Bless Online just exploded

[Songz]

It being EA is scary. You know the game will get shut down if it doesn't get the numbers they're expecting. Also, changes to payment system will defo change under greedy EA if they control the store, and not Neowiz.

MMORPG.com did an interview and got more information about the monetization. Not sure if it's a bias piece, but it does seem like an acceptable situation now: mmorpg.com/bless/interviews/exploring-monetization-with-neowiz-1000012742

Lol why is mmorpg.com links blocked? OnRPG isn't even a competitor anymore

Anyway, check this out: The store prices are up on steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/items...se/?filter=all

As a Canadian, I'll never buy premium. $50 for 90 days.
That's too much commitment. I can't drop $20 to test for 30 days. Especially since this is B2P.

[Abhorsen]

It being EA is scary. You know the game will get shut down if it doesn't get the numbers they're expecting. Also, changes to payment system will defo change under greedy EA if they control the store, and not Neowiz.

MMORPG.com did an interview and got more information about the monetization. Not sure if it's a bias piece, but it does seem like an acceptable situation now: mmorpg.com/bless/interviews/exploring-monetization-with-neowiz-1000012742

Lol why is mmorpg.com links blocked? OnRPG isn't even a competitor anymore

Anyway, check this out: The store prices are up on steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/items...se/?filter=all

As a Canadian, I'll never buy premium. $50 for 90 days.
That's too much commitment. I can't drop $20 to test for 30 days. Especially since this is B2P.

interesting read. i dont know man, it seems borderline p2w to me even though they claim its not p2w xD
i see they let you buy Inventory expansion tickets for real money, which worries me because i've quit a game before due to lack of inventory slots, i think it was the f2p version of everquest2 but i cant remember for sure anymore.

then theres this pay to not get ganked item lol. they havent stated the price of this item, but for real money you can disable pvp for 10 minutes. that seems kinda silly and soimething they could've just made into a toggle like WoW. its like they purposely programmed in chores and annoyances so they could ask money to bypass these. now in a f2p game this would be acceptable(even though i still wouldnt play the majority because of it), but b2p? i guess ill have to play for myself before i can get really get a good feel for it, but i dont trust it.

[GenoX]

Kind of confuse with what songz meant by EA... I meant as in steams early access. Kind of sound like Electronic Art the company.

Either way the outcome can be similar. Both ways can be scary. Electronic Art is hardly recovering ever since battlefront 2.

[Acreon]

Kind of confuse with what songz meant by EA... I meant as in steams early access. Kind of sound like Electronic Art the company.

Either way the outcome can be similar. Both ways can be scary. Electronic Art is hardly recovering ever since battlefront 2.

Yeah I dislike the mix of two myself since EA always meant the dev team, but terms change I guess. Just gotta rely on context.
I will say BF5 sounds promising from a consumer treatment perspective, provided they aren't lying about "no dlc, no loot boxes"
Spose we'll see.

[GenoX]

Welp game is available but it just literally exploded again. Not enough servers and because of it people get to play the login game in NA.

[Grable]

Well, looking at different streams and gameplay of various classes, the combat seems pretty slow paced and boring. Hopefully we'll see more stuff you can throw in between doing your combo rotation at higher levels, but so far it doesn't look very promising to me.

[Acreon]

On top of the server issues it appears the game has machine translations going on, which really uh....spit son the whole 'hand crafted/fixed for the west" thing.
Like one guy posted an image of the level up pop up " You're now 5level"