TLDR, PA announced "Mini-servers" because people complained "oh, what if i got that zone to myself" (Yeah, obviously).

Similar to a private server mode for an hour, you get to grind a zone for yourself, and can invite up to 30 other adventurers with you.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1060900157

1h15min for reference.

Sooooo, i'm guessing this feature will come with a hefty price tag once tested enough, as always PA taking time (too much) to push things. 

Who's betting for another sub-based feature later ?

On the other hand, milking players through ellion tears, or VIP rooms is a tough choice, mmmh..... maybe both soon ?

False. Only for season and only temp as event reward, and only for 20 players (we have 20 .... thousand).

PA as always Epic Fail. Good idea bad workmanship.

Mini Private servers should be available to all at all times for all zones eg. 24h per 1 week, with VP 48h per week.

And if that develops, it will be the peak of p2w: private channels for whales and rest for plebs, and this will be BDO dead.

Same as this stupid PEN acc 3 months event. I know people who playing from premiere and they don't have even one pen acc. Bravo PA, that's why this game is so f. up and that's why 99% of new players delete it after a month.

We don't need s. poor event just remove acc disappearance after fail. That's all. +1000% for playability.

They keep adding higher and higher AP zones but .... 99% players can't achieve more the 269-281 AP. And remember that you need 20-30 AP more to be effective.

I'd say it is a testing period, once done they will announce something, since they are as always using 50 steps before a release except when it comes to new classes.

Remember it only took 5 years to get a "dungeon", or something close.

About the acc event: Well that game is not casual friendly, not at all, they have to give 3000 freebies per month to keep some engaged in, otherwise the grind retribution is ridiculous, so giving pen stuff, why not, it's not like it's anything relevant at high levels anymore. 

About new zones: They have the habit to expand content beyond people capabilities because it caters to mega whales and such, and gives unlimited grind routines for plebians to use and suffer from; note that "fun" in Asian MMO's = Making you go through the same content 1000 times so that you forget your sad salaryman life.

I don't see a problem with the grind if it gives me some progress but grind in BDO gives nothing.

Even Lost Ark with a similar system give you natural progress even if you fail eg. each fail give you 10% chance so 10 fails = 100% success enchant. In BDO you can fail fail and fail without end and it will take you years to grind the best items. YEARS!!! Who normal has time for this?

How is a new player to catch up with someone who has been playing 5 years?

Well new players ARE NOT supposed to catch up, because BDO is designed to be an endless grindo-stack game, even uber no lifes having Guru 5000 everywhere are not done, so normal people no chance.

BDO is all about you evolving alone most of the time, with some player interactions preferably against each other if possible, and with few incentives to cooperate.

That philosophy is special, because it's the opposite of the usual coop. based systems where you have to find people to progress. BDO can be finished alone, aside from guild content. 

And apparently, BDO is here to stay for 10 to 20 more years, so your acc better get blown up for them otherwise the grind wall won't last very long.

I`m a new player and I don`t mind never catching up with older people as long as I can reach the softcap (which I already can). I feel like the mini servers are a somewhat okay solution, open world pvp is a part of the game and there shouldn`t be PvE servers.

They should totally make it require some kind of pass, and sell it for 1k pearl/day.

That way the PvE palyers would have their PvE servers, and PA would also get money, so they can develop crimson desert.

idk, they didnt announce any details, so i dot consider that feature to be real. PA has to put out 1st, then i judge

Honestly, i'm just hoping that the sentiment they were conveying of making the game more accesible eventually happens, i mean we saw that in spirit when they showed off that Cutscene trailer with the new combat in the desert; you could see they are trying to prun unnessacry stuff and just get people straight into the action.

It may take them years, but i'd like to see a more streamlined experience for Black Desert Online in all facets of the game eventually.  It may not be something everyone wants, and some might see it as dumbing down the game, but i still beleive it should happen.

I really do hope for them to completely change and revamp gear progression and not make it based on rng to mimic that it has depth, which if they just replaced it with actual depth and complexitiy, the rng likely wouldn't even be nessacery.

This ^

Until it happens, it's only "thoughts and concepts"

Anything and everything can change in the course of 6 months

Ya'll know that purrrrfectly well