Blade & Soul in 2024.. is NOT What You Remember

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@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

For people wondering about the audio: I was using background music taken from Blade & Soul and they decided to copyright strike the video. The only way to resolve this was to remove the background music from the first 3 minutes of the video, which distorted my voice. I apologize for this but there's nothing I can do about it. I've used background music from Blade & Soul dozens of times in dozens of videos, but apparently this time it was not okay.

@ichalw4973 6 ай бұрын

Games needs a Reset. I still reminisce of the days playing this game with my friends, the combat and dungeons were soo good

@zerooskil7161 6 ай бұрын

yeah but that absolutely horrendous outfit drop rate is just cancer, i wouldn't want to do all that again

@bopiangM 5 ай бұрын

reset? welcome to bns neo classic! lol

@ehyzen 5 ай бұрын

@@bopiangM which will release in like 5 years at this point

@bopiangM 5 ай бұрын

@@ehyzen already released in china, tried it. Graphics updated and few key differences , such as all, all field boss drop costumes incl the frog and pot dog boss in bamboo area

@thepag52 5 ай бұрын

@@ehyzen bro its literally out in china. cross your fingers for US server 2025

@accelerator8558 6 ай бұрын

Its almost empty??? I remenber they push the p2w so Hard that i feel like puke.....

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Yeah.. it's crazy how bad the game is these days.

@accelerator8558 6 ай бұрын

@@MMOByte i use to love this game alot, i play it every Day, the raids where fun and full of People, now is Just p2w and dps check.....

@manggamusasuleiman 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, one of the reasons I stopped playing

@Naturel-e5e 5 ай бұрын

@@MMOBytethere are still people there...

@DukesUp1 3 ай бұрын

@@Naturel-e5e people still play?

@sked11 4 ай бұрын

I would 100% grind it out again if they had a classic release. The dopamine from farming naryu sanctum for days to finally get the bracelet drop and changing your rotation entirely. The dodging and i frames are so insane.

@keroppi 6 ай бұрын

It saddens me to see Blade and Soul in its current state :(

@miirico5398 6 ай бұрын

When Passion gets replaced with Greed. Truly a sad sad end for this game.

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

You and me both. I loved this game.

@Charalyn0010 6 ай бұрын

Tell Boss K I miss him :d

@Eisi0wns 6 ай бұрын

We all loved this game once and it's so sad to see where it's been going over these years.

@LoneKuroRaifu 6 ай бұрын

It's sad to see pso2 in its current state too. Glad they brought back phantasy star episode 3 tho 😊

@devnotes00 6 ай бұрын

I think what killed it for me was the over reliance on cash shop, more specifically the Treasure trove. Add on the lack of developer communication with the community, the "sequel" being a mobile game and overall just lack of content. Neo classic might pull some old fans like me back in but I'm not going to hold my breath.

@kishi8774 3 ай бұрын

Now i remember why i quit, was a grindy player and i got to a point where if you dont spend money, you dont progress, no matter how much time you put into it, such a shame, also the UE update was the final nail in the coffin.. the character (which was one of the main selling points) look horrible.. downloaded again years later to find the same, and not to account the game always had problems of optimization.. i5 8500 with a 1660ti for getting barely 30Fps on some maps/ cities (moving to EU5 was a horrible move since the optimization problem just got worse). If they fixed those things and move to a less p2w monetization could lead to a resurrection of the game.. another example of company greed killed this amazing game..

@kathrasher1 21 күн бұрын

@@kishi8774 Yeah, I think when I hit the point that my next weapon upgrade would take literally playing 3-4 hours daily on different accounts, doing the most efficient dailies, then funneling that back to my main for 4 months straight was when I dropped it. It was that or pay nearly $200 in the cash shop. If you were doing end game raids the game really hit a point where it was like "either live in this game to still fall behind updates" or "pay a large chunk of your monthly income each month to barely keep up". Which was sad because I've never loved an MMO as much as this one.

@NoirN3rd 6 ай бұрын

I have extremely fond memories of playing this game for hours upon hours and when I see it now it just feels like a hollow shell of it’s former self.

@miirico5398 6 ай бұрын

The day they introduce Treasure Trove is the day B&S died for me.

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Totally understandable.

@TyeCozMusic 6 ай бұрын

This is around the time I quit as well, I vaguely remember them hosting live streams where they talk about how excited they are to share their new p2w features and tried to convince us all that we should be excited too and how great it was going to be.

@thepag52 5 ай бұрын

to be fair the asian servers had the treasure trove before the US version even released. But I too wasnt a fan of it regardless

@kishi8774 3 ай бұрын

@RoflCannon6 Ай бұрын

I think it was when raid systems were introduced for me. It was cool at first but trying to get the equipment you wanted from it was rough when there was like 3 random drops and a bunch of people that need certain drops. It got tough to study up on the new bosses every update too and get used to their very specific mechanics.

@Captain.AmericaV1 6 ай бұрын

Every time Mr Styx says *"Cash Shop Items"* take a shot!!

@MorningstarGX 6 ай бұрын

I don’t have enough drinks 😂

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

It’s all they care about!

@Captain.AmericaV1 6 ай бұрын

@@MMOByte for sure

@Captain.AmericaV1 6 ай бұрын

@@MorningstarGX not sure anyone has 😂😂

@theSapphireAegis 6 ай бұрын

Came to the comments to say something like this! Lol.

@Draethar 6 ай бұрын

I played when it first came out. I was a Berserker or whatever uses the big axe/hammer. But I remember some class with a flower companion was wrecking everyone in PvP much easier.

@davidparada5332 2 ай бұрын

Oh yeah ah remember the fucking summoner that was the healer on pve but in pvp that class was literrally broken no one can kill that shit except by the destroyer I always play against a good summoner I lost nothing to do with my Blade cancer for more that i made perfect combos

@SilentTM 6 ай бұрын

Publishers manage to kill games, huh? I remember Skyforge and B&S were actually super fun at some point

@abdullahmoh5746 3 ай бұрын

NCSoft destroyed our beloved Blade and Soul with cash grabs and microtransactions, even the cosmetics became in the gambling boxes at the mercy of RNGs, I really feel so sad cuz it is my favorite mmorpg and I played it since the beta back in November 2015.

@shinichikudoz 3 ай бұрын

if u think devs is the only fault why this game going bad...u just wrong...the playerbase play their part too for this game going bad...many cheaters and botters...not to mention so many toxic despite the playerbase so small for mmo

@MagyarTSL Ай бұрын

They already killed it back in 2016 with the first p2w shop bullshit like a month after release lol... Very sad because this is probably the most unique MMO I've ever played with actually very creative solutions and features that I've never seen in MMOs eversince..

@PeachyJaemin 6 ай бұрын

i downloaded bns for the first time in a while (after a lot of grief - the launcher says it only needs 50gb to dl but actually needs 100gb and doesnt tell you that - just fails the dl and doesnt tell you whats wrong if you dont have storage) and was extremely disappointed to open the game and not see a single other player in the old hotspots... super sad to see as someone who played since 2016, this game was with me through almost all of highschool and i can only hope the new vanilla version revives the game at least a little bit bc i cant wait for it to come out

@MarvinConman 6 ай бұрын

Holy crap my reddit post made it into the video XD Sigh, I know the game is declining... Which is a shame because ith has IMO the best storyline out of any MMORPG I played. But I have abandonement issues and I will not drop the game till it goes down. Even if I'm the last player standing :P I'm just gonna goof around in game till that happens XD

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Heck yeah man!! I still play old games even if they’re dying! As long as you’re having fun that’s all that matters!

@le-ar 6 ай бұрын

this is one title that doesn't need a classic. classic wasn't that great. it needs to keep improving, not going backwards.

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Yup. Dunno what they’re thinking.. other than dollar signs.

@davidparada5332 2 ай бұрын

They need to change the bussiness model and lauch a completly different game with new graphics but keeping the good points of the game i though that game could revolition the mmos but they kill the game

@enzo7525 2 ай бұрын

The issue then is their definition of the word "improving" seeing as they don't know what that means and it shows by the numbers, they decided that the only way to unfuck the game with 0 pinpoint precision is to reset it to classic.

@saikyue4462 2 ай бұрын

Nah actually I liked BnS much more how it was in 2016-17

@GodHexe Ай бұрын

@@davidparada5332 facts. Give us the old hardcore game :(

@Asynthetic 6 ай бұрын

played 2016-2018 good times, now just wasteland ruined by p2w

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Yup. I played until 2020, then gave up.

@kishi8774 3 ай бұрын

@XZeroKPS 6 ай бұрын

I wonder why they even mentioned Blade and Soul NEO Classic if they didn't have anything even close to ready for folks to try out. Sometimes I wish these companies would keep news like that to themselves until a demo is 6 months out or something.

@angustheterrible3149 6 ай бұрын

"Blade and soul isnt what you remember" It's still a p2w shell of a game, so yes, it is what I remember. People just got smart and learned to leave now, lol.

@ye8r 6 ай бұрын

Still love blade and soul even in 2024. Will keep playing the game.

@ThisGuy-up9nd 4 ай бұрын

Is it dead?

@ye8r 4 ай бұрын

@@ThisGuy-up9ndit’s not dead, I see a lot of new players coming in again because of the soul boast plus feature

@shinichikudoz 3 ай бұрын

@@ye8rwhat new player?? those just alt account lol 😂😂😂...the game literally bots and cheaters everywhere

@eatatjoecs Ай бұрын

How many hours of content ended up being pointless because gear was made useless due to the vertical progression? That's why I quit the game. The effort put in was negated by vertical progression.

@GodHexe Ай бұрын

@@ye8r im not gonna hate but its nowhere near as popping as it was around 2016-2017 energy

@jonperfetto2926 6 ай бұрын

2021 was last time I played. My girl and i wanted to get back into it but we were really hesitant.

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Did you play for very long?

@0Adnin 6 ай бұрын

Me too. we broke up XD

@manggamusasuleiman 6 ай бұрын

Stopped playing in 2020, tried it again in 2022 to see if it's better but it's even worst than when I left it.

@ParadiseParadises 6 ай бұрын

do it its still really fun

@alies- Ай бұрын

I've spent so many hours enjoying this game! Great dungeons, pvp, game mechanics, graphics and fashion. Rest in peace B&S, you will be missed 😭

@tenshihinatai8346 6 ай бұрын

played this on release was fun first martial arts game experience just mere walking gave goosebumps how your character will jump over obstacles with stile loved my kungfu master was even first game i bothered doing pvp cause it was so fun to break peoples necks xD spent tons of times farming those jades for wheel of fortune costumes sadly as soon as i reached end game and hit grind wall that was where i stopped!tried coming back few times but sheer volume of cash shop stuff they throw at your face kinda set me off from trying anymore

@ubu6420 3 ай бұрын

so many memories I had with friends back in the summers of 2016-2017 that i'll never be able to relive. they burnt the hell out of this game ):

@shatteredsentient5321 6 ай бұрын

I played this game last year for about 5 minutes, then uninstalled.

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Yup.. it’s in a sad state.

@davidparada5332 2 ай бұрын

Same

@EltonLeonidas 6 ай бұрын

This was my favourite MMO by far. I was hyped when i saw it in Korea, and i was addicted when it came out. I played it for 3 years, and returned every few months because the combat was so amazing, and the leveling was great as well at the start. The dungeons and the boss mechanics were hard af, and i had my very first bigger social interaction with raiding with a guild. This MMO gave me so much great memories, im really grateful for that. And even if the textures are scuffed, i think overall the game looks great. My issue was that the progression as a f2p player was really slow, and i was bored in the repeat of 4 daily dungeon for rewards, so i quited after like the 3rd raid came out. After 8 years, i still have the full Fire BM rotation on my fingers :D It's sad to think about a potential shutdown.

@tuongchu2867 5 ай бұрын

I also loved the dungeons and raids…I was able to get into a big guild and had many raids, from the 24-man to 12 man raids. We even wiped out many times at the first boss at the Black Tower (the first 24-man raid), dodges lasers at the Red and Blue bosses, and learned to tank the Raven King while rotating and dying to the “pizza” 😂. It was hard af and it took us many months to get to Julia. I saved a ton of money and got a super awesome material for my weapon! Missed those times!

@Pohatarunic6 4 ай бұрын

@@tuongchu2867 Black Tower was my first raid experience too, such wild memories wyping so many times to the red and blue boss, never managed to beat it until the nerf lol The mechanics in general in that game were really well done, the solo dungeons were really great too, the bosses there were as hard as the harder tier of souls like bosses nowadays!

@tuongchu2867 4 ай бұрын

@@Pohatarunic6 haha, tanking the red and blue boss was so hard. I remember all my teammates died and we were 5% left from defeating the red boss, so I had to tank with my 30k dps on my summoner XD

@Pohatarunic6 4 ай бұрын

@@tuongchu2867 For us it was just that one person always messed up on the switch platforms and we always wyped lol though I do remember me having to be one of the ranged tanks too for some reason, even if was fully f2p so my dps was probably wasn't as good haha

@tuongchu2867 4 ай бұрын

@@Pohatarunic6 good times, i hated crossing the lasers so much!

@Zaber177 3 ай бұрын

What hurt me the most was how PVP outside of arena-- was wholly whale territory too. That just hurt me so much I left. NCsoft clearly cares more about money than supporting legit games. Loved the theme, loved the gameplay-- but end game and fairness is all about money. So forget that. Still I miss my Kung Fu master and Warden >< Gon Bad asses kicking ass

@0Adnin 6 ай бұрын

The amount of fun I had playing this game was unparallel. I have been searching for a game that would this fun but alas ! I haven't found any. Throne liberty and Blue Protocol were my last hope. but that seem to dwindling as well. Blade and Soul was peak fun, Action Combat MMORPG. Made lost of friends, had lots of fun. Man, how I wish it was better optimized, so that I could continue playing.

@davidparada5332 2 ай бұрын

Anod no P2W that kill the game Black desert s the only that is similar in the gameplay

@JohnnyBlake-bu4hl 6 ай бұрын

They killed my game

@PrincessBeeRelink 6 ай бұрын

when i go to the official website it says last update feb 2023 lol?

@TheMike5125 6 ай бұрын

Blade and soul was my mmo before Black Dessert… I don’t think I can go back

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

You’re not missing anything!

@jhonjushuaguevarra7771 3 ай бұрын

Mee too. I used to not like Black Dessert because BNS had a powerful and really good pvp and pve content. Remember the 24 man party? Yeah!!! But i turned into BDO later on.

@jonathanj.3695 6 ай бұрын

More cash shop items. More cash shop items. More cash shop items. More cash shop items. Blade and Cash Shop Items.

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

LMAO truth.

@GameReplays- 4 ай бұрын

that define the game cash shop item and toxic whale players

@Vanhiv 6 ай бұрын

Private servers are the fun stuff for old players, at least made me play it again

@Naturel-e5e 5 ай бұрын

it's true that it's fun the first week but over time you'll get tired very quickly of playing a game that doesn't evolve. I take the case of Shattered empire especially since they have had the intelligence to create several servers on the Europe server there are 50 people daily so we might as well stay on the official one even if it's P2W

@Naturel-e5e 5 ай бұрын

and I'm not even talking about PvP which is like the official one, that is to say no PvP, no point in staying on such a lazy server

@Vanhiv 5 ай бұрын

@@Naturel-e5e Agree, but most of the times, the returning player doesn't returns to stay, just to scratch that itch, so private s. does the job

@yaitari 6 ай бұрын

Blade and Soul can't be saved anymore, not matter what they do. Neo Classic might gather nostalgic and hopeless people to try it out, but I don't have hopes for that one either, they will fuck up the combat (I'm calling this out rn) and It will have some weird ass subscription system like Aion classic to make You progress or You won't. Ncsoft completely fell off, their only game alive is Guild Wars 2 and it's not even developed by them lmao . Guild Wars 3 hype btw

@chihabune 6 ай бұрын

The only way to play this game is by getting mortgage loan the p2w is unbelievable

@nyankanakitty 6 ай бұрын

I feel like most people who wanted to continue this game have flocked to private servers.

@katrinelinderoth6534 2 ай бұрын

so should i start playing B&S again? since i already have an account. I played for hours everyday for a year and then just stopped because as a free player it was so slow to improve stats... doesn't help that i picked warlock which was like the worst class. haven't played in a couple of years

@dougfax 6 ай бұрын

Lets update the game with steady releases and milk players with more outfits NO! WE WANT TO FOCUS ON THE SHORT TERM PROFIT And thats BnS roadmap

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Asian MMOs in a nutshell.

@rrobinson001 Ай бұрын

I've played the game since launch. Over all the game has not changed that much but now it's become a grind vs playing the game and enjoying the story. Most people log in to do the daily and to grind for mats to get new gear. Very little story if any. Have seen a lot of people leave the game but a few low or new players have joined.

@yazoofantasy 5 ай бұрын

Once upon a time Blade and Soul was my favorite mmo. I had lots of fun playing it as a force master, but it was killed slowly but surely. The Treasure Trove was a leading factor which led to grind walls just to keep up with the the whales and be allowed to do raids. Combine with lack of communication and rising clan toxicity and you have people leaving in mass.

@shinichikudoz 3 ай бұрын

to those people thinking about playing or make a comeback...my words is DONT DO IT...game right now in terrible state...so many cheaters and botters..not to mention the playerbase getting worse despite having small playerbase...cheaters boosting their ranks and stuffs...the blade and soul glory era is over for years...

@mikeyamndn7346 Ай бұрын

Thanks for reminding cause I have a plan to download it now HAHAHAHA

@caveman175 5 ай бұрын

I spent a week wondering why my character was so weak after main story lvl 60 HM17 and why it was so difficult gaining needed items to upgrade, then I finally found a 2 week old KZbin video pointing out soul boost rewards in the top right corner. I filled my inventory with upgraded items and went from 1m dps to 92m-122m dps which lets you get to the end game content without relying on marketplace or endless expensive upgrades. I can't believe how long it took me to figure that out, but returning players from many years ago please check your soul boost rewards for the love of God.

@kurikat 4 ай бұрын

whales, elitism, greed killed the game. A lot of us still wish we could play

@munyang01 5 ай бұрын

loved blade and soul, still do. just can't get myself back into it. played since launch and loved it, i quit not long after that producer quit like after 3rd anniversary. loved that guy he was cool

@vic.olofrost 5 ай бұрын

I miss B&S. ❤ I’ve had so much fun with this game, so many years ago. I don’t even remember what the end game was back when I played.

@nqnqnq 4 ай бұрын

i miss the times when the early pirate arc felt like the most difficult and nerve-racking dungeon-type experience. the pvp too, it was so both amazing and cutthroat

@venjaminffxi 6 ай бұрын

I reinstalled the game and tried a regular daily and got one shot twice, im trying to find when did they change the difficulty, a y ideas?

@3dxspx703 6 ай бұрын

next vid: MMO in 2024.. is NOT What You Remember :9

@alanmistrzowski2078 4 ай бұрын

P2W in the purest form, the worst MMO out there.

@Zaakiiee 6 ай бұрын

Came back to this game in October 23, I’ll admit the change isn’t awful (soulboost I’m more speaking on here) it doesn’t feel as stressful to feel the need to level quickly, as someone that doesn’t pay to the game often ( only ever on trove sometimes )

@101AGAMES 2 ай бұрын

such a pity , I flirted with the game for a bit , great potential , clean up items , clean up the story , great character customization , great combat and NCsoft could have a real world beater

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

When was the last time YOU played Blade & Soul?

@XeqtrM1 6 ай бұрын

I played blade and soul the first year when the game was actually good before they started with the p2w stuff that's basically after the first year of it's release it's sad what they did because the game hade do much potential in the start but they ruined the game after a year I guess they tried to wait for a year before adding the p2w stuff to see if people will stick around after the change since people played the game for a year

@Lucky94Star 6 ай бұрын

mb I missed it definitely watching it when I get home

@Draknalor186 6 ай бұрын

You use bad metrics to gauge the games life. But your channel is blocking a lot of words so i can't even mention the popular community platform that every game uses nowdays, where there's tons more people talking than the forum website you showed in the video.

@cabdou1515 6 ай бұрын

I played for about 3 years, so it's been 5 years now 😢

@Seconai 6 ай бұрын

Last month. 1 time but performance is crap and feeled boring in the first few level. And the stamina bar alone running out of combat suck

@kishi8774 3 ай бұрын

@wildmaknae_ Ай бұрын

Funny how my fondest memory of BNS is Russian pirate server long before official EU server. I think it was pirated Chinese beta that people improved and hosted. Had older combat system without different "routs"/combat styles and broken stance for blade master (the one with flying swords, C hotkey I believe). Was so much fun!! And then official Ru server release without any quests in pre-lvl45 areas and no grind just killed all the enjoyment. So sad

@GodHexe Ай бұрын

Man I miss the glory days of blade and soul. One of the best games at its peak

@HonkiePlonkie 26 күн бұрын

The only reason I stopped playing was because I couldn't miss the money anymore. Found out I spend 50 dollar a week on that game without me noticing. It's powering up your gambling addiction without getting a form of real reward. Now I'm stuck with 1000 of cosmetics for no one to see. Glad I stopped 2 years ago. Always came back for the storyline but after that, it's bye game. Same goes for tower of fantasy. Cool story. Hate the spendwall to get a bit strong in the game. The strongest person in B&S is Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault or Jeff Bezos because they just own the most money in the world. Don't even have to be good at the game if you are max gear.

@rickross80 4 ай бұрын

I miss this game so much. I wish I could play it again with the hype it had a couple of years ago.

@LythonV66 6 ай бұрын

I think I stopped playing in 2018? The game had gotten so pay to win that my clan was basically like, "if you're not sinking at least 200 bucks a month into this game to upgrade your shit, you can just leave." It was nuts. All of my favorite people left because they literally *could not afford to play this game* at that level. It's such a shame because I still hold this game up as the pinnacle of what a good MMO plays like because I've never played anything like it. It will forever be my one true love of MMOs and I'm sad that corporate greed and toxic P2W a-holes ruined it.

@howardchung7050 5 ай бұрын

The problem with bns is its reliance on ping. If u don't get a good ping Ur basically losing a lot of dps and throughout all this years the company has never fixed or make the ability to enhance vindictus has almost none of the issue compare to bns

@Dante46231 6 ай бұрын

This makes me sad Blade and Soul is one of my favorite games of all time but I stopped playing the the game stopped performing. After one of the expansions it just started lagging and skipping constantly and that’s when I stopped.

@HelenSheAlphaz 6 ай бұрын

I remember when the game started going down the hill on 2019... Lots of friends started to understand the new patch was ptw all over and new players were gonna find it difficult to progress if not for adding cash on the shop wither for gems, and other stuff. I really miss the game and the grinding system it had, pvp was fun and useful for materials, raids were immersive and mechanics made sense... You had fun on discord on its peak years. Why don't they change companies and bring the old bns essence? All the shop items are killing the game.

@kermidiu4390 6 ай бұрын

"More Cash Shop Items"

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

MORE CASH SHOP ITEMS! Because that’s all that matters. Milk those whales!

@BoBBaB0oN 4 ай бұрын

i remember back when i was in higschool i tried so hard to play the game that i need to play on china & hongkong server and when i finally play on stable server i reach the point where the p2w has gone too far

@saikyue4462 2 ай бұрын

how do games still fuck up the whole pw2 issue, when gw2 is right there, gw2 is the perfect shop, it has quality of life items in the shop along with items that give you an advantage in some way, but you can easily grind the gold to buy it through gem exchange. They have the perfect formula right infront of their face and they still manage to fail xD

@GameReplays- 4 ай бұрын

When it came out the game was fantastic but now Its all about money,cash shop and the toxic whale players

@MorningstarGX 6 ай бұрын

Me: So what did I miss on BnS Stix: More cash shop items 😂😂😂

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

Lmao.. pretty much all they care about.

@cabdou1515 6 ай бұрын

It's so sad to see that what I used to consider the best MMORPG I've ever played back then, turn into a 90% cash shop items/battle passes, and 10% reused content/events It's been about 5 years since I stopped playing the game (time flies by so fast) and it's sad to see that things got even worse than how they were back then, and the game became just a cash grab and nothing else 😢😭

@destinyruelle1899 6 ай бұрын

I can’t seem to play the game anymore ever since I moved to Korea… 😢

@davidparada5332 2 ай бұрын

But Korea is the country of MMO wtf anyways BaS is completly dead I wish that the bussiness game was differnt the story would be anoher thing a big sales game cause the experience that gave that game was amazing if it was a suscription mode or something I would love to pay them in 2016 instead of p2w model

@LoneKuroRaifu 6 ай бұрын

When Blade and Soul Neo drops would you cover that too? Kinda hoping this game makes a comeback. Loved the vibe, just too dead to do anything.

@nWbula1 23 күн бұрын

Dude i swear Blade and soul had so much potential even if i was p2w.

@nevadabdo 6 ай бұрын

What a shame, this game was the best mmo i ever played, it had everything raids dungeons pvp factions pvp arena battlegrounds solo challenges etc

@Xylerius 5 күн бұрын

Just finished the anime and really enjoyed it! So was kinda hoping the game would be great too

@zerooskil7161 6 ай бұрын

bns in 24 is stellar blade and nikke as shift up did work on this game

@adamfarkasbdp Күн бұрын

They somehow fucked up the once BEST action/pvp based game. Amazing...

@timeking2377 6 ай бұрын

new mic? the audio quality is different here.

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

No, the video for copyright struck for using in-game music so I had to let KZbin auto remove the background music to keep the video live.. and it messed with the audio. It’s only the first 3 minutes though!

@JP-gc2nk 2 ай бұрын

They just dished out a 80% playerbase ban for NA and EU, so there's like 30 players left playing now lmfaoooo

@Ryl1ea 6 ай бұрын

Blade and Soul at its core is a great game, character customizations are just insane af, storyline is nice, the progression is "not really" fair (until Demonsbane), combat is very responsive (i have never seen any MMO come close ever since), the boss mechanism since Serpent's Den even til recent KR Demonsbane dungeon is really really interesting and fun to watch. But all the decisions made by NCSoft killed it, first of all was the huge, unhinged update post Moonwater Plains (what they called was Big Revolution Update?) in 2017/2018 which kill half of the playerbase (also because of the weird decision on putting a lot of non-linear changes to SEA (Garena) this killed almost the entire playerbase there) second was the amount of powercreep items added into Treasure Trove (I do understand that post Demonsbane this is fair because a huge jump in difficulty) that makes the pay2win become more and more obvious than ever. and the final pin on the coffin was to introduce 3rd specs and starting to optimize post Scarlet Controversy/Steelbreaker Soul Badge to make all the classes become more and more PvE centric, effectively kills PvP itself, tho this was not that impactful because at that time players already lost interest in PvP (A little bit before UE4 update), at this point only people who either paid a lot of money or still loves the combat system remains left which is just outright sad. Now they are coping on Neo Classic which is right before the Revolution update (sure they do know where they messed up) but all the decisions on monetization during closed beta making people prefer the live version for some reasons. (there is no shot you wanna pay to get access to Auction House and only getting limited daily locked Diamonds out of it)

@eatatjoecs Ай бұрын

Loved Blade and Soul back in the day, haven't played it in years. I really enjoyed solo and group content but the game had two very bad flaws: Elitism and Vertical Progression. This elitism was caused by both the Devs and the player base. Unless you had the best gear, you weren't invited to groups. Then, there was literally no point in grinding for gear because with each expansion, the gear because useless. Therefore, the best use of my time was spent not grinding for gear but leveling up alts, because I can get all the old gear easily after a few expansions. Then, if it was constantly a game of catch-up, then there was no point in playing since no one played the old content. Classic BNS won't fix the problem. Switching to a horizontal progression will allow casuals entry into new content and make the game worth playing. I'm not going to grind away my life for gear that will be replaced in a few months.

@unitedstrafes4522 4 ай бұрын

2 types of players in BNS, those who don't spend $200 a week on their P2W and those that do. 😑

@Dexterity07 6 ай бұрын

Yea there's a limit on how much you can push f2p players to spend some money. A battlepass, cosmetics and services are what most games do, but on BnS they introduced so many cash systems and near unlimited upgrades so quickly that people were pushed hard to spend to do the content and the difference between a whale and a F2P was miles apart, it was a complete joke considering this is a game not a casino and F2P players and low spenders are the majority of it.

@nicoromeotibay Ай бұрын

Is it Playable till now the blade and soul?

@bliss2_308 6 ай бұрын

I would still be playing if it's not the most punishing game in terms of ping. This game is only viable to east coast America, if your overseas you do 50% damage with same gear as low ping not worth playing

@TheWehzy 2 ай бұрын

Where is the gameplay?

@agelosvs2080 Ай бұрын

Just make neo subscription based and remove the cash shop and there you have it. Perfect mmorpg right there

@Marty-V 6 ай бұрын

Since I've been thinking of trying b&s out I've been watching these yearly vids of yours and I feel like while you might not be wrong about these things, it feels like you are very biased negitively since you used to have great times in this game. You only look at community activity outside of the game itself, and I think that when potential new players who stumble on this might scare them away from trying it out.

@Nighthawk_r33 Ай бұрын

I thought BnS closed down like Tera. I'm going to re download this tomorrow.

@PokeBurnPlease 5 ай бұрын

They shouldnt have made the UE4 update. While UE4 was needed cause UE3 ran so bad we didnt need the gameplay changes they brought with it. In UE3 you had a ton of dungeons and most dungeons were easily soloable even for free to play players and after the update you had to get a full group and even then you might not have enough damage. It changed PVE so much alot of people including me quit. I played booth pve and pvp and when they litterly removed PVP with removing of the NCoins they killed the rest for me with UE4. Occasionally i go back for Soul boost to see how the game has changed. Currently i am already HM 28 and do up to 180 Million dmg while i havent even finished soul boost yet. Thoose numbers have gotten insane. We used to have like 20k dmg as a new Charackter.

@am_9944 6 ай бұрын

credit and soul , debt & soul etc...

@tellmewhenitsover 3 ай бұрын

Blade and shop is exactly as I remember it.

@robertjohnny6421 17 күн бұрын

They probably killed the most interesting game I've ever seen so far. I played for 10 years WoW high level, the first time I discovered B&S I was mindblown, before the p2w system. That's a litterally total preposterous shame. They found a way to turn a diamond into an amazingly frustrating shit.

@NanoNano-tk7ev 3 ай бұрын

Seriously, the only thing i truly loved about this game were these fairy tale midgets, no one game replicated such feat, despite drawing them correctly now, i still come back to see this old gem die

@JackSCole 6 ай бұрын

It just so happens that the developers destroyed this game themselves, first of all the story line; Especially its ending was unsatisfactory and discouraging to continue the game, new areas and instances were not so interesting and at some point you could really feel that the developers were not putting effort into it, they were just cutting off coupons from the finished product, moreover, new content was released too quickly, the main problem was too many low skill players who were not able to pass the raids simply quit or pay for carry run above that pve sets and magic addons and third skill spec completly ruin pvp balance making this game unplayable and yea, blade and soul was about cash shoop events ncsoft work hard for their fall

@Kby96 6 ай бұрын

im so sad man this game was the first mmo i ever played and its still my favourite mmo ive ever played the combat is still the best in mmo space. seen this video and was hoping they pulled the finger out their ass and done something guess not. Guess we wait for neo and pray it lives up to the hype (it wont......)

@jayfountainsm.d.3651 4 ай бұрын

This game was so fun back in the day😢

@JoshJarrett11 8 күн бұрын

It's a shame cause I really miss the combat in this game.

@Smuel511 6 ай бұрын

I used to play blade and soul on mobile and I was soo invested in it but after 1 or 2 I came back to relive that and it was gone game has ton of pop ups auto combat nothing fun and to much competition on the market it has fallen off.

@tokio1651 6 ай бұрын

Bns need to look at gw2 in terms of contents for the players. Game is amazing but lack of content for players. Most of the time you see ppl just afk coz there isn’t much of I do.

@heatseeka4595 6 ай бұрын

Swipe & Soul

@MMOByte 6 ай бұрын

NCSoft games in a nutshell.

@heatseeka4595 6 ай бұрын

I got another one: XML & Soul 🤨

@mortercl5672 3 ай бұрын

Lmao I was expecting a gameply to see if I download the game, but ok

@alyssarasmussen1723 6 ай бұрын

im excited for bns neo classic china is doing there open beta on it right now i think but it's almost done i also think i'm excited also toontown

@jonzo99 6 ай бұрын

It's not in open beta it's cbt2 and it ends on the 15th of this month, it will go into open beta rumored to be from 28th of this month to 5th of May according to some Chinese friends. While Neo Classic is developed by the KR dev team Tencent are the ones funding Neo Classic hence why the lack of info/beta in KR and the West, in a live stream they said they plan to release Neo globally in Spring so fingers crossed we should have Neo here in the West by early June.