No one, not ever, in all these years, has provided one iota of substantial evidence to support any of these claims. But therein, lies the wonderful thing about conspiracies and baseless accusations for those that use them isn't it; they're baseless. At the end of the day we're all welcome to believe whatever we like of course, however that doesn't change the facts one little bit. 

It does make for some mildly entertaining forum posts at times though, so I guess there is that.

you are exactly right, people do value their time, and that's why ff14 and wow are so trash, there is nothing worse than developers devalue players' time spent in their game, all your progress becomes irrelevant every few months, and guess what? you be farming the same content just to repeat the same progress again, and again, and again, and again, all because the game was designed for game hoppers.

people sure do play ff14 and wow, because most of the people like to switch up their game every few weeks/months, and those games are designed to have their entire content burn through and gear or whatever collectibles are designed to be completed within a short span of time, and for that exact reason, all progression is basically reset every few months so people restart over again.

In BDO, it's the opposite, gears in 2018, are still relevant today, sure it might not be BiS anymore with new items being released since then but still, it's not worthless and can be easily sold on the marketplace to other players that would be using it as a stepping stone, people say they "quit", because they like to play other games, not a lot of people like to focus on just a single game for years and that's why gear progression seems like it's impossible to them, instead of thinking every silver collected is a way of progressing, they are so stuck in the mindset of if I don't get a straight legendary item drop it's not worth my time.

Simplify what I'm trying to say, in ff14/wow, reaching the best gear which is easily doable, the developers devalue that set of items so the players will have to start over the same progression every few months, this seems to be tedious to me personally, which is why WOW started doing booster pack and let new/old players easily reaching the max level to repeat the "new" content right away (let's be real, at this point, everything is just the same as before but with a different skin/icon/model), whereas, in bdo, you repeat the same content JUST LIKE IN WOW/FF14 and but progress never gets reset, the best analogy would be, either repeatedly climbing over the same small hill or always be climbing mount. Everest and eventually reach the summit.

his claims have already been proved over and over to the point where this is actually common knowledge already, ofc there are players like yourself that simply are too oversensitive to face reality and prefer to simply deny it, so let me guess, you think the covid pandemic is a government complot right?

While you need to put in less time to get the best gear in wow, the mayority of the players did not reach the best gear in wow. Though how much effort needed deepends on the expansions, but back in the good old times, for most players reaching the rating required just for the non-set item parts was a hard challenge already.

Newerthless getting gear in bdo is easy. There is no difficulity of any kind in runing around in a circle and killing the zero AI mobs. It just takes time (unless if you use the convenience store to cut off the time ofc)

Also you are not right. The gear that was relevant in 2018 now pretty much free with the seasons, and is pretty much oneshot category now. It's just as relevant, as a expansion's first set in wow at the end of the expansion....

Yep..the fact is, Gambling's gambling.

But evidance of what? Iv seen plenty of evidance of faulty play from PA's side. Enough to convince plenty of other people to quit as well. Its a shame they rely on jilting their customers with such a rigged system. Fact is they are regarded as an out of touch company for many of their customers so that may explain abit.

Dunno why they would hide any ICAP equivalent sort of accrediation if they had one.

Or you talking about lack of evidance from PA proving their system isnt rigged for profit? Well yea, dont hold ur breath.

Thing is.  Combat in FF, WoW, GW, New World, Ashes, all these "Western" MMO's - all suck.  Like, sucks majorly, hairy-sacks.  The combat is slow, unrealistic, face your opponent - press tab - do a 180 degree turn, and your ability still hits (lul), type of combat.  Simply put, if someone is looking for an action combat system, these other "proper MMO's" as you like to call them, fall flat on their faces into feces.  The combat sucks, from an action combat PoV.

Pearl Abyss needs to realize that combat is what keep players here, for a large part.  Yeah, we got the stubborn lifeskillers and others who may not play BDO for combat specifically, but you'd be hard-pressed to convince me that the most dedicated, geared, and skilled players aren't here for this awesome-feeling combat system.  Desync, FPS=DPS, yeah it has problems.  Overall.  It is simply the BEST combat in ANY MMO today, in terms of feel, audio-visuals, button presses (fighting game-esque), reactions, speed, and response time.

Honestly, I think there are a few things that PA can do to make BDO better.  And that is 1) The enhancing system, 2) The faults in their game engine (rubber-banding, FPS=DPS, etc.), 3) Focus on PvP.  Other things too, but if they can actually get these 3 things right, I can imagine BDO rising to the top again.  The combat here is just that good.  It's a wonder to me why PA doesn't put ALL their effort into their combat system.  And by that, I mean PvP modes, making PvP actually REWARDING (tangibly), fixing that FPS=DPS crap, fixing rubber-banding and elevation cancelling out damage, and stuff like that.  Their combat + their long-term mechanics + the general amount of freedom we players have makes BDO great.  Why not go full force, ham, alpha-Chad "I'm the PVP GOD OF ALL MMOS", when it comes to PvP?  No PvP modes.  RBF is fun, but weak-players can't have fun in it.  All we got is RBF, Node War/Siege, BA, all of which don't reward relevant silver, the main caveat of progression.  I can make more silver in one hour of grinding than 3 hours of even a winning siege.  Dafuuuq?

I love this game.  SMH at the devs at times, applaud them at times.  I am planning on playing other new MMO's.  But BDO is here to stay for me....so much more to see on this Adventure, so many more goals, and even if I'm not the best, the Sorceress Class is as bae as ever still....after 4 years...still in love with this beautiful class.