Man, what the fuck happened to DFO over the past 7 years? 3rd highest grossing video game of all time, by the way.

Golden Age DFO was the best MMO ever made. I would buy a standalone game for $60 that's just pre-Metastasis levels 1 - 70.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4RlS_3Ql1s

>>714727343 (OP)
> 3rd highest grossing video game of all time

Wii sports?

>>714727343 (OP)
>3rd
1st if you go by a single game, not entire franchises

>>714727343 (OP)
All gookslop games go the same way. Vindictus used to have giant monsters and gigachad knights as raid bosses, but these days it's hot half naked women.

>>714729995
Wii Sports didn't gross much money at all since it was a pack-in title.

>>714730205
But DFO didn't follow the trends of other Gook Games since it came out in 2005. Up until the past decade the game was really good.

I do miss DFO, what's it like nowadays? I stopped playing before that female theif class got released.

>>714729995

>>714731882
The female thief class was released 15 years ago homie, that's old DFO. Back then the level cap was 60 and most classes didn't have their awakenings yet. Now the level cap is 115 and not only are there 2nd awakenings, there are 3rd ones as well.

>>714731882
The first 90 levels are basically single player. You get forcefed the story and level up extremely quickly. Nothing provides a challenge until you get into the end game content. And I don't mean it being easy like before, I mean like you're one-shotting level 85 bosses even on the hardest difficulty.

Also you don't get to party with anyone until you complete the story content. By that time it throws you directly into raid content without teaching you the basics of partying and teamwork and expects you to be able to handle bosses with 300,000,000 HP.

>>714730153
It's crazy how hard Nexon fumbled DFO. It had everything going for it and yet they shut it down in 2012. Then it got revived by Neople in 2015, but Nexon now owns Neople.

Despite earning more than Blue Archive, Nexon's 3rd highest grossing "game", Nexon gives all their attention to that gacha slop.

>Try DFO
>Don't like Korean voice acting
>Also noticed I'm deleting everything super fucking quick with 1 hit that I don't even get to process what the fuck is happening
I thought this shit was supposed to be some MMO beat em up yet I'm deleting enemies and bosses at level 1 stupidly fast.
And how is this the third highest grossing game when I never hear anything about it? And on Steam, it's only 100 players. So what gives?

>>714734054
All that content you're breezing through used to be actual content that took weeks to get through. Because the game is 2 decades old, they want people to be able to experience all the content they put out in the past couple of years by power leveling them through all of the old content rather than just offering the ability to start at level 100 or whatever.

>Don't like Korean voice acting
DFO had English voices. The devs got rid of them and are planning on bringing back new voice lines. It was pretty decent voice work, too, with loads of memorable lines.

>And on Steam, it's only 100 players. So what gives?
That's because the Steam client is fucked. For whatever reason, the devs want people to use their launcher instead of going through Steam. Before that happened the game was significantly more alive.

>>714734054
It's a Korean MMO with actually good gameplay for once. But it's still a Korean MMO, which means tons of grinding for end-game loot. If you're not at the end game, you're not grinding for loot so the Koreans want you to power level until the end game.

>>714727343 (OP)
Dude she's literally 10

>>714731901
I have never heard about this game, how the hell could it have made more than Minecraft or GTA 5?
Am I really living in a cave or something?

>>714735421
> how the hell could it have made more than Minecraft or GTA 5?
Minecraft and GTA 5 sold a lot of copies, but that doesn't mean they earned as much money as, say, Mario Kart 8 which sold fewer copies but at a higher price. 77,000,000x60 = 4.62 billion. 215,000,000x20 = 4.3 billion.

But that aside, DFO is an MMO with your standard cash shop with loads of cosmetics. It used to be the third most popular MMO in North America behind only Runescape and World of Warcraft, and in Asia it's been #1 for pretty much the entirety of its existence. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China love it to bits.

>>714735348
For me it's the Female Mage

>>714727343 (OP)
The game went on for too long. MMOs really should not last for longer than 10 years. Make a sequel if you have to.

>>714735421
You're not going to question how Space Invaders and Pac-Man earned even more? It's because MTX (arcades are just MTX, deal with it Gen Xers) earns more money than game sales.

>an ancient evil awakens
>it's two mesugaki goo lolis

>>714737793
They do look particularly ancient and evil

>>714737793
They'd make great friends with Becky and F. Mage

>>714737793
You just know

>>714736605
This. Same issue with WoW, and Runescape to an extent.

>>714731425
>n-n-no that doesn't count because (arbitrary reason)

>>714740043
It literally does not count when you're looking at how much a game grossed.

>>714735421
Most of it comes from China, DFO propped up Tencent's game division for years

>>714740345
DFO is owned by Nexon which is a publicly traded company headquartered in Japan with a majority of shares being owned by Koreans. Also Korea is its #1 userbase.

>>714740549
holy botpost

>>714727343 (OP)
>what the fuck happened
too many classes
too many levels
too many "revamps"

>>714740649
Holy schizophrenia

>>714740830
>Too many classes
Disagree. Some of the later classes are lame, but that's just because the Archer is poorly designed to appeal to gachasloppers. Even the 5th classes for older characters turned out alright.

Agree on the too many levels and too many revamps. They should've just ended DFO back in ~2017/2018 and then created a DFO 2. Hell, I'd go so far as to say the game should've ended before the Metastasis, since pre-Metastasis DFO is the best MMO ever made.

>>714740830
>Too many revamps
How else are you supposed to keep an ancient MMO running? People want to see that new content, but if they're stuck taking months to catch up to the raids, they stand to miss out on the raids entirely by the time they become appropriately leveled.