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I've returned to BnS after 2 years in christmas and was grinding really hard for some evolved stones in the hope that i could try to catch a little bit to my friends who still play this game. The game comunity is still as toxic as when I left, NCSoft is still the same greedy company as its always been and i'm already considering leaving the game again...

You guys want to know what the stuppiest part is? That if you actually want to P2W in this game you don't even need to give money to NCsoft. Let me make things clear before I say this, i'm NOT saying ppl who are doing are right, I'm just reporting the truth as a warning for any NCSoft employee that stills cares for this game and wants to investigate this matter. The only way to get power fast in BnS is to buy gold, but not buying it from F9, the gold sellers are everywhere, they announce all day in faction chat, they are announcing it in Facebook and other medias and they are from many regions that play the game. I can't speak for EU, but in NA servers i have to block at least 2 per day on faction chat and have been reporting them as spammers, and if you check BnS communitys in many languages and even some discords, you'll find them easily. Even some players sell their gold and there are websites specificaly made for this purpose, you can find them in a simple google search. Have any of you guys been to SSP lately? The bots there are ridiculous right now, as soon as a boss shows up they all log in the game, all of them are GS, they use their ultimate skills as soon as the boss spawn and, if you are a regular player there you wont even get the reward no matter how hard you dps because the boss dies instantly. And dont even get me started on BG... This is only a couple of examples of how the gold sellers farm gold now, and you'd think NCsoft would be at least interested in ending this business but god know why they never even bother to try anymore, no matter how many tickets you open reporting the issue, believe me i know many friends that tried and got the same automatic vague response. Altough I agree on the topic above, and i too think that this event was made with only 5% of the shirinking player base in mind, this will backfire for NCwest because the main tool for ppl to get stronger in the game is NOT giving them money.

the way I see it, a game dies when there is not enough players to keep the servers running, we went form almost a dozen servers to only 2 in the last 2 years, the game is dying, that is a fact, the shirinking player base proves that. But its not dead yet, that will happen soon if the players themselves and NCSoft/Wests refuse to acknolege it and starts to do something aboout it.

Well, i just hope this serves as a wakeup call for the dev team and producers. As a player for South America that has been playing this game for almos 3 years this kind of merge tells me that this game is dying, the player base keep lowering and the dev team is too far away in Korea to even notice what the NA and EU players really want. The producers either don't know what is going on or don't care at all, and the communication issue between al the parts involved, Players, NCWest and NCsoft is, in my opinion, the biggest cause for the player evasion. Since me and many of my friends strugle with lag and prefomance issues aswell, i can say that, if at least the perfomance issues were resolved many form SA would still be playing it. BnS is not a bad game, is fun and challenging but after dedicating 3 year playing a BM i feel really frustated that my DPS diference from a NA players is getting bigger every day, and the main reason ppl are leaving, are the arrival of better optimised and less ping dependent games. I would switch to a SA server immediatelly if i knew that any that would be release, i know for a fact that many SA players would do the same, and many are already planning on switching to other games when they release. This game was not desingned to be a continental game, much less at the level of ping diferences that we see in america. it was desingned to work on a small country with high internet connections and better average computer builds than we see in most places, that was too big of an oversight from the developer team that they never care to fix, and that many other games don't suffer or have been working to resolve in one way or another. The way i see it, since the last server merge was in 2017, this game has at most 1 or 2 more years of life before they either they merge EU and NA servers or shut the game down completely.