Black Desert

Well they want the game going for another 10 years, and they've said Edania pt.2 is the end of the first 10 years. I think we can expect more big directional changes coming in the next year or so.

That's a nice change. All the enchanting was, even the last couple times I played, was a bunch of clicking for no reason. They would pump you enough stones to just pen everything without really needing to even use failstacks, just brute force the agris fails and maybe repair durability a couple times. The Awakening/succ stuff was pretty annoying too, some alts didn't have to go way out of the way to do it, and some had to spend ages running to the edges of the map for theirs.

New content is great, and a lot of the spots are pretty fun. They really need to increase the drop rates on some of this stuff, though. It's nice having shit to grind for again, but grinding for 8 hours just to get enough mats for one tap, then failing that tap 3+ times, feels awful.

I know all the high-end streamers bitched about "just grinding for silver" and wanted to grind for drops instead, since most of them got carried as shit with their gear. But grinding for drops again feels like BDO back in the Ash Forest days, grinding for Debo Neck, which was one of my least favorite periods of BDO.

New spots are really well done (each has their own "unique" thing about them) and Inner Edania looks really great. But, this grind for 5 hours to maaaaybe get enough accessory drops for a tap/click feels horrible. I guess it probably fixes itself in 3-6 months when all the no lifera have full DEC accessories and start finally listing them on the market - where it basically becomes 2.75b per click instead (roughly an hour of grinding - not too bad), but it feels awful right at the moment.