𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮 @veru@gameliberty.club

@beardalaxy Sure thing! I have known about it since 2019 but I stopped paying much attention because I've just been playing Blade & Soul all these years (since even before the Western server launch). BnS has hit its lowest point, so my frens and I hope that BP delivers. The main draws for me is that BP has action based dynamic combat and that it offers cute characters. These were my also my two main draws for BnS and there hasn't been a MMO that fits this criteria in all these years. I just really don't care for realistic/gritty style or ugly Western MMOs.

BP was way different back then and tbh, most of the stuff known about the game is from years ago like their 20 man open world raids and they have just been refining the original concepts. I believe it didn't even have character customization back in 2019 and behaved more like classes with predefined appearance. Now it has a really nice character creator. (although basic compared to most MMOs from KR) Definitely more customization than FF14 (comparing since they're both JP) but it's missing the fine tuning that NG and the original PSO2 had.

The reason people are comparing NG and BP is because they share a similar futuristic theme and are both anime MMORPGs from Japan. From what I know, BP will be farm heavy with only craftable weapons and enhancements for it and many creature summons you can hunt for (think Pokemon). It doesn't have a traditional MMO gear system, such as helmets, shoulders, etc. Another similarity is that BP wishes to rely heavily on cosmetics for its monetization. I know NG and even the original PSO2 have many cosmetics. The devs say they want to stay clear from "P2W", though I always take this with a grain of salt coming from MMORPGs nowadays. If the game is F2P, it would honestly be a miracle for it to not have any P2W in it. I have been abused many years already by shitty F2P MMOs; all are P2W but nobody wants to do a sub based MMO either.

BP may also do anime collabs. Since it's from a big JP publisher like Bandai Namco, we can expect collabs.

BP is joining the very few action based combat MMORPGs such as Dragon's Nest, BnS, PSO2, and the now dead Tera. The combat doesn't seem to be extremely reliant on ping either. I watched a streamer from Dominican Republic play on the JP server beta test. His attacks were still very fast and comboing properly despite the ping and him streaming to YT and Twitch at the same time. Game is also optimized well for the many players on screen at once. The same guy also didn't have the best PC (around 6-7 years old in terms of hardware) and he was still getting a solid 30 or so FPS with 20+ players hitting the same mob. Really looking forward to those 20+ players open world bosses.

The game is expected to have a strong emphasis on the story (think JRPG) and it already has anime cutscenes, with the main opening theme being composed by L'Arc En Ciel. The budget for the game seems very high.

Antis shitting on NG and coming to BP will be disappointed since one of the main and reoccuring characters is a loli named Feste. She is the stereotypical "helpful" loli character you can expect and one of the main faces of the game, so I really can't comprehend why antis would even pick up this game. It's like the retards who play Genshin despite it having many loli characters and throw a fit when lewd art of these characters is drawn. The games are clearly not for tourists or catering to them. These games are made for an Asian audience primarily and this character type is very popular. Us Westerners are second thought to these developers. The latest developer stream had a poll that I posted, which shows the loli body type is the most popular by a pretty overwhelming amount. 50% of players who pick female are playing lolis.

I don't see why people who don't like anime or lolis are trying to play BP, as I see a lot of these type of people bitching on Reddit hoping the game is censored, too. I hope Bandai understands its audience and doesn't feel the need to alter its game too much for Western crybabies. Though I think sometimes due to the draconian laws in some European countries (explicit loli is illegal there), they may be actually forced to cover up characters with smaller body types "to be safe" but mostly for the sake of profit since suits have taken over the gaming industry.

Having said that. what Sega did to the height is retarded. I played PSO2 on the JP server (not NG though) and I tried to make a small cast. It just didn't look much like a shota I was hoping to get. It looked like a small adult. I think PSO2 has a more mature style to it while still being anime. Just my opinion on it and this sets it apart from BP a lot; I haven't seen blatant lolis in PSO2 like the way you can create them in BP or even in BnS. I don't know how someone can look at PSO2 characters and think they are underaged. What PSO2 does good is cute pettanko and petite characters. If antis find lolis offensive, picking up BP is definite downgrade to them from NG. But these people watch and play shit that's not for them and then bitch about it and harass those that the media is meant for.

Sorry for so much text but this is mostly everything I know about BP. To me, this game doesn't seem like it will be another MMO failure like all the recent ones. The issue with MMORPGs is that Korea has a monopoly on the genre and has clogged it with shitty and addictive slot machine gameplay. If you play any Korean MMO, you have played them all, basically. It's the same shit with different paint. It's always the same P2W rng trash. KR has been extremely damaging to the genre and it's no wonder that the JP MMOs such as FF14 and PSO2 have very loyal playerbases. What JP lacks in quantity they do make up in quality when it comes to the MMORPG genre. Imo, it's not worth to leave these MMOs for ANY Korean trash game. All the KR MMOs pull the rug under the players with P2W and RNG within the first 3-6 months and are full of SEA/South Americans bots selling gold to other lazy or wallet warrior players because the game becomes unreasonable for a human to gear up in without swiping.

This is coming from someone playing BnS almost 7 years now; there is no reason to play these shitty ass games aimed to abuse you. Instead of fixing the fundamental issues and resource starvation that leads players to P2W or swipe gold, the devs double down on making everything worse and more P2W as they hemorrhage players and keep sucking dry the addicted whales who won't quit. The norm now for most F2P MMOs is to PAY to not play the game.

If you are going to try a new MMO, BP is the best bet.

@beardalaxy I already see them around salivating out the mouth hoping the game is censored... when one of the most prominent characters in this game is a loli. She's plastered everywhere and is literally one of the first characters you encounter. It's peak retardation with these people. Why play the game knowing it's going to have lolis? These people exist only to make others as miserable as they are tbh.

And I think both games can co-exist and hopefully give each other good competition so they keep improving as long as the developers actually give a shit to retain their players. The games also look vastly different. Some of my friends have complained that BP looks too "weeb" for them.