I mean I feel BDO is slowly dieing, but that's just me. My biggest issue with BDO is the lack of incentive to play. Everything in bdo can be bought someway somehow, so for me it kills the motivation of PvE. Back before the central market that we have today you couldn't really buy your upgrades so you actually played and picked where you wanted to grind based on what gear you wanted to upgrade. 

The other massive issue is lack of player content, BDO is to much of a solo online rpg vs a MMO and doing groups content that is actually meaningful really helps when you are in a burnout runt. 

ive  been so bored lately i consider to learn atoraxion and do weekly elvia clears lmao

There actually has been a resurgence of new players to BDO but with current mechanics it takes 3-6 months to get geared enough to do most content.

The other issue is Gear capping has ran away a lot of existing players. Obviously main end game content that placed heavy  burdens on those with high level gear those in the 720-740. I am refering to the sporadic player in odd small guilds carry the weight for 30 to 40 with a guild avgs in 680 make for situations like Cho stomping anyone on uncapped do to uncapped max numbers.

Then you have situations were these high level sige guilds found the magic not only using meta classes but abuse the one thing that PA can't understand to nerf is special attack damage these capped Nodes have a tradition of abusing this last mechanic.

There is a reason siege guilds can dominate in capped NW and it not just better shot calling.

The last reason it feels dead is the fact 2 main issue have occurred.

#1 elvia is seperate now from servers in effect this doubled the server count.

#2 Marni realm personal 1 hour grind seasons. 

A majority of players only grind the 1 hour a day and a majority of players use the 1 hour Marni to grind with so your chances of open world contact has been decreased by a MASSIVE margin.

If they cut servers in half, and made all but 2 or 3 servers beginners servers i.e. #1 on each bank the rest are full elvia only then remove the 1 hour Marni grind and BOOM you will definitely see that BDO is not as dead ad you think it is.

Grinding is a nice distraction.

Oooooh irony...

@ReconKangas, About Marni, I was against it at first, but in the end it seems like a nice thing : in a demanding game like BDO, having a guarantee to be able to grind even on the best spots for 1 hour a day is a good compromise on the long run. 

But as you mentioned, too many servers exists and this fact, added to Marni, is overkill. 

I'd let Marni as it is, reduce the number of server, and make them Elvia only with the exception of some beginner servers. 

Comming to forum of game X and telling that it is dead.  This stuff is exists basically for any game

Grinding.  I enjoy the personal challenge to see if I can find a way to beat my previous trash record.  

Gathering.  I think it is a great chill way to make silver.

Other Life skills, Outside of bartering, processing, and Trading they are all fun.  I like active fishing the most, seeing if I can get perfect every time.  

PvP, I agree the costs to be hyper sweaty is excessive, it would be nice if they addressed that.  Maybe 1 silver 3 minute duration draughts/perfumes that have no weight and can only be popped in RBF/BA.  OW PvP is some of the best in BDO however, Arsha is a blast on Seasons.

PvE = Grinding?  What else can you mean?

Patch cycle?  They have mini events every week that changes constantly.  No other MMO that I know of has 2-3 mini events every week.  As for the "expansions and new content" IE Haso, WoW comes out with an expansion every 3-4 years BDO is about 1 per year.  In fact it is more than 1 per year.  Game released in 2017, We got Mediah, Valencia, Kama, Dreighan, Odraxxia, MoEW, Elvia Calpheon, Elvia Serendia, and Ocean expansions.  That is 9 expansions in 6 years time.  Oh wait there was also Attoraxxian even tho I think that content sucks, it's still 3 more expansions.  Add to that all the revamping of spots and updating older content to be competetive, why are you saying there is not enough content again?

Maybe you are the issue not BDO.

While this has made it look like BDO is dead, I really don't want them to cut the number of servers in half.  I will say that I really dislike the Marni realm for making everything look dead, but then again I like the fact that I can go anywhere and just start grinding.  I never use Marni even if it's available.