Olsen San

It has been 3 years since I posted anything in here, and to be more exact, it has been 3 years since I last played blade & soul. Last week, due to all this quarentine, I decided to install the game again and play it. The first thing I noticed and got really surprised was that there's only 1 server now for NA. I say it is a surprise, not really, because in my last post, comment, in this forum, I was talking specifically about things that this game could change in orther to not se its player base shrink. At that moment, of course, many players started to offend me and stuff, as usual, instead of discuss the ideas I was presenting at that time. I came back and I can tell you guys, I am really having fun with the new event and stuff. It gives me opportunity, not only for returning players, but new players, to catch up with the game. But there's one thing that doesn't change. The community of Blade & Soul. I don't know why people are so full of hate and selfishness in this game. I wonder when people will learn that you need other players in a MMORPG game in order to have fun, and when you just mistreat someone in the game, you are only closing the doors to have some fun and to have people around to play with. Not everyone will be very experienced or geared, but it can still be fun playing with people. Years ago, when you would join a group for a dungeon or some other event, people would talk and get to know each other and do stuff together. Nowadays, no one talks and they are very inclined to kick someone in whatever reason they find in their mind to push people away. How do you think this game went for 5-6 servers only in NA to only 1? and how long do you think NCSOFT will keep their servers up if people will keep leaving. Do you think the few hundred whales are able to keep it going? I've played 4 NCSOFT games because I actually enjoy their games, and I've seen they shutting down so many good games they have. Most of time players blame NCSOFT for that, they say it is bad management, but you, as part of a community, is also responsible for maintaining the game running. And it is not only about the money you spent in the game, it is about how you treat others around you. I am sure if you didn't like to play and interact with people you'd rather play some 1vs1 or 1vsnpc game in PS4 or Xbox. The best community I've found in games is in Guild Wars 2. That's not coincidence that they have a big wiki with all info for the games, many apps to help you out to improve in the game, either with crafting, with selling stuff, finding the best build, etc. When you look up for any dungeon, item information, location, etc, you hardly find anything about blade and soul. Since I came back I've been having a hard time to find a lot of infos online about the game and when I make questions in game, sometimes people are just rude or dont answer at all. Also lets talk about the fact that many people kick you out from parties because they don't think you are strong enough. I mean, you join a party for a dungeon that requires 1320AP and you have 1450AP, but they wont let you join the party or participate, because they only want people better geared with 1650-1700AP to do a burst run, in 3 minutes, when they could have fun doing the mechanics and take like extra 5 minutes having a good gameplay with some people. Why can't you wait for a returning player to get to the location of a raid or teach them how to get there in order to everyone have fun, but you will either kick that person from the alliance or kill the boss without them being close by so you can get your rewards in 2 seconds and make that person lose his run and have to wait for a week, after the reset to try again? I mean, what are you really earning with all this? are you really having fun? So, despite all NCSOFT effort the keep their servers up and making fun events to everyone keep playing the game, getting their upgrades and being able to play the game and improve their gear and skills, the community itself keeps pushing each other away. People don't even bother to learn the games mechanics anymore, they just look for someone really strong to get carried by them or pay them for that and even bad mouth people who is trying to improve. Yesterday, someone criticized me by the fact I was using a soul badge that wasn't exactly for my build, and on top of that, when I said I was returning and haven't played in 3 years, after they kick me from a DST party in a dungeon lobby, because they wanted to burst, and I only have 1450AP (and I have done that dungeon 3 times since I came back, and I know the mechanics), they even told me I should leave the game again, because I was saying it was funny people kicking me just like that. GG's Blade & Soul Community.