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Greedy company deserves a negative review.

Great game! Bought another copy on Epic to increase sales. :)

This game can be pretty buggy at times, however it runs just fine majority of the time. The story is well done, and I recommend doing it a few times to experience different endings, and have a different playstyle. I would recommend waiting a couple of months if you want a more polished experience, however if you can tolerate the minor bugs you will enjoy this game.

INTRODUCTION:

I remember just getting started on this game, and it was an amazing experience that was consistent for months. There is tons of new content being added to the game throughout the year, and there is a lot of things to do actively for the first few months of playing this game. There's enhancing your gear, Lifeskilling, Grinding, Nodewars, Red Battlefield and much more to keep you interested in the game. With this being said, there are also a lot of flaws in this game that really outweigh and overshadow the positive aspects of the game.

CONS:

Pay to win

The game is pay-to-win. Period. The level is debatable. It's a perfectly valid and fair opinion to not care. If you have a day job and would prefer to be able to throw some money at the game instead of spending all your time on it, that's a fair opinion to have. But if you're going into this game expecting to be at the same playing field as someone who drops $100 you're dead wrong.

Here are some examples from the in game Pearl Shop

- Artisan's Memory ($0.50per) - Pay-to-win. Yes, you can just get more Memory Fragments without paying - but you will never get them at the rate of someone using Artisans, because they by default have 4x the effectiveness of a F2P player.

- Swimming Outfits ($22) - Pay-to-win. It is impossible for a F2P player to reach the swimming speed/underwater breathing time of someone with one of these costumes. They are on the loyalty shop, but you cannot permanently have one.

- Naphart Campsite ($50) - Pay-to-win. The permanent parts, the extra bonuses (remote villas), etc. are not obtainable by a F2P player, even through loyalties. This leads to a grinding/life skilling efficiency a F2P player cannot reach.

- Kama's Blessing ($15) - Pay-to-win. A F2P player can not possibly reach the amount of Kama uptime as a paying player. There is a 1-day in the loyalty shop, but that only allows you 1/10 uptime as a F2P player. As opposed to the inventory expansions, where you can eventually reach full slots, you will never match Kama uptime with someone that pays for it. You could just grind 20% longer - but the point is you can not reach the level of efficiency that someone equally geared with a Kama blessing can as a F2P player.

- Valk's Cry (not in our version yet, but it is coming) - Pay-to-win. Yes, you could just get 10 more failstacks as a F2P player to match the +10 from Valk's Cry. But so could the paying player, and then they still have +10 up on you. Assuming everything else is even, a F2P player cannot match the +10 from Valk's.

- Pets - Pay-to-win. Yes, you can have up to 5 pets out at once, and they all loot for you while grinding, and provide special buffs like lifeskill EXP, combat EXP, karma recovery and more. This one is a bit debaitable, because they do go up on the market quite often, but out of all my time playing this game I have never won a bid.

P2W Controversy[mmos.com]

Classes Unbalanced

Mystic = lol ur ded, unlimited cc lock, fast, way too much magic dp, and can heal herself if she gets low on health. gg.
Striker = lol ur ded

Laggy Servers

After all this time of playing this game, I can tell you first hand that they have the worst server I have ever seen making PvP at time almost impossible. It was so bad that we actually had to protest[clips.twitch.tv] it, and then they still proceed to blame our ISP's for the problem when it is, in fact, server side. This brings me to my next point. End game sieges are almost impossible at this point.

Sieges Besieged by Persistent Lag and Connection Issues[www.mmorpg.com]

The Developers

The Devs for this game do not listen to the playerbase, whether it's class balancing or the quality of their servers. They also go against their word saying they wont add P2W items, when in fact, they are.

The Community

The community for this game is toxic as ♥♥♥♥, and will make you want to bash your skull in. There are karma bombers, griefers, and just plain jane ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that you will have the pleasure of encountering frequently.

RNG

Everything in this game revolves around RNG, and the odds are almost always against you. This really wont become a factor until mid/late game when you start going for TRI/TET on your armour pieces, or when you start enhancing expensive accessories. Although it is very satisfying when it succeeds, but it's so soul crushing when you fail back to back.

Grindy as ♥♥♥♥

The grinding in this game isn't as bad as it used to be, as they're making it a lot easier to level up. But it's still a Korean MMO so it's a super grindy game, if you want to get high level and be PvP competent expect to put a lot of time into grinding.

PROS

- Beautiful Graphics, most likely the best looking MMO out at the moments.
- Fluid Combat, the PvP in this game is really fun, and the combat is something you wont see in another MMO.
- The Character Creation in this game is amazing, and if you're talented you will really enjoy it.
- Parkour System allows you to easily traverse citys, or any other area in bdo.
- Lifeskilling/Worker Empire is fantastic in this game, and you can fully commit to playing this game around lifeskills and still have a blast.
- Log in rewards
- Cheap. It is worth the intial fee.

CONCLUSION:

At the end of the day if you're thinking about picking up this game, it depends on the type of player you are. If you can play a game that is progressively going P2W in a lot of aspects, and other players will have an unfair advantage over you, go for it. Unless you want to waste your money like I did when I was playing this game. Don't get me wrong though, I do love this game and you will meet a lot of great people and experience a lot of things you simply don't in other games. The graphics are amazing, the character creation is spot on, various different methods of making money in this game, and you can have your own worker empires and not worry about grinding or PvP at all. There is a lot of opportunity here, and I hate to see it go to waste by the devs going in the wrong direction.

UPDATE

Personal attacks will have your comment removed on this review. This review is MY opinion of the game, you don't have to like it nor agree with it. But don't come here personally attacking me for it.

Black Desert Online - The Negatives 2018

I still play this game actively, but on private servers and I have a more enjoyable time.

sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesertonline/comments/7xjm35/an_objective_look_at_paytowin/
https://mmos.com/news/black-desert-online-sparks-p2w-controversy-addition-blessing-kamasylve

Great game!