Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
These Are Your Bless Unleashed Founders Packs | MMORPG.com
System
Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
These Are Your Bless Unleashed Founders Packs | MMORPG.com
Ahead of its August 6 launch, the Bless Unleashed team have revealed the Founders Pack available now for purchase if you're so inclined. Read on for details.
Comments
2021 isn't the year to release a semi good MMO as the competition is to high this year.
1997 Meridian 59 'til 2019 ESO
Waiting for Camelot Unchained & Pantheon
They got their founders packs once already, now you shuffle assets and release an |Unleashed| game and so you get to ask for it again. PFFT
We already went through this once with Bless Online, we all paid for Founders Packs; and the game just shut down.
They have some nerve to even offer founders packs at all considering this game's backstory and development history.
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005
Fishing in RL since 1992
Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
Yep, New World and Lost Ark are clearly the two new releases that are going to dominate the market.
That's not even considering the explosive influx FFXIV has gotten in new players and the Endwalker hype train- games like Bless, SOLO and Elyon and going to just be buried and left for dead by the end of the 3rd quarter and beginning of the Q4
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005
Fishing in RL since 1992
Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
They took assets from original Bless, trimmed it of all most interesting mechanics and features, to name only a few that I enjoyed in previous versions: pet taming system, turban hunting, instanced World Boss fight, Castra Valley sieges; and ported this blunt, stripped of any uniqueness result to console couple years ago. Then ported that already impaired creature back to PC, making it even worse and less playable...
Don't fall to nonsense "This is another game", "This is another developer". NO and NO. As I wrote above, it's the weaker and way more limited version of the same game with same assets, same models, same world, just suppressed, shorter story line, without original rivalry of two opposing factions that were present in original game and without some mechanics that were fun in their ideas but were poorly implemented technically and thus caused performance issues, so instead on using their time (almost ten years) they just stripped game of those trouble makers.
This is their eighth (yes, yes you did not misread EIGHTH!!!) attempt to sell the same product (they even shamelessly mock players calling their studio "Round 8") for highly inflated price at their cash grab shop full of P2W items (mounts (that make you faster giving unfair advantage over others), bag space expansions (with original inventory intentionally being incapable to hold resources and gear items, thus giving indisputable advantage over F2P players), teleportation discounts (that let go through questing way faster, and questing includes a lot of travel), not even mentioning direct sales of cash shop currency... and these things are only those that are seen in a founder packs... no doubt cash shop itself will have more surprises. And no, these are not "convenience goods" as they'll be introduced and defended - they are P2W. Time is most valuable asset in this game - the faster you progress, the sooner you'll get hands on most valuable content and will be able to control the flow of most valuable resources as well as prevent others from accessing them.
Their previous launches all used the same cash grab scheme: releasing unfinished product full of bugs, lag and with other flaws, promising "a lot of new content, like new lands, classes, races to come in future" (which newer have been actually released over those all 8 attempts that now last about a decade). "Release" comes always with pricey "Founder's packs" that are never refunded when game flips and closes within half year to one and half at max...
DON'T FALL INTO THIS SCAM CAMPAIGN AGAIN!!! at least don't buy any of their founder packs and don't spend money in their cash shop for at least half the year (you'll see how the game progresses [or rather digresses] within that period of time) or if you'll do, don't complain later- you had multiple warnings from all possible sources, not only me, here...
Once you have an MMO, it can be profitable to launch it to additional platforms/regions with the intention to cash in on hype and then kill it.
So long as those paying into the game feel their money well spent they are doing nothing wrong whatsoever. They are not obliged to deny their enjoyment for an implied commonality of view among the MMORPG community that doesn't even exist.
Profit is the reason businesses do anything, so yes they are obviously seeking it. But, at least one can play the game at length this time around at no cost to adequately determine if it merits some coin. With that I feel it worth a try to those inclined rather than the reflexive dismissing out-of-hand many seem prone to.
They fooled us once, it's shame on them. If we let them fool us second time, it's shame on us.
I've generally found reviews to be useless as indicators as to whether or not I'd like something as the judgments made are based on standards other than my own.
Direct experience when possible is a far better indicator.
There is nothing to be fooled with as this version of the game has no required up front cost to explore it at one's leisure to determine if it merits expenditure.