BDO has the best game design by a huge margin if.... if they sever the money=ingame progression, which will obviously never happen.

In 2-4 years when the Riot MMO, Ashes of Creation, and potentially unknown unannounced projects come out, BDO will lose most of its appeal very fast and will become a desolate place. The shareholders should start worrying about the company. With the limbo that Crimson Desert is in and their utter mismanagement of both their announcement and their reaction to player feedback about CD. They're losing players in a big way.

They can win the players by severing ALL monetary ties to progression in BDO and announce that Crimson Desert will be an MMO after all and it will be FULLY non-p2w. Since their likely competition in the not-too-distant future will have no p2w.

I don't have full faith in riot mmo nor Ashes. Ashes has big hype and has an extreme ammount to deliver on. Riot on the other hand is more then likely going to make a tab target competitor to wow and ffxiv

Ashes is overhyped and will mostlikely will be a DOA game. (Lot of features that sounds good in PR but AIDS in reality, sub fee with expensive cash shop etc.)

Riot is definetly planing to be a wow competitor, why wouldn't they? You think they should instead being a niche game like bdo with a insignificant playerbase?

i thought lost ark is supposed being black desert killer ? ^_^

ye 2 to 4 more years for black desert killer

not bad is mean black desert is able to offer 10 years of good time ^_^

i really hope your ash of creaton and rio thing is able to use unreal engine 5, modern gameplay and exceptional waifu quality with unreal engine 5

if it is another lost ark, yeah ok for first 3 months people will come and quit and only let behind bot and friend ^_^

Riot is a woke company, I would not expect very apealing characters. Also they will going to use custom engine for sure, remember they already hired the core wow developers from blizz, they have the knowledge.

As for LA that is still massively more poular than bdo.

lost ark

FF14

archage re-re-re-re-release

archage unchained

new world

prob a few other "Bdo Killers" ive forgotten about

:D

You forgot the most important one, Bless Online...


Sandparks are rare and the only existing one in development is Ashe of Creation and is already looking like a failure in many aspects because they are now parasitized by the wow community. So the pve orientation of ashe of creation may happen even before its release. Having accepted the publicity offered by Asmongold was probably the assassination of the original project, has already brought many people to the AoC forums who do not understand the concept and propose and influence the devs to redo a copy of wow.

Absolutely nobody that have the specific Sandpark mmo genre preference will touch Riot mmo. It's going to be a basic boring uninspired without any freedom mmo. Riot do not like player freedom, their hate completely not being in control. throne and Liberty better not even think about it. NCsoft will never let go of control and will always continue in these shitty habits.

I wish I were wrong. But given the current landscape, I still see myself on BDO for the next 5 years. It took 12 years to get a Lineage 2 replacement for me. And still it didn't come without concession.

And Ashe of creation will be p2w. When these no p2w from the devs, it's the players who will create their own cash shop. It's is the price to pay for freedom to trade everything between player. The p2w always has and will always exist and will always be the standard of all the games which give enough freedom to let the human behaviour act.

On the OP topic.
Plenty of class don't benefit so much from high fps. Especially the all news since the guardian..

And the fps don't matter when you do what matters in the game. You will never have your 300 fps in node war and siege with 100-200 players in front. Most don't need that to get their good k/d. 

With progress hardware it is less and less an excuse. BDO will eventually have FSR 2.0 and we will all end up upgrading our GPUs one day as we are suposed to be enthousiate gamer here.

This complains about fps has always been a concern on all mmorpgs.  its was the same on L2/Wow at the time when people had shitty PCs and had frame drops in the one digit.

not to mention the shitty connection of 200-600 ms for some. Wouldn't even talk about Aion or Archeage with period hardware how unplayable it was and literally forced to watch the ground or literally hide people character..

The probleme of BDO exactly the same that of every other modern mmo.
And the fps are not as significant an advantage as some claim. Especially since it does not concern a lot of class. Because the cancel anims have disappeared a lot on all new classes since the guardian in PA's effort to make the classes playable by console people.

low scale pvp is not bdo's appeal. it's node war, sieges, GvGs. your feeling that comes from your frustration that comes from the mini game that is the arena of solare.

It's not BDO. It's a mini game that should have no bearing on the real game.
Bref, Git gud.  Balance is a myth its never existed in reality in any game. All is about Metashifting and nothing else.  Believing anything else is being a fool's errand.

fps do not affect the combat in wow at all, as that is not client authoritative(unlike bdo)

Try to do BG/Arena with 5 fps. You will see nothing. And you can't do anything. The effect is basically the same.
That was the reality of people 15 years ago, Who mainly played on intel graphic igpu at the time.
the standard of enjoyment was not the same at the time. in the same way that console users were unable to see that their PS1/PS2/PS3 games with one digit drop frames in several places. And that these people found 30 fps smooth.  Mentally ill people today.