Why'd they take down pre-order packages days before release? Kinda stinks for those of us on the edge
Well for the biggest package the game do release in 24 hours
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Black Desert Online Closed Beta Thread: Works on F2P? No, money down!
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Well for the biggest package the game do release in 24 hours
Stiler
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Why'd they take down pre-order packages days before release? Kinda stinks for those of us on the edge
I guess buying the game before launch is no longer a "pre order" in their eyes.
Well for the biggest package the game do release in 24 hours
Still doesn't make much sense though, they could have sold all the packages up until base-game release date and just made a point of when headstart is so if you bought it late you (obviously) wouldn't get that many days.
Mad Season
Banned
No more
Preorder is stupid.o well
Preorder is stupid.o well
I know people already replied, but no one mentioned the game will show your family name above every character you make, like this:
<Family Name>
<Character Name>
So while it is technically your account name, it's still a part of every character you make. If immersion is your thing you can still change it if you don't want the numbers. You only have until the 27th to do so, though. There's a link on the name reservation page at the bottom for it.
Mad Season
Banned
Ok so I got the pre-order but where do I download the client?
Phreakuency
Banned
The previous beta download is still working so I'd get this now and patch it when the live update gets added.
edit: apparently this is the latest one.
http://akamai-gamecdn.blackdeserton...etup/BlackDesertOnlineSetup_20160221_1005.exe
edit: That above link is from the official email going out now to pre-orders. Go go!
edit: apparently this is the latest one.
http://akamai-gamecdn.blackdeserton...etup/BlackDesertOnlineSetup_20160221_1005.exe
edit: That above link is from the official email going out now to pre-orders. Go go!
Aadrian1234
Banned
Oh, i know how it shows up, i was hoping the game doesn't treat it as a last name. I know other MMO's that have used a <First Name> <Last Name> format and used the full name, i was hoping black desert didn't, because of how names work differently here. Unfortunately, the name i usually use in games is taken. Both character and family name, so i decided to use my regular username as a family name (IE, that will be my account name) and my character name be my character's full name (So for example, Adrian would be my in-game name).
If anyone plays Phantasy Star Online 2, Black Desert's family name and character name works exactly the same as in PSO2's account name and character name, right?
Phreakuency
Banned
Their lists of inclusions seem to suggest no. (Even though if you bought the same package earlier it gave you a headstart).
Ah, bummer. Snooze you lose I guess. I'll just keep an eye on impressions. =)
This is the first MMORPG in years that manages to excite me. There are so many interesting and complex systems to learn, its just so much more interesting than all the other MMOs on the market right now.
I dont understand the people that complain about "endgame content". There are guild wars over nodes, zones and castles. There are complex trading, crafting, fishing, horse breeding, summonable guild bosses, open dungeons. Naval battles are coming. The world is HUGE, and the lack of fast travel makes it exciting to explore.
Its 10 times more interesting than repeating the same boring daily quests for hours, or small dungeons obsessively ran to gain slightly better loot, to complete the same dungeon slightly faster.
I dont understand the people that complain about "endgame content". There are guild wars over nodes, zones and castles. There are complex trading, crafting, fishing, horse breeding, summonable guild bosses, open dungeons. Naval battles are coming. The world is HUGE, and the lack of fast travel makes it exciting to explore.
Its 10 times more interesting than repeating the same boring daily quests for hours, or small dungeons obsessively ran to gain slightly better loot, to complete the same dungeon slightly faster.
Balmung421
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It's why I am so excited to play this. For once I can do something different in an MMO besides loot treadmill endgame. Building rafts, fishing, designing/buying a home, nodes...it's all so exciting.
Hell, I probably won't even hit endgame levels at first because of the open world PvP.
I think I'll level a couple of chars of levels to 40 (where you're sitll safe) and try to learn all of the things the game offers (craft, gathering, node stuff, workers)... I want to know how everything works and step into the endgame PvP totally prepared.
Honestly, I was incredibly overwhelmed with all of the stuff available on the beta. Yeah, I'm actually a little intimidated lol That's why I'm going to take it extremely slow.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
It is not designed to be first and last name. It's the account name. It does not treat 'Family Name' as your last name and only references your character name in game but the account name does appear above all of your characters as it is a way of tying all of your characters to the same player (account). If you're really into RP, I guess you can pretend it's a last name but then all of your characters would need to be related to each other (in a RP sense).
what server are we on?NA GAF SERVER AT LAUNCH: ORWEN
CHANNEL: 3, IF FULL 4, IF FULL 5. etc
Tired of having to repeat myself, scroll up guys
So I guess the final price of costumes is going to be $29 instead of $32. Yay?
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/...stume-Prices-to-Be-Reduced-from-32-to-29.html
Hopefully the community keeps complaining about it because that's still way too high.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/...stume-Prices-to-Be-Reduced-from-32-to-29.html
Hopefully the community keeps complaining about it because that's still way too high.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Is there no way to get a trial of this?
I've seen streamers play it and it looks good but I don't want to spend money on it as you can't get a refund once you log into the game.
I've seen streamers play it and it looks good but I don't want to spend money on it as you can't get a refund once you log into the game.
Hellsing321
Member
You can hope someone gives you a guest pass once they're available.
Dre_G_Writer
Member
The game isnt out as of yet, but there was two betas phases out. And one was just last weekend. Those were the only chances to play the game free before release.
But the game has these "guest pass" for 7 days, so if a user gives you a pass, you can play free for 7 days. Users get these guess passes buy pre-ordering the game. Depending on which pre-order package the user bought, they will 1 to 3 guess passes.
So im pretty sure, there's going to be streamers giving out passes to their viewers.
As stated above, everyone who pre-ordered the game will have a one or more passes, so a lot of gaf users will have em, so I don't think it'll be too hard to get a trial pass here on GAF.
I will mostly likly will be giving out the two passes that I have since I bought the middle tier and none of my real life friends play on PC, they console peasants, lol.
pillowtalk
Member
What is the best way to make money in this? I only played for a few hours and saw there is trading, and with workers/bots? Or would it be one of the other crafting classes that's required for something for end game?
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Hrm. I'm assuming it's $29 for costume + weapon/shield, right?
And don't forget, you can buy all the parts piecemeal if you want.
ALSO, check out this video on craftable costumes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsKZbmAMWes
How exactly do you patch the beta...I got the e-mail with a link to the full download I guess and step 2 says you can patch in the launcher if you have CBT2...if I go to my account page from the website,there is a red download button but my friend says that he clicked that and its downloading the whole game again,instead of patching...if I start the launcher,I see patching real quick but there's no screen to log in my ID and Password and if I click play,it tells me to login...confused.
EDIT: Wrong time
piratepwnsninja
Member
So if I want to play tomorrow I need to download again?
If you have the CBT client, hold onto it until tonight 3 AM EST I think is when the patching will happen.
I misspoke on the patching date.
Stiler
Member
I just wonder if they are delusional or what?
Do they not understand economics or how cash-shop/microtransactions work?
They would make a LOT more money by selling costumes cheaper but to a whollllllllle lot more people rather than selling very expensive costumes to a few people.
Look at League of Legends, look a Valve's sales figures.
League has full costumes for <5 bucks, their "premium" ones can run 10-15, but these come with new particle effects or an animation change. Their "ultimate" skins, which are $20 are a completely new character design with new particles/animations/voice overs and a changing model usually so it's basically like buying three-skins or more.
Also one huge point, LoL is a f2p game.
This game is B2P. It feels like a slap in the face to have the game cost money on top of having such huge cash grabs for the cash shop items.
Hell; the people who bought the 99 package can't even afford a full costume, and that's absurd!
Do they not understand economics or how cash-shop/microtransactions work?
They would make a LOT more money by selling costumes cheaper but to a whollllllllle lot more people rather than selling very expensive costumes to a few people.
Look at League of Legends, look a Valve's sales figures.
League has full costumes for <5 bucks, their "premium" ones can run 10-15, but these come with new particle effects or an animation change. Their "ultimate" skins, which are $20 are a completely new character design with new particles/animations/voice overs and a changing model usually so it's basically like buying three-skins or more.
Also one huge point, LoL is a f2p game.
This game is B2P. It feels like a slap in the face to have the game cost money on top of having such huge cash grabs for the cash shop items.
Hell; the people who bought the 99 package can't even afford a full costume, and that's absurd!
Aadrian1234
Banned
Not to be too skeptical, but I see no source from Daum in that article
Also, $15 for costume and $7 for weapon sounds reasonable to me. That's my opinion where the price should land
Yep. The OT will go up tomorrow.
As posted before, the game will update with a minor patch when it unlocks at 3 AM EST.
Aadrian1234
Banned
http://forum.blackdesertonline.com/index.php?/topic/23484-pm-diary-3/
At work, so don't have the time to format the PM Diary ppst in a quote. Costume prices are indeed 2900 pearls now for full sets, for anyone wondering
At work, so don't have the time to format the PM Diary ppst in a quote. Costume prices are indeed 2900 pearls now for full sets, for anyone wondering
Lots of interesting stuff.
Here's the important bits:
It looks like each datacenter will have three servers, with two channels that correspond with each other in groups beneath that.
They're splitting up the cash shop costumes into costumes and outfits, so you know exactly what one has an effect on gameplay and ones that do not.
Prices are indeed reduced by 3 dollars to $29 for a full costume + weapons.
However, there will be a sale that reduces that to $25 for a full costume + weapons.
Pets are also 20% off.
Still pretty high IMO, and they'll get more feedback I'm sure.
It looks like the glow lantern issues people have had when playing will be gone, thankfully.
Here's the important bits:
It looks like each datacenter will have three servers, with two channels that correspond with each other in groups beneath that.
They're splitting up the cash shop costumes into costumes and outfits, so you know exactly what one has an effect on gameplay and ones that do not.
Prices are indeed reduced by 3 dollars to $29 for a full costume + weapons.
However, there will be a sale that reduces that to $25 for a full costume + weapons.
Pets are also 20% off.
Still pretty high IMO, and they'll get more feedback I'm sure.
It looks like the glow lantern issues people have had when playing will be gone, thankfully.
Via Purifico
Banned
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Aadrian1234
Banned
If they're gonna start splitting servers this much, I'd rather have a megaserver. I don't want to have a situation where friends get split between servers. This is already a huge complaint I have with FFXIV and I'm not happy that they're splitting a third server now
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
I thought it was 2 servers 9 channels each confirmed?
Edit: ahh i see they added an additional server because of population. Ughh just have everyone together!
Aadrian1234
Banned
Yeah. They're pushing BDO so hard with having a living world, but you're still going to be split up by servers. Not happy about this
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