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Black Desert Online - Farming Up Gear - MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited October 2019 in News & Features Discussion

imageBlack Desert Online - Farming Up Gear - MMORPG.com

Avery takes you on the next part of his Black Desert Online journey, as he and his friends start to understand how the BDO grind works. Check out his latest column on the popular MMO.

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  • matsuzinmatsuzin Member UncommonPosts: 9
    Please, no
    peglegLife2v
  • sopukusopuku Member UncommonPosts: 55
    "With the holidays approaching, I hope to invest more time into the game"
    You are not investing time into the game. you are wasting time... this game has no purpose just hope for getting penta.. then you will leave the game if you get it because there is no point of playing this game..
    [Deleted User]Life2v
  • doomlord157doomlord157 Member UncommonPosts: 21
    this game has fun combat but the absolute WORST "PvE progression" (if you can even call it that) that i ever seen. if theres ever been a game with wasted potential, black desert takes the cake.
    GodeauLife2vRellz
  • BladeburaibaBladeburaiba Member UncommonPosts: 134
    sopuku said:
    "With the holidays approaching, I hope to invest more time into the game"
    You are not investing time into the game. you are wasting time... this game has no purpose just hope for getting penta.. then you will leave the game if you get it because there is no point of playing this game..

    ...why are people using the term "investing" when referring to playing games these days?  Are you giving up a resource (time) for a return later (fun later?)

    Are you using that term because it makes it sounds better than "playing" games or "wasting" time?  Are you using that term to force yourself to stick to a game, because you are "invested?"

    Very odd ways to justify playing games.
    MaurgrimMikehaRellz
  • 3dom3dom Member RarePosts: 889
    Savage rift farm - 0 investments, 0 equipment, 0 downtime, somewhat fun for couple hours. Better than workers and better than passive fishing.

    Thank you for your time!

  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,386
    edited October 2019
    sopuku said:
    "With the holidays approaching, I hope to invest more time into the game"
    You are not investing time into the game. you are wasting time... this game has no purpose just hope for getting penta.. then you will leave the game if you get it because there is no point of playing this game..

    ...why are people using the term "investing" when referring to playing games these days?  Are you giving up a resource (time) for a return later (fun later?)

    Are you using that term because it makes it sounds better than "playing" games or "wasting" time?  Are you using that term to force yourself to stick to a game, because you are "invested?"

    Very odd ways to justify playing games.

    Investing is when you sink time, effort and emotion into an endeavour. It can be a game in fact oft times it is definitely an investment. When you start a game you aren't invested in it. As you sink huge swatches of your time and spend hours grinding up lock picking or getting your brand new level 9 owl to level 30+ you know the meaning of investment. Camping an item for 3 months straight and still not getting it, is what investment torture is like. Spending hours raising your carpentry skill to make hundreds of bricks and sticks of furniture and simply decorating a house can take hours and hours. How can that not even remotely resemble an investment. It's an emotional investment too as it brings pure joy to me to show off my house to people who stop by at my shop located in my house and complement my home.

     Play a game you mean enjoy it, well often MMORPGs aren't really about enjoying a game, it is about investment.You're definitely expecting returns for your 'investment' in the form of getting better at the game and doing well in groups/raids or for personal satisfaction.

    Investing in a game can also mean the items you have collected become very important and the very thought of losing your corpse in Everquest in a horrible Plane of Fear run will make you actually cry as I have done on a couple occasions in Everquest when I ran a  serious risk of losing everything. 

    It's not a game I tell you, this is very serious business.
    Life2vMikeha
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  • nastilonnastilon Member UncommonPosts: 151
    Mr. Cohen, this is not a game. You could play it more hours than you work per day and there would still be some manner of grinding or activity that needs to be done. There is literally no end.

    Then, you will realize that some of these activities can be made easier if you only "invest" a few couple hundred bucks into some of the items they have for sale.

    Coming back to the grind with your new cash shop items, you will find that you are now doing these repetitive tasks much easier. It is at this point that you see the players that have the super-enchanted items and think, "Oh, maybe I can get that for myself too?"

    Guess what needs to be done in order for that to happen?

    Countless hours of gameplay that serves nothing other than to obtain the materials needed to do enchanting attempts. Again you will be tempted by cash shop items that will make this process easier.
    Maybe a month has gone by. You think to yourself, "Well I just got paid, I can put in another $200 and maybe I might get my jewelry to +4 instead of +3!"

    Just in order to reach this point, you will have "invested" so much time and money, it is basically like going to the casino and thinking that you get a great deal because your drinks are free (meanwhile you just spent $100 in 10 minutes).

    This game is probably one of the greatest, insidious, psychological experiments upon the human brain that I have ever seen.

    The addiction & cash shop integration of BDO is to other MMOs as marijuana is to meth, it is quite simply that much more likely to get you into a bad situation than another MMO.

    The only person I have known that could in all seriousness play this game and continue with whale-purchases, is a 20 something year old guy from Saudi Arabia that did not have to work as he was receiving money due to oil sales. I do not think most of us fit in this category.

    And no, before it comes up, I do not hate BDO. I find the game extremely appealing. After you see how much the monetization is embedded into every system, though, you will no doubt frustrated to have spent so much time and money for so little.
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  • BloodastralBloodastral Member UncommonPosts: 35
    I played BDO for a while. Nice combat and awesome graphics. Didn't really like the gearing up system, but what made this game seem pointless is all the free loot that was given out. Camp ages for an Ogre ring, I got 2 free. Why bother adventuring or even playing.
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,780
    Bloodastral said:
    I played BDO for a while. Nice combat and awesome graphics. Didn't really like the gearing up system, but what made this game seem pointless is all the free loot that was given out. Camp ages for an Ogre ring, I got 2 free. Why bother adventuring or even playing.
    Because you will need to enchant that Ogre Ring and there is a good chance it will fail and that Ogre ring will go bust.

    All the "free gear" does is to grease the wheels of the system they already have in place.

    I always sold everything I got and just bought my gear, Got up to IV (don't remember what's that called) for most of my gear but it started getting so rare on the auction house that I just gave up.
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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,976
    DMKano said:
    Remali said:
    lol so many haters no bdo isn't perfect it just is the best mmo at this time :)

    Opinions vsry.

    But BDO best mmo at this time..... lol no

    Maybe best graphics wise.... but gameplay not even remotely true. 

    The game has the worst RNG driven gear progression system and end PvE is a boring grindfest.

    Heck PvE in general is /faceroll 

    PVP is a gear > skill (assuming you are one of the handful of classes that excels at PvP) the rest are a joke

    Also every class is except the shai is DPS - lol

    Every class has the same boss gear as best in slot - again lol

    The cash shop is ridiculously expensive- and the game is designed to where hardcote players spend $300+ every month and still end up breaking their accessories and gaining nothing- a huge circle jerk that is constantly draining players wallets.


    Best mmo currently?

    Lol no
    Im lucky that games like this are no temptation for me...I decided early on in my gaming career that I didnt have to be the best and I was just going to have fun.
  • MikehaMikeha Member EpicPosts: 9,196
    Remali said:
    lol so many haters no bdo isn't perfect it just is the best mmo at this time :)

    Best mmo from the best mmo developer. ;)
    Sensai
  • oriya9oriya9 Member UncommonPosts: 65

    sopuku said:

    "With the holidays approaching, I hope to invest more time into the game"

    You are not investing time into the game. you are wasting time... this game has no purpose just hope for getting penta.. then you will leave the game if you get it because there is no point of playing this game..



    See, this is where you are wrong. No one ever gets a PEN ;)
  • Tom272Tom272 Member UncommonPosts: 30
    As someone who played this extensivly for almost 10months, spent almost 500 euro on the game, id say steer clear, i was thinking it was worth it, i had tri gear, spent most of my money on cosmetics and the highlight of the game is definitely combat..
    The hidden stat increase after level 56 is trash, where you could fight people 5levels under you before 55 and have a good fight, a person level 58/59 vs a level 56 is like hes 30 levels above you.
    The system is trash and whoever thought of it is bad, and thats the main reason i quit in the end. Save yourself the trouble and avoid the game alltogether
  • hyllyhhyllyh Member UncommonPosts: 477
    it's a game and for my part, it do the job, when i want to play 3 hours, i go, if i just want to check daily, enhance something, can go too and it's better than my old fingers than fartnite
  • aummoidaummoid Member UncommonPosts: 82
    I enjoy BDO.

    I guess I'm playing it all wrong.
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