While I do agree with your post, you have to realize that PvP is based around making other players your content. I'm very surprised that I see people still bot accepting or recovering from the changes that were pushed based on KR's input ( Again they don't give a shit about NA or EU wants).

I give this game up to Q3 to see a tremendous drop off of the PvP population.

No Holds Barred... PVP is content other people can become content ... Regardless of what game you play

Be it Equal Gear such as AOS or NW with Equalized gear.. IN both of these cases the class you pick will lead you to dominate and make others your content.. or in AOS the group's Consistency will decide who is content the same as the Guild league due to the current balance between the classes.

When we talk about OWPVP in most cases we refer to the players GS and how it's used then class and skill... After that it's the Guild you're in and how many players with high GS you can call on.

All of the above is Content and who is that content (WE THE PLAYERS)

Black Desert is a MMORPG, Since the beginning of this game it has and will be a PVP centric game "PERIOD"....

Is it Beautiful... for the fact the game is 10 years old since launch in Korea, 2016 for NA and in 2018 we got remastered version the game has not been updated visually in 6 years and is still up there in game quality so yah its very stunning as a MMORPG.. the Combat visuals and control style is in fact 2nd to none in the industry... but again here we go talking about PVP again...

My point is that there may be plenty of things to do in BDO... Life skill, play music, PVE .. gamble... just simply walk around.. But we are playing a MMORPG that has lost its MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER tag... Peace is 100% correct in his statement that BDO is a game of "LEAVE ME ALONE" ... I get that there is a massive open world but what makes a MMORPG attractive to those that love the genre.. interaction, some may be good some bad hell every game has toxic clowns... speed hackers... aimbot trolls.

The issue is interaction PA has worked their asses off to remove all semblance of interaction between players then try to put PVP in a Instance box and tell all the players that have been here for 8 years that we belong in a cage.. we have no more choice you have to goto this arena and that's it...

No more random fights.. no more red player trolls... No more fair fights where it took guts from a weaker guild 20-30 players to turn the tide against 13. <----- that fighting spirit was SNUFFED OUT in a single line of code that removed 1 sided dec's let alone only GM's allowed to agree.

The Random meeting between players in PVE zones that turned into a PVP fight and a GVG to become content for ALL sides got snuffed out in a line of code that allowed Marni servers to be used for 13 hours a day.. it got snuffed out when they made Elvia a separate instance creating double the amount of servers..

Look, I can go on and on... People that hate PVP got their wish...

PVP in BDO is dying and with this change in NW will finish the job... 

I warned people... I tried to tell them what was going to happen to BDO 10 months ago if PA followed through with these changes...

Everything I said has come to be...

Bottoming out of the economy in BDO...

Long term players leaving BDO.. sure the PVE simps and passive clowns that destroyed this game by getting everything they wanted have nothing to complain about.. Nothing to fight for any longer.. all the gear they want to buy, ALL the caphras on the market at almost 50% value.. all the PEN's that you had to put in effort for are within 20-40 hours of grinding..

So now you have new players replacing old players that literally don't see anyone anywhere outside of towns where you have the random 50 people fishing.. no reason to be in a guild cuz you dont need the help anymore.. no reason to spend money on anything and the cycle will continue... Only now will it be extremely rapid every change will accelerate the issue and the Death of BDO.

Once the economy within BDO making players gear almost worthless, was the beginning of the END it all started 10 months ago when they started changing systems within the game too fast. Giving free gear.. TET BS a Second pen accessory i can go on and on.. the speed at which they are bringing out new gear and new items is 10x faster trying to keep players attention.. trying to make up for PVP dying trying to keep those last few that use their wallets by offering daily free things ..  J's hammer of precision should have told you something is wrong MAKING IT FOR SALE ON THE MARKET boy you got to be dumb to not realize there is a problem .. the fix in the accessories that they said they would never touch..

As far as how long the PVP'rs will last it sure won't be Q3 after these NW changes most will start to move on.. sure there will be new players to replace us with but PA's profit margin will tank.. BDO will be a shell of itself and won't be able to hold players for more than a month at a time when you can go from nothing to 700 GS in less than 30 days.. players will find it boring with nothing to do but stand and talk..

There is no reason for owpvp in BDO anymore except for owpvp itself (and for this, we go on Arsha). PA could remove alt+C and the karma system from the game and you wouldn't see any impact on the game except that there are no more karma bombers. Maybe at this point, its better for the Game. The whole root of the old concept of risk vs reward, alliance or conflict over resources that ran through all game systems and linked PvP and PvE in the economic cycle - in short - the dynamic social core (which does not exist on  Arsha servers), has already been ripped out. There is no longer any interaction between players or game systems with the intensity of the previous sandbox design. The game no longer has a unified concept. Like most other MMORPGs, it's just an online platform for many different but separate content and separate players. It is the open world that somehow connects us in an MMORPG. Any instance content and any overly restrictive interaction opportunities devalues that. So it's not just open world PvP, open world PvE is also absolutely meaningless in BDO since there is no PvE Endgame like Raids or Dungeons like in other MMORPG´s. Open world PvP gave open world PvE a meaning and vice versa that was more than just the brief pleasure of a dopamine release.

It's not because of the toxic PvP players, nor because of the PvE/Lifeskill Cearebears. None of us are to blame for that. Open world PvP can work well, it's just that most of them failed because it wasn't well designed in the long run or they made a mistake trying to “improve” it. In BDO it probably all started with removing XP loss on PvP death. This removed an important cog from the functioning machine. Absurd power scaling, P2W and an RNG upgrade system certainly didn't do open world PvP any good either.

Albion Online shows how well and successfully open world PvP can work. The game continues to expand. They have now opened their third large server in the EU. Unfortunately, Albion is a PC / mobile cross platform game with a crappy combat system and an ugly copy paste game world.

However. There is no turning back for BDO.

Your both are very far. how dare to propose such things..there will be still effort..A new player should get on making acount with char with max gear and all items at max enc level. Also should be unkilabe, because imagine if some monster kills him... How can you be so cruel to new players...

Honestly, PvP started going to shit when they added awakening and AP/DP bonuses. When BDO first came out I was PvPing all the time against and with various guilds. 

It use to be I could not wait to log in with friends to go fight but then, that shifted a lot as they started adding broken classes ( It started with DK and i-frames)  then the Zerker CC changes, absurd AP bonuses versus DP bonuses, and then all the perpetual release of broken new classes ( Stryker, Mystic,etc, etc).

 Don't know, it seems like they constantly make mistakes in order to fix them.

Honestly, PvP started going to shit when they added awakening and AP/DP bonuses. When BDO first came out I was PvPing all the time against and with various guilds. 

It use to be I could not wait to log in with friends to go fight but then, that shifted a lot as they started adding broken classes ( It started with DK and i-frames)  then the Zerker CC changes, absurd AP bonuses versus DP bonuses, and then all the perpetual release of broken new classes ( Stryker, Mystic,etc, etc).

 Don't know, it seems like they constantly make mistakes in order to fix them.