Other smaller uses for contribution can be to simply rent equipment from NPCs that you have met. You can buy buildings, for instance, which can become anything from a house for yourself or your NPC workers or a workshop for you or your workers to work in you can hire said workers and even use the contribution points to unlock resource nodes around the world, and create trade links to these nodes, for your workers to gather resources from and then create a production chain. As your contribution points rise, you can spend them on building up your own little empire. While the majority of story and side quests you encounter feature the usual suspects, it's outside of these quests that you'll encounter what could be considered the most subversive and unique mechanics you'll have ever encountered in an MMO.Ĭontribution is one of the key elements found in the game and the experience to level up your contribution is gained through the majority of quests found throughout the world. Where most MMOs focus primarily on killing and item hunts, Black Desert Online offers what is the most sandbox orientation I've encountered from even most single-player games.
The utterly abysmal introductions and instructions to almost everything found in the game makes it incredibly frustrating, but at the same time, disturbingly compelling. The few things borrowed from staples of the genre offer a facade of similarity, but there's a whole new world lying beneath, one it seems to want to keep hidden. Sometimes the game that comes along to spice up a genre can end up failing for the very same reasons you thought you wanted it, it's just too new. I've been looking for something fresh and Black Desert Online delivers.
Games like Devilian and Blade & Soul have come and gone with me giving no second thought to them. For a while now, I've had a big issue with the stagnation of the MMORPG genre, the fact that beyond the visual there was rarely anything new, original and refreshing to grab my attention, beyond a few exceptions like The Secret World, Guild Wars 2 and, to an extent, Elder Scrolls Online. Black Desert Online puts me in an awkward position.
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