Ghennkins

This. This would have been the #1 way to ensure a GREAT event for us the players. As it is, it forces you do content you don't want to do and gives you a huge list you have to complete daily. I shouldn't have to explain why that's bad because it would be very long. This event was intentionally crafted for NC$oft. Not the players. Casino Slot Machine PAY PAY PAY Trove happening concurrently should have spelled out their intentions with this event. Its a cash grab event. Create unrealistic goals for a target group (new/returning) knowing they will fail at one of the 12 stages, and then offer keys if you /swipe. The ol' we broke it so you pay us to fix it scam. Nice! Wonder if that has anything to do with BnS revenue halving each year? mmm... Naw! No way. Keep doing what you're doing management! Hope the boss' English lessons have been going well. Are the shareholders impressed with the bloated false activity numbers from all the afk botting? I'm sure they'll stay constant and continue to grow.

Its a low effort cash grab and has never pretended to be anything else. They could have done a lot to plug the holes on this ship, but it seems like KR just says 'No its working as intended' which is their way of saying 'its working to make us $$' while ignoring the fact that that mentality drives players away. End game isn't fun for a new player. The grind for a new player for mid tier gear is too drawn out and frankly insane. Its purposely like this to strong arm a credit card swipe. Do you want to spend 4 months doing the Bummer Nights Dream daily or spend $40? Do you want to grind stupid amounts of gold for premo stones and the mountains of transformation stones and other junk on top of evo gold cost over the course of 8 months? Or buy gold from F10? They are not running a video game. They don't treat it like a video game. They don't treat us like gamers. It is run like a casino business and they prey solely on the little old lady gambling away all her life savings. If that isn't you, BnS wasn't intended for you to begin with.

I'm having a hard time with endgame progression. Its been 2 weeks and I've finished 0 dailies. I can only do 1 of the 2 a day and ALL the others force you to need 5 other people. I really r e a l l y hate that. Why am I not allowed to progress at the bare minimum solo? Why am I forced to group with randos? Why pray tell me is the grind so ridiculously insane for new players? I've watched the 'New Player' guides and they're not all that helpful. They tell you to go to Moon Refuge to farm Buds. You get a chest with 4-6 buds in it every 20 kills. You can only get 4 star dust per day. Each day I average ~40 buds buts for some insidious reason, those chests are rigged to give the minimum amount. The portal that opens every 30 minutes is a total waste of grind time. The big boss of an area should drop more than 1 single unit of that area's currency. Fallen Soul Shield # 8 costs 380 buds alone. 40/380 means 9 days for 1 piece of 7 of that Soul Shield set. With a little luck, maybe 8 days. Eight days. Over a week for 1 item. ONE item. And its all but guaranteed to have bad rolls making that 8 day grind an utter waste. For the full set, you need 1440 buds. So around 36 days or 5 weeks of tedium and monotony. Then there's the accessories which are like 600 buds each. Another month. 2 months? Really? Then there's peach farming which isn't AS insane but still pretty bad. And yes, I know about spiders. Spiders barely make any difference when the chest still only gives 4 buds. Instead of 2 months, maybe you finish in 1 and a half. Yay. Its very frustrating in all honesty to be road blocked like this. As a player of a game, it should be my choice who I play the game with... not the publisher's choice. Maybe that's why group content in this game is so toxic and awful. Its like being back in school again and the teacher putting you in forced groups with people you don't like. Let me choose. Every clan I ever joined in this game was from meeting people in the old 24 man pirate maps, but those are all dead and buried. Genius mmorpg content thrown to the way side. I from the get go dislike dungeon content. I don't like convoluted mechanics. I don't like how the community wants fast efficient quick runs and kicks you if you're new and have story gear before you ever get a chance to go. If you do go and screw up, another kick. Also, they lock small parts of the story behind dungeons but *cricket* you if you don't skip the cutscenes and waste the other 5 rando's time. So, don't like dungeons but also I'm forced to do them with people I don't want to do them with. Not the best combination. I played at launch and I don't remember if you could do the minimum daily challenge without a party. You should be able to. I beat Yungsang at Mushin's Tower each day with 900 ap and that alone should count as 1 daily instead of a single prayer bead. Speaking of abandoned content, I loved Mushin's Tower. Solo player's heaven. Genius content yet again thrown away. Why are we removing all solo progression and forcing everyone to run just dungeons and raids and partaking in absolutely stupid grinds that take multiple months for mid tier gear just so they can stop being kicked by the old players? I keep wondering what will happen first... Will I upgrade my soul shield set to one with bad rolls after 4 weeks? Or will I quit and wait for better games managed by better people? This game is 8 years old. Why does the Clan screen (H) provide no information other than the name of a Clan? Nothing about active members. Whether its been dead for months. Time they all play. Language they speak. Its useless. 8 years of useless. And from checking the server forum here, there's been 2 clans advertised since December. None on reddit. I'd rather avoid Discord as I fail to see the point in secret tree houses the majority of casual players will never find. It's like the developer/publisher of this game have gone out of their way to make it as unenjoyable as possible if you're new or returning which is honestly very bewildering. I apologize for the rant. I feel like my hands are tied behind my back and I'm taking body shots from a goon every time I try to get into this game. I go out of my way to read guides are watch videos, but I really doubt your average casual does that. If I'm having trouble, what about them? Or maybe they all left and have learned to avoid BnS? The game doesn't tell you anything. Doesn't help you with what your suppose to do, what your suppose to get. What you need. All it does it 'Durr dun jenz derr' and you just get booted from those. I haven't found an up-to-date guide that isn't a year old. I can't even tell if something is an upgrade. Lots of the gear vendors sell is in a chest that doesn't show stats. What class and spec its for. If I'm meant to spend 2 months grinding for something, I'd like to know what exactly it does without having to leave the game and get the information out-of-game. Thanks for reading this long winded gripefest of a post. I feel like I reached my boiling point and needed to vent. I do feel a bit better getting these complaints off my chest. I hope you have a good day and the goons go lite on you today.

The UE4 release has the potential to be something good just like the original game did. But... this is NCSoft we're talking about. UE4 could easily be the death of another one of their dwindling number of mmos. If it wasn't for original Lineage, who knows if NCSoft would even exist today. IF they don't cheap out and put UE4 on the same cheap garbage servers in Texas and instead invest in not-garbage servers. Great! Will they do it? Strongly doubt it. For a game like this that could have a strong competitive arena scene, why would you pick garbage servers to host it on in the first place? I live less than a day's drive from the data center and still have over 150ms ping and that's rare. Usually its 200-220ms+. That's ridiculous. Meanwhile, last I played WoW, solid 50-60ms constantly. Someone picked bad servers. Someone else that isn't a greedy suit picked good servers. When you log into the UE4 version and your ping is over 200ms, you'll have your answer. If its over 200ms, it is in fact a cash grab just like the old game was. Making an updated version of an already old dated game is a huge risk. It will be a separate install and separate client. There will be 2 versions of BnS. The Old and the New. What happens to the old when the new releases? People from the Old migrate and start over on the New 'updated' version. A giant population hit to the old version everyone is already invested in be it with time or $$$ (which is reason #1 they're doing this UE4 thing at all... $$$). What is the UE4 version is worse? Cutting corners to save a buck and ignore issues is how this company functions. What if its an even more 'Free2Play' mmo than the Old game with more pay2win and more 'we created frustrating problems and make you pay to fix them' bs? Are we r e a l l y that naïve to believe they'll spend their time fixing problems instead of rushing a bad product out the door for that first month of revenue and milking weak willed people(whales)? Spend little... make much. I am no optimistic in the slightest about the UE4 update. Especially when it comes to NCWest. Lets not forget that we were the only region with paywalled Wardrobe for years. A major key aspect of the game locked away by greed. Add to that the horrid servers they use and its no wonder everyone flocked away as quickly as they did. Will they repeat the same greedy scummy mistake (unlike all the other regions) with UE4? I expect the worst and why wouldn't I? They have a great opportunity available with UE4 and already they could under sale and over deliver and shatter everyone's negative expectations and repair their pretty awful reputation. That should be their key focus as a company. Stop pushing customers away. Stop! Bring them in so you have more than just old as heck Lineage 1 making you money. Unfortunately, they're using that Lineage money to make garbage mobile games that sadly will make easy no-risk money. At least for a few months. Everything for PC will likely be put on the back burner as 'low priority' or 'low revenue'. Including BnS. There is a reason publishers are rushing to mobile. A sad tragic reason. Those people aren't privy nor wise to 'Free2Play' scummy-ness and are ripe for the swindling. That ocean is chalk full of stupid weak minded whales while the PC ocean has been over fished for a decade.

Agree with zapp. This is a feature that should not have ever been paywalled. Never fails to blow my mind the people that actually defend paywalling features like this. "No I don't want something that is free in other regions!". You don't want a free and important feature? The first top rows in my vault are filled with outfits and I plan on getting more, except I have no space to put them anymore. I will never, not ever... be forced to buy something i shouldn't have to. Not to mention c-shop outfits. Why buy those if I have no space for them? This was an idiotic idea and people should be complaining. I should WANT to buy things, not be forced, manipulated, or influenced to buy things through lame limitations.