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CBT 2, Name Reservations, Cash Shop & More
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CBT 2, Name Reservations, Cash Shop & More
The first major news for North America's and Europe's version of Black Desert Online has arrived and it's got some big ticket items of interest to the community.
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BDO does not have a sub option as far as I know. How else will they have a healthy income to support this game?
It is not weather a game needs to support itself,i am quite certain every single person realizes that,it's obvious.
The problem is these games choose to go f2p because they would NOT survive under a sub fee,matter of fact they likely would not get off the ground period.So they know their game is not good enough to challenge the sub fee market,yet they pretty much 90% of the time try and charge you MORE with over the top cash shops.
This is called BAITING your users with the FAKE FREE monicker then hitting them up for tons more money once they have you hooked in.It is simple a MARKETING/business ploy,it is NOT anything to make the game better or user experience better,it is strictly a benefit to the developer.
Even yet far more important is that you maintain the INTEGRITY of the game,if you are a complete sell out business ,don't care at all about the integrity of your game,then you really don't deserve to be supported.
Now i am not saying that is the case here with this game,that is up to the users to determine if they are simply a sell-out operation that ONLY care about money and don't care if they ruin the game doing it.
A perfect example is selling automatic level 90 players,that is a sell out ,removing almost the entire game just to make a fast buck.There is one more reason and that is to make sure any new player or player moving along slowly can quickly vault forward to buy their latest expansion,so yes a gain not caring about the integrity and ONLY in it for a buck.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
B2P plus cash shop is pretty normal these days
I think he has an issue with the fact that it's an f2p game elsewhere and for the launch here they want to do B2P and still keep the cash shop. Seems a little shifty no? Esepcially since they've already gone f2p in other regions, what's to stop them from doing that after they make the money they want from a B2P launch?
That aside, looking at what they're working on for localization (certainly the English dialects) I think they're doing a very good job. I just hope I'll be able to keep up with both Irish and Scottish accents though (subtitles on that is...)
1. Bed in cash shop - regens energy. I only hope there's a CD on it like the ArcheAge bed had (12h iirc there)
2. Boss scrolls in mileage shop - then again, everyone can get those...
The rest of both shops is pretty much regular convenience and cosmetics.
As for the other changes, there's a lot of good stuff in there. I'm very pleased.
Note:
Cash Shop items will not be possible to sell on the marketplace at launch phase
If we decide to enable selling Cash Shop Items at a later stage, there will be control mechanisms that will prevent players from heavily profiting and gaining an advantage by repetitively selling Cash Items on the marketplace.
The cash shops beds may be "better" but that is just convenience... not a requirement.
The storage is nice too, but not quite as big a deal.
The only thing I saw listed that is remotely ptw is the +50 weight thing, not the bed. The +50 weight upgrade would require RL cash + in game currency, and weight has extremly important roles when running trade goods. Less so when you get your cart etc, but it would provide people with an immediate boost at game start.
The storage is nice too, but not quite as big a deal.
im sure there is also a way to spend in game money for weight upgrade as well, just like ESO so this is not a red flag for me.
The karma change is interesting to, I just hope they can pull it off but most importantly they're clearly really thinking it through and trying. They've accepted that the current karma system is not wanted in our region.
The Trick was to lure people in with B2P promise.
The Trap was this:
They basically told you: Here is a F2P game. Now we will make you pay 30-100$ to play it in the West, but we will still add the F2P cash shop. And than make players believe this is exactly what they wanted.
Daum EU makes Trion looks like newbies.
It should be. If players are expected to spend both money and time on a title then they should be wary of what can go wrong, jeopardizing their "investment." The greatest way to accomplish this method of decision making is by looking at similar situations, learning from the past. There is an almost identical situation that was similar in the very recent past.
It's not humor, it's being responsible.
It's a paltry £23 for the game, if it goes pear shaped you've got 100+ hours of entertainment out of it and it's only £23 gone. From the way people (pretend to) react you would think they were signing a life contract. Get a grip.
Making it B2P makes perfect sense.
It's to protect you from gold sellers, trust me it is, its true, really, IT IS !