Well, I just learned that the housing in Black Desert is now fully instanced instead of open-world like it was in the past.
I can't say I'm not disappointed by this revelation, but at the same time, I can understand that what they were going for was probably too ambitious for our current level of technology. Even our single-player RPGs still have load screens when entering buildings; MMORPGs are an order of magnitude more complex than those, so they were probably pushing things too hard as it was.
In other news, however, the city is incredibly huge and lively:
I can't say I'm not disappointed by this revelation, but at the same time, I can understand that what they were going for was probably too ambitious for our current level of technology. Even our single-player RPGs still have load screens when entering buildings; MMORPGs are an order of magnitude more complex than those, so they were probably pushing things too hard as it was.
In other news, however, the city is incredibly huge and lively:
