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Normally I would laugh and agree, but thinking back to Black Desert Online launch didn't they do they something similar to pull new players in? While BDO is meh to most of us, it seems to do well enough.
As much as I hate P2W as most people do, being at least free with some form of cash shop is a model that same games need to go with for initial success.
That's what you get for launching a game that was originally f2p as a b2p game you mean. This game has been f2p in the eastern market for years.
But oh wait, they do not allow players from eastern europe to even create an account. I live in a EU country, but but site forces me to russian language site. Russian ONLY. Well, Baltic european countries is not russia, you fking imbecils ;D
But oh well, I will not learn russian just so that they would accept my money
It's ok, I guess the game is doing so well that they can just ignore eastern europe
You should nag your politicians to initiate lawsuit against companies (Kakao/Pearl Abyss included with their Black Desert) forcing EU country into Russian services - this is a direct violation of EU's data protection laws requiring to store personal data on EU's territory. Also it violates a bunch of EU single market laws.
Thank you for your time!
Correction "Classical MMORPG"
That too, though each market is handled differently by their publisher some games just operate better when there isn't an I intial pay wall to start playing.
And I have no idea how you got the idea that mobs hit really hard unless you found a creative way to go into regions far above your level, are trying to solo the party version of a dungeon, or are talking about certain boss skills that you're supposed to get out of the way of. I'd prefer that the combat be made more challenging, but as it is, it's not some ridiculous faceroll game like WoW.
Combat is generally tab target, not face the enemy you want to attack like some more action-oriented combat games go. I'd rate the combat as being more action-oriented than WoW, but less so than Guild Wars 2 or Champions Online.
The controls do give you a bunch of options to switch which mouse buttons do what.
I like the emphasis on exploration via Star's Tale. There's a bunch of stuff in the game world for you to go get, and the game tells you what is out there, but doesn't tell you where. You can look it up if you want to, and the Forgotten Story ones are hard enough that you might want to. But everything else is pretty doable just by looking around as you go through the game.