Black Desert Online

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  • Publisher: GameOn
  • Release Date: Mar 3, 2016
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6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1667 Ratings

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  1. mieal
    Mar 9, 2016
    0
    Have we really gone so low that we have to play this kind of mmos :)? I'd rather watch a paint dry than play black desert, it's so boring and uninspired, on top of that even very buggy and unoptimized.
  2. ljuaw
    Mar 9, 2016
    0
    People saying it's a conspiracy, no game sucks. Releasing a low quality korean grindfest and putting a price tag on it, do you think we western players are that stupid to play it? Apparently we really are that stupid to buy it, and drop it in a week as the quality is just not there. You could it takes much more to satisfy a player in the west because we're not used to so bad games.
  3. kolinka
    Mar 9, 2016
    0
    Just as I though I was getting bored of Guild Wars 2, this game came along. And I was all hyped and that. I even spent 60$ on it. The end result? Bad product. This is the worst MMO I've tried so far, and that's saying a lot. I guess I'll just stay in GW2.
  4. zubawa
    Mar 9, 2016
    0
    To be honest I've seen worse games, however this community is just horrible with it's accusations just because others prefer better/way more popular mmos. I've seen some horrible fanboys over the years, but BDO fanboys have to be the worst. Yeah really cool to go search for a conspiracy when your game is not good enough.
  5. ImSoto
    Mar 12, 2016
    4
    Edit; It has come to my attention that both an subreddit called /r/BlackDesertOnline and the Official forums participated in vote brigading(downvote negatives, upvote positives reviews) of Metacritic because people have different opinions then them. The saddest part was that both the moderators of each site allowed this to happen freely and seemed to support this action by not evenEdit; It has come to my attention that both an subreddit called /r/BlackDesertOnline and the Official forums participated in vote brigading(downvote negatives, upvote positives reviews) of Metacritic because people have different opinions then them. The saddest part was that both the moderators of each site allowed this to happen freely and seemed to support this action by not even attempting to do anything to prevent this type of thing.

    Also if you noted, it was even encouraged by them to create new accounts just to submit an positive review at the same time so they could get the average user score from 5.1/10. This just goes how immature the majority of the playerbase including lacking common decency.
    -------------------

    This review is based on me owning the conquers pack and logging 60 hours, having access to CBT1&2 and currently having an level 51 Tamer and an level 46 Archer.

    First of all, for anyone giving this game an 10/10 please don't write an review if you're just going to follow along with the flock and try to fit in. I can see other people giving this game an 8.5/10 at best, however this is simply not an 10/10 game. This also apply's to people giving this game an 0/10, lets be honest this game is no way your worst game of the year by any standards.

    So down to the review I'll be breaking it into my basic cons and pros to help shorten this list as much as possible.

    Pros:
    - Graphics (I'd say on-par with Witcher 3 on low, however for an MMORPG is very impressive of itself)
    - Combat (Currently one of the best, if not the best combat systems in any MMORPG currently out)
    - Theme park sandbox (Plenty of things like fishing,trading,crafting,harvesting,worker management, etc)

    Neutral:
    - Parkour system (An very shoddy attempt which leaves an bad taste if you've played other great parkour systems done right like Thief, Dying Light, Sleeping Dogs, AC Series, Etc)
    - Living World (It's decent, however it requires an high activity of players to feel like its immersive)
    - Plot (Great story writing, however the voice acting really ruins what the writers have achieved)
    - Customizability (Its locked behind an paywall, sadly to say so most of the time you're going to look just like everyone else, so much for that character creation)

    Cons:
    - The Community (Read the edit at the top)
    - PvP (Mostly dead due to the Karma system and this was expected, yet Daum games chose not to address this issue so most of the great PvP will be happening in GvG and not in the world itself)
    - PvE (WAY TOO EASY, from the tutorial mobs at the beginning to the end game mobs there is virtually no difference in difficulty. We're talking about those "epic" boss summons you can do, well the fact is you can do them when you're 15 levels behind and still have an easy time)
    - No real type of raids or dungeons (because the only difference between an summoned quest boss and the open world boss for guilds is literally one soaks up way more damage. That's all the challenge)
    - General game mechanics (None of them connect into any meaningful systems, which is quite disappointing given how much time must of been put into each of them)
    - Daum themselves (After seeing them banning players on forums for pointing out their mistakes and then lying about it (If you're interested I'd suggest googling there's plenty of drama on the subject), enforcing non-existent rules,dropping all communication with the community, etc. It really shows an lack of control or caring about the players in general)
    - "P2W" (This is an very hot topic and I define anything P2W that offers anything not obtainable VIA in-game methods EXCEPT for the standard EXP boosting items that help later joiners/less time available players still be able to play reasonably well. However the fact is you have abilities, stats, customizability being locked behind an pay wall which the game itself is B2P is sickening and the defenders of this have some type of Stockholm syndrome from previous games that abused these type of cash grabbing before)

    TLDR REVIEW; The game is average, nothing more and nothing less. For $60($30 base and $30 for 3 pets) its really up to you. I'd advise you to get an 7 day guest invite and play it the game until that guest period runs out to decide if you'd play this over other MMORPGs you'd like to try out    … Expand
  6. nuia
    Mar 9, 2016
    0
    BOOOORINGGGGGG...........

    If you are expecting a good story, quests or whatever, don't bother playing BDO. I've found the hard way that BDO is all about grinding with no meaning.
  7. redfrick
    Mar 8, 2016
    9
    This is the MMO I've been waiting for, I think. I'm hesitant to say this is the MMO I will be playing for years as so much can change and I've been burned so many times in the past. But so far Black Desert is phenomenal.

    Pros: Combat is just so much fun. You truly feel like a bada** and the animations and effects are so cool. It will be very hard to play a tab targeting game again    This is the MMO I've been waiting for, I think. I'm hesitant to say this is the MMO I will be playing for years as so much can change and I've been burned so many times in the past. But so far Black Desert is phenomenal.

    Pros:

    Combat is just so much fun. You truly feel like a bada** and the animations and effects are so cool. It will be very hard to play a tab targeting game again

    Graphically there isn't another MMO that I've ever played that could touch Black Desert. It's simply gorgeous.

    Crafting is enjoyable. Hiring workers to do my dirty work is so nice. I'm an altoholic and being able to command my workers on other characters is great.

    Fishing, yes fishing. I'm addicted to it. Addicted to filling my inventory and filling my cart up with fish and making the trek to the trade manager to sell my bounty.

    Player housing is a mini game in and of itself.

    Exploration in Black Desert is quite enjoyable. From just running around exploring to crafting a boat and sailing around the world, there is much to see.

    Sandbox aspects. I like the fact that you can do whatever the heck you want to do or totally avoid what you don't want to do.

    Cons:

    Gender locks on SOME classes. There are a 3 classes that are gender locked with the rest having an opposite sex counterpart.

    No dungeons or raids. This might be a temporary issue as from what I understand the Korean version (which is ahead of the NA/EU) is starting to implement dungeons. If dungeon/raid progression is important to you this is not the game for you at this point in time.

    PVP focus. Those looking for a primarily PVE focused game will probably want to look elsewhere or at least wait and see if more dungeons are implemented.

    No player trading. I believe this was put in place to avoid gold sellers.

    Appearance. This is really the only con that I personally have an issue with. Everyone looks so similar. There are some minor changes when picking up new gear but not significant enough. I really hope they address this in the future.

    As I said earlier I like this game. A lot. I see so much potential here that I am really excited to see what's on the horizon. Unless there are factors to this game that you simply cannot get past (PVP focus, gender locks, no tab targeting) I don't see how you will get at least a couple months of enjoyment out of Black Desert. Not bad for $30 in my opinion.    … Expand
  8. fukwa
    Mar 9, 2016
    0
    Overhyped mess of a game. I've got best performance PC you could as for, and this game doesn't run good. Getting 20-30 fps what the hell. Go free to play already, you don't deserve to be b2p. who even plays this wtf
  9. Crackfarmer
    Mar 3, 2016
    6
    Am i the only one who isn't hyped for this Game? It's pretty much the same MMO **** as every MMO just with better graphics, but they don't help you if the Gameplay is trash at all. But still it's way better than Blade and Soul - by far. For me it's an okay-ish Game, play it if you're bored as fck and about to hang yourself.
  10. notavailable
    Mar 7, 2016
    10
    Made an account after someone linked to this page. Holy **** this game is not a 5.8!!! It's AT LEAST a solid 8. Amazing graphics. I've had a flawless experience even with the 4 day head start. The crafting is so complex and almost everything you do is leveling something up. There are too many quests to do them all. The guild system is fun and promotes participation. I just came here toMade an account after someone linked to this page. Holy **** this game is not a 5.8!!! It's AT LEAST a solid 8. Amazing graphics. I've had a flawless experience even with the 4 day head start. The crafting is so complex and almost everything you do is leveling something up. There are too many quests to do them all. The guild system is fun and promotes participation. I just came here to defend the game that I've been playing almost nonstop for over a week.… Expand
  11. ChefJordan
    Mar 8, 2016
    10
    Let me start by saying these other reviews are full on bull. This game has got me to fall in love with MMO's all over again i can see my self playing it for years.
    Also there is not a single pay-to-win aspect in the game those claiming there is have not played 1 second of the game or spent more than 5mins researching the game they are just fan boys of other games.
    Yes there is aspects of    Let me start by saying these other reviews are full on bull. This game has got me to fall in love with MMO's all over again i can see my self playing it for years.
    Also there is not a single pay-to-win aspect in the game those claiming there is have not played 1 second of the game or spent more than 5mins researching the game they are just fan boys of other games.
    Yes there is aspects of the game that could use work but people are forgetting it may have been out for awhile in Korea but we still have an early build and there are MANY updates to come.    … Expand
  12. A_CowboyKing
    Mar 7, 2016
    8
    Pros:

    +Very interesting game mechanics (Knowledge, Energy for certain tasks, Amity levels for NPCs, Contribution Points to invest in certain areas, etc.) +Awesome action combat that relies on combos and requires you to dodge in order to mitigate damage (Somewhat similar to TERA) +Creative character creation and interesting classes (I have only played as the Sorceress but have watched    Pros:

    +Very interesting game mechanics (Knowledge, Energy for certain tasks, Amity levels for NPCs, Contribution Points to invest in certain areas, etc.)
    +Awesome action combat that relies on combos and requires you to dodge in order to mitigate damage (Somewhat similar to TERA)
    +Creative character creation and interesting classes (I have only played as the Sorceress but have watched others play as different characters. Some are fairly similar to each other, however they do differ in a few key areas. More classes will be arriving soon)
    +Fantastic graphics with a lot of optimization options (Not to mention the engine was built from the ground up specifically for this game)
    +Huge open world (no loading screens, massive playable area with more areas to come, includes large sea areas that will be expanded upon as well)
    +World feels alive (Many NPCs go about their business and even talk among themselves, hired workers travel between areas in real time, day and night cycle, dynamic weather, no fast travel, etc.)
    +So many things to do (Grind mobs to gain EXP and Knowledge, complete the ridiculous amount of quests, many different types of life skills and crafting)
    +Life skills and crafting (This includes but is not limited to fishing, cooking, farming, training, gathering, processing, etc. Each life skill can be leveled up to a specific max level, allowing you to have more success and find better items in these areas)
    +Guild vs. Guild (Siege, Nodes) and PvP (Instanced, Arena, Open-world, with more modes to come)
    +Forgoes the traditional Raids and Dungeons for World Bosses, Summoned Bosses, Guild Wars, etc. The Desert will be released soon and will include Wold Bosses as well as a Dungeon located underground)
    +Player housing that is instanced but can be visited by every single player. Each house can either be an actual house that you can decorate, lodging for your workers, warehouses. and different types of workshops
    +World Economy (Hire workers to gather and produce goods for you, game-wide marketplace, NPC trading, connecting nodes to create trade routes throughout the world, etc.)
    +Encourages alternative characters (Items, weapons, armor, and money can be shared. Contribution Points accumulate over all characters to maximize node investments. The same applies to Energy)

    Neutral:

    =Endgame is guild and PvP activities as well as life skills and crafting. I actually do not mind this as it breaks away from many of the genre's tropes to form a more organic MMORPG game
    =Level EXP is gained primarily through grinding mobs. It can still be gained through certain quests and however it is not nearly as reliable as grinding mobs. Quests give Energy, Contribution Points, Knowledge, etc. EXP for life skills/crafting is gained through performing those activities
    =Attaining mob knowledge is based on RNG as well as the level of knowledge attained. Mob knowledge can be reset in order to try get attain a higher knowledge level
    =Some gender locked classes. Some classes are similar to each other though, so this may offer a solution if you are set on one specific type of character
    =Dialog and voice acting, NPC text, and story are fairly awkward. Granted, this game was originally written in Korean and had to be translated for other regions. Although, the fact that you may be the bad guy that contains the Dark Energy that is now tainting the world is a somewhat interesting aspect
    =No player trading. Only certain items can be traded such as basic potions. I am not sure about other items and if being in a party or guild changes this aspect
    =Mechanics are not explained, forcing the player to learn for themselves. I, for one, find this to be interesting as it creates a challenge that is rarely seen in many games
    =Grind simulator. But come on, it is an MMORPG so what did you expect? However, the game does not force you to do anything and you can progress in whatever area you choose at any pace you want

    Cons:

    -Lack of a main story. I realize that this is a sandbox game and it is meant to be played however you want, but I feel that a main story (or a more thorough one) would give better insight to the world in which you suddenly inhabit
    -Lack of direction. Relates to the point above. I do not mind that the game does not hold your hand, but it would be nice to have a gentle push every now and again
    -Some textures and graphics pop up out of nowhere. Keep in mind that this is a massive game with no loading screens and it has only been officially released for a very short time now. Optimization updates should be coming
    -A lot of things to micromanage. I suppose this is okay if you decide to focus on one specific area of the game. However, when you want to become a jack-of-all-trades (especially on one character), it can become hard to manage
    -World resources diminish fast and grinding areas become overwhelmed due to the massive influx of new players
    -Parked player horses are not instanced and clutter certain areas    … Expand
  13. Johan701
    Jan 31, 2018
    2
    I had pretty much mixed feelings about this game, but the more i discovered about it, the more disappointed i became.

    - All the initial phases of the game are way too easy, you can just go on, aggro an indefinite amount of monsters and grind them off without even losing HP, there is no punishment for poor-playing at least for the first 50 levels of the game, no risk, no real feelings    I had pretty much mixed feelings about this game, but the more i discovered about it, the more disappointed i became.

    - All the initial phases of the game are way too easy, you can just go on, aggro an indefinite amount of monsters and grind them off without even losing HP, there is no punishment for poor-playing at least for the first 50 levels of the game, no risk, no real feelings besides the "omg, i can grind everything" one. That becomes boring pretty fast.
    - Developers are greedy, and the game is pay2win: you can buy a lot of stuff from the premium shop that you can directly resell for silvers, that way you can have any amount of currency based on your credit card. On top of that, there is no room for trading between players, everything is strictly controlled and restricted, prices on AH are controlled, you can't even give an item you don't need to a friend. All of this to prevent goldsellers, except the game itself is run by goldsellers, and they are just ruining the game experience for everyone to insure they have no competitors, no better than a mobile game does.
    - Many things are very complicated for no real reason: The whole nodes/worker/city system is needlessly complicated, you just have to master it in order to accomplish nothing more than having a daily silver income, which creates nothing but inflation of the economy.

    The whole game seems like a very complex and deeply structured living economy and crafting environment, but it only seems so, once broken down, it's actually not at all.

    The whole purpose of the game is "appearing".

    Fights appear complicated, skill based, fast and intriguing, it's not really so.
    Markets and economy appear to be very sandboxy, free and complex, they aren't at all.
    Characters appear to be very customizable, it's not so.
    Graphic style is kinda trash, involves a lot of different styles and comes up as the usual popular-mmo-laughable-mixup of pseudo-fantasy and trash.

    Nothing is there to actually keeping me playing the game. and it was overall a big disappointment.    … Expand
  14. MoonLess
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp!
  15. Sirius_Drake
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    I want to say a few words about the announcement of the upcoming update. I hope the developers will listen to the majority of players who protest against the removal of the guild war system from the game. In the game and so the minimum number of pvp. Personally, I play in the RU region. We do not even have an arena Solare, as in Euro players. After all this you want to remove and guildI want to say a few words about the announcement of the upcoming update. I hope the developers will listen to the majority of players who protest against the removal of the guild war system from the game. In the game and so the minimum number of pvp. Personally, I play in the RU region. We do not even have an arena Solare, as in Euro players. After all this you want to remove and guild warfare. I understand that the game has recently evolved towards newcomers. Combat equipment is losing its relevance, all the main spots can be farmed in the usual tuvala. The only purpose to develop their equipment remained the opportunity to participate in PVP, which you want to take away from us. The game has a huge number of guilds, both peaceful and warring. If a player does not like PVP he can always join a regular PVE guild and play peacefully. As well as PVP players go to PVP guilds to fight. Yes, you can organize large-scale PVP battles of 300 by 300 people, but I think that they are unlikely to reach the Russian servers. If you can't even organize a Solare arena like on European servers, then what can we say about a large-scale PVP battle of 300 by 300 players. In general, I am very upset and hope that the developers will listen to the opinion of players and leave free PVP between guilds. I don't want to play in the likeness of genshin impact.… Expand
  16. Arktos
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    In pursuit of new players, the PA company simply spits on the wishes of the players who have given years of their lives to this game. Soon (the next patch) pvp in the open world will be practically destroyed, pvp potential in sieges will be limited. Players no longer need to develop, and the efforts of players who have been playing for 5-7 years are simply thrown into the trash.
  17. EpicJessey
    Aug 28, 2018
    3
    TL;DR: BDO is a full­time job you don't get paid for, but instead asks you for money.

    Still a Free-to-Play / Pay-to-Win game in it's core with a entry fee. No meaningful PvE content !. PvP with huge balance problems, exploits and server lags !. It is not rewarding at all. Almost all quest, event, loyalty, returning, login and what not rewards are crap. Pray to RNG to get something    TL;DR: BDO is a full­time job you don't get paid for, but instead asks you for money.

    Still a Free-to-Play / Pay-to-Win game in it's core with a entry fee.
    No meaningful PvE content !.
    PvP with huge balance problems, exploits and server lags !.
    It is not rewarding at all. Almost all quest, event, loyalty, returning, login and what not rewards are crap. Pray to RNG to get something usefull !.
    To many stacking advantages behind a paywall to reduce the annoyness. Some of them you can optain in the market with ingame currency and a ~0,0000001% chance... if they even appear at all.
    No visual changes on your character unless you pay, after hundrets of hrs you look as someone who just started the game.
    The few outfits you can craft look ugly af and the once you get for a short time don't count. Also always the same that no one wants.
    (you'll end up easly with a few hundret bucks for a semi-normal gaming expiriance.)

    While the combat is one - if not the best out of every MMORPG out there
    (and I hate all tab-targeting MMO's, this and ESO were the closest to a somewhat singleplayer experience I've found), everything else in this "game" is designed to waste your time as much as possible, timers and long♥♥♥♥♥animations behind almost every action you do like a stupid free mobile game and most rewarding with AFK activites everyone uses macros and/or bots.
    The world feels alive but at the same time, almost every player is AFK or set to autopilot because no fast travel and lifeskill.

    (aka - the game you will barly play, if you want to progress, only background / second monitor.)

    Have fun wasting time with killing the same mobs 10^12 times on the same spot, just to reach one level endgame and making a bit gold for RNG gear progression, that whenever it deciteds do fail, makes you grind for another dozen of hours and at the end, you'd never catch up unless you dedicate your life to it and your wallet. - the game.

    Not to mention the utterly bad optimization, servers and pop-in / draw distance issues.    … Expand
  18. goufas13
    Feb 5, 2019
    2
    Keeping it short.
    The game had potential but nobody expected something better from Korean Devs.
    P2W elements are everywhere, from enchanting to even leveling your horse. The punishment system is ridiculus, encouraging people to abuse it over a spot, sending others to jail. The community is toxic, rush-ish. RNG and Grinding is everywhere
  19. frosteye
    Jul 22, 2018
    1
    This game has most obnoxious cash shop it made me hate myself for even trying this game out. It gets one point for graphics but theyre not really that good since the game runs terribily on high settings and you need to lower it to play the only "content" that this game has which is pvp because the more frames you have the more damage you deal in pvp somehow. Not to mention pvp is entirelyThis game has most obnoxious cash shop it made me hate myself for even trying this game out. It gets one point for graphics but theyre not really that good since the game runs terribily on high settings and you need to lower it to play the only "content" that this game has which is pvp because the more frames you have the more damage you deal in pvp somehow. Not to mention pvp is entirely gear based with pretty significant imbalances between the classes to the point that even with same gear Class A has no way to win vs Class B no matter what. If youre looking for fun pvp game which BDO was advertised as i cant recommend it. The best way to play it would be to create characters since character creator is pretty neat and then just casually wander around the world, but just forget about being into any sort of competition and pvp since youll need thousands of dollars and hours to achieve that.… Expand
  20. Kracej
    Jul 28, 2023
    1
    Thanks for killing open world pvp. That is what players always asked for. gg
  21. gameshellex
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    A deceived their community and abandoned the most dedicated players.They promised pvp, but as a result of the last patch, they killed all pvp content.Disregard for a huge group of players, constant server lags, and just no communication with the community
  22. Hasdegar
    Jul 27, 2023
    1
    PvP based game who managed to kill PvP function. If i want to play a grind game i will choose PoE or D4
  23. SHAPEofSHADE
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    A deceived their community and abandoned the most dedicated players.They promised pvp, but as a result of the last patch, they killed all pvp content.Disregard for a huge group of players, constant server lags, and just no communication with the community
  24. Koraf
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    Apparently PearlAbyss decided to create a parody of Genshin, otherwise I don’t understand the trend of recent years to kill pvp, first they killed the sieges, making them with restrictions on the number of players and the gear equation, then they killed the Saturday sieges by removing 1 of the territories, and most of the rest were added the same cuts on gearscore, and cuts are evenApparently PearlAbyss decided to create a parody of Genshin, otherwise I don’t understand the trend of recent years to kill pvp, first they killed the sieges, making them with restrictions on the number of players and the gear equation, then they killed the Saturday sieges by removing 1 of the territories, and most of the rest were added the same cuts on gearscore, and cuts are even stronger than on node sieges, equalized all castles in terms of rewards and killed the motivation for weaker players to go to sieges without cuts and develop their gear, killed mercenaries for sieges by introducing a limit on the number of mercenaries for Saturday sieges, removed the arena Solarium because they can’t make normal servers that any fool can’t piss off, servers don’t work on sieges at all, constantly “try again later” and other lags, even if there are about 300-400 people on the territory / node, now you also want kill the guild wars... I really love BDO and I like to play it, but for me, as a pvp player, the content in the game is getting smaller and smaller and the motivation to play further and improve my gear is also getting smaller. Trying to please new players, you decided to forget about those who have been playing for 5+ years, at the moment content for old players is not released at all, only those mechanics are removed, for which we fell in love with BDO when we came here.… Expand
  25. Greymori
    Jul 28, 2023
    1
    Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp!Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp!Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp!Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp! Stop killing pvp!
  26. pvpbdo
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    Thanks for killing open world pvp. That is what players always asked for. gg
  27. GibMeMyPVP
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    I want to say a few words about the announcement of the upcoming update. I hope the developers will listen to the majority of players who protest against the removal of the guild war system from the game. In the game and so the minimum number of pvp. Personally, I play in the RU region. We do not even have an arena Solare, as in Euro players. After all this you want to remove and guildI want to say a few words about the announcement of the upcoming update. I hope the developers will listen to the majority of players who protest against the removal of the guild war system from the game. In the game and so the minimum number of pvp. Personally, I play in the RU region. We do not even have an arena Solare, as in Euro players. After all this you want to remove and guild warfare. I understand that the game has recently evolved towards newcomers. Combat equipment is losing its relevance, all the main spots can be farmed in the usual tuvala. The only purpose to develop their equipment remained the opportunity to participate in PVP, which you want to take away from us. The game has a huge number of guilds, both peaceful and warring. If a player does not like PVP he can always join a regular PVE guild and play peacefully. As well as PVP players go to PVP guilds to fight. Yes, you can organize large-scale PVP battles of 300 by 300 people, but I think that they are unlikely to reach the Russian servers. If you can't even organize a Solare arena like on European servers, then what can we say about a large-scale PVP battle of 300 by 300 players. In general, I am very upset and hope that the developers will listen to the opinion of players and leave free PVP between guilds. I don't want to play in the likeness of genshin impact.… Expand
  28. Aelinn9
    May 14, 2018
    1
    This game boasts beautiful graphics it uses to hook people in. But past that surface beauty this game is a complete mess. I have played the game for 2 years now and up until now it's PvP made up for it's flaws. Now however they have taken the game back to alpha stage and we the players are suffering through a completely broken and unbalanced game. The new devs have turned everything on itsThis game boasts beautiful graphics it uses to hook people in. But past that surface beauty this game is a complete mess. I have played the game for 2 years now and up until now it's PvP made up for it's flaws. Now however they have taken the game back to alpha stage and we the players are suffering through a completely broken and unbalanced game. The new devs have turned everything on its head and are implementing changes nobody asked for.

    Everything users made their class choices based off, their PURCHASES is now invalid. This game was truly a gem for anyone that loved to PvP and even it's lifeskills can be enjoyable and play a role in top end pvp making elixirs etc

    If you buy this game in it's current state you will spend 95% of your time on the floor in a combat system that has been dumbed down beyond belief.    … Expand
  29. n0lt0c
    May 26, 2018
    0
    I want to love this game and enjoy the combat but its a p2w Korean grind fest with the worst game devs Ive seen in regards to treating their customers right and not like milk cows.

    Nice graphics but runs like **** performance wise. games say $5 but you got to spend at least $100 on pets to make the game playable after the beginner area. tehn more and more after that to reduce the    I want to love this game and enjoy the combat but its a p2w Korean grind fest with the worst game devs Ive seen in regards to treating their customers right and not like milk cows.

    Nice graphics but runs like **** performance wise.

    games say $5 but you got to spend at least $100 on pets to make the game playable after the beginner area. tehn more and more after that to reduce the inconveniences to playable levels.

    had so much potential but currently the devs are redoing the in depth fighting game-esc to be easier for casuals and new players as they gear for xbox release.

    GG was a fun game at times, too bad Pearl Abyss are ****ty people    … Expand
  30. Thsar
    Nov 25, 2018
    1
    The Launcher is unable to start, the game needs to many resources, finally, very bad programmed, not Win 10 ready.
  31. Fidi
    Apr 3, 2019
    0
    Total bait and switch.
    The game turns in to mandatory PVP after you reach level 40, so if you are offending another player by killing monsters first that they also wanted to be killing, they can murder your character as many time as they want with almost no consequences beyond having to kill some of the monsters that you were first killing to regain their karma.
  32. PoorMerlin
    Jul 27, 2023
    0
    The game positions itself as an "open world with PVP". But the developers killed this concept. There is no point in playing it. Because it made sense to raise gearscore exclusively for PVP. But now we have a peaceful sandbox with reduced sieges. Deleted the game.
  33. Shianari
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    The developer systematically kills his MMORPG, turning it into a solo game. Disgusting servers, lack of motivated pvp and boring pve for 9999 hours - that's what awaits you in this game.
  34. Killerondk
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    How can we play a game when PA doesn't listen players? Stop it, you are killing pvp content which is main reason for many to play! Don't make pvp players quit BDO.
  35. Grumpy_trip
    Jul 28, 2023
    1
    We should thank the developers for gradually removing PvP content from the game over the course of several years and turning it into a PvE grind simulator... Also, the absence of any actions of developers in relation to DDoS attacks, and the simple removal of this content for some regions.
  36. root10mail
    Jul 28, 2023
    2
    Black Desert used to be a good game. Unfortunately, the developers went in the wrong direction. They introduced equalization during sieges, cuts.
    They devalued the achievements of the players.
    They have moved away from the open world. The latest update completely removes PVP in the game. It makes no sense to improve the character. Don't start playing BDO - now it's a game without    Black Desert used to be a good game. Unfortunately, the developers went in the wrong direction. They introduced equalization during sieges, cuts.
    They devalued the achievements of the players.
    They have moved away from the open world.
    The latest update completely removes PVP in the game. It makes no sense to improve the character.
    Don't start playing BDO - now it's a game without meaning and interest.    … Expand
  37. Likej
    Jul 28, 2023
    1
    I love BDO, but this direction is all for beginners, it kills the desire to enter. Being an average player, not a beginner who gets kissed on the butt by the developers, or a top player who has amassed maximum gear a long time ago, I want to leave
  38. FisitngKnight
    Jul 28, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I've been playing this game for more than 10 thousand hours and the developers decided to cut off the last influx of content for the players. Murder war system. Opens the possibility for bad players to interfere with your game for free and now you can't do anything about it. The game that positioned itself as an open world pvp has now turned into pve not just pve and the developer is completely not interested in what old players need, they are completely immersed in work for content for beginners and only for them. As you move into the high class of players your experience just gets worse and worse. What a pity that a greedy developer kills his creation… Expand
  39. VanGhoul
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    Players in RU are upset about a potential update removing the guild war system, as the game lacks PvP content compared to EU servers. PvP is vital for gear progression, and its removal would be disheartening. They cherish the game's diversity, joining PvE or PvP-oriented guilds. They hope developers consider player feedback, retaining free guild PvP to preserve the game's uniqueness andPlayers in RU are upset about a potential update removing the guild war system, as the game lacks PvP content compared to EU servers. PvP is vital for gear progression, and its removal would be disheartening. They cherish the game's diversity, joining PvE or PvP-oriented guilds. They hope developers consider player feedback, retaining free guild PvP to preserve the game's uniqueness and not resemble Genshin Impact. Large-scale 300 vs. 300 battles may not be feasible on Russian servers.… Expand
  40. razordaman
    Apr 29, 2018
    1
    Don't waste your time on this garbage. There are no dungeons. There is one set of final armor to get for all classes. That's right everyone has the same gear set in the end lol. You pay to look different even thou you have the same armor. You can buy the final BOSS armor with real money via buying and selling cash shop costumes. You can also just log in daily and collect 10 tokens a monthDon't waste your time on this garbage. There are no dungeons. There is one set of final armor to get for all classes. That's right everyone has the same gear set in the end lol. You pay to look different even thou you have the same armor. You can buy the final BOSS armor with real money via buying and selling cash shop costumes. You can also just log in daily and collect 10 tokens a month and you'll get it in a few months. That's right folks, you don't have to ever kill 1 mob in order to get the best gear in the game. The ONLY reason you do anything in the game including combat is to get money to upgrade the BOSS gear and that's it...Yep NO END game, no dungeons, no nothing except unfair PvP at to take points in the world to , guess what, make more money.....there is 0 substance to this trash pile.… Expand
  41. Troystorm
    Jan 15, 2018
    4
    They called it an ambitious game. So it's true, but it's all terrible. All Korean bells and whistles. The epilepsy combat system, the lack of a normal interface, the lack of variation in the choice of race / class, the absence of any division into roles in the game. Everything is done as inconveniently as possible. And most importantly - the lack of optimization. Gives out a 10-30 fps onThey called it an ambitious game. So it's true, but it's all terrible. All Korean bells and whistles. The epilepsy combat system, the lack of a normal interface, the lack of variation in the choice of race / class, the absence of any division into roles in the game. Everything is done as inconveniently as possible. And most importantly - the lack of optimization. Gives out a 10-30 fps on any settings.Constant hovering, crashes, do not give a normal enjoy the game.
    Of the good moments worth praising developers for a very huge open
    a beautiful world, a detailed customization of the character and unusual gameplay chips, in the form of sea battles, the economy, trade and other things, but unfortunately it's realized terribly, but at least somehow    … Expand
  42. JavaSquirt
    Oct 1, 2018
    0
    World of Grind.
    Однообразная помоечка про гринд и донат(pay to win only).
  43. Leeeeeeeel
    Dec 8, 2018
    0
    jungs... ich tu ja echt nicht haten.... ihr könnt da Mario fragen ich tu echt nicht haten aber... das spiel ist halt schon irgendwie naja.... scheiße
  44. RobertDirk
    Mar 5, 2019
    3
    Worst MMO I have played. No explanation of any systems other than basic movement, camera and starting skill set. Combat is some strange system I have never come across. Kill things until your "knowledge" increases so that you do more damage. This is done AD NAUSEUM for every creature you come across. I only paid for the $10 version - and I wish I could get my money back. Stay far away.
  45. Fredcrit
    Mar 18, 2019
    3
    I can write a long list of positives. But I stay by the main reason I am interested in this game. Its the unique constellation of a good Fight system with a interesting Life-skill system for one goal, Top Gear.
    Unfortunately this game moves more to P2W. But you can work around.
    The Negatives overshadow the positives with time. Technical issues, like Server lags and crashes are not    I can write a long list of positives. But I stay by the main reason I am interested in this game. Its the unique constellation of a good Fight system with a interesting Life-skill system for one goal, Top Gear.
    Unfortunately this game moves more to P2W. But you can work around.
    The Negatives overshadow the positives with time.
    Technical issues, like Server lags and crashes are not getting fixed. Now people with older Windows versions cant access to the new Market. Trade items in the trade window are not loading. NPCs are not accessable. Quest Rewards cant be accepted afer finishing a Quest.
    Event Quests cant be finished for unknown reason and many more!
    But the most frustrating issues are by design. To make money you need to do a lot of AFK. People keep they computer on for days to process close to the town storage. if you somebody with connection issues, you cant open your storage because of lags and crashes.
    You die because of this and lose xp, you earned grinding for a hurtful amount of time.

    After 1,5 years of playing this game more or less active, I found out that without an extreme specialisation supported by micro-transactions, its pretty hard to reach the top. Nothing new for MMOs. But I start playing BDO, because of its unique mechanics.
    Its fun to do what your mood suggest you or follow a plan. But after time you realise its pointless and exhausting. The many silly unnecessary design flaws in the Quests and game mechanics are frustrating. Sometimes they seem to be installed to force us to take the shortcut buying stuff in the Shop.    … Expand
  46. Meko747
    Aug 16, 2019
    0
    1.Black desert is truly pay to win game.
    2.grind grind grind grind ....
    3.Life skill not fun for me.
    4.bad story telling
  47. Talak
    Nov 23, 2022
    0
    I've been playing since the Beta, and I've spent a lot of money in that game. But the reallity is that they make content for Korea's users and they don't care about NA/EU players.
    They pretend to make a lot of classes but at the end, the content is always the same kind of female characters. No variety at all. Some class got 2 outfits and the same boring content during years.
    If you like    I've been playing since the Beta, and I've spent a lot of money in that game. But the reallity is that they make content for Korea's users and they don't care about NA/EU players.
    They pretend to make a lot of classes but at the end, the content is always the same kind of female characters. No variety at all. Some class got 2 outfits and the same boring content during years.
    If you like to grind A LOT, and get always the same content, maybe it will be more for you then.    … Expand
  48. Nyakuya
    Mar 13, 2019
    3
    Un excelente juego empañado por un sin fin de problemas de planeamiento e implementación.

    - Primero: Es un Pay To Win. Pues todo el proceso de mejorar tu PJ va destinado al endgame del juego que es el pvp, y como podes comprar cosas con dinero real para sacar ventaja, pagando tienes ventaja. - Segundo: El juego te propone que inviertas dinero en él de forma MUY AGRESIVA. Okay, es un    Un excelente juego empañado por un sin fin de problemas de planeamiento e implementación.

    - Primero: Es un Pay To Win. Pues todo el proceso de mejorar tu PJ va destinado al endgame del juego que es el pvp, y como podes comprar cosas con dinero real para sacar ventaja, pagando tienes ventaja.

    - Segundo: El juego te propone que inviertas dinero en él de forma MUY AGRESIVA.
    Okay, es un juego coreano, allá por Asia la gente es MUY ADICTA y se deja todo su sueldo en videojuegos de este estilo. Pero vamos, que Asia no es el resto del mundo y si quieres sacarlo en otros paises no podes implementar las políticas abusivas de tu país en ellos. (Miren a Warframe, que es el juego con el sistema de monetizacion más light que he visto en mi vida. Lo juego hace 2 años y ya tengo todos los cosméticos sin haber pagado nunca, y según datos financieros de Steam 2018, Warframe fue el segundo juego de TODO Steam en más recaudar dinero dicho año. ¿Por qué será que Black Desert no estuvo en la lista a pesar de estar en steam?).

    Voy a seguir justificando por qué creo (por no decir "Es así") que este sistema es abusivo. Primero, hay MUCHISIMAS cosas en las que podrías invertir TANTAS horas en conseguir, que terminarías generando más gasto en electricidad que simplemente pagando por ello con dinero real. (Por dar un ejemplo MUY simple, la cantidad de peso que puedes llevar en tu inventario. Si quieres aumentarla debes mejorar el atributo fuerza, que por cierto tarda SEMANAS en levelear lo suficiente como para darte 50LT de peso extra, y es sumamente aburrido porque para hacerlo tienes que sobrecargar a tu personaje y correr. Eso es todo, sobrecargarlo y correr HORAS y DIAS y SEMANAS... Para conseguir solo +50LT, lo cual es MUY poco porque un cinturón pedorro te da +60LT extra. Ah, pero luego si quieres pagar con dinero real claro que puedes aumentarla al instante y en cantidades mucho más atractivas, como por ejemplo puedes comprar 1000 perlas (moneda de pago) y gastando 540 perlas consigues +250LT instantáneamente. +250LT por 5,40 dolares estadounidenses, o sino mantiendo la PC encendida SEMANAS generando gasto de componentes y eletricidad dejando a tu personaje corriendo para conseguir simplemente +50LT. (Que por cierto, a partir de esa cantidad se pone DIFICILISIMO relevar, porque cada nuevo nivel requiere x10 más de XP que el anterior, y que por consecuente requiere x10 más de tiempo que el anterior).

    - Tercero: Agregaron un modo battle royale llamado "Shadow Arena". Realmente es atractivo, pues hay cofres por todos lados y lo que looteas se transforma en equipo mientras juegas, y en dinero una vez terminas esa partida Battle Royale.
    ¿Cual es el problema de esto?... Pues hay más de uno. Primero el hecho de que no está siempre abierto, y que de hecho múltiples veces durante el día no lo está, (y de madrugada JAMAS lo está).
    Además no ocurren ciertas cosas que DEBERIAN. 1) Jamas te avisan que no está abierto siempre, tuve que preguntarle a amigos para saber por que razón me tiraba error. 2) Cuando está cerrado ell botón para entrar no se bloquea, por lo que no sabes si está disponible o no y clickear en él, te deja entrar, entra a una pantalla de carga, luego te pone el menú del modo de juego, le das a "Jugar", se pone a cargar otra vez, y recién ahí te dice, "Shadow Arena couldn't open". Osea "Shadow arena no se pudo abrir". No te dice "No esta disponible", dice "No se pudo abrir". Bien... Excelente mensaje. Tras darte cuenta por este cartel que no puedes entrar, solo te queda poner "Salir" y OTRA VEZ entra a una pantalla de carga y al terminar recién ahí puedes seguir con lo que estuvieras haciendo. (Es prueba y error todo el tiempo para ver si en algún momento está abierto o no. patético, terrible diseño, porque ni siquiera dan bien las intrucciones de a que horarios está abierto).

    - Cuarto: La traducción. Yo no sé que mierda hicieron, pero la traducción al español está hecha por un mono borracho, o literalmente metieron todo en un traductor y listo, a poner todo lo que el traductor diga. ES MUY MALA, tanto que múltiples veces no entiendes ni que carajos intenta decirte un NPC, y cito una conversación (este tipo de calidad de dialogas se repite constantemente), "Por favor a que le des prisa a que le haga la entrega el capullo". En realidad lo que este NPC quería decir era "Por favor dile que se apresure con la entrega DEL capullo", y se refería a un capullo de tela, (lo cual entendí recién al terminar de hacer la misión, porque con ese diálogo no sabia ni que mierda tenia que hacer).

    Quinto: No puedes sprintar hasta que la barra se carga toda, (aunque tengas mas de la mitad), y acabarás muriendo por esto (sobre todo en pvp cuando te persiguen).

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    No tengo mucho más que agregar. Es un juego el cual disfruto mucho la mitad de las veces, y la otra mitad me dan ganas desinstar.    … Expand
  49. Magnifigood
    Sep 6, 2019
    1
    There is a lot of debate about this game being p2w. Being a player since release, my opinion is that it is one of the most pay to win game I've ever played. It can take years to compete with players that pay to win. It is also considered "competitive pvp" for others to camp/harass you for hours. They can even use an NPC to keep finding you if you change servers. Support is rarely helpfulThere is a lot of debate about this game being p2w. Being a player since release, my opinion is that it is one of the most pay to win game I've ever played. It can take years to compete with players that pay to win. It is also considered "competitive pvp" for others to camp/harass you for hours. They can even use an NPC to keep finding you if you change servers. Support is rarely helpful compared to other games in general.… Expand
  50. Manliness
    Oct 19, 2019
    1
    Toxic Community. Unhelpful staff. Highly recommend Final Fantasy XIV as an alternative.

    Beware hidden "subscription" features like paid items that increase drop rate and profits for sold items. It's tough to keep up without these. Everything in this game is deigned around a gambling-style RNG system. It's quite clever how much they are able to integrate variable-reward gambling tactics.    Toxic Community. Unhelpful staff. Highly recommend Final Fantasy XIV as an alternative.

    Beware hidden "subscription" features like paid items that increase drop rate and profits for sold items. It's tough to keep up without these. Everything in this game is deigned around a gambling-style RNG system. It's quite clever how much they are able to integrate variable-reward gambling tactics. You do not want to allow kids to play this.    … Expand
  51. EmirhanSahin
    Jan 2, 2022
    4
    Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind but graphics are good.
  52. TurboPsina
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    Do not touch pvp, leave the balance between pve/pvp as it is - fair. Do you want to kill pvp, instead of solving the problem thoughtfully and rationally? Are you ready, after assurances that players are dear and important to you, to literally ignore the huge number of players who love this game?

    Suggestion: Enter separate servers similar to the New Olivia, one for each server category,    Do not touch pvp, leave the balance between pve/pvp as it is - fair. Do you want to kill pvp, instead of solving the problem thoughtfully and rationally? Are you ready, after assurances that players are dear and important to you, to literally ignore the huge number of players who love this game?

    Suggestion: Enter separate servers similar to the New Olivia, one for each server category, with the complete absence of the ability to enable ALT-C and kill an enemy player. Consider the opinion of people who have spent a huge amount of time on the game. Consider the opinion of people who also have every right to justice. We are no worse than pve players.    … Expand
  53. yesterdayatnoon
    Mar 1, 2018
    6
    This is an alright game with a mix of really strong negatives and positives. The game looks great and runs great. The combat is entertaining focusing more on target control than damage. The non-combat activities such as crafting and gathering are handled in a phenomenal way and are really worth looking at on their own. The game also offers lots of idle play. You can leave the gameThis is an alright game with a mix of really strong negatives and positives. The game looks great and runs great. The combat is entertaining focusing more on target control than damage. The non-combat activities such as crafting and gathering are handled in a phenomenal way and are really worth looking at on their own. The game also offers lots of idle play. You can leave the game running and fish or process or craft, but you end up with a strong incentive to leave your PC cooking all day and night to keep up your progress.

    The game also doesn't offer much for endgame. There's gear that's harder to upgrade that is mildly better than what's easily obtainable, but you can do most of your improvement at the auction house. The game is tedious to play if you don't spend another forty or so dollars buying pets to loot monsters for you. And you are forced into PVP after a day or two of leveling, and the pvp is not balanced either between classes or levels.

    The game is still enjoyable and worth looking at. Again, the gathering and crafting portion of the game is really interesting and worth emulating in future games. All in all, I like it and I think I'm even playing it at the moment in another tab. Yep... still processing.    … Expand
  54. Gades
    Apr 29, 2016
    6
    Lot of expectaction for a game that only partialy meet them.
    The game has a lot of ideas (mostly coming from archeage) but poorly implemented.
    You can see it as an opposition to Guild Wars 2. GW2 is quite a standard and "casual" mmo but it's really good on that. Black Desert has some good innovations but the implementations of these innovative things are quite far from perfection. (a    Lot of expectaction for a game that only partialy meet them.
    The game has a lot of ideas (mostly coming from archeage) but poorly implemented.
    You can see it as an opposition to Guild Wars 2. GW2 is quite a standard and "casual" mmo but it's really good on that. Black Desert has some good innovations but the implementations of these innovative things are quite far from perfection. (a bit too far i think).
    I give it a 6.    … Expand
  55. Rinfeer
    Aug 12, 2017
    6
    I'm playing this game about one year and i will try to be short.

    Pros: +Graphics. +Character creator. +Big open world. Cons: -Very expensive cash shop , if u wanna play in comfort , get top gear , u definitely need donate about 400 euros , and it's not a joke , just deal with it. Pets, weight , inventory slots , trousers etc. -No dungeons . To be clear social system in BDO is    I'm playing this game about one year and i will try to be short.

    Pros:
    +Graphics.
    +Character creator.
    +Big open world.

    Cons:
    -Very expensive cash shop , if u wanna play in comfort , get top gear , u definitely need donate about 400 euros , and it's not a joke , just deal with it. Pets, weight , inventory slots , trousers etc.
    -No dungeons . To be clear social system in BDO is pretty weak. No point to play in group so far.
    -Grinding. Too much of it. Actually problems starts when on your favourite spot comes dude with + 20 gear in round and takes your spot.
    -No equipment system. This is something that bores me a lot. There is no changes when you upgrade your gear.
    -End game is too boring. U just grind mobs 24/7 and kill field bosses. Trying to get tet or pen. And this is your end game.
    -This game is hell for newcomers. It's too hard to get top gear , when u start from nothing . Let's say if u wanna play this game better buy an account . U will save money and your nerves at some point.

    Summing things up . I just wanna say , this game is basically pay to win. I beg u, if you're new please avoid of playing this game. Just w8 for another better MMO.    … Expand
  56. BrownFamily
    Oct 19, 2019
    0
    This game seemed fun at first, but once you play for a while you realize how quickly you fall behind because of the numerous pay-to-win mechanics. Also, the behavior policy 100% allows trolling, camping and other things that are disallowed on other much better MMOS like WOW or Guild Wars. Your reports are read by bots and get copy-paste responses primarily. Play a different MMO withThis game seemed fun at first, but once you play for a while you realize how quickly you fall behind because of the numerous pay-to-win mechanics. Also, the behavior policy 100% allows trolling, camping and other things that are disallowed on other much better MMOS like WOW or Guild Wars. Your reports are read by bots and get copy-paste responses primarily. Play a different MMO with better staff and less P2W.… Expand
  57. Swagvadar
    Mar 18, 2020
    0
    First thing I want to say is that the Witcher 3 is worth 200 bucks to me. If you were to ask me how much Black desert online was worth, I'd say it's worth what they charged during the 4th year anniversary which was $0.

    What I enjoy about this game is absolutely redundant and that's the graphics. I truly like the aesthetic look of the remastered version of the game but unfortunately, you    First thing I want to say is that the Witcher 3 is worth 200 bucks to me. If you were to ask me how much Black desert online was worth, I'd say it's worth what they charged during the 4th year anniversary which was $0.

    What I enjoy about this game is absolutely redundant and that's the graphics. I truly like the aesthetic look of the remastered version of the game but unfortunately, you can't play at those settings if you have a high refresh monitor otherwise the game looks unbelievably choppy. Just to be clear, the issue here is how the game engine works. Your entire gameplay relies heavily on your frame rates (more so than how other games work). What this means is that if you, for example, are attacking an enemy with 60 fps and you do let's say 5 attacks. If you did the exact same thing with drastically lower settings to get increased frame rates and you have 150 fps, you'll do those same 5 attacks a bit faster which means you WILL do more damage over time. If your attack last for 2 seconds but for some reason your computer drops frames for 2 seconds, your 2 second attack will go for 4 seconds. Or if you're using a mobility skill and frames drop, you could slide WAY further than the ability intended. I've had a few occasions where I'll end up at least 5 metres away from where I expected to be because of frame drops. It's such a bad feeling when you know you could be doing more damage or have a more stable gameplay experience if you just keep graphics on lowest so the game engine can keep up. This forces me to play on the lowest settings possible because my attacks and defensive abilities will work more effectively especially in PvP situations. For PvE, it really doesn't matter.

    Another issue related to this which I didn't know where to put in is this game will trust the client side rather than the server side. This can create extremely annoying syncing issue when fighting and easily allow someone to speed hack which they have never addressed ever which means there's no punishment for hackers in this game.

    The very core of the gameplay loop will be your gear grind. There's not much to it but you'll have to engage in the most absolute trash enhancement system I've ever encountered in any game possible. There's a term in gambling called "Minimum return" which means over time you should get at least something back in return after gambling. This game doesn't have that. you can invest literally billions and thousands of hours of your time and get absolutely nothing out of it towards your gear. Why is the gear important? You will need it to participate in all of the game's content. A large portion consist of PvP which is extremely gear dependant at the worst of times. In order to compete against people who have been playing for years, you will need at least 6 months of work to even consider thinking about joining. Another portion of the game is the anemic PvE grind which consist of standing in a single location for an hour and attacking the same mobs in a boring circle. You will need to do this for a long time to save enough money and also to gain enough energy points to take part in life skilling which is the 3rd large part of this game which I won't touch because it's honestly fine.

    My final main point I'm going to make is this game's awful cash shop. It sells outfits which are $45 AUD which is absolutely mind blowing. During various events this game will have sales on items which strictly benefit the enhancing mechanic in this game. That means when you inevitably your enhancement, you can pay for these items and skip the grind to repair the gear. You can also simply buy outfits and sell them on the in-game market and literally pay for gear making it pay to win. They also sell A LOT of loot box style items which are extremely predatory. There's a reason why they always say "Not available in Belgium" because they're straight up gambling garbage.

    There are many other issues with this game but they're so insignificant compared to all these other issues which will most likely make you quit when you realise what you actually need to do to play the game.

    TLDR: The game's PvE and large PVP content isnt fun to play and the gameplay loop is extremely unmotivating. Give it a miss and go play the Witcher 3 instead. You'll spend the same amount of time playing and actually have a good time from the get go.    … Expand
  58. Qjoo
    Apr 28, 2020
    4
    I've played 400 hours of this game and it feels like I did nothing, there is so much to do and so little to do at the same time!

    There is no endgame, none, you grind until 60 and that is it. when you reach the soft level cap you need to gear up to get more levels, so you can gear up and get stronger, to... nothing. There is no dungeon or raid, only word bosses with specific weekly    I've played 400 hours of this game and it feels like I did nothing, there is so much to do and so little to do at the same time!

    There is no endgame, none, you grind until 60 and that is it. when you reach the soft level cap you need to gear up to get more levels, so you can gear up and get stronger, to... nothing. There is no dungeon or raid, only word bosses with specific weekly schedule.

    I repeat, THERE IS NO DUNGEON OR RAID IN THIS MMORPG!!!

    on top of this, the amount of RNG and PAID RNG in this game in astronomical ffs, you pay to pay sometimes. yes, you can buy the economic package in the market, but with fixed prices no one want to sell it.

    Visual 8/10
    Gameplay 8/10
    Content 2/10    … Expand
  59. kwexler
    Nov 2, 2020
    0
    I made this account just to review this game and hopefully warn anyone thinking about playing it before they make a mistake.

    I played this game for years just like anyone else, AFK fishing and collecting useless aesthetic gear, but hey at least it was something to do for a while. I don't think I spoke to a single player in those years I was able to play the game. It is indeed the    I made this account just to review this game and hopefully warn anyone thinking about playing it before they make a mistake.

    I played this game for years just like anyone else, AFK fishing and collecting useless aesthetic gear, but hey at least it was something to do for a while. I don't think I spoke to a single player in those years I was able to play the game. It is indeed the loneliest MMO you will ever play.

    That's not even the worst part though. I had my account set up with 2 factor authentication and unfortunately lost my phone. I got a new one, but quickly found I was unable to log into my BDO account due to the 2fa being on the lost phone.

    I've reached out to BDO support multiple times to attempt to regain access to my account, but they have not, and will not respond to me.

    They're refusing to provide me with what I have paid for and what is rightfully mine which is theft. I haven't been angry or unreasonable, I haven't spammed support tickets.
    I've respectfully asked to have my account returned to me and to have my 2fa removed but they simply refuse to respond.

    So, don't bother reader, that's your inevitable fate with this company. Don't be like me and spend years playing a stupid trash game only to end up locked out of it with LITERALLY no support to be found. Just don't do it, go play literally any other MMO and you'll be better off I promise.

    I plan on filing as many consumer complaints for the company as I possibly can. I wonder how much money they've stolen.    … Expand
  60. Krissy004
    Sep 18, 2021
    1
    Using the term "character customization" is an under statement for its character customization. One of the game that has the most flashiest combat. The game let's you become a bad-ass slaying mobs. Has some interesting life skills mechanic that to be honest can be its own game. With that said, this game has the most shallowest game play I ever play. I don't know what's wrong with KoreanUsing the term "character customization" is an under statement for its character customization. One of the game that has the most flashiest combat. The game let's you become a bad-ass slaying mobs. Has some interesting life skills mechanic that to be honest can be its own game. With that said, this game has the most shallowest game play I ever play. I don't know what's wrong with Korean devs but they still on their antiquated belief that end game is basically leveling infinitely and "let the player decide whats their end game" trope that brings nothing new to the MMO genre. If they still believe in that then it's safe to say that minecraft is an MMO. Story and lore is meh as every other Eastern and Korean MMOs. There's no literal end game and dungeons and raids are lacking. The game is definitely created as a Open world PVP game first but suddenly change their minds because player retention, especially to casuals would be catastrophic to its player base if they keep this game an open world PVP MMO. The combat is good when slaying mobs but awful during PVP since most of the time, PVP is just hit and run tactics. It's going to be a chore if you reached level 56 because every mobs 5 levels higher than you will drop 0.0X0% experience. I'm not joking this game's exp bar has THREE DECIMAL DIGITS! There's a reason why season server exist and that's for new players to acclimate to the game, give new players a decent item sets and to rush to the "end game" and that is leveling past the level 61 which is the soft cap. The gear enhancement is what you typically expect to an eastern MMOs (the pluses) which is very antiquated and a scheme for you to get your credit card and buy a guaranteed enhancement success. I haven't talked about the awful monetization of this game, which is borderline robbery!
    If you love stylish combat and great graphics then this is the game for you. I would suggest to not buy this game on full price or even at 50% discount. I would suggest to get this game for free or even try the free 1 month play to know if this game is for you.    … Expand
  61. Bashkar
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    PVP oriented game with PVP end game guildwars!
    Oh, wait a minute, we’ll make cuts for sieges so that we don’t have to make a gear, we’ll spend a lot of karma so that pve hamsters are not afraid to leave the city, we’ll remove the overturning of the vars so that the hamsters become even more happy. Arena of Solara, but it is simply not on RU. 300 to 300 servers will not be pulled. Hm. We    PVP oriented game with PVP end game guildwars!
    Oh, wait a minute, we’ll make cuts for sieges so that we don’t have to make a gear, we’ll spend a lot of karma so that pve hamsters are not afraid to leave the city, we’ll remove the overturning of the vars so that the hamsters become even more happy. Arena of Solara, but it is simply not on RU. 300 to 300 servers will not be pulled. Hm. We are preparing an excellent coffin for Black desert online. Save on servers.    … Expand
  62. Lixer
    Jul 28, 2023
    0
    Please do not touch the already dead pvp system. Guild wars and PvP in open world were the only ways to have PvP experience and have some fun in this dying game. And you really want to take the last thing we have left?
  63. Foryansky
    Jul 29, 2023
    0
    More trash updates. More kill PVP system.
    Lick more sausage to new whining players
  64. K1nolog
    Jul 29, 2023
    0
    Cancellation of the possibility of war unilaterally kills the game and makes its pvp content even more unplayable, we came into the game with the goal of being able to pvp, the game positioned itself this way, the entire community is unhappy with such a terrible decision
  65. miHazy
    Jul 29, 2023
    0
    The upcoming bdo update will kill pvp, please spread this information to the game developers in order to prevent the departure of many thousands of big gear players, we spent hours of our precious time in order to participate in massive battles in the open world, do not take pvp content from us
  66. Poopmaster
    Mar 26, 2017
    6
    Pluses and minuses i can point after over 150hours of gameplay.

    OPENING SENTENCE. Boring and heavily time consuming to be anywhere near competitive level/gear to play any kind of PvP. NOT P2W There is nothing at cashshop at all i would call P2W there is no items that directly upgrade your characters level or dmg/gear score. Onyly exception is item that allows you to repair    Pluses and minuses i can point after over 150hours of gameplay.

    OPENING SENTENCE.
    Boring and heavily time consuming to be anywhere near competitive level/gear to play any kind of PvP.

    NOT P2W
    There is nothing at cashshop at all i would call P2W there is no items that directly upgrade your characters level or dmg/gear score.
    Onyly exception is item that allows you to repair armor/weapon 3x faster, you need to spend 100s of $ to make it worth though.

    BORING GAMEPLAY
    Game is all about killing mobs like asians mmos from early 2000s, not even quests just look at map, go to mob camp for your level and mash buttons until you have level high enough to go to the next camp.

    TIME CONSUMING
    After over 150 hours i wasnt even close to top tier of players.
    I had to find on internet best spots to farm money to be even able to level my gear above +15.
    If you wont farm special places for cash you will end up undergeared on high "competitive" character level.
    I advice you to spend atleast 8hours per day if you want to be top tier before 2019, when all nolifes will die out from the game community.

    ENCHANTING IS ****
    Enchanting system in BDO made me quit the game, most players in game praise it as entertaining and highly rewarding.I disagree with their opinion, one unlucky roll and your DUO weapon that you spend over 70milion gold on goes back to PRI. looses 50 milion value and sends you down by 10-20 AP points, wich is alot in this game.
    I wont even start writing about trinkets, job costumes and boss weapon/armor enchanting.

    VERY BAD SOUNDTRACK
    No music at all, soundtrack gets boring and repetitive very fast with how gameplay is made.

    GORGEUS GRAPHICS
    One of the best graphics i have ever seen in video games, even now it can compete with newest games in that matter.

    FRIENDSHIP
    Game heavily depends on having friends who are willing to play it with you.
    Not gameplay wise you can do almost everything alone but it gets really boring really fast.

    6/10
    +no p2w at all
    +good graphics
    +good combat mechanics
    +good pvp when you finnaly are at strong enough gear level to compete

    -bad soundtrack
    -boring main story
    -boring gameplay after 1 to 50 hours depends from player obviously
    -enchanting system that artificialy longers gameplay by throwing you down constantly
    **** costumes design that costs 30euro per 1    … Expand
  67. Crookshanks
    Jul 28, 2023
    1
    Imagine an MMORPG whose goal is to improve the strength of equipment and characters, but in which most pvp activities have a huge limits on the level of equipment, and those that do not have are consistently killed by developers. That's what bdo is at the moment.
  68. Dragacejo
    Jul 16, 2020
    1
    Game has a lot of wasted potential keyword is wasted. Would give a zero but it's actually really beautiful game with some great characters. This game is lousy with RNG madness. Their pearl store is absolutely insanely expensive which there are so many toxic people on here that buy all their equipment to go around and just bully other characters. The chat is one of the worst ones of all theGame has a lot of wasted potential keyword is wasted. Would give a zero but it's actually really beautiful game with some great characters. This game is lousy with RNG madness. Their pearl store is absolutely insanely expensive which there are so many toxic people on here that buy all their equipment to go around and just bully other characters. The chat is one of the worst ones of all the MMOs insanely toxic hardly anything is said that's actually instructive or helpful in any way.customer support is absolutely non-existent in this game especially if you're a PS4 player. game is constantly glitching and freezing even though I have high speed internet. Instead of fixing any of the problems that exist they're just creating new characters just adding on filler and more crap to try and drown out the garbage. it's just soo unfortunate because it if they just fix these issues it'd be a fantastic game.… Expand
  69. vollmilchnoob
    Nov 3, 2019
    0
    this game is so bad, I Played till level 60 with only grinding, started questing and felt the pain, you have to explore a dessert without a map LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    The Cash shop is pay to win, the whole game is pay to win, so much stuff to purchase, but gameplay allways same, you get new gear, you feel same xD
  70. lindvior
    Apr 19, 2020
    1
    Progression is based on RNG -> you have a chance to successfully enhance an item, or it fails and goes down in enhancement / destroys itself. You can repair items that you failed at enhancing with shards, but a cash shop item boosts the strength of that shard 5x. You can also buy outfits in the cash shop and sell it for in game gold. This game has lots to offer if you play it like aProgression is based on RNG -> you have a chance to successfully enhance an item, or it fails and goes down in enhancement / destroys itself. You can repair items that you failed at enhancing with shards, but a cash shop item boosts the strength of that shard 5x. You can also buy outfits in the cash shop and sell it for in game gold. This game has lots to offer if you play it like a marathon and don't bother comparing with other players. But if you're looking to get into a MMO and wanting to be competitive in PVP, be ready to grind endlessly waves of mobs (which can be therapeutic) or drop a few G's in the cash shop.… Expand
  71. crazyplaney
    Jan 7, 2021
    5
    I've been playing this game since 2018. like literally every day. I logged in and do some activities in-game, and decided to retire in early 2020. returned to play the newest class Nova at the end of 2020, and quitting again in early 2021. I got 5000+ hours on this game (rookie number compared to the AFK player, I rarely AFK tho). my main class was valkyrie (nerfed hard, and still badI've been playing this game since 2018. like literally every day. I logged in and do some activities in-game, and decided to retire in early 2020. returned to play the newest class Nova at the end of 2020, and quitting again in early 2021. I got 5000+ hours on this game (rookie number compared to the AFK player, I rarely AFK tho). my main class was valkyrie (nerfed hard, and still bad compared to other classes now), and then Guardian, the last one is Nova just to give you how much I spend my time at the game.

    The game itself is good looking and got plenty of things to do. you can literally swap your real life for this game because there is so much you can do, and it requires a lot of your time. Therefore "grindy" is the word for this game. If you played it like the same amount (or more than) I do, investing some of your time might be worth it (?), but if you are new (decided to play in 2021) I can only say that you got a LOT of things to catch up, and the "finish line" will just going to keep getting farther and farther from you (as the game keep getting updated). but if you just want to enjoy the sandbox world, then no review can stop you.

    The game's natural progression is based on rng (random number generator) or you can say based on chance (or luck). so the only way to have the best chance is to try more, not try harder. and that is the part where the game isn't fun. imagine doing a workout every day, but your muscle grow based on chance. sometimes your muscle grows for just a one-hour workout, sometimes your muscle didn't grow even though you workout every day for a month straight. Not fair, yeah. But since the game isn't new anymore, you can actually buy "growth" in the in-game market with in-game money (requires you to do more activities tho), so money = time. you can pick which one is your way.

    I give a 5/10, because of how old it is. you really need self-motivation on this one, as the multiplayer content isn't that good on this one compared to the other MMORPGs. (only PvP is a good multiplayer content, no dungeon, no roles, no good PvE content). People tend to do solo activities in this MMO. the only motivation you got from others is competing over equipment (who got the highest attack and defense). So yeah, make sure you know what you want to do first.

    It's not a bad game, it is well crafted moreover a beautiful game. but the grindiness and the ever-growing "content" (the new content usually just an increased capacity of equipment, so player have the illusions of never reached the finish line), the progression based on luck is enough to tell me not to play again.

    at this point, the developer will not be going to give you free endgame gear as it will betray the current player base (not like the other old MMOs which give you endgame characters with more expensive packs or something). so prepare to grind and then face your own luck just to reach the endgame where you can finally catch up and enjoy the game (before another update comes).

    P.S. I just want to write this review so I didn't feel like I wasted too much time on this game. 5k hours is 200+ days... I had fun, but that was when the game is still young.    … Expand
  72. maddaF007
    May 24, 2021
    0
    Hi there,

    twitch sponsort me the game, so i had a bit time in it, found a friendly guild and liked all the first look stunning features. But ... two weeks later now i retired and here is why: Look of: The game itself looks cool, it's a pleasure to look over the landscapes, the citys feeling crowded with all the NPC in it and textures and shaders are working good. Only thing on    Hi there,

    twitch sponsort me the game, so i had a bit time in it, found a friendly guild and liked all the first look stunning features.
    But ... two weeks later now i retired and here is why:

    Look of:

    The game itself looks cool, it's a pleasure to look over the landscapes, the citys feeling crowded with all the NPC in it and textures and shaders are working good.
    Only thing on the look i would like to critic are the lightings wich are not working good. Real time lighting would be an great update.

    Character Design:

    Ok, all of you would installes the game just for the charakter design features, it's real cool and there is a great amount of classes in here.
    But for me personal i don't like the idea of genderlock. It's a big discussion out there, but for me personal the game is reduced on 9 classes out of 22.

    Mechanics:

    your first entry into the game will be a great one. It feels like an mmo, the UI could need a bit more love but the fights are great dynamic, i realy liked how the fights can be timed, moved etc. it makes fun.
    But ...

    Everything else:

    ... the interaction with other players is pvp, or near nothing. You can trade ... healhtpotions. That's it.
    Guild missions inGame i thought, cool idea, but when over one million silver payment, please let there be more than 10 members be online to get it payed. And we talk about payments over ONE MILLION Silver ... sounds a lot? In BDO it's near nothing ^^
    That's the next thing, there is no item progress ... without luck, or without money, and for both without grind.
    You can find a real poor amount of items wich are best for your character and after two weeks playing i had TET gear, wich is one step before "endgame"gear, but when you find let's say a kutum dagger, it's worth around 125.000.000 million silver. But you want it to be enhanced, get it in a higher tier and you can do it youself, or you can buy it from an price fixed market. The tiers are from 1-15 and after 15 MON-DI-TRI-TET-PEN. I had a TET version for around, take a seat, 2.000.000.000 silver. Don't think about PEN it's even higher priced and don't forget you can even try to enhace it by youself.
    ah ... but don't forget, it's just a chance and you'll even have to grind for this chance.

    Then one big, realy big anoying thing is the pearl shop, the inGame shop. There you can buy real great things like ... inventary SLOTS ... not full pages of item specific inventarys or something, nope 16 slots 15 Dollars plz!
    Or hey, we sell you a great buff for your character thats gives him less tax pay in the ingame market you can carry more loot and such things ... 15 Dollars for 30 days please!
    And so on.

    The greatest bash i got was when i tryied to craft an costumef or my character.
    Yes, you can buy costumes for 10 to over 30 dollars, but you can tailor ingame. so i thought.
    So i got eveything i needed for my wished self tailored costume aaaaand ... it is no costume, it is an armour without any needable stats. If you wish this to be a costume, please pay us 15 dollars for a coupon with that you can make a costume out of your self tailored armour ...

    Ok, Black Desert could have been potantial, but there are no dungeons, no real player interactions nothing special to do ingame, it's all just for making a real big amount of silver for just buying your PEN equipment or the enhance needed things, it's good looking but for me, there is so less to do that i real can not understand why i should play this for any longer.    … Expand
  73. Rhya1
    Oct 30, 2021
    1
    Гринд ради гринда, помойное ведро которое еще подает признаки жизни, худшая мморпг.
  74. Tsarzan
    Jan 7, 2022
    0
    - Unbalance classes/combat
    Classes are gender restricted
    Classes are scaled poorly = Either 1 shot or no dps Animation Speed disparity FPS = Influence DPS RNG combat mechanic = base on luck not skill Desync is very common - P2W Costumes = Use to failsafe enhancement failure Consumables - Spyware - Grindfest This becomes your JOB - Terrible enhancement system Gear derank on    - Unbalance classes/combat
    Classes are gender restricted
    Classes are scaled poorly = Either 1 shot or no dps
    Animation Speed disparity
    FPS = Influence DPS
    RNG combat mechanic = base on luck not skill
    Desync is very common
    - P2W
    Costumes = Use to failsafe enhancement failure
    Consumables
    - Spyware
    - Grindfest
    This becomes your JOB
    - Terrible enhancement system
    Gear derank on failure
    Enhancement based on RNG
    - Energy system
    - Gotcha
    - End game?
    Its an arms race
    Lack of Co-op despite being an MMO
    - Cheaters & Bots
    - Toxic Playerbase
    Verdict: Dont be fooled by its look. Let the fanbase pay the bills.    … Expand
  75. Acevi6
    Jan 6, 2023
    6
    Overall an okay game. The combat is fluid, graphics are amazing, and the depth is crazy. You can do almost anything in this game. But thats the thing, since you can do anything, newer players will get confused and move on to another game.
  76. 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
  77. 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.
  78. Shekky
    Feb 12, 2018
    5
    This game has a great concept but its a battle to get geared up in some of the farming spots as a lot of top end geared players like to grief new players. The pearl shop is filled with a lot of overpriced items to add more function to your character but there is no real pay 2 win options in the pearl shop and those claiming its pay to win is just too lazy to grind. A lot of the items onThis game has a great concept but its a battle to get geared up in some of the farming spots as a lot of top end geared players like to grief new players. The pearl shop is filled with a lot of overpriced items to add more function to your character but there is no real pay 2 win options in the pearl shop and those claiming its pay to win is just too lazy to grind. A lot of the items on the pearl shop can be purchased on the market board as well so you just need to be patient.

    Character classes can be boring to play a lot of classes need to be reworked or redesigned completely the grind in this game is real but not as bad as it was. A better catchup system needs to be implemented to combat those who like to grief new players and a system needs to be implemented to prevent players 59 and above from playing on the Olvia servers which are meant for new and returning players even after the limit is supposed to be level 58. Its hard to pick a class if your just starting out I originally started as a Mystic but didn't realize about life skills that I had spent so much time leveling to realize I didn't want to level beyond 49 or I could be pked. So I ended up having to make a new mystic and level it up to 56 and unlock awakening only to realize I didn't like Mystic as awakened classes are quite a bit different from pre-awakened. I spent a lot of time leveling characters and gearing them up to not like most classes.

    Everything in this game is RNG if you hate that idea as much as I do than you might want to focus primarily on getting money and buying everything you need that way. Anyways to wrap this up I give it a 5 out of 10 as it has a lot of potential but the classes are lacking in how fun they are as well as gearing is an extremely high end priority in order to be viable at end game. With the bonus xp servers top end players have still been able to play on Olvia servers and from the information gathered online they should not have access to the servers anymore with no system in place to boot them from the servers. RNG in this game is a pain in the ass and good luck to anyone who can beat this system.    … Expand
  79. RafiGinat
    Jun 13, 2022
    6
    PVE great
    PVP clunky

    Nothing much to elaborate just need to fill in the 75 required chars to complete this review.
  80. poisonedocean
    Feb 19, 2020
    9
    One of the best graphics when released and even 6 years later, still up to date and outstandingly beautiful. Paired with the high quality music and sound effects, it's a pleasant experience, hard to get pall of.
    Got its bugs here and there... they're annoying, but easy to overlook.
    Def NOT recommended for PvP lovers... pvp is not impossible, but kinda frustranting. It's a rage inducing,    One of the best graphics when released and even 6 years later, still up to date and outstandingly beautiful. Paired with the high quality music and sound effects, it's a pleasant experience, hard to get pall of.
    Got its bugs here and there... they're annoying, but easy to overlook.
    Def NOT recommended for PvP lovers... pvp is not impossible, but kinda frustranting. It's a rage inducing, desync'd, unfair and unoptmized part of the game. Yet, there's still some local non offical tournaments now and then. Not my thing, though.    … Expand
  81. 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
  82. MrBrocoli
    Mar 9, 2020
    2
    Farming and grinding game.

    0 gear variety

    0 coop conteny

    Atleast was free for me
  83. kiba12
    Nov 5, 2018
    5
    I first played BDO back in the western release in 2016, but stopped quickly. I returned for the Remastered Update and was considerably sucked in to the game. I've played hundreds of hours now and I feel I have a good understanding of it.

    Pros: - Astounding combat gameplay, seriously the best action combat I've ever played so far. - Breathtaking graphics, fantastic models and effects    I first played BDO back in the western release in 2016, but stopped quickly. I returned for the Remastered Update and was considerably sucked in to the game. I've played hundreds of hours now and I feel I have a good understanding of it.

    Pros:
    - Astounding combat gameplay, seriously the best action combat I've ever played so far.
    - Breathtaking graphics, fantastic models and effects of skills.
    - Lots of variety in gameplay, you can farm, raise horses, cook meals, craft tools
    - World is richly detailed and feels very much alive, the inclusion of a vast array of npcs in towns standing and interaction in very realistic ways makes BDO feel like it's a real world that people could live in.

    Neutral:
    - Open world PvP ( I keep this neutral because I don't like PvP in most games but I know lots of people do )
    - PvP centric game, there's lots of PvE content but the game is focused around fighting each other in the open world. So despite me never attacking anyone because I don't care for PvP that does not mean that some stranger will not jump on you and one shot you.

    Cons:
    - Horrific pay to win micro transactions (You will need to spend over $300 to have a decent time with BDO.
    - Selfish Publishers, there is no incentive to play the game. The login rewards are unimpressive except at the end of each month where you get an rng box to try and get super nice loot. But again, it's rng.
    - RNG RNG RNG RNG, everything in this game is rng. You want to improve you items? rng You want to improve your pets? rng You want to farm for an item that will help your build? rng
    - Grind is tedious more than enjoyable, progress is slow, very slow in this game. You will be spending months and months getting even slightly close to strong enough to hold your own against other players or high level monsters.
    - Story is highly lacking. I find myself unimpressed with the narrative arc of the campaign, but that's not the main draw of the BDO, fortunately.
    - Lack of trust with the developers, I'm not sure what I mean with this, but let me try. When I play Warframe, the developers are so generous and give you so much as a thank you for playing that I WANT to give them money, because they are providing such a positive and enjoyable game experience. BDO provides nothing, I feel no connection with the developers or the game as it feels like they couldn't care less you're playing the game.
    - Overwhelming gear gaps between players, being a PvP focused game, you can fight any time you wish aside from being in a Safe spot like a city or village. But, people aren't going to attack you unless they know they are stronger, and usually, they are. The game is not balanced with the way people can get their gear and even worse now they can just pay money to have an easier time improving gear.

    All in all, BDO is a very meh experience for me. But I understand the draw. I hope the developers and publishers can come to some kind of version where the game feels worth playing. But until then, I'm out.    … Expand
  84. Volsyden
    Mar 17, 2020
    5
    this game is definately beautiful. there is a lot to do in this game but i do believe its pay to win. with all the stuff you have to pay for it sure does make it difficult to play, the people to spend more in the game have way more than the usual player. when it comes down to gear, that can really impact your character. so yes... pay to win.
    it is missing dungeons. i play mmo's for    this game is definately beautiful. there is a lot to do in this game but i do believe its pay to win. with all the stuff you have to pay for it sure does make it difficult to play, the people to spend more in the game have way more than the usual player. when it comes down to gear, that can really impact your character. so yes... pay to win.
    it is missing dungeons. i play mmo's for dungeon content with other players. thats my opinion. i enjoy going into an instance and fighting through till the boss to get loot.
    speaking of loot, there really is basic gear then small amount of boss gear so your loot options are limited, either you have a decent green weapon or you go for the boss weapon... nothing else

    if gear had as many options of like.... world of warcraft, and some dungeons this would be awsome. other than that its just pay to win. i would give it 10 score if that were the case

    this is just my opinion and its what i like to see in a game, i dont care what else you say or what this game is like in your opinion. no i dont play it anymore if you ask. i like my games to have certain things to have fun and unfortunatley this does not. thats what i like, dont care what you like.    … Expand
  85. spartaman64
    Jan 31, 2020
    8
    The combat in this game is the future of mmos. The combat system is like that of a fighting game with ccs and combos and once I experienced it I can never go back to tab target. The world is huge and theres so many different systems and things to do that even after 3 years I still don't know all of them and I still learn something new about the game everyday. This can be overwhelming forThe combat in this game is the future of mmos. The combat system is like that of a fighting game with ccs and combos and once I experienced it I can never go back to tab target. The world is huge and theres so many different systems and things to do that even after 3 years I still don't know all of them and I still learn something new about the game everyday. This can be overwhelming for new players but I personally like that feeling of holy **** theres so much to learn and there are lots of guides, discords, and knowedgable people to learn it from. One of the biggests complaints of this game is that it's pay to win and I agree there are pay to win aspects in this game like melting costumes for cron stones which protect enhancements from degrading but the pay to win is so expensive and I'm talking about tens of thousands of dollars that most people are not very affected by it since theres so few people that actually do that. Some people call the pets and weights pay to win but I disagree since my definition of p2w is that you get unlimitedly more benefit the more you spend and theres a cap on the benefit you can with most things in the game. If you are going to seriously get into the game do not think of it as a 10 dollar game it is more like a 300ish dollar game. Now that might sound really intimindating and I understand 300 dollars is a lot of money but when you consider the subscription model of most other mmos which is around 12-15 dollars a month if you pay 12 dollars a month for 3 years thats 432 dollars. I played this game for 3 years and I'm probably going to continue playing it for many more years so I prefer the one time payment over the subs. Another complaint of the game is that it is grindy and this is a grind based mmo but there are lots of systems to help casual players progress as well with the afk life skilling and workers that can gather materials to assist with lifeskilling or you can just sell. If you want to get to the top and do sieges then you will have to grind a lot but thats the case with any game if you want to reach the top. If you just want to do some low tier nodewars or just some casual pvp or if you are not concerned with pvp at all then you can just stop at around softcap and you don't need to do that much grinding to reach softcap. Another complaint is the enhancing system and yes I agree it's ass but now you can mostly avoid it and buy your gear from the marketplace. Here are somethings that I think are actual problems the servers are not centralized they are in california if you live on the east coast your ping is going to be terrible and that combined with the terrible routing and terrible netcode some days its going to feel like you are getting cced out of every iframe/frontal guard/super armor and its just the worst feeling in the world. I honestly feel like this is the biggest problem in the game and I'm praying that when their server contract is up they will move the servers but idk how much faith I should put in kakao to do that. Next is the devs don't know anything about class balance as displayed by how their succession system turned out. They said they wanted succession to be an alternative to awakening and not replace it but you could've fooled me many successions are so overpowered that I'm not sure what was going through their minds that they thought they are balanced. They had to nerf the damage on one of succession valk's abilities by 64% also they heavily nerfed the least OP successions like ranger while barely touching the most OP successions like sorc. Lots of people might disagree with my assessment on ranger but heres the thing succession ranger has no mobility or protection so it makes sense for them to deal lots of damage. There are lots of ways to deal with them like dropping meteors or doing a PA push which you know PA the abiity that makes you and everyone around you take no damage so I think its riddiculous that people said theres no counter play to a guild full of succ rangers. You can even just send one stealth ninja and take out all of them but anyways I digress.

    The TLDR is the game is amazing the money shop isn't as big of a problem as most people think. Its just that the servers are **** and the devs are **** If you can live with those things then this is overall a great game.    … Expand
  86. 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
  87. 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
  88. KepasaAmigo
    Jul 16, 2021
    8
    Something new in mmo. those combos are something orginal for a mmo. did not play so much but was fun and new experience lets give i 8/10
  89. 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
  90. Zhiend
    Apr 22, 2021
    6
    Здравствуйте! Я поиграл в BDO 4 дня, набил 33 лвл и знаете всё шло слишком гладко. Но вскоре, столкнулся с большим количеством багов и ошибок самой игры. Да, сдесь классная графика, очень много режимов оформления персонажа, но про игровой процесс помоэму совсем забыли. Во-первых много багов с автопутем,когда персонаж просто идёт в стену и эму все рано. Во-вторых некоторые квесты невозможноЗдравствуйте! Я поиграл в BDO 4 дня, набил 33 лвл и знаете всё шло слишком гладко. Но вскоре, столкнулся с большим количеством багов и ошибок самой игры. Да, сдесь классная графика, очень много режимов оформления персонажа, но про игровой процесс помоэму совсем забыли. Во-первых много багов с автопутем,когда персонаж просто идёт в стену и эму все рано. Во-вторых некоторые квесты невозможно пройти по причине багов карты. Например: Есть начальное задание с приручением лошади, когда доходит до тренеровки на маникене, игра отказывается засчитывать попадание. Я посмотрел даже гайды(ничего не помогло). Также много багов с картой , когда показывает неправильное направление к квесту . Очень много не интересных квестов, которые напоминают: прийди, убей,отдай . Да, сдесь крутые анимации атаки, а если выбрать мага, то тут вообще прям фейерверк сплошной, но скучно понимаете. Честно, я удалил игру ибо перестал получать хоть какой-то интерес. Но, мне понравилась данная игра . Забыл сказать :ОНА АБСОЛЮТНО БЕСПЛАТНАЯ и все мои минусы можно перечеркнуть одним аргументом. Кому не хватает денег на подписку в ВОВ можете спокойно играть в BDO… Expand
  91. 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
  92. 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
  93. 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.
  94. 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
  95. 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
  96. 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
  97. 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.
  98. 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
  99. 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
  100. 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.
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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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