Is it worth the buy?

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Or does it involve another endless cycle of grinding, where I'm forced to invest real money or dedicate thousands of hours just to make any significant progress?

[Tsel13]

You can Grind or Life Skill.
BDO does involve a TON of grinding, of which I like to do.
If you don't like grinding then most likely you will not like BDO.

I have only bought two things ever, in the three years I have been playing, that help my grind.
But there are others, that have never bought anything to help their grind, and they have been playing a lot longer than me. 😊

[LordFarQuaid]

DO NOT BUY BDO if you are looking for an mmo that isnt a grindfest, this is one of the more grindy games. But if youre looking for a game that while it requires a grind is gorgeous and intuitive then this game might be for you.

[SLO7H]

I don't know man, I am at lvl 13 and I am just so extremely bored by listening to these NPC's talk, long quests that feel like fillers. Combat feels wonky af. NPC animation super stiff.
I am told things start to feel more natural and fluid at lvl 60.

[Tsel13]

Originally posted by ChronoMariner:

I don't know man, I am at lvl 13 and I am just so extremely bored by listening to these NPC's talk, long quests that feel like fillers. Combat feels wonky af. NPC animation super stiff.
I am told things start to feel more natural and fluid at lvl 60.

When one first starts out it is pretty tough.
No Energy or Contribution Points to speak of.
You have to do the main quest line to Valencia at least once.
I can totally understand the pain.
BDO does have a story, but it is not like a BioWare game story, so don't look for that.
The real fun is when you finally get the Ancient Stone Chamber quest line finished all the way through the Desert into Valencia.
After that you can do quick skips with all of your other characters and pick and choose where and what you want to do with a lot less roadblocks.

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Originally posted by ChronoMariner:

I don't know man, I am at lvl 13 and I am just so extremely bored by listening to these NPC's talk, long quests that feel like fillers. Combat feels wonky af. NPC animation super stiff.
I am told things start to feel more natural and fluid at lvl 60.

I see, what a shame.

[Base]

BDO = Sandbox MMO, You can only grind, only lifeskill or Mix of both. If you don't like both then go find theme parked MMO where lifeskill is mostly taken cared by bots and all you have to do is show up for raids and can buy unlimited RMT gold to progress.
I personally like BDO because I am not forced to play in a particular way to progress and literally doing anything in BDO is considered progress. Choose you poison.
Only real money you have to spend in BDO is to buy Tent, some inventory slots and weight limit for you main char as it makes grinding efficient and all can be bought with pearls you get from starter pack.

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Originally posted by Base:

BDO = Sandbox MMO, You can only grind, only lifeskill or Mix of both. If you don't like both then go find theme parked MMO where lifeskill is mostly taken cared by bots and all you have to do is show up for raids and can buy unlimited RMT gold to progress.
I personally like BDO because I am not forced to play in a particular way to progress and literally doing anything in BDO is considered progress. Choose you poison.

So, it's one of those games where I can just turn my brain off and chill? Doesn't sound too bad

[Base]

Originally posted by Cooper:

Originally posted by Base:

BDO = Sandbox MMO, You can only grind, only lifeskill or Mix of both. If you don't like both then go find theme parked MMO where lifeskill is mostly taken cared by bots and all you have to do is show up for raids and can buy unlimited RMT gold to progress.
I personally like BDO because I am not forced to play in a particular way to progress and literally doing anything in BDO is considered progress. Choose you poison.

So, it's one of those games where I can just turn my brain off and chill? Doesn't sound too bad

It is a chill game if you take chill approach meaning if you don't think to min-max everything week 1, don't watch guides to get max energy or max family stats or max life skilling or max anything. Just make season char and play slowly through main quest line and make long term goals. because BDO have so much ♥♥♥♥ to do which takes time as you need to manually ride horse and do certain activities. The map is huge so just take your time to slowly unlock quests, grinding zones.
My best advice is to just make a goal to do finish main questlines for all regions as it unlock so many rewards and pets for now.

[Base]

Also if you are a brand new player I highly recommend to buy Conqueror pack while it is at 50% off as it is very very worth the price and gives you 30% discount coupon + 4k pearl which you can use to buy tent and rest everything is just a cherry on top.

[Boomer Click Bait]

Originally posted by Cooper:

Or does it involve another endless cycle of grinding, where I'm forced to invest real money or dedicate thousands of hours just to make any significant progress?

I wouldn't bother lol. This game has a ton of content but it requires a lot of time to understand the mechanics. There's a lot to this game and since it doesn't have a subscription, you do have to throw money at it.

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Originally posted by Religion LOL:

Originally posted by Cooper:

Or does it involve another endless cycle of grinding, where I'm forced to invest real money or dedicate thousands of hours just to make any significant progress?

I wouldn't bother lol. This game has a ton of content but it requires a lot of time to understand the mechanics. There's a lot to this game and since it doesn't have a subscription, you do have to throw money at it.

Damn

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

You don't need to spend money. Played the game off and on for 3 years. Sunk about $60 into it. There are plenty of Twitch and YouTube Streamers who have gone from 0 to GS 700 in a matter of months on a totally Free to Play account.

https://youtu.be/yH0GcWvPmm4?si=JmQLo5sJSwyV4fHY

[Fibre🌹]

Been on and off with multiple accounts and I'm finally sticking on this one. All I can say is it's a grindfest, pretty fun though. I have not and will never put money into this game unless maybe one day they create a cosmetic skin that looks fire asf but so far the cosmetics are pretty generic edgy garbage. The P2W I think comes in when you want the grind to be reduced or faster because without it.. you'll be grinding for hours if not days but I like that type of game.

Overall visually beautiful game, animations are a bit wonky, lips don't move as much when they talk (PS2-PS3 vibes), the game is pretty cheap and there's no subscription service. So I call that a good deal, so as MMOs go.. BDO is in my top 5.

Most people are forgetting there's a 2 hour refund policy, the longest game I've been able to refund was about 6 hours. Buy it, play it, don't like it? refund it.

[Hosenbund]

Originally posted by Fredericks of Cursewood:

You don't need to spend money. Played the game off and on for 3 years. Sunk about $60 into it. There are plenty of Twitch and YouTube Streamers who have gone from 0 to GS 700 in a matter of months on a totally Free to Play account.

https://youtu.be/yH0GcWvPmm4?si=JmQLo5sJSwyV4fHY

true! but i still couldnt imagine being a beginner in this game without throwing 100-200 euro at it at least.. the amount of QoL you are lacking early on is insane
I wouldnt necessarily call the game p2w, but pay4qol

the game is p2w by definition, but all you do is grinding for yourself in this game..similar to a game like warframe.. so no matter if you throw money at it or not, you will be doing the exact same thing. with no downsides if you dont p2w, because you only grind for yourself, unlike lost ark for example, where you get gatekept from almost every lobby unless you keep up with the equipment standards of the communtiy

you will invest hundreds and thousands of hours in this game if you wanna make significant progress at some point in this game though.
if you dont like grinding BDO isnt for you. the people which play BDO love grinding, its not a downside for them, its one of the biggest reasons they play the game

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

Originally posted by Hosenbund:

Originally posted by Fredericks of Cursewood:

You don't need to spend money. Played the game off and on for 3 years. Sunk about $60 into it. There are plenty of Twitch and YouTube Streamers who have gone from 0 to GS 700 in a matter of months on a totally Free to Play account.

https://youtu.be/yH0GcWvPmm4?si=JmQLo5sJSwyV4fHY

true! but i still couldnt imagine being a beginner in this game without throwing 100-200 euro at it at least.. the amount of QoL you are lacking early on is insane
I wouldnt necessarily call the game p2w, but pay4qol

the game is p2w by definition, but all you do is grinding for yourself in this game..similar to a game like warframe.. so no matter if you throw money at it or not, you will be doing the exact same thing. with no downsides if you dont p2w, because you only grind for yourself, unlike lost ark for example, where you get gatekept from almost every lobby unless you keep up with the equipment standards of the communtiy

you will invest hundreds and thousands of hours in this game if you wanna make significant progress at some point in this game though.
if you dont like grinding BDO isnt for you. the people which play BDO love grinding, its not a downside for them, its one of the biggest reasons they play the game

This is a tough one