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You dont even need to "fly in " some devs, everything that not hardware related, or i other words, everything you dont need physical access to the server, can be done remotley, all you need is a remote connection to the server, for example SSH-Access to the shell. LoL did you check DEN-Ranking lately? Place 1 FM 2.5 Seconds for MAO -> 40M DPS Place 100 BM 16.5 Seconds for MAO --> 6M DPS Good luck trying to enter top 100 ranking

Where is she? If ill take a guess, i would say where all our communitymanagers are hiding, in the canteen drinking coffee and keep ignoring the community ;) The basic principle seems to be: Just ignore the mob, their complains will vanish to oblivion in a few, days so dont bother answering any postings in the forums

Die Leute, die seit begin spielen, haben mit sicherheit mehr als genug Marken jeder Saison im laufe der Zeit gefarmt. Ein Großteil der Abzeichen ist veraltet und niemand braucht diese wirklich. Der Umtausch war schon ok denn so konnte man zwischen seinen Elementen wechseln, was ein großer Vorteil war. Hab ich heute keine Lust meinen FM auf feuer zu spielen, wechsel ich zu Eis, hab ich keine Lust mein Sum aud Schwar zu spielen, wechsel ich zu Dornen, usw. Ein vorteil war die Abschaffung des Elementbezogenen Schadens wie z.B. auf dem Obsidian, der durch reinen Elementarschaden für jedes Element ersetzt wurde. Daher sollte man den Leuten auch die Möglichkeit geben zwischen ihren Elementen wechseln zu können. Ohne diese Möglichkeit ist man ein ein Element gebunden, erstrecht, wenn man sein Seelen und Geistabzeichen aufgewertet hat. Von daher war die Möglichkeit des Umtauschs schon eine sehr gute Sache, die zudem Abwechslung ins Spiel brachte. Ich hab gern mal mein Element (abgesehen vom Armband) gewechselt, nun bin ich wieder an mein Hauptelement gebunden :(

Das was sie derzeit mit den Cashshop Items veranstallten, deutet schwer darauf hin. Ich habe stark das Gefühl, das die Abschaltung der EU/NA Server schon beschlossen ist und jetzt noch mal kräftig abkassiert wird. In 5-6, Monaten kommt dann ne Ankündigung, das die Server in 2 Wochen abgeschaltet werden. Würde mich also nicht wundern, wenn wir künftig noch mehr Items aus dem Shop kaufen können. Bei MxM haben sie das genau so gemacht, und hier wird es wohl ebenso passieren. Sie haben dann allerdings kurzfristig entschieden, das die Leute, die noch kurz vor der Ankündigung des Shutdowns Geld ausgegeben haben, eine Rückerstattung bekommen, das aber wohl auch nur, um einer Klage wegen gewerblichem Betrug zu entgehen, die hier durchaus angebracht gewesen wäre. Traurig finde ich allerdings, wie unsere sogenannten Community-Manager und NC-Soft ofiziellen sich hier ausschweigen. Job verfehlt würde ich sagen ;)

Take a look at F10. Any more questions? Anyway its not only the Mao Glove it was one Example. Gems, UnityStones are a much better example for pure P2W which have nothing to do with F2P. Getting 4 sided or even gilded Gems is nearly impossible by farming, at least in a reasonable time. Same with unity stones. Since the unity Rank was introduced i only got 1 viloet Stone by transmute them and wastet tons of stones for tries, all failed. but keep defending this ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ as their F2P model... The game isnt dying, the game is already dead. With the current event they start the same crap as they did with MxM. Ill guess they already know when they will shut down the Servers. Untill then we will get a lot of stuff from F10 for real money. withhin the next few month they will post a short statement on short hand that in 2 or 3 weeks the servers will be shut down and will claim it was a desission made on short hand. They did this with MxM and they will do it with BnS. They even refund people whou bought stuff a few weeks befor the shutdown to avoid getting sued for commercial fraud At max i give BnS 6 more month befor they annonce its end in EU/NA.

Did they? Wonder why i didnt get those archivments when they where introduced cause i had much mor then 50 runs in each of those dungeons.

Nothing more to say, it perfectly discribed what many people including me think. Thanks for this extensively summary. Sadly our community managers, NC-Soft and NC-west wount even take notice or take care about what you wrote. They will go on like nothing happens like they always did. Ill guess this is the beginning of the end of BnS in NA/EU (if it havent already begun a long time ago) My best whishes and good luck, farewell

they also said but dont give a ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ about their states, like so many times. So 16 hours befor patch is more than enough time in advance in your eyes? you realy keep defending everything NC-Soft does, dont you? Yes it was anonced as a temporary feature. Anyway people liked, it it didnt hurt anyone, it wasnt gamebraking, on the contrary it made the game more enjoyable cause you could easiely switch between your elements without grinding like an idiot to get a second gearset for the other element. You could switch between element like you want what was a great advantage i realy enjoyed. Realy funny, thinks people complain about, for example Clan-PVP times during the european DaySaveTime never changed, even it would be quite easy to change a start- / endtime. On the other hand, things people like and aprecciated keep getting removed. Seems like NC-Soft alwasy do the opposite of what the community wants. The playerbase is raging, not only because of this patch, they are raging since weeks, but did you read any official statement from our so called Community Managers / Moderators? I havent, they do what they can do best, hush up and just wait until those threads dissapear at the forum nirvana, like they always do. They only getting fast and answer, when there is a problem with the shop or NCoin/Premium purchase, everything else icy silence. I dont know what they do, but for sure not their job as community manager Deffinition of a Community manager I havent seen much of this ;)

@Youmukon stated So 16 Hours befor the patch is more than enough time in advanced... ... at least for NC-Soft. its not the first and for sure not the last time NC-Soft kick players, who still support their game, in the ass and ill guess support will send you their default message its endgame gear blabla, we cant change it blabla Anyway, good luck, i hope you get a friendly supporter who will change your badge.

Well thats of course a good excuse to reduce droprates any further right? Why they need to reduce the droprate of the Alpha Coin fragments at Boss 1 and 2 at DEN and why strangely 2 weeks before the trove? Was hard enough to farm the neck on my main, now i need twice the time to get it for my alt, thats what i call motivating players... Why you need two Mao-gloves for breakthrough and why you cant buy them at the merchent. They are worth 1 Alphacoin when you salvage them, so make them available at the merchant for 1 Alphacoin. its a freaking Breakthrough assessoir. And dont come its for a legendary item thats BS. Even Breakthrough Ring and Earings for TT assessouirs are dropping in ever freaking run in RT and SST. You think this is ok? Thats how you expell even the most patient player. F2P? Are we still talking about the same game? Oh see you mean this F2P model

Maybe because we are still stupid enough to throw our money down their throat?

Well its a simple calculation. more and more players leave the game so you need something to keep the income up or even better rising, what do you do, push out some new stuff and make it available to the shop while farming this stuff will take a lifetime and no one can do. as i said and as @ItSome1said I think 1 or 2 month after the 4th birthday BnS is history in EU/NA it will come to a fast end with a short time announcement like it happend to MxM

Na ja, das Unity System war von anfang an reines Pay2Win, die Chancen durch Verbesserung einen Lila oder gar Legendären stein zu bekommen sind geringer als die chance das die an einem Freitag dem 13ten um punkt 13:13:13 Uhr eine Boing 737 auf den Kopf fällt. Ist doch das gleiche, wie sie uns damals nach Strich und Faden verarscht haben mit der Strahlenden Energie. Erst großmäulig ankündigen "Wir tauschen euch Strahlende Energie in Juwelenpulver um" und dann keine 24 Stunden vor dem Patch nen rückzieher machen und den Leuten 10 Gold anbieten. Nach dem Shitstorm haben sie dan eingelenkt und den leuten noch mal 5 Gold extra gegeben. Die Begründung war dann die Beste. "Nach sorgfältiger Überlegung kamen wir zu dem Schluß, das ein Umtausch von Strahlender Energie in Juwelenpulver den Markt zu negativ beeinflußen würde" oder so ähnlich. Den einzigen Markt, den das beeinflußt hätte, wäre F10 gewesen, den noch in der Nacht von Mittwoch auf Donnerstag, als der Shop aktualisiert wurde, war Juwelenpulver im Angebot des Tages. Ich meine klar die Developer und der Publisher müssen Leben und sollen auch ihr Geld verdienen. Was NC-Soft jedoch abzieht ist schon richtig dreiste Abzocke vom feinsten. Die Größte Frechheit ist dann noch, das man die Kisten nur für Echtgeld aber nicht mit HM-Coins kaufen kann. P2W vom feinsten. Ich hoffe nur, nachdem der bayrische Landtag nun beschlossen hat zu überprüfen, ob Loot / RNG Boxen als Glücksspiel gelten, das Deutschland den Niederlanden un Belgien folgt und diesen Mist per Gesetz verbietet. Jeder soll seine "Brötchen" Verdienen kein Thema, und natürlich müssen Publisher geschäftlich denken und Vorgehen damit sie nicht Pleite machen, alles kein Thema. Wenn ich dann jedoch sehe, was wir für 3 Sterne Krits in der letzten Trove hatten, grenzt das schon hart an Betrug und ist an Dreistigkeit kaum noch zu überbieten. Zur Erinnerung...

Kind of reminds me about MxM a few month befor the server have been shut down ;) I start thinking, we wont be able to celebrate the 4th birthday in NA/EU

Calm down, when you got your gear to finaly do endcontent its already outdated an mechs are removed or nerfed to oblivion whil the rush for next endcontend already is running. So no need to learn mech or even your class [/sarcasm] BnS has become a fultime job daily overtime inclusive when you want keep up. Alternatively, if you dont have an unlimited creditcard, you are free to sell your kidney and/or firstborn to the russian/chineese mafia and just buy your stuff in F10. Thats why so many already left the game and more will follow. My motivation is gone after 3.5 years and i realy loved the game, but now i just dont want to even log in. Premium will run another 2 or 3 weeks, then it will be cancled. Maybe i will go and rent a comfortable nice little ark survival server for the money a save for premium on an publisher who does everything to kick their custumers backpart...

Da zitiere ich doch immer wieder gerne die dreisteste Lüge die ich jemals von einem Punlisher gelesen habe xD https://www.bladeandsoul.com/de/news/business-model-revealed/ Kann man NC-Soft eigentlich nicht oft genug unter die Nase reiben ;)

Seriously? Dude are we talking about the same game anymore? When it is so easy to get oils, why are so less people having a True Tiger soul or Higher, why so less people dont have a high heart / Amulett and why are so less people having upgraded badges? The only way to get oils quikly is swiping your creditcard, a friend always had max soul after trove but spend a few 100- 1000 keys. It took me three goddamned years to get an awakend tiger soul stage 1 doing every event on 2-4 chars to get the neede oils and you tell me is easy to get oils? What fantasyworld you are living in?

Oh rly? you know you need freaking Oils to upgrad that damn Badge, dont you? Not able to change the badge would mean you need a second one and you need to upgrade it and again you need oils. So money is a damn good reason to remove a very much liked feature wich most players wanted be permanent. But NC-Soft did what they always do, Removing the good thinks while keeping the bad ones. Sometimes i ask myself if you are a secret employe and getting paid for defending every crap, or you just hoping to get a job as forum moderator?

Ich bin zwar nicht direkt betroffen, aber war schon ganz angenehm ab und zu mal mit meinem twink sum zwischen Schwarm und Dornen zu wechseln. Irendwie frustriert das Spiel nurnoch, ständige Ninjanerfs diverser dropraten, z.B. Vermächtnis der Bestien, anfang juni rechtzeitig zur Trove mal eben die Droprate der Münzfragmente bei Boss 1 und 2 um locker 50% reduziert. Mein Twink müsste jetzt also locker doppelt so viele runs als mein Main für die Kette machen. Positive Dinge werden entfernt, weil alles was kritisiert wird auf taube Ohren stößt. ich wollte mein Twink eigentlich auf TT Gear ziehen, den Ohrring hab ich auf 10, der ring liegt im Lager, aber mir ist die Motivation abhanden gekommen. Nach diesen Patchnotes noch mehr. Premium ist gekündigt, wenns ausläuft werd ich ne auszeit nehmen und ich weiss nicht ob ich wieder zurück komme. Hatte ich schon im Dezember 2018 getan und bin nur aufgrund des Drängens eines Kumpels zum Awakening-Patch zurückgekommen. Und unsere Moderatoren scheren sich nen Dreck um die Community,im englischen Forum gibt es einige Threads, wie z.B. diesen Da kommt nicht ein Kommentar von useren Moderatoren, die ja eigentlich für die Kommunikation zwischen der Community und dem Publisher zuständig sind. Na ja, von Kommunikation kann man hier eh nicht reden, da ist es Sinvoller mit der Wand hinter meinem Monitor zu reden, von der wird man vermutlich eher eine Antwort bekommen als hier von ofizieller Seite (zuminest wenn es nicht um Probleme mit dem Kauf von NCoins oder dem HM-Shop geht, denn da sind die richtig schnell)

1. https://forums.bladeandsoul.com/topic/243646-information-regarding-the-future-of-mysticsoul-badges-accessories-and-new-tower-of-infinity-badges/ 2. https://forums.bladeandsoul.com/topic/243646-information-regarding-the-future-of-mysticsoul-badges-accessories-and-new-tower-of-infinity-badges/?page=3&tab=comments#comment-2052415 Well i dont consider 16 hours enough time in advanced. The patchnotes where released when most EU-Players already went to bed. Anyway, yes it was announced as a temporary feature, but it was one of the best features they ever added cause you could switch between elements without any problems. It was one of the very rare features that got positive feedback and people always say they want to keep it. Who should take NC-Soft seriously when they tell "We take your feedback seriously" but than do exact the opposite of the players feedback? Things with bad feedback wont change at all, thinks with good feedback get removed. This feature wasnt gamebraking, it didnt harm anyone, in converse it made it much more easy for people to try new things and switch between elements. Do you realy think i now would change my element and maybe upgrade another badge? i'd rather quit the game. There is only on damn reason why it make sense to remove this feature. MONEY and nothing else. now people have to grind their asses of again to get another badge and upgrade it cause they cant change anymore. And you still keep defending evers BS of NC-Soft that is frustrating many players making them leave the game. When NC-Soft want to get rid of NA/EU they for sure on their best way to scare of the last players. Im getting bored ot this BS NC-Soft keep doing. my premium is already cancled and when it ends i will take a break not knowing if i will come back. I realy like the game but with every patch its geting more and more frustrating.

no more questions, thanks ^^

Ja NC-Soft arbeitet wirklich extrem hart daran die letzten verbliebenen Spieler zu vergraulen. Schon komisch, da wird immer beteuert "Wir wollen euer Feedback" oder "Wir nehmen euch Ernst" und man fühlt sich echt einfach nur noch verarscht. Da wird mal etwas positiv von der Spielerschaft aufgenommen und mit positivem Feedback / Lob an NC-Soft gewürdigt (kommt ja selten genug vor) und was macht NC-Soft? Oh da haben wir etwas, das den Spielern gefällt, geht garnicht, das muss weg... Ernsthaft NC-Soft? OK das Feature war als temporäres angekündigt aber warum muss man es entfernen und kann es nicht dauerhauft im Spiel lassen und vor allem mit weniger als 24 Stunden vorankündigung? Vielleicht hätten wir die Möglichkeit, Badges umzutauschen , negativ bewerten sollen, denn alles was hier negativ als feedback kommt wird komischerweise nicht geändert. Das einzige, das die Spielerschaft in letzter Zeit positiv aufgenommen hat, wird natürlich entfernt. Ganz großes Kino NC-Soft. Wenn ihr BnS NA/EU loswerden wollt, Bravo, ihr seid auf dem richtigen Weg das Spiel endgültig zu zerstören

This becomes a HUGE issue when you upgraded your badge already Quite strange, things the playerbase dont like stay forever, and things we gave positive feedback get removed. Seems like NC-Soft works quite hard to get rid even of the last hardcore players who still play... Good Job once again NC-Soft. Maybe next time we should give negative feedback when we like something so we can keep it?

Ill guess best example was Naruy Sanctum. I cant remember any Dungeon where the mech nearly completly was removed that fast. It only took 2 or 3 month untill they removed the mech at xanos and it was a realy cool mech. :/ Instead of skyrocking the DPS they should lower it and reintroduce interesting mechanics. There is not much left, even in raids most mech is based on CCs with very view exceptions

You do realize a.) we are not in korea and b.) im not agains grinding at all but... When droprates of ressources and items get more and more cut off, to force people to spend money, its not fun anymore. When people have 150+ Mao kills and not seen a single glove, which is just a freaking break through assessouir and you need two of them, this is not grinding anymore, this became ridicolous. Another example, In may / june i farmed my mao neck it went quite well until beginning of june. After a maintenance suddenly the droprates of the Alphacoin fragments at boss 1 and boss 2 have been reduced by ~50-60% right in time for the upcomming summertrove. Surprise, surprise. I thought i start farming mao neck for one of my alts and wow droprate still is 50-60% lower then in may. Tell me how this is fair for people who start farming their stuff now. Why do they have to do twice as much runs as people who already got their stuff in the past? I need daily, weekly, BT, VT on 4 chars to fairly keep up with my gear on my main and BnS has become more and more like a full time job with overtime included. An jet i still cant upgrade my Heart, Soul, Amulett any further because i need tons of oils which are hidden behind a paywall, even i do a lot of MSP grinding during the weekends. It is gamebraking for multiple reasons 1. friends are spread over multiple Discord- and/or Teamspeak-Servers. 2. why do i need an external programm to find friends? 3. i have to tab out of the game to check for friends which often results in a gamecrash 4. not everyone is online in Discord / Teamspeak while they are ingame. Many people only use it for raids 5. any other reason Thinking about that i dont know anyone who is NOT using BnS-Buddy and that at least 25-50% of the playerbase use it i think thats a good source. At least it shows a real amount of ingame players and its not based on reddit activity. Anyway, both, the graph and the numbers posted by clearly shows a huge drop in active players.