BDO smells ultra fail to me, even after playing the beta. I mean it's still worth the purchase to enjoy the graphics, level up different chars, you can squeeze 60 hours on it. But after that... guild pvp controling zones mumbo jumbo is a guarantee fail like it failed for 10 years now, especially on korean side (since Lineage II). Not to mention it's, an euro dev working with a korean dev so good luck having content developed. And, finally, gender lock... In 2015... It might be gone at release but i doubt it since it's less than a month away. So, yeah, if i loved fishing or whatever, BDO would be a sure purchase but i don't, so i'll rather go for B&S for the structured PVP, and that's just because Albion isn't goint to be released in January. I also named my donkey Kyoji for some reason but i didn't let him die.
I personally think that Blade n Soul is too linear for my liking. Though there are some features of BDO that I do not like nor does it make sense ( unless to stop gold farmers. ) Not being able to trade with guild members seems a bit ridiculous especially when it seems the game is focused on guild participation. Also gender lock seems to be an issue so far. From what I've seen in betas and forums is that TERA players will play Blade and Soul while Archeage players will play BDO. I also don't have good things to say about NCSoft. I'd rather put trust in a DAUM.
yeah they should at least allow guild members to trade. I ready there is a guild bank but the guild needs to hold one of the 3 major cities for it to be open and even then im not sure whos allowed access to it and what can be put in and pulled out. as far as the gender lock, who knows they may add them later on. as they already pretty much have a counter part for the other classes. m-wizard - f-witch m-warrior - f-valkyrie m-ninja - f-koinichi m-blader - f-plum m-ranger (in the works) - f-archer m-berserker - ???? ???? - f-sorceress ???? - f-tamer there are male sorcerer npcs so I don't see why they cant/wont add male sorc later on pic of female (player) and male (npc) sorc DAUM seems to really want to cater to western players. So I guess the more people ask for it they will try to add it. people asked for a more harder dungeon that requires party team work. looks like they're working on it some guy on korea server found this below, says mobs are much harder to kill and such but wont know till a group actually finishes it and puts up info. http://www.twitch.tv/datboireckless/v/31403238
Steparu posted an article on this very topic which is a great read because he/she has played each game for over a year. http://steparu.com/reviews/mmorpg/1945-black-desert-vs-blade-soul-2016-special
Aye good find Riot, thanks, i'll watch the vids at home but the text alone is very good already. B&S still got the advantage for me (and i purchased it anyway), i don't really fancy open world "huge GVG fights for control xyz" as they tend to never work after a while. Albion online is probably the only game where i see it working, just like it worked in UO because the game is ultra simple, isometric, gear is "basic", and it's very balanced at the same time. Also, BDO should have the alt classes released at launch in order to please everyone, i don't know if they will manage it tho. If they release Valkyrie before launch i might give it a go too.
