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.

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.

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

Here are your numbers of BDO Steam.. i have put the exact same numbers of steamcharts in excel and made a diagramm.. but to make it more exact i took the peak(highest) player numbers per month, instead of the average.. but the results were pretty much the same anyways.. only couldnt figure the exact shown text of the date from the data input.. but if you can read a graph or scale or diagramm, than you know what it shows.. 

but to maybe adjust my statement a little bit.. the last 3 years since PA split with Kakao it might not much decreased, it rather stagnated now the numbers, with a slight decrease.. were the numbers in the years before rapidly increased a few times, which boosted the average numbers on the whole scale..

now they sit around on their average player base with not much of a increase and also not a meaningful decrease.. but the downtrend is slighty visible.. 

BDO Lead by PA (Developer)

BDO Lead by Kakao (Publisher)

If you don´t believe this numbers, go search some other more exact numbers and tell me if i am wrong or maybe correct me.. i am very open for critics :) 

My conclusion:

I can only appeal on PA, to not sit around and relax now on this rather average updates which are only simplifications and QoL features and copy-paste contents..

the only new really good content from last years is imo Arena of Solare, this is really something what brings the community together this kind of example of content.. this seems to me accessible, balanced (statwise) and players can play instantly together on a competition in a small group and even improve their own gameplay in PVP..

and making the Old-Moon Horse Grandprix more rewarding was also a very important part of making the game again contentwise more meaningful..

but if they won´t bring out more meaningful interactive content as the above, not only for singleplayer, than at some point people won´t hop any longer on the Pearlshop-Train and might not come back anymore from their breaks..

and tbh i think majority of the numbers in any statistics are AFK players.. if people start to realize, there is nothing going forward anymore on contentwise, than the numbers will start to drop steadily.. since i think not only active players care, also afk players care and only wait for better content to come.. i think afk players even care more for meaningful content to expected to come, than active players.. i think active players might have sometimes already accepted the state of the game as it is and don´t care what is to come.. 

I can see the increase in March 2020 and know that's when covid hit... but what caused that spike from May 2019?

I can see the increase in March 2020 and know that's when covid hit... but what caused that spike from May 2019?