Bless - We Learn More About the Sneaky Assassin & New PvP Opportunities - MMORPG.com

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Bless - We Learn More About the Sneaky Assassin & New PvP Opportunities - MMORPG.com

Today, Bless Online is getting one of the biggest updates in the game’s tenure. The anchor of the big expansion is the Assassin class along with some sweet new PvP activities. We had a chance to chat with Lead Game Designer Junyoung Hwang, Combat Designer Seongil Ma and Chief Creative Officer Jangchoel Rhee to learn more. Check it out!

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Viper482

This game has so many issues and has been such a disappointment...this reads as a sponsored article rather than a real interview. How can MMORPG interview these people without asking tough questions about these issues? I paid for this game because I bought into the hype so I have a vested interest in seeing it do well, but these guys don't seem serious to me. I feel cash grabbed.

SBFord

The theme of the interview was set by the developers. I'm sure that, in time, we can reach out with a more customized interview. Right @billmurphy ?

Scot

SBFord said:

The theme of the interview was set by the developers. I'm sure that, in time, we can reach out with a more customized interview. Right @billmurphy ?

That's the idea I got, I doubt developers leave every interview open for an any questions section. But Viper is right there are questions to ask, so many core issues that players raised previously.

BillMurphy

Yep, this interview was solicited by PR for the purpose of the update. There will be time for more questions. Maybe we could even collect some from you all?

LrdEtrius

Ok, so... what happened?
Why is people bashing the game? What issues are you guys talking about?

The combat system looks fine, maybe balancing?
I wanted to play it, but the Mostly Negative is really off-putting.

Albatroes

BillMurphy said:

Yep, this interview was solicited by PR for the purpose of the update. There will be time for more questions. Maybe we could even collect some from you all?

You can ask: When is the game going f2p?

vegetableoil

LrdEtrius said:

Ok, so... what happened?

Why is people bashing the game? What issues are you guys talking about?



The combat system looks fine, maybe balancing?

I wanted to play it, but the Mostly Negative is really off-putting.

It's performance issue, basically for an mmorpg it's laggy with low fps and when it first started they didn't fix the duping bug. Laggy in an mmo is death.

Albatroes

vegetableoil said:

LrdEtrius said:

Ok, so... what happened?

Why is people bashing the game? What issues are you guys talking about?



The combat system looks fine, maybe balancing?

I wanted to play it, but the Mostly Negative is really off-putting.

It's performance issue, basically for an mmorpg it's laggy with low fps and when it first started they didn't fix the duping bug. Laggy in an mmo is death.

What's funny is that they never really fixed the duping issue cause people got to keep the stuff they duped (which is also part of the issue if they didn't know that...) and only got a temp ban. Some people are talking about how the performance has gotten "better" but honestly that's a lie cause they've had around 3k players over the past 30 days, so of course performance is going to seem "better" when there's a 90% population decrease as well as a bunch of empty servers.

vegetableoil

Albatroes said:

vegetableoil said:

LrdEtrius said:

Ok, so... what happened?


Why is people bashing the game? What issues are you guys talking about?





The combat system looks fine, maybe balancing?


I wanted to play it, but the Mostly Negative is really off-putting.

It's performance issue, basically for an mmorpg it's laggy with low fps and when it first started they didn't fix the duping bug. Laggy in an mmo is death.

What's funny is that they never really fixed the duping issue cause people got to keep the stuff they duped (which is also part of the issue if they didn't know that...) and only got a temp ban. Some people are talking about how the performance has gotten "better" but honestly that's a lie cause they've had around 3k players over the past 30 days, so of course performance is going to seem "better" when there's a 90% population decrease as well as a bunch of empty servers.

yep you said it performance went up because there are less player but still laggy. It pretty much defeat the purpose of an MMO

LrdEtrius

The issues are basically performance and lack of players? The duping I understand, at least the temp banned didn't lose the game they paid for because early bug exploiting, that happened in a lot of games tho.

If one of the main issues is already the lack of players we might see it just trying to grab the F2P bite or just shut down completely. That's sad.

Also, looks like it's impossible to make Unreal Engine 3 MMOs look beautiful and with good performance overall so it can run on potatoes.

alaadar

I bought the game for day 1. The optimization was very poor and a true beta would have helped that. Honestly, though, it doesn't help that mmo gamers today believe that if they get into a game it should be polished 100% and not have a single thing wrong with it. I don't really care that its been out in other regions as its a brand new port of the game and its labeled as early access. I watched it die due to, in my opinion, people listening to youtubers bash the game because most of the ones that where saying this game was crap played other regions for a while before the na release. This trend continues now with anytime this game puts out an update. The comments are negative and they normally come from someone that refunded the game or hasnt played it in weeks. Lag was terrible in the game but Ive played almost every WoW expansion on release day and most of them were terrible. For a genre that is lacking in real playable games with new experiences people are quick to slit a games throat for anything making it sad to be an avid mmo player.

Phry

LrdEtrius said:

The issues are basically performance and lack of players? The duping I understand, at least the temp banned didn't lose the game they paid for because early bug exploiting, that happened in a lot of games tho.

If one of the main issues is already the lack of players we might see it just trying to grab the F2P bite or just shut down completely. That's sad.

Also, looks like it's impossible to make Unreal Engine 3 MMOs look beautiful and with good performance overall so it can run on potatoes.

Maybe thats why developers are using UE4? there is also the issue that a lot of the current problems are ones that the game has had for several years now.

vegetableoil

alaadar said:

I bought the game for day 1. The optimization was very poor and a true beta would have helped that. Honestly, though, it doesn't help that mmo gamers today believe that if they get into a game it should be polished 100% and not have a single thing wrong with it. I don't really care that its been out in other regions as its a brand new port of the game and its labeled as early access. I watched it die due to, in my opinion, people listening to youtubers bash the game because most of the ones that where saying this game was crap played other regions for a while before the na release. This trend continues now with anytime this game puts out an update. The comments are negative and they normally come from someone that refunded the game or hasnt played it in weeks. Lag was terrible in the game but Ive played almost every WoW expansion on release day and most of them were terrible. For a genre that is lacking in real playable games with new experiences people are quick to slit a games throat for anything making it sad to be an avid mmo player.

I've played vanilla wow I have to agree it was laggy and also very bad, where there were 200 ppl pvp I press put out totem only to come out 5 min later, but in it's defense I played it year 2002. today it's year 2018 which is 16 years later. I don't think people today can stand lag especially where there are better games with less lag, and also year 2002 youtube did not exist so people can't hear other people complaining.

Scot

I think what most people would want to know is are they actually working on core issues or just adding new stuff?

makevali

BillMurphy said:

Yep, this interview was solicited by PR for the purpose of the update. There will be time for more questions. Maybe we could even collect some from you all?

don't bother, we want more coverage of ashes of creation now thats an mmo with real potential

Sabrac

The future does looks grim for them, they're bleeding players, at this rate no doubt that they will need to go F2P or shut down.

https://steamcharts.com/app/681660

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kinkyJalepeno

BillMurphy said:

Yep, this interview was solicited by PR for the purpose of the update. There will be time for more questions. Maybe we could even collect some from you all?

Careful what you wish for............ I suspect Neowiz won't like any of them and go politician on you.

kinkyJalepeno

makevali said:

BillMurphy said:

Yep, this interview was solicited by PR for the purpose of the update. There will be time for more questions. Maybe we could even collect some from you all?

don't bother, we want more coverage of ashes of creation now thats an mmo with real potential

That and Pantheon..

Albatroes

LrdEtrius said:

The issues are basically performance and lack of players? The duping I understand, at least the temp banned didn't lose the game they paid for because early bug exploiting, that happened in a lot of games tho.

If one of the main issues is already the lack of players we might see it just trying to grab the F2P bite or just shut down completely. That's sad.

Also, looks like it's impossible to make Unreal Engine 3 MMOs look beautiful and with good performance overall so it can run on potatoes.

The thing is though, these aren't "early bugs." They've been issues in the Chinese/Russian/Japanese versions of the game for YEARS. If this was a completely fresh title then sure, it would be easy enough to understand but many people dont realize that this game is 4-5 years old in a released state of some form in the eastern market, also as f2p for each eastern version, yet B2P over here? Yeah that's not suspect (granted I know korea and china have something against subscriptions).

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hyllyh

and now, a little step to f2p: -67% on steam
even with this rebate, no more ppl join it
and i dont think i give it a try for free too

FlyByKnight

You folks still trying to help shine up this turd and put ribbons on it?

You know what this article reminded me to do? Uninstall. I forgot it was on my HD. Thanks.

Tsiya

What the game needs is the healer class. Friggin assassin, we've got enough dps classes. If you want us to rely on the holy trinity, don't leave out one leg of the tripod, morons.