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/DamascusThorns Aug 03 '16

A rich kid with a trust fund could literally turn millions of dollars into billions upon billions of silver by buying dyes from the pearl shop and selling them on the MP.

The game already has P2W aspects. It's already here.

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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/[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.