Things only change when there is appropriate motivation. Yes, the game has many problems, but it also offers a lot of advantages. It's becoming more accessible and noob-friendly, so the community grows. More cash is flowing in, especially with all these new costumes (yes, and Shai panties unfortunately). As such, there is no financial incentive to spend millions to revamp a product that is generating a lot of profit, only for it to potentially flop. Note that FFXIV was rebooted because it had already flopped.

In any case, I agree that the game makes gearing too easy nowadays and the sole purpose seems to be silver, which is only efficient through grinding. Honestly I can't complain because I like grinding, though I do think lifeskills should be more profitable than they currently are. It would be nice if levelling up to 61 didn't take 3-4 hours and was actually a long lasting in progress. At the same time, you get all your skills quickly so you can start playing the game. Having said that, reaching end-game may take years in BDO, when in other games you can reach end-game content within a month or so of intensive play.

The real problem is inflation. But in the day you could only make a few thousands of silver hour and game was balanced based on that. Nowadays, people report 1 billion + per hour. As such, having a few billions of silver means nothing nowadays... Not sure how to balance this though.

What classes as endgame in bdo ? 

Silver?

Dream horse?

High player level ?

High fishing level?

World bosses?

Farming rifts?

Finally getting gear to pen from bad percentages?

Field bosses?

Pvp ?

I'm only asking because I've been asking myself this question a while when I've been playing bdo it's not really a problem tbh I enjoy the game only things I'm not keen on are the marketing with pearls and cost or the fact gear drops from failed enhancements but I generally have no clue what the endgame is in bdo

Around 740gs is where endgame is. Most of what you listed is dead content.

Level doesn't matter much in bdo as there is not a max level, and your level doesn't reflect your progress or the effort you put into the game. However reaching lvl60 takes a few hour at most, and that is where all of your skills are unlocked (apart from 1 passive).

While I I agree and think your right in your answering to his post. I think he was doing a comparison of "how it started" to "where they are going" type of subjective post. While I will say that his/her post has a merit, because I sometimes feel the same way about BDO's changes ( I hate the AP caps, AP brackets dynamic, and  the RNG gear progression dynamic they will never change ). I think they too busy focusing on future players and catch up dynamics to reverse some of the damage they have done to their reputation as a gaming company ( This my first and last PA game I ever play based on my bad experiences brought on by their decisions).

Yeah they are kinda panicking rn, but if you look at their last quarter report you can see why.

Altrough I also heavily doubt that players who played bdo will going to touch any other PA game, and we already did saw with Shadow Arena that players not really interested in their other PA products....

It's not about personal taste or just all games are games.  WOW ran into major problems with releasing updates that where consistently disliked by the majority of their players.  That type of content is not to be written off as it didn't match their taste.  Revamping a trade system that is essentially dead on it's release isn't personal preferance.  It's squandering 100,000's of hours of individuals that spent time creating art assets, animations, sounds, bug fixes, skeletal frames, coding, 3d artwork, etc.

Those people created a beautfiul working relatively bug free high performance game.  Then a few people making very bad decisions ruin it all.  Sometimes on purpose other times in pure neglect or lazyness.  Such as intentionally making a new class OP.  Rattling the community and diminishing the quality of the overall product.  If you made one character ridiculously OP in Street Fighter 6 it would do signifcant damage to the game.  The overall quality of that game would be crippled.  I mean one class so broken it would be nearly pointless to even learn other classes.

If you where around in CBT you would know that levels used to mean a lot more.  So did skill points.  Some of the end game was unlocking a few skills that most other players didn't have.  It was designed for long term progression.  Today like many other games they have built in catch up mechanics that just avoid all of that and put you into what is supposed to be "end game".

The real issue is that you could remove levels and skill points from the game entirely now and it wouldn't make much difference at all.  Those progression systems are completely broken with nowhere to go and nothing to replace them.  There is no alternative advancement system, no unlocking of new features, no long term skill tree, no paragon, nothing.  You spend years gaining silver and that is the only thing that matters after day 2-3.  That is an objectively broken progression system.

As for AI, most people obviously have no understanding of how it works, the resources it takes or how simple it is.  Anyone with basic coding knowledge could do better in a few weeks than BDO in 7 years.

Whether it's done with a behavioral tree or simple coding logic it's really easy.  PA simply chose to never work on it.  Even thing as simple as giving enemies 4 or 5 attacks.  They never buff themselves, heal other mobs, or do any real functionality.  For a team the size of PA creating a few extra animations to rig onto 3d models isn't an issue.

They couldn't even be bothered to prevent enemies from just spamming cc's to the point of absurdity.  It's only in a few late end game areas that even attempt to make you respond properly.  Such as Hex.  With telegraphs and more reason.

End game in BDO is just a fake save up materials/silver for months to either buy or mash your way into a successful item.  Even for grinders it's very lacking and doesn't give a sense of much accomplishement.

It's just trying to extend poor content by making it take 10x longer.  The progression is also busted in all other aspects as well.  Farming, Trade, Gathering, etc.  The closest to being decent is probably cooking.  There you will slowly progress through a lot of level slightly improving your results over time....... you know progression.  If you just got Guru 20 cooking in 2 days it would be terrible.

Nothing will change, a lost case. Unless major company changes will happen, like other gaming company buying pa or some competent people will be put in charge of the game. With current state it's hopeless, just look at amount of resources wasted on trash events for same people over and over again, offline party bla bla party at castle, tons of wasted resources that could be put into the game, but that's pointless anyway. If there's anything they listen it's always from some strange minority that is posting tons of useless "feedback" like "I'm afraid of clowns". After 7 years I'm really tired of looking at this game and see how big .... No no F...G huge potential was wasted, it really could have been awesome game like never seen before, but nooo....

Yeah if a another company would buy it up that would be probably the best, altrough it's unlikely, it's not that big or sucesfull game, it have too much tech debt, and not many companies want to deal with random KR developers on the other side of the word.

That's true, but content will still be released over the next few years and even though players have had a minimal amount of impact it's better than absolutely nothing.

A lot of PA's focus is Seasons and new players.  That's why they revamped all the quest lines and do so much for seasons.

However, Seasons is literally the opposite of the original design.  It went from a Marathon to barely a Sprint.

A simple end game system would go a long way.  But it probably hasn't been a concern because it's anti Season/Selling new characters.

The fundamental goals of the game since it's release have completely changed.