wanted to discuss the topic for a while, so i here go:
If you're a veteran playing for 5 years you will notice a few things have changed since back then and now.The game had alot of issues performance wise mostly, why alot of people didnt get into the game...but nevertheless we had a big playerbase as time goes by it went down which is pretty normal for any game.
All hope was pinned on UE4 and it came, did it deliver? tbh it was better than expected, it has minor hiccups and alot of bugs but graphic wise its alot better.
What i for one didn't expect is bns not promoting it and build on the hype instead it seems they have given up? i did see one and 2 youtubers talk on it, not sure if they were sponsored but yea.
The population since UE4 has taken another dip, people will say new game came out blah blah blah....
but heres the real problem with with the game.
RETURNING PLAYERS
{DEAD PVP}
1. returning players left a game active in the pvp scene, first thing they gonna do is try 1v1 or 3v3..... the arena chat dead, and queues are dead also....first thing he or she will say is dam the game is dead or pvp is dead.
{NO SOCIALIZING}
2. dungeons are rushed these days, there's literally no fun in it..... running to boss room for 6 mins and kill boss in 30sec to 1 min, then everyone leaves the party.The most you will get out of a person is TYFP. I see people asking for friends to play with in fraction sadly nobody as the time, with the lack of gold people busy farming 10 alts to do the bare minimum of flushing that down the toilet of rng.
Dead F8
he or she goes to dungeon and lfp no queue the f8 chat there is dead too.... not use to this .... he or she assume the game dead and tires one more thing.
Open world chill spot and pvp
Non existent.jadestone was one of those spot where something was always going on or foshi pyres......these spots are dead.
Not seeing or interacting with people while leveling up or doing story.
TO SUM UP.........
Returning players coming back to the game will come into a game where you don't interact with people, stuck a on one man threadmill just spamming daily weekly raid ..try to upgrade some random rng item then log off. ... theres nothing outside of this bracket to do.
Veterans
The soul of this game is literally gone.With ue4 came a slap to the face......
The death of pvp.......
The start of the rng era.......... (which isn't bad but the cost is so crazy when there's no item ingame to resell to make an income to cover for this )
The quantity of mats we get is so high that the resell value for them is so low.
THE DIRECTION THAT BNS IS GOING INTO THE OTHER HALF OF 2022
base on what am seeing, seeing that the playerbase is crippled by the low gold income, this was quickly utilize as a way to make money.
literally no way you can upgrade those mystic accs without a solid income of gold.......F9 and now battle pass ( the new band aid fix i mean salt rubbed in the wound fix)
theres no intention of fixing this problem until the milking is done. thats why am angry......
The problem is they gave away too much, and wonder why stuff not selling, lets take a look at f110
looks the same everyday with the mats alone rotating ...or a ones in a whale whale shop.
the todays special should be renamed to todays usuals....
items in the cash shop outdated, and needs restocking , premium lost it spark, with low hm coin income means no use for premium......oh you remember the pvpers from bg yea the main buyers of that a rip there.
i really don't mind the game encouraging people to spend, if its gonna keep it alive.
but when the current state of the game is like this and encouraging individuals to spend like 3 times as more as you would in the past.... for items that will be irrelevant after 3 months .
lets take a look at class change voucher.....
if am a pvper and i hated the class i had before due to it being weak.....now i switch to a decent class, i can't enjoy it to the full extent, because i will never experience this class in pvp.
buying 5- 10 k of gold to upgrade like 1 time from stage 4 mystic to stage 5..... this is not value for money, it literally throwing money away
last point, seems like theres only one person working for the game rn and thats @Green Storm its been crickets...
right now am just waiting for the message of the game closing down cause.....
we gone to copy,paste watered down patches.......without a lil finger of effort to make things a lil better, no out of our way services.
I believe that the team has given up and putting on a big smile when things look grim.