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When do you think BDO will tank, i.e. go aggresive P2W
Benjola
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I care about your gaming 'problems' and teenage anxieties, just not today.
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I care about your gaming 'problems' and teenage anxieties, just not today.
Your poll wording isn't impartial. If you are following an agenda don't masquerade it as a poll. This looks like one of those rigged elections
All the evidence is pointing toward BDO going P2W, it's just a matter of time, which we speculate on in this poll.
Besides, I included an option for people like you as well,'You bastard!' , go vote
I care about your gaming 'problems' and teenage anxieties, just not today.
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So we can assume that heavy P2W might go in same time as F2P?
I care about your gaming 'problems' and teenage anxieties, just not today.
Sure the casual PvE players that just play it for the sandboxy activties like farming, housing, fishing, trading, etc. will be fine. But those that are into PvP will soon realize how much of a niche this game is when it comes to that and will quit in droves when they realize they need to hardcore no life it every week for the rest of the game's lifetime in order to keep up. And anyone who doesn't fit into one of those two niche categories will quickly realize this game is not for them.
Yes the game is beautiful, great combat, and a nice change of pace in a lot of ways from other games. But it's still very niche and once players get over the honeymoon phase they will realize that. Though the hardcore PvP crowd and the PvE sandbox casuals already know that (most of them anyway) and don't really care. It's just everyone else who will get a massive slap into reality.
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But still you should word the answers differently so if someone believes it will never tank the option wouldn't make him sound stupid hence he'd participate in the discussion.
I am reviewing your poll, not sure what do you mean by "people like me" part.
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I care about your gaming 'problems' and teenage anxieties, just not today.
With in a Month. The profits that they will get or lose if they don't is too great to keep it on a shelf for too long.
I expect to see Pets and Costume first to appear on the games Auction house. Than some other less important items.
I care about your gaming 'problems' and teenage anxieties, just not today.
Most are annoyed at some items in the cash shop like bag/storage slots. A B2P with F2P elements with those items locked behind a paywall with no way of reaching max space.
Do you really need max (192?) slots?
Some will argue yes, we do. Some will say, I don't need max but I will spend a little more for "convenience." Some don't care either way.
As far as me personally, I'll hope for the best but won't be surprised with the worst.
I am a little concerned that I may be forced to spend at the cash shop to change my appearance. I only played to level 20 but my outfit look only seemed to change once since level 1. I hope I am just missed something on that.
But yeah, I don't think it will go P2W, as in it's true meaning, have items in the cash shop that could not be obtained in any other way and give the player an unfair advantage compared to someone that doesn't have said items.
And no, I don't think that the stupidly overpriced costumes I have seen in the shop give any kind of unfair advantage nor is P2W.
I will also agree with the first person that said it, it will go the same route as Gw2 did as they are more or less using the same model which I personally have no issue with.
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BDO NA/EU is most likely not going to be worse than KR when it comes to P2W. Which in of itself isn't that bad.
The big issue is gear scaling/balance. If someone wants to drop $1k on pets to buy good gear that isn't better than someone that doesn't pay, I don't care. It's when the gear they can buy is potentially much harder to obtain in-game, yet easy with RMT and makes them stronger than the average.
Beyond that, only the +combat XP is really P2W in my eyes. Everything else is pretty meh.
For $30, BDO is a great product. Compared to a sub game which cost $150-200+ a year, someone could get a lot from the shop for the same amount.
Those that think gaming is fair or that someone with more time/money isn't going to have an advantage are just fooling themselves. Has always been like this and always will be, regardless of pay model or game design.
1. This game is a Sandbox not Themepark type of game so the players who are looking for the old dungeons are really going to disappointed. The Sandbox element in this game alone would have players playing this game for hours upon hours without that player ever stepping into pvp. For the younger players who never played a Sanbox game will not have any fun here at all.
2. At what point does a game that offer "fluffy" gear sells become a P2W type of game? At some point did you see GW2 as being P2W? The items being sold alone will not effect anyone at all and at that same time this game is a BUY TO PLAY NOT FREE TO PLAY GAME.
3. I played it the whole time it was out for beta testing and found myself very interested and it was nice to actually see a game that does not have gold spammers all over the place.
4. I don't think you actually played the game at all, what I think you did was just ran around picking up quest and leveling your character to the max you did. This was not playing the game, if you would have played it you would noticed how in depth the game was alone in crafting and side quest and mini games.