Then I started Googling to find out where this money came from and why. Then I get this mail in my box talking about Family Fame… which dropped 63 million on me for just logging in. So, this is a casual player who logged into the game to 9 million silver max in the bank. I also got a free week-long dye pallet, which allowed me to dye gear to my pleasing.īut the biggest surprise was in the form of the Fame rewards. I still don’t really understand how gear works in BDO, so I ended up selling most the stuff I got from those boxes. I did get a bunch of EX boosters, but also a few free lockboxes. So I had to do a lot of organization to be able to claim the rewards and figure out what everything in my mail was. Inventory slots and weight are both a major problem for me in this game, even after spending some loyalty points on inventory slots. Every time there was down time or a holiday or something, I was accumulating stuff in my mail and had no idea what any of it was. I also sorted through the million letters I had in the mail from forever ago. In about half an hour, I was able to complete the quest that I hadn’t been able to do in a year! I wonder how long that pre-order feature has been around and I just didn’t know it. So, I put in a pre-order for the hoe, which automatically purchased it for me the next time someone put it up for sale. This time, I discovered there’s a pre-order function on the auction house. I don’t remember what was getting in my way of completing it, but I couldn’t make the ingot (or something) and I never found a hoe for sale on the auction house. This doesn’t sound like it should be too hard, but believe it or not, bronze tools are complex to make. For example, there was a quest to give a bronze hoe to an NPC. It was really refreshing to finally finish some of those old quests. It wouldn’t be a BDO post without a picture of a horse. Some of these quests have been there for a year now… and I still hadn’t pushed past level 24. This past weekend, I sat down and really put my nose to the quest log to knock things out. And then… well… the game got pushed aside for other things. I took notice of the Olvia servers, which give a nice solid XP boost to new and returning players. Last time I logged in, it was over the holidays. But it keeps luring me back when I get a sandbox itch… like this past weekend. It’s probably because of the time-sink it requires to get the things I want to do done (horse training). I find myself picking it up and putting it back down a lot. It’s a shame because there’s just so much this game does well. That doesn’t keep me from playing the game, but it cheapens the experience for me. The world is beautiful, but, for example, the NPC pop-in (appearing as black placeholders and then loading in) is hard not to notice. But there’s so many things about it that are just… glitchy.Ĭoming from a well-polished MMO experience like FFXIV (and before that, GW2), it’s sometimes hard to overlook the lack of polish I see in BDO. It’s a game that should capture my attention and hold me fast… and when I’m in the mood for it, it does. I don’t know what it is about Black Desert.
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