As you can guess, another topic of questioning BDO´s future. 

The current state of the game let´s me rather question if the game has a bright future ahead, especially with very promising and high quality revealing upcoming MMO´s the next two years.

For me i can say i am a usually very active player in the game, coming on and off to play each time for many months.. but last few weeks playing again rather less, due to the huge lack of content in the game.

And with content i mean fun content.

The only thing the game can offer me is constant monotoneous singleplayer grind. Same goes for lifeskilling, it´s either gathering or hunting for hours actively or rest of the activities for hours/days passivly.

The group/multiplayer content available is very limited and can be counted of one hand. Which i find rather unfortunate, because the game is not bad, it just lacks the meaningness what usually a mmo creates with massive multiplayer interactions, if it´s with dancing in groups, raiding dungeons for hours, slaying every few hours field bosses or having random party fights in dynamic world events. 

So to say, without those things the game gets very boring and feels less entertaining and less meaningful than the 9to5 job.

For me following content seems rather dead or redundand without proper refurbishing - in short or long following to the end of BDO:

- Guild content is dead (no guild instances/dungeons/no margoria guild battles),

those few silver and quest increasements and LomL2 Guild boss blitz raids (comin this year) seems rather meaningless to me and won´t change much at all, especially if the Guild Boss Blitz will be limited to be playable once per week. Guild quests are rather a joke being massively randomized out of a pot of 100 quests were 15 are selected and one can be done solo with a cooldown of 10 min. afterwards, incl. only 10 quests per day.

Guild mounts i have to name them, even it´s not even worth to mention them, are totally useless.. Who wants the meme-ship if it dies anyways one-shot by Epheria Carrack.. The whole guild content is a huge joke.

- PVP is massively punished (just a sidenote)

playing red, having sometimes fun is no idea anymore, since even some people seem to got banned for playing red. In general the punishment on playing red is too high, and the reward is 0 aside of the fun and adrenaline. 

- Nodewars/Sieges dead

inacessible for beginner guilds (only few guilds competing each week and always the same, people are not motivated to start new guilds for nodewars)

- Dungeons/Instances missing

only 1-3 dungeon per week for 5 player parties (for 1-2 hours per week), totally inacessible for beginners, experienced players just rush their group through the dungeon

- Party content dead

party spots are meaningless. Boring monotonous grind spots and silver is not rewarding enough. No incentive to grind with a party of friends.

Aside of this above mentioned terrible multiplayer content there is also few other things which are rather terrible, than good in BDO, which are:

- Boss Blitz/Black Shrine no fun

dead on release, making it limited to once a week for 1 hour max. playtime is a fucking joke.. who cares if the god-gloves have lower price if the boss rush is available more often or if the buffs are available more often.. there is solutions to that, but don´t make this one fun content limited to one time per week. 

It´s triple punishing = 1 reward on sunday (if u play monday, your bad, have to wait 6 days for your reward), traveling with your main to the location if you wanna play your main combos (teleport coming someday this year, ok this is done), only 1 time playable per week (5 bosses/5 levels) which max last maybe 15 min... all the fun is over.

- PVE zones are capped and boring

were is the reason to grind now on higher spots if it´s locked on gearstats? Aside of that the mobs are boring, dumb and the grind in circles is monotonous and feels worse than work in real life.

- Gearset missing

following the PVE zones, the gear is boring.. were is all the blue and green grade variety gear? nobody is rarely needing it anymore.. why can´t there be 5 sets of god gear.. and why the fuck it needs 4 years of development? this is a massive joke.. even locked to release of new regions.. why do we need new regions to have new gear options?

- New regions dead

LomL empty landscape (aside of the beautiful designed places and lots of npcs, which is nice to look at, but...) were is the content? 

Ulukita same as LomL, even more desert than Valencia..

Odyllita/Kama nodes and houses for workers? Interesting house-connections in the cities as in Heidel/Velia/Calpheon.. This also is lacking massively in LomL.. same goes in Duvencrune

- Classes are boring

genderlock yea, ok there is a workaround, people mentioned this already, it´s boring the genderlock.. but hey we have thousands of female classes and 5 or so dudes.. i don´t even know how many male chars, cuz i only see girls.. huh.. and why i see many human-like monsters in the game as npcs, but i never can chose them as char to play.. that is sad.. 

and what about support classes? .. uhm nothing.. shai.. we don´t need more supporters, because there is no multiplayer content.. nice.. 

Man sorry to say, but the game each time i come back to it, after few weeks it totally bores me, i never had this in any other MMO, i should not say MMO, because BDO is still not rly one.. but yeah.. whatever.. you get what i am saying.

currently BDO is this --> it is simply a MSO = Massively Singleplayer Onlinegame (= playing alone for a long time = no Fun, no Meaningful Memories)

if the company PA doesn´t change this whole bunch of things to a 180 degrees in less than 2 years, than I think BDO will die faster than some may think..

I honestly really hope things are changing to the better in this game on contentwise, cause i really love the game, even it often gets so boring.

And i don´t need people say "if you don´t like it, go somewere else".. if you someone like this, than you simply don´t get it, and accepted it already with all the terrible things, what could rather be changed to the better.

I really think they need to start at guild, then go to party content. There should be a lot more PvE content beyond mobs.

For instance, think about sailing and bartering. Imagine going out to some island with your bros and gathering stuff you can't fairy back, then having to bring it home on the ship. Then, of course, get gains as a group. Little things like that would make the game more interesting.

If an area only has new mobs or some quests you do once, of course it will die.

I enjoy doing guild bosses and scrolls because everyone can do that. Everyone gets a reward. Why isn't there more content like that? Why must everyone be stuck on their personal gear grind in order to keep up? There will come a point when people need to work on their own gear, but I think that point is 'too far' in BDO.

Plus they need to help people realize what they need to play, like how to get their pets right and get their fairy right. There is a huge gap in content tho for 'midgame.' Elvia pisses me off. Under 300 AP it's like lul. They got caps. I was watching a dude do awakening ranger combos and he kept taking off gear and he was down to 230ap but he was still shredding mobs due to monster dmg + other dmg/buffs. It's like wat. Like the whole game is balanced around getting a PEN BS.

I'm not mad, per se, because I play BDO casually and I do what I do, but yeah BDO is not my go to game. I feel bad for the people who are super invested because it's not going in the right direction. However, I talked about how they needed to add guild quests back and they did, so, maybe they will work on it.

Thats why I am here, PA should make Olun solo-able and im happy. Not every1 dislikes where the game is going. Just take a break you dont HAVE to play BDO.

Exactly. The hidden,bs bloated stats and buffs are really making the game worse. Their idea of build diversity is you changing your crystals and other tripe. 
In the sausans era you had more build diversity than now. And the stats were more streamlined. (techincally they were the same hidden stats then but no other ways except for the gear to change them)

For you is at stake
For me is at a nice cozy place 
I am having fun not making it my second job or tryg to beat up whales (actualy i can do that in AOS :) )

It's OK, but when they introduce more BiS stuff, it's like eh... I am a life skiller. I also don't p2w and I am not geared. I still do my thing, though. I enjoy playing WITH FRIENDS. Not much of that going on, atm.

Someone said something like... different gear sets don't work in BDO because it would make it so people couldn't do everything like life skilling. And it's like hey wait a min. I am not super in on life skilling, but I'm good enough? I have done a lot of different stuff, and you can always sell one thing and buy another.

Reminds me of when Guild Wars 2 came out, and I was like what is this?? And everyone was like yeah GW1 had different skills but most of them sucked, so this makes more sense. It's like WHAT? GW1 was FUN to make up builds and stuff. There's no reason why there can't be more content and more set ups. Going into endgame like > opposed to going into endgame like < makes no sense to me. They should be adding more and more stuff! Not simplifying.

It's OK tho, yeah. And I never thought of BDO as 'my game,' but it could be a lot closer. They have done a lot of crazy stuff since I've come and gone a few times haha.

sorry but tera 2 years before shut down was in worse shape than 2024 black desert

also steam chartz show 20000 player in december, it mean december 2023 is the best december in black desert history

and which mmorpg going to threat black desert? only competitor against black desert are old mmorpg like wow, ff14, guild war 2

new is lost ark and i dont know what happened with new world 

u might gonna think this way when looking at only one number in one month of BDO.. but I put all the numbers of each month into Excel sheet and checked the graphs after it..

and this might sound no sense to some here, but since they split up with Kakao, the overall bdo players in the last three years decreased instead of a increase.. and from release until Feb. 2021 in Steam the overall population in BDO was rising.. which showed to me the trend, that they are doing something very wrong now..

yes it's right, PA makes the game easier, but there is no more new enjoyable content for many players together, and also the solo content gets more and more restrictive or limited with days and week of cooldown.. just why?

are u this f*cking lazy now PA and making the game a cashcow? only copy-pasting what's there and only putting effort in fixing bugs and QoL? 

Making one BiS gear in 3 or 4 years of development is a very poor result of development..

and what is with the so long promised Land of Demons? Skipping it since 5 or 6 years.. for what? more copy-paste female classes? and if it released will it be empty as LomL, Ulukita, Mountain of eternal winter and rest of new zones? 

Whats wrong with me, i generally like bdo the way it is and enjoy my time here. 

Someone call help, happy customer here, that has to be impossible!

so you tell me only steam black desert go fine, but console and no steam black desert crippled ? i hope you have concrete proof for your affirmation