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How Kakao & Pearl Abyss scam customers (New Class version)
deadtrack
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Black Desert Online has relied on releasing new classes every few months for the last 2-3 years. While this may sound great and seem similar to "Seasons" there is a huge problem.
- How this system is abused for profit $$$
To fully understand this you need to know a few things about the design
- Character Locked items
- Premium Outfits
- Expensive Inventory Space
- Nearly required Weight Upgrades
- Weapon Exchange
- Exp/Skill Progression
Now comes a new class release!
- The new class is MODIFIED to be completely OP upon release (Not how it plays in Korea)
- The new class may simply counter your class making it impossible for you to PVP them
- The entire META of the game shifts to the new ridiculous OP class as they dominate everything
- Your CASH investment and PLAY TIME become useless
- If you don't reroll the new class you get trolled and griefed for months
Pearl Abyss used this tactic repeatedly. Destroying the game META. RUINING the REAL LIFE CASH investments of players. It's been Blatant and intentional.
This type of business practice is only one of the many reasons both Kakao & Pearl Abyss have a terrible reputation. This was completely unnecessary. The company has not been struggling financially. This is just a way to abuse customers and lose customer moral.
Please do not endorse these business practices as this is NOT healthy for the future of MMO's.
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Comments
Ehhh... Lahn was never OP, and she's the most recent class.
Mystic was. Striker as well. DK had a brief time of being OP too. So I won't say it never happened.
But yes, that's their business model essentially. New classes are meant to make them money.
What? You somehow expected they were paying developers and artists just so you could enjoy them for free? LOL xD
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- Expand Pearl Inventory
- Better Pet Sorting based off Skills
- Aqua Farming for coral / Node for workers to gather like in Arche Age
- Better Farming System
- Better Housing System / Fame system, Housing sucks all it is is decotr / pay 2 win rank 1 housing and looks all messy.
- Undo Fishing Nerf very few afk fishers now.
At least they offer pearl inventory for storing costumes unlike Arche Age which offers no cash shop inventory.
The other unlimited customization $15 a month isn't bad comapred to other Korean MMO.
Men do not stop playing because they grow old. They grow old because they stop playing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The RNG system is illegal for minors. You can't do this in a casino
You will literally be sent to prison for this type of activity.- To deliberately destroy the value of all the upgrades spent on characters is borderline fraud.
The issue is the willful deceit to make more money. They have an incentive in this system to screw over their own customers. There is a large difference between trying something new and resulting in balance issues vs intentionally making a class completely OP with intent. This destroys the value of millions of dollars spent on all the other classes and leaves many customers feeling cheated and pissed at the company.