Black Desert Online

TonyTurbo78 said:
what?? When I bought it on the evening of 26th, the purchase options that were available said pre-order now for access on these dates.
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I'm guessing you got mixed up somehow. They took pre-orders down in the morning on the 26th, it's when i went to buy the game and i couldn't. When it came back up they were no longer pre-order and the top package was removed.

I posted in these forums about it at the time : 26th Feb 2016, 11:14
 
The pre-order page was still up mate, thats why I quickly saw the pre-order info above, I read that to mean get your pre-order in before 28/02/16 to claim your access after 28/02/16 08:00 UTC. This is just poor communication. If I couldn't order the pre-order at that time, why wasn't that option blanked out or say something about the time to place the order to gain access on the 01/03 or something to that effect. It clearly said on that page like I've shown above, pre-order now before 28th to get early access.

This is pretty much shnidey advertising. Way to go, seems they are following the mmorpg ethical code right to the letter lol.

Edit..just checked out the forum, looks like I'm not the only one. Seen an older news page as well about placing your pre-order of the Explorers before 08:00 on 26/02/16 now, but man why that wasn't written clearly on the pre-order page. That's just bad communication, very ambiguous indeed as it clearly said I can pre-order the explorers before the 28th to gain early access. Kinda my mistake for not reading elsewhere I guess, but man still leaves a bitter tastes, just another controversial mmorpg launch. Oh well, will get a refund and buy the cheaper package, see you on the 3rd Westie.
 
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Oh God I want to play. I was at first upset about the gender lock, but I suppose I can change my play-style. I wish I'd preordered now. I go back to work on Thursday! :(

Is this game ANYTHING like Star Wars Galaxies?
 
its one big advertising mess. Yes there were notes on the news page about the 26th and the end of pre-orders, yet you were still able to pre-order on the store page right up to today I believe for the early access. Just totally worded wrong, does it come down as false advertisement to not show on a store page the terms you are buying?

Oh well, not the end of the world, put in for the refund, will play on the 3rd.
 
They should just open early for everyone now. Plenty of games have done that in the past when they decided the servers could handle it.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
its one big advertising mess. Yes there were notes on the news page about the 26th and the end of pre-orders, yet you were still able to pre-order on the store page right up to today I believe for the early access. Just totally worded wrong, does it come down as false advertisement to not show on a store page the terms you are buying?

Oh well, not the end of the world, put in for the refund, will play on the 3rd.
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I feel sympathy for you, I ordered on 28th and was not particularly fussed about the headstart as I'm working so wouldn't be able to take advantage. However, this is front page of their website and doesn't mention anything about needing to pre-order before 26th. It's all very poorly worded and inconsistent.

https://www.blackdesertonline.com/news/view/64

It would be fair for people to assume that anyone ordering before official launch on 3rd is in fact a pre-order but a two week old post states that pre-orders ended on 26th. I mean they could have simply added a caveat to every single page saying 'for orders placed before 26th Feb'. It does feel a tad disingenuous.
 
Shame that some are missing out on early access. They should have probably been clearer as early access ended on 26th.

Again server is Alustin.

I've left the computer afk fishing while at work. Be interesting see if it levels up much and how much money in fish I can make.
 
Sega Mega Dave said:
Shame that some are missing out on early access. They should have probably been clearer as early access ended on 26th.

Again server is Alustin.

I've left the computer afk fishing while at work. Be interesting see if it levels up much and how much money in fish I can make.
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I think what I find more worrying is the total lack of response and instead covering their backs by amending the store pages with numerous caveats https://www.blackdesertonline.com/shop/GamePass.html (see the access point next to the package title and small print).

All noticeably absent from the page on webcache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c.../www.blackdesertonline.com/shop/GamePass.html

Like I said I'm not fussed but they've clearly messed up a bit here and instead of facing it head on have gone for the underhanded approach.
 
yeah its totally shnidey SS, all that info was missing from the purchase page previously. Because of the **** storm that will now proceed because of it, they have hastily changed it and been deleting posts concerning it on Social Media. Not even a apology we messed up or any type of acknowledgement.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
yeah its totally shnidey SS, all that info was missing from the purchase page previously. Because of the **** storm that will now proceed because of it, they have hastily changed it and been deleting posts concerning it on Social Media. Not even a apology we messed up or any type of acknowledgement.
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I've seen more than a few MMO's fail as a result of similar practices. Hopefully not a sign of things to come.
 
Only just got in to see all this, seems a bit underhand not to give early access for pre-ordering even if there was small print ?

Anyone got a total idiot guide to nodes and how to link them ? I'm having massive brain failure working this out and I'll bet it's really straight forward ! do'h !
 
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