Dear Pearl Abyss, 

I hope you're doing well. I want to start by saying how much I love Black Desert Online. It's hands down the best MMO out there, especially when it comes to combat. But there's something that's been bothering me and thats the reality of the endgame grind.  

The grind for Deboreka accessories is just brutal. Take Dekhia Ash Forest, for example. It's boring, dangerous, and dying there can be a nightmare because you might lose your valuable crystals. Losing crystals does not add any fun to the game, especially not with the current prices going all the way to 4.8b. And let's not forget about the fact that these spots are bad trash silver wise. So even if we do get something good, most of us choose to enhance it rather than sell it so where still forced to grind somewhere else so we can save for cron stones. 

And then there are places like Dekhia Hystria and Aakman where we can't even bring our horses, what is pushing ppl to buy maids just to make these spots grindable. 

Honestly, I'm at a point where I'm not sure why I'm still doing this since most of the content is capped anyway. I get that endgame should be challenging, but it shouldn't be discouraging. And it is here where you make a mistake, making something challenging doesn't necessarily need be discouraging, yet it is in BDO. And to top it all off, there is RNG. Some ppl do put the hours in, yet they get fucked by bad RNG. That doesnt feel very fair. In short, if you're wondering why people are quitting the game, this is probably why. End game is a never-ending cycle of disappointment. Endgame can be hard, thats why its endgame but please keep it fun.

Some things i would change or add. 

Allow horses in Aakman and Hystria 

This would be huge and would allow more ppl to grind those places 

Also add more spots at aakman and hystria for ppl to grind  

Remove crystal loss 

I don’t understand the idea behind this, yes it adds consequence and danger to a spot. Yet only making 500 mil/hour without drops but losing a 4.8 on a Girin or 1.6 on a Rebelious adds everything but fun. I lost one only a week ago bc of a disconnect for example, so its not even or own mistake sometimes. The crystal loss is also a very discouraging way to test out new spots. 

Remove the initial 20 fuel cost from the Dekhia Lantern

DFS is still a thing in 2024, getting griefed aswell. If i need to duel for spot i need to stay close to the actuall spot what causes alot of problems like dying or not being able to chase my target otherwise the lantern will shut off, if i lose i lose twice needing to pay again. If i get griefed i need to fight back or change server and need to pay that inital 20 fuel again.

Make tagging free   

For the love of god please just add this feature. As stated before the combat is amazing, allow us to taste and freely tagg every class. The grind is already long enough and being able to play different classes is one way to keep it fun.  

Make things less RNG and more reward for effort 

Effort schould be rewarded, i know guys who got 11 vells or one tap stuff yet never grind. And then you have ppl who make the effort but only get rewared with bad RNG. Its like having a job and the ppl that never show up or do anything get a paycheck, but the ppl who work there ass off get nothing. Makes no sense.  

Remove downgrade off acc and lower the cost of crons  

The moment you get that TET or PEN is amazing and that schould stay, yet to what degree? I understand you guys are a company and need to make money, one way to do so was to increase the cron stone cost so ppl would buy more costumes. But i think this is way to much. The costs for enhancing gear is insane, trying Tet debo’s costs around 7 billion silver per attempt, and going for Pen is a whopping 30 billion per try. Considering we make around 1.2 billion silver per hour, it takes about 6 hours just to try for Tet and over 25 hours for Pen, not to mention the potential downgrade from enhancing. Buying pearls to get costumes for enhancing is even more nuts. Trying for Tet costs about €90, and going for Pen is around €360 per attempt. This is waaaaay over the top, and were only talking about attempts, no guarantees ...

Make ranked AoS perma 

No idea why this is event based. I think BDO is the only game that does this. Many of us, if not everyone would like the option to play ranked.  

BDO feels more and more like a PvE game, i love the PvE (excluding the game features mentioned above) but i don't see the problem in adding more PvP content and certainly not of a perma Ranked AoS feature.

Outro

I did not write this to shit on the game, i just start to feel less intrested the more my journey continues bc of bad game mechanics.

I hope you guys change some things around to make/keep it fun for everyone.  It's ok to want to make money, to challenge ppl, to demand some degree of effort to get to endgame, just don't push it. If a game is fun, ppl will go the extra mile, if you add bad game mechanics ppl will lose intrest. 

Gr. 

M 

Dear Pearl Abyss, 

I hope you're doing well. I want to start by saying how much I love Black Desert Online. It's hands down the best MMO out there, especially when it comes to combat. But there's something that's been bothering me and thats the reality of the endgame grind.  

The grind for Deboreka accessories is just brutal. Take Dekhia Ash Forest, for example. It's boring, dangerous, and dying there can be a nightmare because you might lose your valuable crystals. Losing crystals does not add any fun to the game, especially not with the current prices going all the way to 4.8b. And let's not forget about the fact that these spots are bad trash silver wise. So even if we do get something good, most of us choose to enhance it rather than sell it so where still forced to grind somewhere else so we can save for cron stones. 

And then there are places like Dekhia Hystria and Aakman where we can't even bring our horses, what is pushing ppl to buy maids just to make these spots grindable. 

Honestly, I'm at a point where I'm not sure why I'm still doing this since most of the content is capped anyway. I get that endgame should be challenging, but it shouldn't be discouraging. And it is here where you make a mistake, making something challenging doesn't necessarily need be discouraging, yet it is in BDO. And to top it all off, there is RNG. Some ppl do put the hours in, yet they get fucked by bad RNG. That doesnt feel very fair. In short, if you're wondering why people are quitting the game, this is probably why. End game is a never-ending cycle of disappointment. Endgame can be hard, thats why its endgame but please keep it fun.

Some things i would change or add. 

Allow horses in Aakman and Hystria 

This would be huge and would allow more ppl to grind those places 

Also add more spots at aakman and hystria for ppl to grind  

Remove crystal loss 

I don’t understand the idea behind this, yes it adds consequence and danger to a spot. Yet only making 500 mil/hour without drops but losing a 4.8 on a Girin or 1.6 on a Rebelious adds everything but fun. I lost one only a week ago bc of a disconnect for example, so its not even or own mistake sometimes. The crystal loss is also a very discouraging way to test out new spots. 

Remove the initial 20 fuel cost from the Dekhia Lantern

DFS is still a thing in 2024, getting griefed aswell. If i need to duel for spot i need to stay close to the actuall spot what causes alot of problems like dying or not being able to chase my target otherwise the lantern will shut off, if i lose i lose twice needing to pay again. If i get griefed i need to fight back or change server and need to pay that inital 20 fuel again.

Make tagging free   

For the love of god please just add this feature. As stated before the combat is amazing, allow us to taste and freely tagg every class. The grind is already long enough and being able to play different classes is one way to keep it fun.  

Make things less RNG and more reward for effort 

Effort schould be rewarded, i know guys who got 11 vells or one tap stuff yet never grind. And then you have ppl who make the effort but only get rewared with bad RNG. Its like having a job and the ppl that never show up or do anything get a paycheck, but the ppl who work there ass off get nothing. Makes no sense.  

Remove downgrade off acc and lower the cost of crons  

The moment you get that TET or PEN is amazing and that schould stay, yet to what degree? I understand you guys are a company and need to make money, one way to do so was to increase the cron stone cost so ppl would buy more costumes. But i think this is way to much. The costs for enhancing gear is insane, trying Tet debo’s costs around 7 billion silver per attempt, and going for Pen is a whopping 30 billion per try. Considering we make around 1.2 billion silver per hour, it takes about 6 hours just to try for Tet and over 25 hours for Pen, not to mention the potential downgrade from enhancing. Buying pearls to get costumes for enhancing is even more nuts. Trying for Tet costs about €90, and going for Pen is around €360 per attempt. This is waaaaay over the top, and were only talking about attempts, no guarantees ...

Make ranked AoS perma 

No idea why this is event based. I think BDO is the only game that does this. Many of us, if not everyone would like the option to play ranked.  

BDO feels more and more like a PvE game, i love the PvE (excluding the game features mentioned above) but i don't see the problem in adding more PvP content and certainly not of a perma Ranked AoS feature.

Outro

I did not write this to shit on the game, i just start to feel less intrested the more my journey continues bc of bad game mechanics.

I hope you guys change some things around to make/keep it fun for everyone.  It's ok to want to make money, to challenge ppl, to demand some degree of effort to get to endgame, just don't push it. If a game is fun, ppl will go the extra mile, if you add bad game mechanics ppl will lose intrest. 

Gr. 

M