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Tell that to Final Fantasy. Matter of fact, google "HousingSnap" or "HGXIV". Then tell me again that it signals the end of the game. If anything signals the end of a game, I think long periods of silenced followed by RNG boxes back to back might be a bit alarming, don't you? Or is that the only thing players know now. Did it become the new normal here? Because that's how it's looking every time I check back in lol

Oh that's blatantly traced. LMAOOOO THE LEGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bruh...even her breasts are the literal same size as the original ldsjfljkf THE BULLETS FLYING FROM THE GUN Ok so that's art theft. If you've never seen what art theft looks like, this is it. This is the perfect example. It's literally traced and then they just drew different clothes on it and colored it differently. It's like if I traced Mickey Mouse but made his ears green and called him Macky Moose....like girl, thats still Mickey Mouse!!!!!!!!!!! I know it can be hard to tell when someone's stealing something because there is a plethora of art out there, especially on sites like pixv or konachan or wherever else big wallpapery ones come from-but if one sneaks by, you gotta nip it all the same. So it wasn't as obvious as Mickey Mouse, but it was still a tracing nonetheless. And unless you wanna change the rules to "you can trace and recolor other peoples art too, thats fine" unless you wanna let EVERYONE do that from the jump?! You gotta take that person out. *Edit - and before I see some geeky "no that isnt art theft" oh yes it is!! Tell me how thatd make you feel if you spent hours getting a perspective drawn just right just for some ugly to run up, trace it, and get a reward for it. It's one thing if you're tracing for clout, but if you're tracing for a PRIZE?? Honey you better split that reward with the person who's back you just jumped off of to go claim it!! Dude only drew some eyes, the rest was just playing coloring book!! lmaoo

Hate to specifically show up to post the equivalent to an "I told you so" post, but that's exactly what I'm going to do. In the what, 5 months I've quit now? The CMs are still shying away and the community is eating itself alive. A big problem with the west experience has always been the playerbase. No, don't get offended-don't get in your feelings. Just because it isnt specifically you being a jerk doesnt mean it isnt many others. In both PvE and PvP there are people who just have no regard for anyone else and act out and argue every chance they get. and there's nothing you can do about it because reporting them won't do anything. This time it's PvPers, blatantly calling people the r-word on reddit, thumping their acne-ridden sweat stained walmart boughten shirt wearing chests about how they're so great at pvp that they need a whole alliance to avoid pvping so they can just pk newbies instead. Poetry. and oh somethingsomething "w-well the alliance is b-because they wanted it s-so" Yes sweetheart! I'm sure it is, I'm sure they begged for your royal help and like the gracious hunchbacks Homerun turned out to be (or whoever they are, honestly never heard of them before yesterday and I'm sure I'll never hear of them again), they slap happily said "why yessiree!!" and formed a super team that would never have to actually fight again. Which completely makes sense. You know, for whatever reason I used to think PvP clans would say things like 'no mercy!!' and claim things for their own but what's all the point in that anyway, fighting on their own. Caving into easy ways out is as competitive as it gets-the pinnacle of competitive in fact. I don't think many of you are realizing the greatness you're witnessing here, hope you're all taking notes. "W-well we fight the rich asian guilds" Yes sweetie!! and I'm sure if they offered you a seat at the table, you'd fold to that too so no you're still not amazing except in the sense of how both cowardly and ugly you actually are. Strong emphasis on ugly, pick a struggle. Anyways as fun as it is dragging PvPers the one time they leave the 6v6 cave, there bigger issue is again lack of communication on NCWests part. I've been lurking and noticed that the responses are getting shorter and rarer. Cyans post in reddit didn't even have an apology, once they realized the mats for the oils thing was wrong. Dude literally popped up like "everything in the stream was wrong, andnoneforgretcheneiners bye" Sis!!!!! I know you hate it but at least fake it!!!!!!!!!!! You've seen Jonathan grit his teeth and probably seethe when he was there but what he do to his paying customers?! Smile through the tears, and so can you-so can all of you!! If you keep this up, you'll end up like TERA's support which is so bad they literally abandoned their forum and only talk to customers through a tightly controlled hugbox discord server. Don't let that become you!! You have to remember, your lack of initiative impacts thousands of people every single day with these patches. Of course you're going to deal with hate. It's part of the job. These people are paying money and relying on you to take action on their behalf. When they don't see it, they rage and quit. and when they quit, your higher ups dont like that, do they? So who's fault is it? ONLY koreas? Are you sure you're doing everything you can do when you get in that office? Are you sure?? Have you tried being bolder? You don't get promotions sticking your head in the sand anyway nor do you get more fans from it. Either way the unemployment line is breathing down your neck-so are you doing everything you can potentially do before you need to contact EDD? Just think about it. Alright goodluck everyone else!

So I've been gone for like a month or so now and comparing BnS to other games I've played in the past as well as the games I'm now playing presently, BnS is in an actual awful state and really needs to start shaping up big time. BnS isnt offering anything that other MMOs arent anymore. If anything, BnS is more expensive all around. It demands more playtime, more money, more studying for raids and even some simple dungeons. It's an uphill fight of a game. Even costumes are an uphill fight. You have to wait out rotations, try your luck gambling, then wait for an entire year or two if you miss out/can't drop $100 on the slot machines. On the topic of gearing, now that I play XIV I see how disgustingly greedy BnS really is lol. The cost of things are so insanely high and the gearing just never ends. I get that it's an MMO, I've played MMO's for almost 15 solid years now. I get it. but BnS just chokes their playerbase way way way too much with how difficult and expensive it is for players to gear. Too much money, WAY too time consuming. You have to let players still have actual lives as well as pay their actual bills. The point of the game should never have become just gearing anyway. The point of an MMO is the experiences, the memories. and the current team just doesnt think about that at all. I dont know how else to put it in words. but what I know without a doubt now is that both free players and players paying are not getting the experience out of the game that they should be getting. and that there's nothing that sets BnS apart from anything else out there anymore. If you play anything else at this point (aside from like bdo), you will get way more for the time and money you spend. I don't know how to put my feelings into words. but I wish everyone the best.

Figured I had enough experience to speak on this but of course note that my experiences won't be the exact same as everyone else's. BnS is probably the 4th MMO that I played long term (more than 2years). There's no way around it, it currently has the absolute worst community out of all of them. It's always been a pretty bad one, but overtime it only got worse. Most people don't like talking. They take the game super seriously so they log in, do obligatory things and log out all the while wanting no one to get in their way. No, they don't want to teach you anything. They fully expect you to read a guide and not ask a single question. A lot of people will say "just speak up if you dont know something" if you do that in a lobby, they'll kick you lol. And if you do it mid run it's about 70% chance someone will act like their time is money and they can't believe you'd have the nerve to join without watching a 40 minute how to video. "just join a guild" They're not going to want to help you either for the most part. Some are very nice though and will try. but understand that's kinda rare and what more often than not ends up happening is you get invited into lobbies where you just get speed carried through for the daily-which is great and all but you learn nothing that way, so the moment you have to go it alone you're back to square one. PvP? odds are someones streaming and calling you an idiot openly in front of 80 viewers or something. Raiding? You better have big dps and experience/know every tiny thing otherwise oh my god, you'll cause a WIPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and those make people hulk SMASH their keyboards in ANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE you ruined their 30 second clear-they just wont know what to do with themselves and then you'll pop up in some BnS discords blacklist for not knowing mechs. You know, I could just go on and on. To sum it up, it doesn't get better. It doesnt. Sure you can make great friends but they're going to get tired of what's going on and they're going to quit and then you'll be right stuck back to these people who get sweaty over every single thing in this honestly basic cuteseywootsie game. Only MMO I havent played is BDO so I don't know about that one but the others I've tried have never so consistently had such a problem with anti-social + extremely easily angered players the way BnS does. It's just so common. It's seriously so common in BnS to be angry all the time. and that's not normal. It's not normal, it's not healthy, it's not where to be unless you bring a set of friends with you and when those friends quit, just quit too.

No it isn't, stop excusing poor performance. What job do you have that makes you believe any of this insanely unprofessional patch is ok..? In all the years I've worked in customer service not only did I need to know the brand itself inside and out, but I needed to know details about every product they had and what other choices were out there and how to help all customers regardless of their mood-I had to be a walking google search. So tell me what it is about being a CM that suddenly makes it ok to know absolutely nothing, dig their heads in the sand and go "oopsie woopsie xP!!! srry bois n grrls!! we thought none of that was important uwu kowea didnt tellwed us OwO!!" What makes it ok to know nothing about the brand they work for, nothing about the game they're representing, nothing that's in the patches, + have no idea how to deal with customers and constantly opt to ignore them instead. What makes it ok for them to sit around on their smartphones during office hours instead of answering customers in the forums and preparing for stream they do barely even once a month?? They've been acting like it's their first day on the job for 6 months now. and people were so busy coddling them out of spite for our previous team that they didn't want to hear or see it. They just uwu'd along and let it keep happening. and now here we finally are, 0 communication or effort anymore because at this point they don't feel like they even NEED to communicate since they get headpats for sitting and breathing. and NOW all the sudden people are like 'hey wait whats going on'. Went on a tangent-point is; It's not the customers fault, it's NC/CM's fault. It's their job to tell customers what's coming up and what to do and they failed that. Blade and Soul died it's final death when King Jonathan Balenciaga Lien left. He might not have cared about the game itself much, but at the very least he did still care about the customer service part of his job and took it very seriously. He came on time, he came prepared, he came informed, and he did those streams to the best of his ability even when he was half drunk crawling on the floors eyes rolling out of his head during the holidays. His backbone remained intact at all times as well. I had hoped that ones remaining that had worked with him before would at least be inspired by his work ethic enough to step up to the plate just as strongly themselves but I was sorely sorely mistaken.

Logged in specifically to tell you that you're wrong. Yes it was sneaky. Or more like, they probably felt too "anxious" to deal with streaming that and just opted out of doing it entirely. Which is no excuse and actually made things worse. RNG boxes are always told about and shown to us via stream just about a week before they come out. I've been screenshotting streams for people who missed them for 2 years now. We always see the RNG boxes and everything new that comes to F10. If you think they don't, I'm inclined to say that you've never actually watched their streams. The length of the badges being there isn't the problem, the problem is that they were supposed to give players plenty of warning time so that they could get their final use out of them/swap them back before it was time to settle into main spec. It's like a landlord telling you that you're abruptly evicted a week in advance vs 12 hours in advance. Obviously, you won't be ready in just 12 hours and chaos will ensue. This is the issue. Again, because you're a little unique, the problem is the lack of warning time.

Oh yeah forgot something, apparently couldnt be bothered to do a stream this time?? What's going on there. Is there a procrastination issue? There are some super last minute announced things in those patch notes too like the spec swaps. At this point it's actually unprofessional. What are you doing?? What are you guys doing. lol How swamped are you that you can only respond in the forum once every 3 weeks, can't do streams anymore, can't take a screenshot to post in your event news page, and can't write an event page without word padding. Had no idea CMs were busier than government workers-try rock paper scissoring who should do what a couple days in advance so there won't be any more "I thought you were going to do that" confusion the day before a patch or whatevers going on there.

Too much arguing back and forth, makes the eyes glaze over. I've been playing with the same group for about 2 years now and all of us at this point are on break or super casuals now. Here are the reasons why; 1. Too much lag. When I watch their streams, often there is server lag where they all freeze during a raid. Usually happens on Wednesdays. Very inconvenient/frustrating to deal with. 2. Repetitive events without much or dull rewards. If it's not an great deal, there's no point to it. Sorry, not logging in. 3. Ugly costume releases/good costumes again walled behind gambling 4. Fumbled costume contest 5. CM's slacking a bit. Now this one is a big thing for me. I'm really not trying to be mean, you're nice people. but I'm not seeing the A game. I'm seeing the...'let me look busy until it's time to leave' game. Which I do too-I get it, I know time drags and it gets boring and you're hungry and wanna go home and back to sleep. but with your jobs it's much harder to get away that with because it actually does impact the game and it's entire playerbase when you're only giving half the effort. Compare your event pages to ones of the past. What's missing? Important to the point information. There's way too much wordplay, it's like when you're trying to stretch an essay for a better grade. Maybe like, do one line of catchphrase, then get straight to business. The charts are good, you're fine there. But you never post the event costumes either. You just put a name. Personally find this a bit insulting. Come on. Take a screenshot of the costumes and post them. Again, go back and look at previous announcement news pages. Put in the effort. You not even showing us what's coming doesn't encourage us to go look in game to see what it is, it just says you don't even care to do that and that we have nothing to look forward to so we can just skip that event too. It's one button. Screenshot. 6. Forum pleas/ideas/feedback ignored. 7. Game lacks in social things to do. Fishing was a great step, until everyone realized it was a huge gold sinking ripoff. If you could add something to fishing so that it was no longer such a blatant scam, that could breathe that fresh air back into the game that was there upon it's first day of release. Tired of not being listened to. Moving to dbd and xiv until there's finally some good news again. Take care

Please either pick different people to select the final "11" or allow players to actually pick from 11 instead of 5 next time, I am actually begging you. Like not to be rude, but this turned out to be the equivalent of having my mom pick the final 5. Thanks.

Even if they spoke up on the front page when they first posted it to the public emphasizing that we would only be picking from 5 like they should have done in the first place which they didn't do, it still would have been wrong because there's no way we should be picking from such a small amount selected by people who for the most part could not care less. Because they're employees their opinions are going to be whimsical at best with maybe a lazy dev or two chiming in on the "harder" to make ones probably putting them down for obvious reasons. If they just wanted to choose themselves they should have said so so that artists would have known not to play themselves like that and draw up these submissions for it to not even matter because the majority of the community will never see or know about them.

No one's going to spit on me and tell me it's raining, that's not happening. It should be 11 choices posted. Not 5. There's more I want to say, but simply can't. You put both us voters and the artists themselves in an awkward situation with this. Because I don't want to sound like I'm slapping certain people who I'm sure worked very hard on their submission but at the time it's hard to say what needs to be said without doing so. When I went back to find the previous contest posts, they were deleted. But at least some can be seen talking about it. The fact is that every year we choose from 11. The first year, the CM's chose. That was how the Alice one was the winner. This caused a big fuss of anger/irritation. If you google "Costume design winner is disappointing blade and soul" the topic comes up. After that first year, they gave the choice completely over to the players since having them (the CM's) choose didn't go over well at all/wound up being such a disaster. I bring this up to say that what you're doing now is very similar to that. You are for some reason re-taking most of the decision making. You don't play this game. I've seen one or two of you stream it and I can say with ease that you are not frequent players. So your opinions on what is and isn't good to be frank, are not very stable. Again, I'm not trying to be mean. But what I'm saying is let us decide. You do not know what's best. Post 11, not 5. Those 5 are not enough.

I actually missed that part about the dev team I'd hate to think that some of the top 5 chosen were selected merely because they would be very easy to implement considering they do look quite a bit like a few things we already have. This wouldn't have anything to do with laziness on the development teams end would it..? Please release the other 6 choices if not!

Please undo the change is what we're saying, because it ...you're very lovely. You're a nice person so I, I'm really not trying to talk down or swat at you like you're a kid. But this is a bit disappointing to hear is what we're trying to communicate. The way it worked before is what we're used to and feels a lot better, if you don't mind. Especially considering we've already seen what a few of the others look like and we like them enough that we're confused as to why they're not being shown. Most likely they're in the top 11, but not your personal top 5. and that's the problem. We're not really fully choosing anymore. Choosing from 11 oh that's plenty. Choosing from 5 though? Ehh All you'd have to do is include the other 5 or 6 images in the post, it's not too late to go back and add them so please reconsider

Do I need to link all the previous contests. It's never been done like this. We've always chosen from at least about 10. What is even Why are we only choosing from 5 if there's 11, I-

My problem with this event is the rewards. The reward box of costumes is almost an exact duplicate of the rewards box from the event we just had which was a duplicate of the event selection box that came right before it. In other words, they are giving us the exact same costume reward selection boxes every event now. I've really been holding off on saying anything because at this point, I actually have nothing nice to say anymore. but I'm trying my best today. This is a very bad look. I don't know what's going on. Why is it the exact same selections? What is lacking at NC right now that this is the decision they keep coming to? What are you lacking? Do you need to hire another person? Because you're missing something that's clear as day and I'm trying as hard as I can to not be rude but, I think you might need another person on your team Maybe just one more person to go "hey! lets stop giving them the same thing over and over again!" I don't know, maybe that's not a common thought. Maybe it has to be someone new, a different take. A different angle. Because right now, again, it's the same box over and over again. Ok? I don't appreciate that every new costume is walled behind gambling. That's gambling. What you are doing is forcing players to gamble if they want a new costume. All of the other F10 releases have been old things only. The only exception will be the new swimsuit tomorrow. But that exception is not because you are being gracious, it's because it's the same mandatory exception we get every year. Ok? So the problem here is that for a while, while the old team was still in town, we got a lot of new costumes just sold to us outright in F10 with no gambling involved. And now here we are back to recycled rags with the added perk of repeating event costumes and then everything new is gated by RNG gambling. You're not clever, you're not slick. This needs to stop. Yes there are black wings. Oo aah, there are wings every event now. Recolors of the same hideous wings. What more could a person want. Well it turns out a lot more, because we flooded this forum with ideas of old things to bring back and not one of them were brought back. Ok? So I don't know what's going. I don't know who's passing what information on or if there's anyone even doing that, but let's begin with the point that this costume selection box thing needs to stop. Please do not put that same box in the next event. If you do it, please make them all completely different costumes. Ideally ones that players have asked for here. Thank you.

I had a lot to say but then deleted it all thank god. If I ever turn into the type of person to focus entirely on gearing to the point where I tell others to stop liking fun and cosmetics please burn my computer and open my front door.

I like how CMs issue warnings and then completely ignore the concerns players bring up, that's a really lovely interesting feature of the blade and soul experience. Anyway, the playerbase isn't small lol. If you go to places players stand around the most you'll see there's actually quite a lot. Now, are there 100,000 on at a time? No, it's an MMO. Not Fortnite. You're never going to see FOTM game numbers in an MMO other than it's first month of release. Your problem here won't be the playerbase, it'll be when you have a problem/complaint/feedback and quickly realize that no one outside of other players cares. Let me say that again for a little more emphasis, no one will care. Have a nice day enjoy bladeandsoul!

WHOA!!! Are you me, from like 4 days ago?? I sent a message to support asking them to move it or at least make it bound to account but they rejected me lol. Told me to go post about it instead, which I usually take as a very lovely little way of telling me how much they love and support their customers thoughts and opinions here at blade and soul online since nothing posted here ever makes a difference anymore these days. I mean but who knows, maybe this very post will ACTUALLY result in something being done. Maybe this is it, maybe this is the time to shine. Maybe THIS post will magically be a situation where in fact an action is actually taken, instead of uh...written down on a little pad and then tucked away to go on break where it's then completely forgotten about which is what I imagine happens to everything else we ask for that never gets mentioned ever again (see; the costume request thread) Please make Secretkeeper Bound to Account, if you do I promise to be very proud of you for doing the bare minimum

Reminder that video games didnt exist until RNG boxes came out and that it's way better to spend $80 gambling for a set instead of $50 to get it guaranteed.

Make threads saying how much you want more Gon/Yun classes without crying about Lyns. If you can't actually back what you want then of course you'll never get it. Companies will always support what makes them the most. So prove what you want is worth a profit instead of shouting how something else isnt. Anyway uhhhh yeah, KR in what 2 or 3 weeks? So NA/EU would be 2 months or so after

Finals week, tired Make vouchers cost less and people will buy them more and be happier that they get to change more freely. Happy customers, more sales, will never happen though enjoy the new patch

I honestly would have rolled out of my chair and onto the floor if he responded to a post from like, beta period. Now THAT would have been a conquest, but I can appreciate the effort in this too. I cracked a smile, I had a lil fun. I'm sure there's a 'something something necro' but if you're going to do it, go for the high score everyone

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan...I saw that a Moderator replied and was so juiced for an actual response...and here it is just a comment telling some chihuahuas to stop yapping smdh

I don't know. I don't know, it could just be me but ....what's the problem with people speaking in their language again? Maybe it's because I live by San Francisco, so I'm used to hearing people speaking all kinds of different languages everyday everywhere I go, because I'm just really struggling to see what's so bad about it here. Someone speaking their language doesn't rob you of your ability to speak yours. I can understand in the case of like...you make a party and no one speaks English, so you can't explain rolls in case there's a wipe. THAT makes sense. But like, casual do-nothing shootin the breeze faction chat??? idk just talk anyway? People who speak English will still respond to you. Unless they're a big baby and decide if they can't be the only language that they're just gonna delete faction from their tabs I guess. idk the whole things weird to me. NC should just make more chat channels. Which has been suggested about 10 times in the last month alone. Something something feedback always greatly appreciated, something allegedly my conspiracy.