Qbopper wrote:It's hit or miss when it comes to bdo
I was turned off by the immediately apparent korean mmo elements of blindingly awful interfaces (yeah you can change the HUD, and I did mess around with that, but I don't think it excuses the laughably cluttered default UI and flood of announcements), broken engrish that made it a bit difficult to follow the plot, and leveling that starts out lightning fast and later slows to a crawl (from what I could tell, anyways) - it was like playing a nexon game that I had to pay cash up front for
steam refunds make trying it out a non issue, and I'm not trying to shit on anyone that does like the game, but I was looking for a good sandbox MMO and BDO didn't really fit what i was looking for, so just be aware going in that you may not enjoy it if you dislike any of those tropes
Well, as you said you can change up the UI, and go as far to even disable parts of it. As for the announcements, all of them can be hand-picked as to which ones you want on and off, both on the top board and in the chat. The English can be pretty bad at times, and the voice acting can be hilariously funny (although that too can be disabled) but I'd say it makes for a good time. Leveling and gameplay starts pretty easily 1-14 then slows down and gets harder later as the game encourages the use of multiple characters, since certain things in the game accumulate between all of your characters (such as knowledge, contribution points, energy levels, etc). Getting to 1-to-50 isn't so much difficult as 50-to-56 or 56-to-60 (endgame tiers) because of this, I imagine.
(quick handy tip for anyone wondering, "settings > game" are the easy instructions to get to everything on the interface/UI or things ingame that you might want to disable other than the actual UI parameter editing itself, which can be edited by pressing the obvious "edit UI" button in the menu)
Perfectly fine to love it or hate it, but I just figured I'd give you a breakdown incase those were the only things that were stopping you from enjoying the game. : P