% tax on everything you sell. This was implemented to stop people from making huge profits on certain items or playing the market, and it kept the economy in place), everyone was against it and before implementing it they were asking for player feedback in the forums to no avail. Then they implemented buying cash shop items with money and selling them at the marketplace for silver with a cap of 5 items per week. These items don't sell for much silver "right now" but still having these systems in place made a lot of players feel betrayed, they outraged and a lot quit and started refunds. So now you have a Buy2Play game with F2P elements+Subscription-Based+Pay2    … Expand
  40. Megalon
    Apr 14, 2016
    4
    I have played the game for 500 hours now. I am not sure how i feel about it exactly so I used a random number generator to generate a random number between 1 and 10. The rng said 4 so the game gets a 4/10.
  41. daddygull
    Jul 19, 2022
    0
    BDO is a classic grindy RNG based game with full of dead content. Game is all about grind, and more grind. They always came with a fresh idea once in a while, then left it to rot while adding more grind zones and gear.

    PvP is good, but lack of class balance kills it. I mean it has 22 classes but 5 of them are commonly played. Also your fps affect your damage becasue every PC has it's    BDO is a classic grindy RNG based game with full of dead content. Game is all about grind, and more grind. They always came with a fresh idea once in a while, then left it to rot while adding more grind zones and gear.

    PvP is good, but lack of class balance kills it. I mean it has 22 classes but 5 of them are commonly played. Also your fps affect your damage becasue every PC has it's own server and calculates parameters of PvP. Another bad thing that affects PvP is server lag which is the worst i've ever seen. Good PvP, but game doesn't let you enjoy it whatsoever.

    I wont talk about lifeskill, ocean content or lack of group content. This game is all about picking the meta class and braindead grinding to be on a same level with P2W whales. Oh yes, you can sell cash shop items in marketplace and buy gear with them, which basically means buying gear with real money. Don't tell me it's not worth it, we know there're whales doign it out there. You can get BiS gear by cashshop without even leaving city, good challenge for whales.

    As i mentioned, no group content. BDO is a singleplayer grinding hack and slash game.    … Expand
  42. PokyV
    Apr 7, 2023
    4
    The game is good, but all is ruined by the infinite buttons on your screen and menus popping at you out of nowhere that you don't know how to close. The best of the game is definitely the combat, with amazing combos and effects, but most of the time you will be skipping dialogues or trying to close annoying windows. A good game ruined by its UI.
  43. Shaide
    May 22, 2016
    0
    Poor localization combined with poor voice acting and nonsensical story. Sure it has good graphics, but that alone is not enough to hold my interest...It's also buggy! To be fair, I am not holding that against the game. All MMORPGs are buggy, it's impossible to make a large expanding world and not have bugs. Still, it's annoying to encounter bugs early on in the game.

    Overall? The game    Poor localization combined with poor voice acting and nonsensical story. Sure it has good graphics, but that alone is not enough to hold my interest...It's also buggy! To be fair, I am not holding that against the game. All MMORPGs are buggy, it's impossible to make a large expanding world and not have bugs. Still, it's annoying to encounter bugs early on in the game.

    Overall? The game is below average at best. If it was a free to play, it might be deserving of a higher score, but it's not! I paid almost 50 bucks for the explorers pack, and for 50 bucks? The games a mess and I probably won't even play it anymore...Prob my least played MMORPG...Honestly? You're better off sticking to Guild Wars 2.    … Expand
  44. UNlVERSE
    Apr 19, 2016
    3
    This review is coming from someone who thoroughly enjoys PvP/PvE to the fullest. This game is beyond an utter disappointment.

    Leveling in this game takes little to no effort whatsoever, maxing at the soft-cap of 50 quite literally for anyone who simply looks up the correct areas to grind. When you get over the flashy combat, you'll realize this game is completely overrated. Best    This review is coming from someone who thoroughly enjoys PvP/PvE to the fullest. This game is beyond an utter disappointment.

    Leveling in this game takes little to no effort whatsoever, maxing at the soft-cap of 50 quite literally for anyone who simply looks up the correct areas to grind.

    When you get over the flashy combat, you'll realize this game is completely overrated. Best part? You forfeit your right to a refund. "Well you can try it for free from a friend!" Implying you know anyone that plays this game. Simply watching YouTube videos of this game is like any other, watching BF4 trailers and demos made BF4 look great, devs hyped it to all hell. What was the end product? A beyond overhyped and trash game.

    This isn't even counting the fact the character balance in this game is horrid, and to be expected. At-range characters will dominate PvP team-play, hence why a vast number of people who play this are Range/Wizard etc.

    PvE wise this game is obviously lacking. Just another run of the mill "spam spam spam" for your daily fun. Mod grinding is the same as any other game and the quickest way to level.

    For virtually $50 the amount of customization is an abysmal joke. Sure, you can toy around with the physical appearance of your avatar (their physical body), but other than that and dyes, you're left with a extremely lackluster customization for something you just blew $50 on. Lets also mention that you'll be spending another $10-20+ on the cash-shop cosmetics that for the most part look ridiculous.

    As most Korean MMO's are, they utilize gear enhancement. This game doesn't focus on skill, and rather focuses on who can camp and grind PvE for hours upon hours on end to enhance to +15 and above. Achieving such enhancements simply because you have less of a life than most people, and then entering into PvP where your "skill" (gear) will be made apparent is what does it for many people.

    To top it all off, this game has severe connectivity issues on the NA servers. Constant disconnects as well as authentication errors frequently make grinding out in this game that much more annoying when you're constantly having to relaunch your client.

    All in all, the only positive thing about this game are the graphics. Sure, there's some variety in this game, things that have already been done and quite honestly if I wanted to fish, i'd go to RuneScape and grind out a few hundred hours for 99.

    Maybe if their customer support and game-policy wasn't such an utter joke, I would have considered recommending this to a friend.

    Like many Korean MMO's, I really don't see this game lasting as many years as other more successful MMO's.    … Expand
  45. tuniel
    Mar 28, 2016
    4
    really enjoyed the game at first, but the further along you get the more shallow you realize this game is. the very satisfying combat system is wasted on terrible pve content (grind the same mobs thousands and thousands of times) and seriously unbalanced pvp (gear > skill, absolutely no question). when you can bring yourself to smash your face against the horribly boring pve grind, you'rereally enjoyed the game at first, but the further along you get the more shallow you realize this game is. the very satisfying combat system is wasted on terrible pve content (grind the same mobs thousands and thousands of times) and seriously unbalanced pvp (gear > skill, absolutely no question). when you can bring yourself to smash your face against the horribly boring pve grind, you're likely to be pushed out of your spot by the uber geared no-lifers that plague this game. you can be griefed to no end, and even worse, you can lose 1% exp at end game. this doesn't seem like a lot, but it can take hours to grind just a few percent of a level post50. open world pvp is fun at first, but eventually youll realize it doesnt matter how well you know your class or matchups, all the matters is your luck with loot RNG and upgrade RNG. pvp is also plagued by horrible desync and latency issues, as well as significant bugs with certain class-defining abilities. I will say, the gear upgrade system is the least awful system ive experienced in a korean mmo to date, but it still sucks. I really wanted to like this game, especially because of the hundreds of hours I spent playing it just in its first month, but it really sucks. Is it better than ArcheAge? Hell yes it is, but it's still a shallow, grindy mess. spend your time elsewhere… Expand
  46. Dustile
    Jul 3, 2016
    0
    Google Black Desert Online pop in, before you buy. The videos developers show and what you actually get are two different things. The games has no draw distance slider either and it effects the best of rigs too
  47. BAPACop
    Nov 21, 2016
    2
    Technically forced PvP; it can be avoided through counterintuitive measures. Graphics are pretty, especially during character creation, but load times are ridiculous. The game crashed three times before I could even get to character creation, then twice more trying to join the server. Even the launcher was unstable, occasionally failing to load the login form.
  48. Xelluse
    Jun 1, 2017
    0
    One of the worst MMORPG games I ever played, mechanics are bad and low on possibilities, combat is linear and button-smashing, PvE is easy as hell, no challenge, no hardcore, PvP is primitive and totaly oriented on mass without any logic, for PvP core game is very unbalanced, personall skill does nothing, just good guild and enchantments, worst grinding and repetitive content, no socialOne of the worst MMORPG games I ever played, mechanics are bad and low on possibilities, combat is linear and button-smashing, PvE is easy as hell, no challenge, no hardcore, PvP is primitive and totaly oriented on mass without any logic, for PvP core game is very unbalanced, personall skill does nothing, just good guild and enchantments, worst grinding and repetitive content, no social mechanics, for action game have very bad optimization, graphics are quite outdated for it's requirements, some textures have 16bit resolution.... Damn in what **** I throw my money, not worth a cent.
    Have much of useless and unnecessary content, but have nothing worth to play more that test time, one month maximum, get bored just in one week, even Archeage was much better on release than this. BDO is just perfectly promoted junk

    Graphics and performance - 6/10
    Game-play and re-playability - 2/10
    Controls - 5/10
    Questing - 3/10
    PvE - 0/10
    PvP - 4/10
    Role playing - 4/10
    For most idiotic AI and no challenge and very easy battles even against bosses- -3pts
    Average - 0/10    … Expand
  49. MonicaKeller
    May 22, 2016
    3
    BDO :: the POP-IN Simulator™ ©®

    I simply can't recommend this game in its current state: the 3d rendering is terrible, while walking or running 3d objects will pop in all the time, not only players but mostly grass, trees, buildings.. whatever... After popping-in the 3d model will switch from low to high just in front of you: if you'll walk towards a tree you'll see it suddenly    BDO :: the POP-IN Simulator™ ©®

    I simply can't recommend this game in its current state: the 3d rendering is terrible, while walking or running 3d objects will pop in all the time, not only players but mostly grass, trees, buildings.. whatever...

    After popping-in the 3d model will switch from low to high just in front of you: if you'll walk towards a tree you'll see it suddenly changing shape and textures.

    If you stand still you'll notice that the shadows of buildings and grass are not dynamic: they get updated with some interval and the new shadow position will pop-in without any transition or sort of effect to hide the annoyance.

    The graphic options the game provides are simple "presets": you cannot change anything to avoid the pop-in issues. This is how the game works now even on high end PCs.

    I never saw anything like that in any kind of MMO even if I go back with my mind to 2004.

    The gear progression in the endgame is RNG based and imo really frustrating atm.    … Expand
  50. nextgengameflop
    Mar 30, 2016
    4
    Between the stat boosting cash shop items and the childish community, this game is worth a fat zero.

    I don't care how good the mechanics are when a game is this much of a cash grab with that MTX shop slapped over it. This game is pay to win just like every other MMO to come out recently. On top of the **** cash shop is the horrid pop-in this game suffers from. The game has piss-poor    Between the stat boosting cash shop items and the childish community, this game is worth a fat zero.

    I don't care how good the mechanics are when a game is this much of a cash grab with that MTX shop slapped over it. This game is pay to win just like every other MMO to come out recently. On top of the **** cash shop is the horrid pop-in this game suffers from. The game has piss-poor optimization and a 15 meter render range that cannot be increased.

    Some examples (non-exhaustive):
    - You can spend real money to increase the value of your horse by resetting the death and/or breed counters. This means you can just keep breeding the same higher tier horses with out ever having to worry about breeding the lower tier ones because it failed.

    - All armor and weapons look exactly the same as the starter gear you have in the tutorial. If you expected your appearance to change equipping new items like I did, prepare to be disappointed. You will need to shell out an additional $50 for 1 costume for a single character if you want your armor to look different.

    - You can buy a ghille suit to hide your guild and character name from everyone on the server for PKing and griefing. Go to any town or popular farming zone and you can see someone exploiting this cash shop item.

    - You can instant revive anywhere buy just spending real money.    … Expand
  51. pythag0ras
    Apr 7, 2016
    4
    Not even sure where to begin with how bad this game is. I think people are starved for mmos so they are willing to put up with all kinds of stuff in a game and still give it good ratings. first of all , any 10 is automatically disregarded and down voted as nothing can be a 10. Nothing. So that makes you a fanboy or an employee if you voted 10. NOW that that's established, on to the game...Not even sure where to begin with how bad this game is. I think people are starved for mmos so they are willing to put up with all kinds of stuff in a game and still give it good ratings. first of all , any 10 is automatically disregarded and down voted as nothing can be a 10. Nothing. So that makes you a fanboy or an employee if you voted 10. NOW that that's established, on to the game...

    -open pvp

    I could stop at that but ill go on.

    -ridiculous learning curve
    -takes forever to do anything
    -everything costs points! you cant just go gathering for a while , unless youve saved up pts from waiting...
    -tons of wait mechanics
    -progression was much too slow for me , not trying to marry a game ... felt more like a job lol

    a 4 from me. Im just not as starved for an mmo as some of these reviewers.    … Expand
  52. Turcoda
    Jun 1, 2016
    0
    Not worth the base $30 USD price, and the cash shop is highly inflated and not worth the money either. The story and in-game dialog is highly incoherent and makes little sense. Needless to say don't play this game for the story. The game has you afk/auto running all over the map at all times, which makes it impossible to play with friends in a certain area. You're mostly playing the gameNot worth the base $30 USD price, and the cash shop is highly inflated and not worth the money either. The story and in-game dialog is highly incoherent and makes little sense. Needless to say don't play this game for the story. The game has you afk/auto running all over the map at all times, which makes it impossible to play with friends in a certain area. You're mostly playing the game afk for most things. The game is most definitely not immersive. During my last week of playing, my interest in the game was already diminishing and I was promised in game rewards for logging on every day and I never received them, so it was the final nail in the coffin for me. Quests and in-game rewards are insanely buggy, so don't expect to always receive what you are promised. Support was of no help at all and just basically laughed at me. In the end I told them I would never play again and to just delete my account. They refused to even do that much. I want a refund.… Expand
  53. thovader
    Mar 30, 2016
    3
    Since I do not like PvP and gathering stuff like fishing, cooking, mining, housing etc. I will NOT review those aspects. They are supposed to be pretty good though.

    I bought the game for one reason only, the combat system. And I was hoping to get enough PvE content out of it to keep me entertained for around 30-60 hours. I knew from the beginning on that this game's end content    Since I do not like PvP and gathering stuff like fishing, cooking, mining, housing etc. I will NOT review those aspects. They are supposed to be pretty good though.

    I bought the game for one reason only, the combat system.
    And I was hoping to get enough PvE content out of it to keep me entertained for around 30-60 hours. I knew from the beginning on that this game's end content consists of PvP only.

    For every fan of PvE content and challenging (PvE) combat I can now say: "stay away and do not buy this game!!!"

    There's pretty much no PvE content to speak of and the quests are just lame and irritating. For me, this didn't even matter that much since I only wanted to have fun with the awesome combat system. I don't even mind games where you have to grind a lot... and this game is grind in the truest form!

    Don't get me wrong, the combat system is great but enemies are way too weak and the game is way too easy :( ! I played for around 10 hours and the game never ever got even a tiny bit difficult. Those 10 hours I was wondering whether I did something wrong and never left the tutorial area... it seriously is that easy. At first I planned all those special skills and combos and tried to use tactics whenever possible. But very soon you ask yourself "why"? The combat is so easy that you could easily use the standard attack without having to dodge, block or use anything powerful.

    Later on you encounter world bosses that randomly appear and bosses that you can summon using scrolls. Those are more fun and harder to kill but those events occur far to seldom to be of any use for any fan of PvE.

    It's such a shame because I really wanted to like this game.
    Like I said before, I knew that eventually the game wouldn't be for me with its focus on PvP and all that, but I hoped to get at least some fun hours of PvE content out of it. This wasn't the case though.
    The superb combat system cannot shine if there's nothing worth using it for. I wasn't looking for a Dark Souls either, but this difficulty is ridiculous.
    Fortunately I "only" spent 30 € on my sad/bad experience with the game...    … Expand
  54. alex4mc
    Aug 10, 2016
    0
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  55. BayEzio
    Apr 1, 2021
    3
    Complete trash. P2W af. Buying this game will just waste your money. —————-
  56. FoxHound24
    Jun 10, 2022
    0
    The very first mission in this MMORPG involves going on a rampage against a peaceful community of foxes. This should qualify as a hate crime.
  57. SunnieMach
    Mar 27, 2016
    1
    The first several hours are fun...but then once you realize that all the "complexity" of this game is just a mask. Grows very, very boring very quickly. The voices and sounds of this game will annoy you beyond belief. It is not p2w whatsoever, though, so I did offer it a 1 instead of a 0.
  58. VerynCE
    Aug 8, 2016
    0
    This game was literally my favorite MMO with massive amounts of potential. Now the game is full blown P2W after promising B2P. I hope developers took notes and make a game just as fun with a strong commitment to their players and not short sighted money grabs.
  59. AdamM88
    Apr 24, 2016
    0
    If you want a game with 0 story, an awful, empty world, ugly, unimaginative monsters, server side disconnects every 30 minutes that require you to restart the client and log in again, a game where botting is a FEATURE, where the content literally IS grinding the same mobs over and over by the tens of thousands, where your inventory is tailored to be extremely tiny in order to make you buyIf you want a game with 0 story, an awful, empty world, ugly, unimaginative monsters, server side disconnects every 30 minutes that require you to restart the client and log in again, a game where botting is a FEATURE, where the content literally IS grinding the same mobs over and over by the tens of thousands, where your inventory is tailored to be extremely tiny in order to make you buy inventory extensions from the cash shop, then BDO is for you.… Expand
  60. bigbob123
    Mar 12, 2016
    0
    This game looks good on the surface, then you realize that everything that makes an RPG fun is either gated by $, or you will be punished for doing it via the idiotic energy system?

    You like to pvp? Cool, go try some open world pvp and get punished for killing people. You like to trade? Awesome, you won't be dictating any terms of the trade. You can't trade with other people and the    This game looks good on the surface, then you realize that everything that makes an RPG fun is either gated by $, or you will be punished for doing it via the idiotic energy system?

    You like to pvp? Cool, go try some open world pvp and get punished for killing people.
    You like to trade? Awesome, you won't be dictating any terms of the trade. You can't trade with other people and the auction house prices are chosen for you.
    You like collecting loot? Me too! Get loot all day but it wont matter, your guy will still look homeless unless you spend $$ on the shop.

    No AOE loot, instead you need to pony up $$$ for pets that will allow you to loot faster.

    Oh, and don't even THINK choosing the gender for your character. They devs did the thinking for you.

    You want to chat in general? That costs energy... You want to craft? Energy, you want to do anything outside of battling the dumbest AI we have seen since ET for the original Atari? Then you better be ready to pool your energy for those 15 minutes of "fun".    … Expand
  61. Lederzwerg
    Apr 17, 2016
    0
    Hello,
    why giving 0 points? It´s a really simple reason - rng. The game was published first in 2014, it´s no real asia grinder cause of its strong restrictions in many parts of core gameplay, like no trading, high ah taxes, NO real multiplayer features. Just uninspired, lazy developers with no ideas. So everyone wanna try this game, be aware it´s more RNG you reach something or get    Hello,
    why giving 0 points? It´s a really simple reason - rng. The game was published first in 2014, it´s no real asia grinder cause of its strong restrictions in many parts of core gameplay, like no trading, high ah taxes, NO real multiplayer features. Just uninspired, lazy developers with no ideas. So everyone wanna try this game, be aware it´s more RNG you reach something or get something than you can effect getting it!    … Expand
  62. Dragon_Fly
    Nov 11, 2016
    4
    I do not recommend buying this game until the Dev's fairly release the Awakening's for all classes in the game. They like to release them a little by little over time which then creates massively overpowered classes in the game above other classes. This is a big issue in PvP and how PvPer's decide who to fight. Also, they have no system in place to deal with player harassment. There areI do not recommend buying this game until the Dev's fairly release the Awakening's for all classes in the game. They like to release them a little by little over time which then creates massively overpowered classes in the game above other classes. This is a big issue in PvP and how PvPer's decide who to fight. Also, they have no system in place to deal with player harassment. There are too few places to grind out experience and it creates viciously contested areas that leaves no place for a novice or weekend warrior to enjoy the game. For instance, Sausans Garrison is a place for level 54-56's to get experience, but oftentimes, level 58's - 59's will farm there for money; thereby cutting out the opportunity to lower levels to level their characters and improve their gear.

    So, if you do not live in your parents basement or have a real life, this game may not be meant for you. If you do have a life and you're not still living with your parents, just don't bother... the amount of time it takes to improve your gear score playing reasonably per day is not sufficient to bother playing or buying the game.    … Expand
  63. Atahal
    Mar 17, 2016
    0
    Since when graphisms and character personnalisation are more important than gameplay, end game, and PvP?
    For me, it's not the case.
    And that's why i put 0/10 There is no way a game with horribles quests, no instance/dungeon, no world boss and a **** pvp can have more than 4/10. And i wont talk about the sandbox, which is currently 404 not found (Sandbox without wild pvp lal). The only    Since when graphisms and character personnalisation are more important than gameplay, end game, and PvP?
    For me, it's not the case.
    And that's why i put 0/10
    There is no way a game with horribles quests, no instance/dungeon, no world boss and a **** pvp can have more than 4/10.
    And i wont talk about the sandbox, which is currently 404 not found (Sandbox without wild pvp lal).
    The only "good" stuff about this game is the fight system. Probably the only reason we can found people defending this game. But let's be honnest.
    This game is a disaster.    … Expand
  64. BOXTiger
    Mar 22, 2016
    0
    Looks like this game has stunning graphics, Amazing Combat system
    Unfortunately Graphics are not good at all. Blur has all the way of you can easily find it.
    (Characters, scenery like a Bloodborne.)

    Uncomfortable, also non-intutive UI/Interface

    **** exaggerated FX/Effects NEVER can't be helped ever.
  65. MusclePig
    Mar 11, 2016
    0
    Saw this on reddit and it pretty much sums up why I am so EXTREMELY disappointed:

    "The looks of your gear will stay pretty much the same through the entire game; The visual differences between each set are usually only minor. If you want to customise your looks you can do so by dyeing your gear or buying cash shop costumes." What the hell? Grinding your way up to a sweet, cool,    Saw this on reddit and it pretty much sums up why I am so EXTREMELY disappointed:

    "The looks of your gear will stay pretty much the same through the entire game; The visual differences between each set are usually only minor. If you want to customise your looks you can do so by dyeing your gear or buying cash shop costumes."

    What the hell? Grinding your way up to a sweet, cool, awesome character is the main reason why I play MMO's. And it's not even f2p! You have to buy the game first before you can buy more stuff ingame    … Expand
  66. JackPlack
    Mar 17, 2022
    3
    Beauty graphics, one of the best fighting combos, 10x better than Elden Ring but:
    - boring, and too easy at beginning.
    - story - bad
    - too much pay to gear or furniture currencies
  67. Dartza
    Aug 1, 2023
    4
    I have probably put about 5,000 hours into BDO. The problem is that about 4,000 of those hours were me leaving my computer on overnight and while I was at work, fishing or doing some other AFK activity. The combat is either a grind when you are trying to get .01% exp per hour at higher levels or it is getting one-shotted by a witch in pvp. There is amazing value in this game if you don'tI have probably put about 5,000 hours into BDO. The problem is that about 4,000 of those hours were me leaving my computer on overnight and while I was at work, fishing or doing some other AFK activity. The combat is either a grind when you are trying to get .01% exp per hour at higher levels or it is getting one-shotted by a witch in pvp. There is amazing value in this game if you don't value your time.… Expand
  68. Akc1um
    Jul 31, 2023
    0
    Unfortunately, the planned updates completely ruin the PvP system in the game. The goal of the game is character development, but sieges with restricted parameters and planned patches completely destroy the fragile meaning that was still present in this game. The game will turn into Genshin Impact and lose half of its player base within six months. It's very unfortunate.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

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  1. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    Jan 1, 2018
    80
    With it's massive and unique open world, Black Desert Online is inviting you to a great adventure.
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  2. Digital Chumps
    Jul 27, 2017
    50
    Overall, Black Desert Online is a typical MMO in every single way. While I disagree with their claim that it’s the “next generation” of MMOs, I did find the character creation to be the most robust of any MMO out there. Unfortunately, the character customization is the game’s biggest highlight, and many of the other elements of Black Desert Online can be found in many other MMOs.
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  3. The Overpowered Noobs
    Jun 11, 2017
    70
    Black Desert Online comes to the table with an intricate character sculpting tool, gorgeous graphical presentation, and a nuanced, exciting combat system overlying a less immediately apparent, but very unique, sandbox-style resource management simulation. Those looking for a rich narrative, complex or groundbreaking PvE questing, or highly unique monster design may be disappointed, but those seeking a mechanically rich, visually striking MMO will find themselves at home.
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