This patch removed all party loot distribution options. I'd like to start by outright saying; what the actual *beep*?!

Party loot distribution; Ordered looting
This option allowed to equally share loot dropped in non-party spots. Even if in most cases you'd be grinding not optimally it allowed you to grind in zones with company of someone else. Now I dont know who hurt someone in Korea to make this option disappear but its beyond stupid. I literally cannot see a reason why you'd remove this option. Some people HATE grinding alone as this gets really boring. You just kicked them in the face removing ordered looting.

Party loot distribution; Party Leader Only
Honestly dont really care about the removal of this. If someone has something to say about it; please do in the replies.

Removal of special deals (they even forgot to mention it at first)
The most idiotic thing in this patch. Ho-ly.
Special deals was a way to fairly split dropped items between all party members. For example if you were grinding Dehkia Oluns with 3 party members and one of the members in your party dropped 4 Deboreka Earrings, while the rest of you dropped none, the 4 Deboreka Earrings would auto-sell to the market and the silver would be distributed evenly, making it really fair for all party members. (This didn't just apply for items like Deboreka Earrrings, but all items green grade and above would be sold instantly and the silver distributed evenly). Well, lets remove that because.... We werent given a reason. Let me also tell you.. this decision was rushed. Why do I know that?

Because if you create a party, the value pack is still there. Hoovering over that tells you about Special Deals which they hastly removed for some reason. Oh my god I am actually going crazy typing this feedback as I just cant understand why they'd do this.

In conclusion

Please for the love of god stop trying to kill your own playerbase and reinstate both ordered looting and special deals.
Thanks for listening to my ted talk.

Other forum posts seconding this issue;
Why are you removing our ability to play with our friends or partners???

Bring back auto-sell fonction

Agreed.  Thank you

For the Ordered Looting, they'd also have to revert the "you can't loot someone else's kill anymore" change.  

There's other points to this change that piss me off as well.

1.  Can no longer farm rare drops for your friend/guild member.  Me and someone else in my guild farmed the hell out of sea siren (hollow marrieta) when it came out and literally got 3 auras for just about everyone in the entire guild, so they could all craft a manos sailing log.  

Can't do that anymore as you need Party Leader loot.  I can't help a guildy farm Margoria Fleet with Party Leader loot to help them get moss covered maps.   While I can see how RMT silver sales could take advantage of this, it's pretty shitty that I can't help out guild members now.

2.  They even went so far as killing the ability to power level someone's hunting skill.  Can't butcher someone else's kill now.  Glad I got powerleveled to M1 long before this assenine change.

Just wait.  Next change will be that you won't get exp from mobs you didn't kill, aka no more powerleveling, period.

PA, most players who bother to communicate with you and post ot forums are in favor of making this game better for patying up and helping others out.  We want this game to be more of a player-friendly experience.  But you're always undermining it.

You brag about how adventurers work together......

........Yeah, when it's on your terms.......

But most of us want to play this game organically..... on our terms...... as we like...... not in the rarified times and circumstances that you set up for us.......

I cannot even say how strongly I agree with you on every word.

Those options were relevant to enjoy solo spots and stuff like the sailing content that was super limited like mentioned in a comment above already with your friends.

By now with the recent changes we go further and further away from what makes an MMO and MMO ...

It's already a sad fact on its own that people had to find ways in order to make a lot of content even playable in a party and with friends... now that people have found ways to do that, they are even taking those away from the playerbase.

Please bring all the options back so people can at least decide if they want to play with friends or alone.

For those who prefer grinding alone nothing changes but for everyone else who loved enjoying a game with their friends this was an absolutly awful patch.

I totally agree - they rushed things again and removed a big deal in the game, because of what?

I used to grind solo spots with a grindmate and real life friend, because we enjoy grinding together and helping eachother out - now we can't help eachother out, hunting/farmning for items the other part need anymore.

Now we're left with Turos and Oluns, cause the other party spots are not good for anything when you reach a certain point in the game (or earlier for that reason).

Give the party-leader loot back or at least start looking at making grindspots scale to the number of people in a party, make all grindspots either duo or 5 man spots. That would be a game-changer and help this solo (is it though?) game to newer heights <3

They have no idea how to manage this game anymore.  Completely incompetent.

100% agree - I'm one of those players who hates grinding solo, I just don't enjoy the game that way. And it's really not what I signed up for when I started this BDO journey, as a supposed MMO.

Being able to grind with your friends and guild mates (in designated group spots and solo spots) made this game so enjoyable for me (and I guess many others).

Now you took that from me. Stole that from me. *Killed that from me!*
(John Wick reference)

Like the other people said, please bring it back like it was before. Or revamp the system to give us new opportunities. But just deleting it without any reasoning and without outlook if you are working on new solutions is just outrageous.