Again BDO is not a sandbox as it has more restrictions on player agency than most Themepark MMOs. The only challenge in BDO is turning off your brain so you can grind for thouaands of hours if you don't have a boosted account. Or the IRL money to skip multiple years of progression in a matter of a few months.

- There is no player drvien economy, as it's completely controlled by the devs. Very poorly controlled might I add. Don't believe just look on the marketplace. And see how many items are forced to be sold, for much less than their base ingredients are sold for.

- You can't realistically progress by strickly doing PvP. You make more progression doing low end grind spots than you do in PvP.

- You can't realistically progress by being a crafter. The devs force a lot of fully crafted items to max sell for less than the components to make them.

- The Devs choose the players road to gear progression or punishes the player for deviating from said road. Grind braindead NPCs or press F and AKF for hours.

- There is very little freedom of player expression. The devs don't even allow the players to express themselves, like most Themepark MMOs do with emotes,

When you ultimately look at it. BDO is just a Open World Forced PvP Themepark Grinder MMO. You can hate all you like. But it don't change the truth.

Eve Online, Mortal Online, Ark: Survival Evoloved, Scum, and Rust are examples of sandbox games. BDO less in common with them than it does with it does with most Themepark MMOs. Actually BDO restricts the player more than most Themepark MMOs do.

Back on topic now. The only challenging thing about BDO. Is continue grinding the same 2 to 3 NPCs or pressing F enough times for thousands of hours. Till you get geared enough to actually become a player in BDO. Oh yeah also avoiding the meaningless content that are noob traps. That offer little more than to keep the player from progressing. Let me dispell the misconception of BDO is about the journey. There is little meaningful journey in BDO. There is the end result of having enough gear to start to compete with other players in PvP.

So many downvotes...I guess people don't like the truth. BDO is only a challenge, if you find it a challenge to sit and grind for months and years to get anything you want. BDO has a great astetic, character creation is amazing (I love making character looks) The combat is very fun. But other than that, there's not much to it. But, just like any MMO it's a grind. You grind to get gear, so you can keep grinding to get gear, all the way till you have the best gear you can have and have all the SP/levels you'll ever need. MMO's are basically a hamster wheel, trying to keep you entertained enough, not to notice the wheel while you fork out hundreds/thousands of dollars trying to reach the end, only for the bar to get raised by them so you need to spend more money.

So many downvotes...I guess people don't like the truth. BDO is only a challenge, if you find it a challenge to sit and grind for months and years to get anything you want. BDO has a great astetic, character creation is amazing (I love making character looks) The combat is very fun. But other than that, there's not much to it. But, just like any MMO it's a grind. You grind to get gear, so you can keep grinding to get gear, all the way till you have the best gear you can have and have all the SP/levels you'll ever need. MMO's are basically a hamster wheel, trying to keep you entertained enough, not to notice the wheel while you fork out hundreds/thousands of dollars trying to reach the end, only for the bar to get raised by them so you need to spend more money.

You forget the owpvp aspect in your reasoning, which is both the reason why pve can't be too elaborated and a challenge in this game.

Yet other games like Mortal Online, L2, and even some areas in runescape have OW PVP with difficult PVE content. So ya they can this just a pure ignorant statement to make, especially when games with full loot/gear drop on death games have done it or are doing it successfully.

(funny, even on mortal online you can find some topics asking for a pve server) 

Yet other games like Mortal Online, L2, and even some areas in runescape have OW PVP with difficult PVE content. So ya they can this just a pure ignorant statement to make, especially when games with full loot/gear drop on death games have done it or are doing it successfully.

lvl 40 is basically not even out from the tutorial phase. You will oneshot everything untill lvl60 areaas, and it takes less than a day to get to lvl61.

Also what is challenge for you? BDO generally only offers repetitive chore tasks, and gambling, neither is challenge.

That's where you went wrong. bdo is full of noobtrap useless/obsolate/pointless "content", which is only a waste of time to do. That also shows why you thing having a lvl40 character (like not even half hour of gameplay) is anything worth even saying.