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MassivelyOP is brutal against Bless MMO
TheScavenger
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http://massivelyop.com/2018/06/28/the-soapbox-the-western-port-of-bless-online-feels-like-a-curse/
Noteworthy because MassivelyOP almost always lays off the "punches" and downplays negativity. They tend to be quite a bit laidback in their reviews. For them to come out and destroy Bless in their review shows a lot of the current state of Bless.
And this shows how bad the classes are designed, I never heard class design THIS bad (quote from the article)
"Paladins begin the game with a single non-chain skill, Concentration, which reduces the cooldown of five skills when activated. The problem, however, is that you don’t unlock the first of those five skills until level 21. Who thought it was a good idea to give a class a skill that is literally 100% useless for a good 20 levels? That’s nearly halfway to the level cap before you can make use of a skill that you have from the beginning of the game."
Speaks for itself
Noteworthy because MassivelyOP almost always lays off the "punches" and downplays negativity. They tend to be quite a bit laidback in their reviews. For them to come out and destroy Bless in their review shows a lot of the current state of Bless.
And this shows how bad the classes are designed, I never heard class design THIS bad (quote from the article)
"Paladins begin the game with a single non-chain skill, Concentration, which reduces the cooldown of five skills when activated. The problem, however, is that you don’t unlock the first of those five skills until level 21. Who thought it was a good idea to give a class a skill that is literally 100% useless for a good 20 levels? That’s nearly halfway to the level cap before you can make use of a skill that you have from the beginning of the game."
Speaks for itself
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"Each faction is comprised of four different races, but I’m certainly stretching the definition of “different,” as one race – the Mascu, which I can only describe as the result of unethical genetic experiments crossing Guild Wars 2’s Asura with Final Fantasy XIV’sLalafell – is available to both factions, and the other races are exact mirrors of one another, identical in every respect save for their names.
On the Hieron side, you’ve got the requisite human-analogue Habicht, the forest-dwelling Sylvan Elves, and the uncreatively, inaccurately, and somewhat unfortunately-named Lupus, who, despite the name, are more catlike than anything. On the Unión side, you’ve got the Amistad, the Aqua Elves, and the equally uncreatively but more accurately and not quite as unfortunately named Pantera. The lack of distinct races for each faction, or at least any effort to differentiate each race from its parallel on the opposing faction, smacks of laziness to me."
The gaming landscape has truly hit new lows with this relaunch bullshit. This game is the most obvious amateur level cash grab I think I've ever seen.
I self identify as a monkey.
Its disingenuous to accuse the author of just "piling on."
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Pure evil genius in taking a game with three previous releases that failed spectacularly and convincing gamers that "this time" things would be better.
Even now there are those who give the devs a pass believing all will be fixed when the game officially releases.
ROFL, I'm almost in tears when I see such hope, nay, faith this will come to pass.
Genius I tell you.
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
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Could also try for regional versions in Brazil, India, N. Korea..
Then they can fix/upgrade it all again and relaunch in prevously failed markets.
People will buy it, gamers are stupid about their money.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
News stopped being news a long time ago. There hasn't been one legitimate gaming website on the internet for years. It's all advertising. If you want a real review, just play the game yourself or ask your friend. They will be blunt and to the point and they won't subject you to a myriad of advertisements along the way.
If this thread gets enough post count, I'm sure some OP Ed will end up on the site written by some noteworthy person suggesting that through scholarly research and intensive gameplay they were able to come to the same conclusion as you did.
You do not have to be "brutal", call the game cursed or any other shouty man nonsense borrowed from video reviews on You Tube.
The review on this site mentioned every single issue we had talked about in the forums, you don't need to act like the Incredible Hulk to get that across.
Despite its attempt to be humorous title I found nothing "shouty" about it in any way.
It is thorough, well presented and if it comes across as a bit hard hitting, I have no issue with it, Bless deserves a good smackdown.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
The game's just an objectively poor effort. Again, even Aeria Games knew it and bailed before the release for that very reason.
"the fact is that Bless is poorly optimized, riddled with buggy shenanigans, and nowhere near finished, much less polished, enough to warrant Neowiz actually charging people money to play it."
"Do I think Bless is a fun game? No. Obviously. Could it, with enough effort from the developers, become a fun game? Maybe. But at the rate things have been going, it seems increasingly unlikely that it’s going to happen any time before the sun implodes, heralding the end of days. Or before the game starts hemorrhaging money and gets shut down, which hopefully will happen first."
Now to be fair it is not as bad as shouty men on You Tube, but it is borrowing the sort of drama and language that they use. My concern is that gamers now expect that sort of nonsense in written gaming articles.
To me the MMORPG.com review which gave it 5.5 was smack down enough. I know we are supposed to give anything we like a ten and anything we don't like a one, but the 5.5 was enough to tell me posters opinions had been confirmed, don't buy it.
Edit: They do a lot of clickbaity stuff too which I can't really respect, either. I think a lot of what they do is just to get attention.
Trying to gloss over or handle Neowiz with kit gloves is a much larger disservice than a little bit of hyperbole.
EDIT- remember, the article is a second look at Bless a month after launch. If you read the article end to end, you would know that they were checking back in to see if Neowiz had made good faith efforts to fix some of the most glaring issues. The article found Neowiz wanting. The italicized parts are criticism based on that.
To me you should realise it is a shoddy effort from the review, and both reviews do that. MOP just felt the need to add drama. Indeed so much drama that one of our posters felt the need to do a thread about it here. I doubt MMORPG.com's review got talked about as much because it did not say the game was "cursed" and so on.
I hope that gaming sites and also any magazines do not get effected by the language on social media, which is becoming the way we communicate in every medium.
The article backed up its criticisms with full explanations of the issues. Adding in hyperbole isn't uncommon in any realm for an opinion piece, which is what that article is.
Any retorts toward what was actually said? *Puts on reading glasses* nope.
Motivation? I'm absolutely interested in knowing why.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Worst part is that, for a time, I though it was me; I thought it must have been because I have outgrown MMOs and I am not the target audience any more. Luckily — or maybe not, because it means I am still craving a good one — it wasn't me.