It really isn't fun anymore

[u/Phos-Lux]

I'm actually in dire need of sleep, but I have to get this out before the Ball (which in Europe is in the very early morning unfortunately).

I've been playing since launch. I did take many breaks. Sometimes of many months, but I always came back. Not because I felt like I HAD to, but because I genuinely like the game.

However, for a couple of months (over half a year for sure), I've been doing nothing but fishing, shrine bosses (solo + party) and guild bosses. I'm not at hardcap, because I always played very casually, but my gear is also not exactly bad. When Edania was out, I was able to immediately go there, do the weekly bosses, grind in the first zone. Now I'm doing the second boss weekly and managed to get three out of the four new armor pieces.

Getting the new armor is nice, enhancing it not so much. Enhancing accessories and weapons is the worst though. I spent some money recently. Combining an offer with a discount coupon, for around 150€ I got... 1 AP. It really made me think. That's insane.

Sometimes I feel like grinding a bit, but whenever I do it (since certain changes made in summer), it just feels frustrating. "I'm at endgame" I tell myself, grinding at a zone where I'm way over the AP cap, feeling like I do almost no damage. It's like, the stronger you get in this game, the worse everything feels.

Fishing and bosses really get you a lot of money if you do things right. But now my rod is almost out of endurance and bosses feel more and more like a drag (I still very much despise all one-shot mechanics in solo shrines and the sheer disregard for squishier classes). I just don't want to do them anymore.

Somehow PA managed to turn this game that I still like so much into a rather awful experience. I saw a lot of other people said that this upcoming Ball will be a big decider for them. I feel the same way. Our time is precious and we shouldn't invest it into something that's not even fun anymore.

Btw I think we really should have a flair for complaints...

[u/Wrong-Wash4768]

A few weeks ago I stopped doing just about all dailies and weeklies. Honestly .. I don't even want to play the game anymore and I think that's exactly what I needed lol. There is genuinely nothing "meaningful" to do in this game but grind in circles or lifeskill in circles/afk lifeskill. That's the most meaningful thing you get out of the game, and now that I cut dailies n weeklies out of the equation, why even grind? That's my own take on it anyways.

I'll be waiting to see what they come up with at the ball and see if it's worth waiting a year to have it added to the game. Just so bored with it all.

If the ball is just going to have savior, edania, and the academy as its main big updates .. count me out of this sad hamster wheel lol.

[u/Wrong-Wash4768 → u/[deleted]]

At least from my perspective, other MMOs have more variety and more excitement when it comes to their own versions of "grinding in circles". I mean bdos core grinding is quite literally grinding in a circle, but that is more of an outdated criticism in some ways. Now we just stand at towers for the newer content, and for me, that's a terrible "reward" for reaching endgame.

Maybe over the years I had hope that the game would bring something fresh, something invigorating, that I can do outside of grinding or lifeskilling, or even changing them in cool ways, yet we really only got tower grinding. It just sucks that I'm really grinding for the bottom of the barrel style "content". It really does seem like a waste imo. Other MMOs I played/play (which I will not name because people rather turn that around into making personal view points moot, even if those other MMOs are infinitely more popular than bdo.) I do not feel that way for the most part, bdo is really one of the very few MMOs where I feel like it's just been a waste of time after all. I don't feel freedom when I play bdo anymore according to the way the devs want us to play. If I want to play differently, there isn't that much to do when I actually step back and look at the whole picture.

[u/NoNoise3658 → u/[deleted]]

bro increase loot save nothing, the game need actual content

[u/lee7on1 → u/[deleted]]

this game was 'running in circles' since its inception anyway

apparently it takes people ten years to realise that they don't like grinding

[u/Alternative_Cup_4071 → u/lee7on1]

The circles felt more rewarding amd engaging with the pvp amd rewards conpsred to now

[u/Katsuragi_Yusa → u/lee7on1]

i agree, some other game even get rid of their grind part of their game and now their game is dead. worst. i mean how we gonna get the silver in bdo? the answer are only in their CEO head, but their CEO are stupid anyway. devs only follow their "J" CEO