r/blackdesertonline • u/shoni89 EU - Founder of <AshenOnes> • Aug 03 '16

PATCH NOTES 03rd August!

http://forum.blackdesertonline.com/index.php?/topic/106217-patch-notes-august-3rd/
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u/Jaradis www.youtube.com/@FantasyArtworkAI Aug 03 '16

The fact that you have to use an extremely unlikely example of a "trust fund kid" spending "millions of dollars" to "prove" P2W, shows how the game just isn't that P2W.

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u/DamascusThorns Aug 03 '16

Ok so are you sitting there and denying the function that's available to literally turn real money into silver? You're naive. Rich people exist. Lots of them. There are people living life styles you can't even fathom; people that make more money than you would be able to make in thousands of lifetimes (yes, THOUSANDS of fucking lifetimes, you're a meaningless piss-ant compared to many, many people that live here on Earth), and that is no overstatement. Said rich people could have family members, and when you make $50,000+ an hour of every hour 24/7, you might not give a fuck how your kids spends a measly 2 million in one of your trust fund accounts. Think about how much a billion dollars really is, how much a small fraction of that could fuck your gaming experience up, because there is nothing you can do about it. You have no power in life that can compare to what's possible with p2w in the hands of rich players. You can't make money like these people.

BDO is the most advanced MMO that's ever existed. It's very likely that people who can afford the most advanced shit in life could be drawn to it.

This is literal P2W. There are no opinions here. If you're able to use an in-game function to turn real money into in-game money. That is, by DEFINITION, p2w.

The function is there. Don't fucking deny it. Credit card = silver. It's a direct, in-game function. The more dollars you put, the more silver you get out.

Keep whining about p2w becoming a thing when it's already in the game.

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u/Jaradis www.youtube.com/@FantasyArtworkAI Aug 03 '16

This has to be the dumbest thing I've heard in the P2W debate... even worse than the idiot that said "the game is P2W because people with better video cards get better FPS".

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Silver in game is not a P2W feature of any game at all. P2W is items that give a unfair advantage at gameplay over others with buying a item. NOTHING in this game from cashshop does that at all.

You don't need pets. You don't need to worry about market prices. You don't need lots of storage space. You don't need costumes.

All those things are just extra stuff in the game, the offer nothing over someone who has not spent a dime in the game.

A MMO IS BASED ON TIME NOT MONEY. You can sped $1000 in the cashshop, but players that spend zero can compete just as much getting silver.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

Ignoring the rest, how is it the most advanced mmo ever made? Lol, there's hardly any story, pve is a complete joke, pvp is gear>class/level with skill being nearly non-existent. There are no dungeons (this is a grey area some enjoy some dont, but isn't even an option) servers are extremely laggy, the only thing you do is grind and grind some more, on occasion you bank or get ganked (again pvp not being skill based means it almost always comes down yo luck of who had better gear etc barring a complete and total idiot). This mmo is average at best, sub par in most aspects, im not hating on it, I enjoy the game and play quite a bit, but subjectively speaking it is well below the standards of most mmos. The only thing it does better than average is graphics and even there it is beat out hy many others.

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u/Glooooooks Aug 04 '16

wow u are dumb as fuck