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From: rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge)
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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Black Desert
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Mike S.  <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
>To be clear, I do not mind supporting games I enjoy playing and I
>think LOTRO's monetization method is perfectly acceptable, but it
>sounds like from your post, that BDO's monetization is downright
>generous by comparison. Thank you for the heads-up.

I don't want to oversell it, it may have a very generous free-to-play
model, but it's still a grindy Korean MMORPG, so you're not going to
get LOTRO but without the paywalls.  But for the price of free, I think
it worth trying out.  Even if all you do is run a character through the
main quest until you get bored of the game I don't think you find it a
complete waste of time.

I should add though a recent change make the game notably less generous
than it was.  It used to be that you could buy additional character slots
(I think you start with 6 or 7) with loyalty points, a semi-premium
currency you earn simply by logging in each day.  Now you can only get
them by paying real money and this would have made a big difference to
how I played the game.

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