Blue Protocol is back and it's actually coming out this time? Apparently there's a CBT soon, I just signed up, why didn't I hear about this before? Are MMOs finally making a comeback?
https://youtu.be/Px_DtSUjs4s

>It's another Japanese Gacha

>>717588153
Well, Chinese now.

>>717588153
It's not a gacha anon it's an open world MMORPG

It came out. In Japan. Amazon squatted on the body until it died.
I think Scamco sold it to some Chinese publisher. I wonder if Amazon is going to still perch their ass on top of it, or if they'll shake the Chinamen down to permit a Global release.

>>717588219
I think Amazon is out of the picture now, at least I can't see anything about Amazon anywhere on the website or steam page

>>717588257
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3681810/Blue_Protocol_Star_Resonance/
>A Plus
never heard of them but it's probably better than amazon, right?

I hear that this game isn't exactly like the original that died while under Amazon who pushed out Throne & Liberty instead of Blue Protocol when it was BP that was supposed to release in that time frame instead.

I hope this game can succeed. I've been waiting 5 years to play it. No I will not make a Chinese account just to play it. I'm hoping I get selected for the beta next week. Until then, I continue to wait.

>>717588479
Amazon would have replaced this character in the trailer with some black guy so yeah

>>717588581
>I hear that this game isn't exactly like the original
From what i've seen the game got chinkified and lost it's grounded slow feel, now it is a fast pace VFX vomit action type of game, which is a huge downgrade tbdesu, also
>genshin gliding

>>717588082 (OP)
there's a shit ton of genshin and wuwa action gacha clones coming out 2025-2026, an mmo might actually be a good release now

>>717588082 (OP)
Does this mean the west is finally getting the loli body type then?

>>717588783
kinda, in combat you can't fly or jump around and the movement speed is slowed, dungeon gameplay is kinda like ffxiv but with faster pace combat
outside of combat you have tons of movement options to navigate around the map, it's kinda cool

>>717588884
Looks like it since they're showing them on the steam page

Yes closed beta is supposed to happen next week or something if you signed up and get picked out for it, however the devs seems to be aiming for a release this year.

>>717588082 (OP)
I'm keeping an eye on it but have no expectations

>>717588884
>4 fucking year for sexual baby to remove the loli
>game die
>never release
kek

>>717589024
Thank you Chinese overlords for giving western men what they want

I'm just glad the chinks got rid of that retarded looking class that had a ball on a stick for a weapon.
>you mean a mace?
No.

>>717588909

So what you're saying is
>PSO New Genesis movement
>ffxiv dungeons
>lolis
Sign me the fuck up

>>717588082 (OP)
I've played it on the Chinese server, it's not really the same game. It's better
Feels like it was made by people who understand what an MMO actually is, compared to the original devs who were so clueless they didn't even understand their own class design, there's far more content and the gameplay is improved a lot, you can have hundreds of people in the same area unlike the original which capped at like, 20 or something.
I can answer any specific questions about it if anyone wants to know what's exactly different.

>>717589648
What does underwear on girls look like?

>>717589648
what's the meta class in china rn

>>717588082 (OP)
>mmo
lol lmao

>>717589723
Most costumes have spats, but there are a few with panties, and of course there's swimsuits including school swimsuit.

>>717589753
Wind Knight (Aerial spec)

>>717589823
>including school swimsuit

>>717589816
Oh wait it is a mmo, neat

>>717589973
>>717589823

>>717590228

>>717589635
Yeah, and they added a class using the stupid klingon weapon from star trek.

i just know every nigger will be playing the vergil class

>turned into chinkshit with censored designs
no thanks

>>717588219
OG blue protocol released like in 2023 from jap publisher yes. This mmo is a zombie resurrected by tencent and rereleasing with reformatted into, I guess, a way different version

Let me guess - Xigncode or EAC or similar malware anticheat included as usual? I wish I could play some MMO but everything I see is infested these days (except GW2 and TESO I guess).

>>717589648
is there gacha? what does min-maxing look like?

>>717590968
Some fits are slightly censored (mainly turning panties into spats), but for the most part it's the same costumes from OG + new ones.
Pick any and I can show them

>>717591135
is there a cool looking armour for dudes?

>>717591071
Gacha for cosmetic items, kinda expensive but cheaper than it was on JP, and unlike JP most costumes are actually not from the gacha, the big ticket items can be sold on the market too.
There's also a gacha for imagines but it's basically a scam and you're retarded if you use it, since it would be cheaper to just p2w the currency conversion.

>>717591305
There's a few, they gave this one out for free

>>717591071
There's quite a few different gearing systems, would be hard to explain it all in one post but you can look through this guide someone made https://rentry.org/BPSRGearing
On top of that there's a talent tree where you'll have to make some decisions since you can't fully max it.

>>717588909
are dungeons linear? are they fun or you just gather all the mobs and aoe them instead of using CCs or worrying about abilities?

Why did this game fail so hard in the first place?
I was loosely interested a few years ago but then it never came out and people here and there said it flopped hard, but I never cared enough to look into it.

>>717591305
Dyed it black/white since the default color is shit

>>717591914
At first yes but once master mode unlocks there's extra rooms you can go through, you can pick and choose which rooms you want to clear, you have to kill a certain amount of enemies to unlock the boss room so you don't have to full clear the dungeon.
>are they fun or you just gather all the mobs and aoe them instead of using CCs or worrying about abilities?
It's mostly just aoe fest on mobs, some classes have abilities to pull mobs together which is important, once you up the difficulty levels though they can easily kill you and CC you so you do have to be careful, the boss fights are mainly where things happen.

>>717592058
It was made by bamco, all of its investors are retarded so when a new game doesn't make monster hunter/resident evil money they pull the plug instantly, devs didn't have time nor resources to fix the complains people had with the game, mostly that it was too repetitive

>>717591015
It feels like Bamco is just intentionally fucking themselves over to hand things over to the Chinese.

These seem like stretches now, but if China makes an actual tekken or Soul Calibur clone, it will all but confirm thia schizo theory to me

>Blue protocol was not only contained in Japan despite their supposedly being a global release as well, it mismanaged so blatantly to become a massive flop so it can be sold and rebranded to China.
>Bamco makes a new game Synduality, invests quite alot into it as a new IP even going as far as to make an anim3 just to further advertise the game, only to then let that game die without get any content or support because Mecha Break happens to also have an extraction mode.
>Despite so many begging for them to release Gundam Extreme versus back to home consoles, as it turns out it's becoming more and more limited to actually play them in arcades because locations are few, and they still wont do this, as china coincidentally has a game on steam that is quite literally Extreme Vs. that's even released globally.

what's the payment model for this?
f2p with the cosmetics gacha? buy once? subscription?

>>717592058
>0 content on launch
>extremely buggy and laggy
>barely a real mmo (limited amounts of players in areas, everything is instanced, maps would randomly reset and kick everyone out)
>insanely expensive monetization, almost every costume was gacha and it would cost you a house to get anything you wanted
>class design and balance sucked, only 4 skill slots and took them months to add an extra 4
>none of the dungeons had any mechanics
>retardedly low drop rates on skill variants
>took them forever to start fixing things and it was too little too late

>>717592641
f2p, direct buy cosmetics, cosmetic gacha, some mild p2w elements

i trust the chinese even less than amazon but i will probably try it since i have nothing to lose.

>>717588082 (OP)
>>717589648
has the models been extracted yet?

>>717592991
I don't know, you'd have to scour the chinese internet for anything like that, they did officially release some MMD models for a few of the NPCs though
https://gm.qq.com/web202503/news-detail.html?newsid=18619377

I would totally play MMORPG Genshin Impact. Hope they don't mess it up this time.

>>717593114
ty, i guess it's too early for that.

>>717589648
any UI customization options? Not necessarily addon support like WoW, but something similar to FFXIV would be nice

>>717592558
Mecha Break had literally zero to do with Synduality being a massive piece of shit, it was purely stubborn of them to even bother releasing that UE template tire fire.

> it's becoming more and more limited to actually play them in arcades because locations are few,
That's exactly why they won't port it because it would be killing those surviving arcades overnight and shuttering an entire business division, you chinc nigger.

>>717593386
not yet, they'll probably add it later

>>717589648
Will there be south american servers?

fine, I'll give your game a try

>>717593740
It's going to be one server, not sure if it'll have nodes or just be located in NA, but SA can play.

>>717593139
Same, I hate how Genshin Impact, its clones, and chink gachas in general all collectively decide to sideline the exploration as much as possible and become storyslop. At least with an MMO I know that's not going to happen.

>>717589648
this seems like they are trying to fill the niche that pso2 had before they fucked it all up with new genesis

>>717592058
It was shilled by a single discord that had gachasloppers playing the game way past it's deathbed. Typical shills calling anons doomers for not sticking around in a 200 player mmo.

>>717593403
>Mecha Break had literally zero to do with Synduality being a massive piece of shit
True, but my point is they had no excuse not to anymore than they did for it to be a believable failure, just like Blue Protocol had absolutely doing no business flopping is hard as it did by just natural incompetence. Remember NGS is still kicking and that a level of incompetence that takes literal years to master. Blue protocol by just existing should have been enough to put NGS into the grave out of all the other NGS killer's out there.

>>717593806
I'd maybe hold your breath for the initial launch of BPSR. There's some exploration but there's not a ton of incentive to the overworld compared to some other MMOs. There's just the one zone right now, though the next is coming roughly three months after launch, and there's not a huge amount to do in the current zone itself. A lot of the content of the game is instances.

>>717593921
I think the game has enough potential to be successful and probably steak a good number of players from other MMOs. PSO2 is the obvious one but with the way a lot of the boss mechanics are and having all classes on one character, I think FFXIV honestly might lose players to it too.

>>717593139
only aesthetics resemble genshin, can you imagine an mmo that relied on the elemental mixing system genshin has?

would be tight probably

>>717589648
how's the performance when there's a lot of people onscreen (towns, raids)? I heard the performance in the original was horrendous

>>717595375
Pretty bad, the game lets you see up to 150 other people at a time, but I get down to 30 fps if that actually happens, you can change the amount visible on a slider though and just adjust it until your frames are good again, I usually keep it at 150 in towns for fun but lower it when at a world boss for example.

>>717591061
>except GW2
its good?

>>717589648
>you can have hundreds of people in the same area
What are your PC specs and how bad did it lag?

>>717595665
nvm just saw your other post >>717595467

>>717595467
damn, that's unfortunate
what are your specs? I have a 5900X and a 3080ti, better than the recommended, but you never know with these things

>>717589823
>costumes
No, I meant what underwear the girls wear when you unequip all the armor pieces.

>>717595793
3070/5600x
Probably won't matter too much what your specs are in that situation, I don't think the game itself can handle it when there's hundreds of people smacking a world boss, may help in town though.

>>717595824
Nothing special

How are the male outfits in this?

>>717596189
If you like suits and casual clothes you'll like them, there's a few really good outfits and a couple armor sets but on average it's worse than the female ones.

>>717596274
Fuck. I don't know if I like the female voice from what I've watched and was hoping male fits were decent.

>>717596071
But you can grab this if you just want to run around half naked

>>717595475
Fun. But operates on different approach than "Everquest-like" MMOs - you are expected to go around, just do your thing (zones are divided into areas where you help NPCs by just being there and either killing mobs or doing some activity, instead of doing old school quests) and most importantly - do shit with people around. There is no kill stealing (everyone participating gets exp and their own loot), combat is a mix between target and non-target, everyone have healing skill and combat is more about avoiding damage rather than taking it straight to the face. Everyone is scaled in level and stats to their current zone, similar to TESO (somewhat, high level players are still visibly more powerful) and general idea was that "whole game is endgame" which was confusing many people who expected WoW-like "rush to max level" and complained that there was "no endgame" because they skipped all dungeons and thought that only single max level one matters.

It's fun and since year or something - f2p, so you can try anytime without commitment. Just different.

>>717589648
Does the story have voice acting? And will it have multiple dubs for the western release, or just the Toonami US dub?

>>717596690
>completely flat
I will now play your game

>>717597176
Gw2 is weird. It does a lot right but still never felt good. Hated the way the fight design is in that game. Didn't love the class kits. Overworld stuff was really good other than the mastery locking progression. That one heart of thorns map with the caves is the most confusing tangle of a jungle I've ever seen in a game, and that's a compliment.

>>717597290
No English dub. Just CN or JP voices

>>717597415
cool, thanks, that's fine with me

>>717597290
It sometimes has voice acting and sometimes doesn't, CN/JP only, western version isn't going to have English VA.

>>717597359
You can also make them huge if you want. Smallest body type btw.

PvP Sandbox or PvE Themepark WoW-clone Groupfinder slop?

>>717597605
BOIN CHAN WO GETTO SURU MADE

>>717597653
No pvp at all (thank god)

>>717597653
the latter :^)

>>717597737
Then it's not for me. Have fun grinding tho.

>>717597737
Arena's and pvp like Xiv are fun though

>She's gone forever.
>People will never know who she was.

>>717597845
PvP without risk isn't fun.

I'm going to give this a try and hope it's good.

>>717598197
I will and I won't miss her.
Will miss my time traveling wives though.

>>717591061
Tencent ACE

>>717598438
Gonna put your traveling wives into stasis.

>now dev'd by a chinese company
How many login attempts from bejing will I get if I sign up for the beta?

>>717589648
Does it have a kernel anticheat?

ok fine I signed up for the CBT
to anyone who has played on the Chinese server, how is Soul Musician?
I would like to play a fun but useful support for once instead of DPS

>>717588082 (OP)
>censored for the westroon audience

ill pass

>>717598865
Everyone loves it because it provides more damage buff than oracle

>>717598840
In the CN version yes, idk if global will use the same one.

>>717588082 (OP)
I hope this will stick the landing, free from amazon censors I presume.

>>717598985
>idk if global will use the same one
Yeah, it will 100%. No reason not to. Damn, there goes all my hype for it.

>>717598956
You made this post so the shill can reply to it saying global isn't being censored.

what is this? f2p mmo?

>>717588082 (OP)
Only thing ive heard of this MMO was the region IP lock matter. Did going whito piggu go homu affect on its initial performance at all?

>>717597845
Xiv had the worst pvp I've ever seen in an MMO.

>>717600004
The game wasn't very good so not really, if anything it meant people were still looking forward to it because they had no idea how bad it was.
This is a remake version like FFXIV:ARR

>>717599030
Amazon isn't involved at all anymore.

>>717589648
can i get fishnets or garterbelts for free?

>>717600734
nothing with fishnets yet
you can get this from the season pass, not free though

>>717596690
Its not Elin-tier but I'll take it.

>>717588082 (OP)
This looks like the type of game that has endless interpersonal drama in the /vg/ thread

>>717590542
that looks stupid too but at least it looks like a weapon. I'll take some dumb fantasy blade over the fucking ball any day.

>>717602346
There are sliders so you could make it a little more elin-like if you want, that's with default thigh size, it doesn't make a huge difference though.

>>717602371
I kinda liked the ball-man class. Games don't do enough funny weird. It's nice to have a bit of variety from the typical greatsword, sword and shield, dual swords, bows, punching gauntlets, magic staff stuff that every MMO does.

>>717597605
is that supposed to be huge?

>>717602946
Huge (IRL)

>>717602946
Pretty big for a loli I think... the milf body type can obviously go bigger than that, can't show it since I'm out of character slots.

>>717594294
>All classes on one character
on one hand I appreciate this because you can just focus on one character and that means they can make the grind a bit longer.
On the other hand i want ALTS.

>game has autocombat

>>717603457
You can make alts still, and there's technically a marginal benefit to it. But I think having everything in one character is way more immersive just from the social side of things. Everyone interacts with you in a consistent way.

>>717603549
Yeah but it's shit, only attacks enemies in your field of view so if you're a melee class it's not good for farming mobs, and for bosses it just spams buttons with no regards for how your class works so it does terrible dps.
Basically unusable in dungeons and raids, especially when the game is getting a built in DPS meter so you can't fraud your way through everything.

>>717603549
It's more like randomly fire off abilities and I don't think it even dodges or moves for you. It's only good for afk farming field bosses or the seasonal arm band stuff from what I've heard. The current endgame content has real enough DPS checks that there's no way you clear using it.

>>717588082 (OP)
I wish they didn't downgrade the graphics but whatever, at least everything else is better.

>>717605649
>>717601083
>>717596690
>>717590420

>>717592558
it took a year but starward is finally playable vs bots

>>717588153
>100% female characters
>Everybody are under 29

They know her audience

>>717588183
it is a gacha, the original had a gacha (I played till endgame) for cosmetics, without it you would all look the same with the starter outfit and some shitty patterns/colors, You had to pay to even change the hair.
This chinese version still has it and added chinkified mobile phone elements like daily energy systems

>>717592731
>extremely buggy and laggy
>barely a real mmo (limited amounts of players in areas, everything is instanced, maps would randomly reset and kick everyone out)
These weren't true. I played with a VPN and there was no lag at all.
>none of the dungeons had any mechanics
More or less, the insane part was once you finally got to endgame, all they did was turn the same old dungeons into "hard mode" version. These were insanely infuriating due to the class and aggro system but they also had really tight time limits.
Rest is true

>>717608469
MMO with cosmetic gacha =/= gacha game which is a whole ass genre, MMOs have had gacha in them since Maplestory.
SR does add mobile elements but daily energy systems isn't really one of them, it's for life skills which most MMOs have energy systems for, anything else you can simply grind all day. (Even life skills let you grind all day past the energy limit, just for untradable/shit tier gains, you could max out your gathering levels this way if you wanted to)

>>717608757
look I played PSO2 and then thought a cosmetic gacha is harmless and even added to the economy until New Genesis came out it became pretty clear that their priority was entirely on milking the costume gacha now and neglect everything else.
I'll remain extremely skeptical specially with chinese devs.

>>717608731
The lag was mostly related to the pso2 style urgent quest bosses like the giant snake thing in the desert area, a lot of the time it would lag out and fail to do anything after that, completely breaking the boss.
This type of shit still happens in SR sometimes like a boss flying up into a wall and staying there forever

>>717608890
I agree with you but NGS is still an MMO just like BPSR is, you have to distinguish between them these days or people will think the game is like Genshin or something which it isn't.

>>717598197
I'm sure once the game is released in Japan and does well, Namco might be willing to let APlus do what they'd like with the original plot. The oddity is that no one but the Japanese actually have any connection to her
>>717603549
There's sacrifices games have to make to have mobile ports. The autocombat sucks and I guarantee people are only going to use it for dailies or whatever slop they need. No one will use it in proper content

>>717589648
What are the system requirements and can I run it on my 10 year old 4790k/2080 toaster

>>717610289
It's unity based so it's pretty low reqs. Shit can run on phones

>>717608890
NGS isnt shit because of the cosmetic gacha, it's shit because it's in the hands of a man who is absolutely devoid of any game making experience the people who are making the Ac scratches at this point are basically the only ones trying to keep the game afloat while the fight about what to do with HMZK.

>>717610360
Huh, if there's a free chercher creator/benchmark thing I'll give it a shot.
Speaking of which, are there different races and can I play knife ears?

>>717610908
JP version didnt have elves i think the races were just hag, hebe, and loli

>>717610960
＼(^o^)/ｵﾜﾀ

>>717610908
They've shown elf ears in some marketing images but it's not an option in the game, there is a cosmetic ear piece which gives you them but has some garbage attached to it.
Maybe they're planning on adding it as an option or selling it at some point but right now you can't be an elf without looking stupid.

>>717611093
>you can't be an elf without looking stupid.
Some things never change

how p2w is it?

>>717588082 (OP)
I don't believe you.

>>717612216
a little bit p2w
very expensive to do so but you don't get a lot out of it and there's a cap so you can't really get that far ahead of plebs

>>717590228
I will now buy your game.

>>717589636
>ffxiv dungeons
dropped

>>717588082 (OP)
huh there's only a week left to sign up then they start handing out keys, is this game even marketed at all?

>>717612486
what makes them xiv dungeons? are they linear hallways with circle boss rooms and 0 chance of a wipe because they are designed for retards?

>>717612216
its pay2timegate

You will get all the p2w elements for free over time. You'll get a daily and weekly influx of tokens to use in the Imajinn gacha, which has pity rate mechanics. You can spend to get more tokens, but those are slightly timegated as well. We're still talking months of difference. Still, they did actually nerf this from the beta. Imajinn now have a flat effect that defines them, and a few stat boosts. In the beta, those flat effects scaled with Imajinn level. Now, only the stat effects scale. And its really minimal, we're talking something like 5% extra HP at base level and 8% extra HP at max.

>>717612583
it's more like wow dungeons, it even has m+

>>717612547
Not really. It's essentially word of mouth. I only heard about it from other anons.

bioferrite sucks. What's an actual good use for it?

I will be playing this but im a lot more excited for aion 2
>no autocombat
>actual artstyle and sovl, not generic anime
>angel sluts
>the music
inb4 le ncsoft
Do you really think these chinks will do any better? Theyre both mobile games.

>>717612872
I suspect this is a stealth shill thread, if I'm being honest, but whatever
There was one on 5ch's /v/ as well, but it was way more blatant

>>717613221
I'm an unpaid shill because I like the game but I came here because someone linked it on the /vm/ thread

>>717589648
That's false. Chinese servers are on fire, laggy garbage. The game contains essentially p2w garbage behind gacha, which is most importantly questionable in the future (they will likely make it giga broken for whales). Outside that, for the most part it's cookie cutter mmo that even in interview was confirmed to aim to casuals, so we can expect cookie cutter content for the most part with some gacha slop in it. Overall it's ultimately another "mobile" mmo, might be better than some of them, but still bad.

Well, you can tell this will go wrong considering they offer same level of sloppy toppy rewards (up to 50% additional hard currency up to 450 USD) for buying hard currency during beta. It's common gacha tactic and this is clearly who they're aiming for, so even if at the beginning they won't be exceedingly greedy (like they were in beta), but this will change over time.

>>717614281
> (up to 50% additional hard currency up to 450 USD
Rebate bonus got removed from global

>>717614281
They were laggy for the first few days like any other MMO launch... no problems since.
They also already removed that 50% bonus for global CBT.

>>717614281
>lets make an mmo for casuals AGAIN
>casuals dont play mmos in fucking 2025
>game dies
>social media killed mmos, sorry
fuck off

>>717614646
I know they said that but I don't think it's true, the game is grindy as shit, the raids they're releasing are actually filtering people too.
I guess you can just not do all that stuff and do lifeskills and dance and housing and erp or whatever, maybe that's what they mean but the PvE doesn't feel very casual to me.

>>717614824
>the game is grindy as shit
how long to reach max level?

>>717615110
a few hours if you skip everything, it's timegated on server launch though you can't reach cap until after a week or something like that.
the grind is all in the gear systems

>>717615193
so its basically instant endgame, sounds like slop :/

>>717615449
Leveling is overrated. And it's only instant if you're starting two weeks late. You literally can't hit cap until two weeks after launch

>>717615449
Eh not really, the timegate means you're gonna have to spend time doing other stuff, unless you start late in which case you can get to endgame pretty much instantly.

>>717588168
its stolen from Japan but they made it p2w

>>717592058
>Why did this game fail so hard in the first place?
>published by Amazon Game Studio

>>717615791
It never even got that far lmao it failed in Japan

>>717615791
Nah AGS didn't even get to do anything. The game died in JP before it could even come out in the West, and it was entirely the developers fault. I like dog piling AGS too especially after lost ark and new world but they didn't even get the chance to kill OGBP.

>>717615836
amazon is the only reason it wasnt released on the west because they had to go and censor everything including the loli body type

>>717615726
The original was P2W too. Either chug through slow ass progression with very little for doing anything that wasn't just tedious bullshit, or throw your lot in with the gacha which slipped in progression/skip items alongside the items people were doing the gacha for to begin with. Since there was no PSO2-style market for reselling gacha items so you could grind other ways for the stuff, this basically meant you could want cosmetics but either skip grind or get redundant grind skippers you don't need, or want skippers and get cosmetics you weren't wanting.

It was retarded all around.

>>717616071
hows the china version tho?

If it uses ACE this means it wont work on linux

>>717616540
Most systems are easy enough to max or close to max f2p, the only time p2w comes into play is with imagines, where you may be able to gain something like 10-15% damage over f2p, but it's expensive as fuck to do and entirely not worth it, so only the richest whales will bother with that.

>>717588082 (OP)
I need this to come out yesterday I've been fiending for a new MMO to waste my life in

I really want a comfy kino eastern MMORPG again but I know that era is over and it's not coming back. Pretty sad desu.

>>717620034
I really like this one, just hope they don't ruin it over time and instead make it better.

>>717616969
you're safe from the mystery files

>kernel level anti-cheat
It's over...

>>717621314
Biggest problem I've seen with it so far

It is shaping up to be a decent looking MMO but I have at least 3 complaints
>animations like the handholding look very static and less smooth now
>classes are all some shitty genshin preset role+element mix, so you can't have the freedom to be what you want, such as a fire mage, dual dagger assassin or even something as basic as a non elemental/magical warrior
>has timegating reminiscent of a gacha stamina system

I will try it, but I am extremely disappointed, especially with the all thew classes that are all just one element (and even that element is probably just for show and enemies probably don't even have elemental weaknesses)
Imagine how cucked you would be if you played the ice mage and then promptly be ignored for any party trying to tackle the ice dragon raid or whatever

>>717621314
Don't play games with this. Literally malware.

>>717621520
Yeah it's a good thing that enemies don't have elemental resists or you'd just be fucked for playing a certain class.

>>717621314
If it comes to console I can at least ignore the worst of that even if technically they're doing that shit there too.

>>717621628
I've played so many games with it at this point that it really doesn't matter anymore, whatever malicious thing they're trying to do with it has already been done.

>>717621520
I wouldn't say the time gating is stamina like. The time gate is server side and progressively unlocks for the whole region. Anyone starting after the initial 2-3 weeks will have everything open immediately. There's daily dungeons stuff but that's standard MMO faire shit

>>717621771
How are people playing mmorpg with the console? Im too old, help

>>717588168
What's the lore on that?

>>717621780
>I've played so many games with it
What games?

>>717622004
You map most functions to simple button combos and setups, and then have something like select/back be a means to open a chat menu, though communication sucks as a result. FF14, you hold a shoulder button/trigger down and get a hotbar based on face buttons and d-pad to hit. Not sure how they'll do it in WoW's Xbox port, but they added a far weaker auto-rotation just for that crowd.
Games like Blue Protocol, they're more action-focused, it's probably incredibly easy to bind that down to a controller. I'm not sure if I can really call this thing a proper MMO in design anyway.

>>717622064
>JP BP failed catastrophically and got shut down
>While that was happening, in the background they licensed out the IP to Tencent to make a mobile version
>Since JP shut down, they instead decided to pivot Star Resonance into a PC/mobile crossplay game and essentially turn it into a remake and become the main version of the game
>ffw to now the game is being receieved much better than the JP version was and it's actually coming out in many regions

>chinese
no thanks

>>717622145
I couldn't name all of them, pretty much every MMO/online game uses kernel level anticheat by now and I'm too much of an addict to not play them over that.

>>717622145
Valorant, Battlefield, Phantasy Star Online 2 swapped from one KAC to another worse one, pretty sure Call of Duty does it too at this point, several gacha do it despite most of them being singleplayer, the list goes on. If there's any online connectivity or it's forced to be online-focused, it's probably going kernel level now even if it's not actually needed.

>>717622494
Is this true? I haven't played any mmo since decades ago like RO, TS online, Seal etc. Does FF14 have it too?

>>717622271
And now the global release is free from the Amazon tranny censorship since they're publishing it themselves?

>>717622721
It's not self published but it's not Amazon either. It's some random company called A Plus Japan

>>717622797
At least they can't be worse than Amazon...

>>717622721
So far. The NA website did change some class character images to be black but that's maybe just a marketing thing.
I'm also nooticing the pink and blue mage colors

>>717622265
Wouldn't it be a hassle to type anything into chat? Well, I'm an old timer so I'm not using a mic.

What are we playing while waiting for this?

>>717622873
She cute

>>717622494
>>717622664
Sad that gamer just kneel to everything now. I still remember when it was considered haram to put dlc into games. Damn

>>717588082 (OP)
So... are the asian servers locked?

>>717623081
>She

>>717622960
Yeah, they're not fun to deal with for typing from personal experience. Anyone that's seriously dedicated will just be buying a keyboard they slot into the bottom of the controller anyway, or a USB keyboard to use on their system. At that point besides performance limitations, and the lack of addons/plugins, you're not really any different from the normal player, and arguably controller players on FF14 have some very good uses for precision movement in their own right compared to a WASD or clicking style.
Not that anyone on FF14 Xbox would want to communicate anyway. There's some weird shit only on Xbox, claimed to be from Microsoft themselves running a checker on text chats that auto-censors the hell out of too many things and even auto-banned some players for it.

>>717623123
No asia server unless you mean chink?

>>717623123
Kinda, you can buy an account on the cheap, signing up yourself is turbocancer.

>>717622960
dude, remember when people used to talk in MMOs? those were the times...

>>717623192
even SEA is acceptable
NA servers suck everywhere

>>717623204
chink i guess? that seems like a bad idea too

>>717623307
Yeah only server open right now is chink one, there will be JP/KR later, but if it's anything like the original then it would be harder to get into those.

>>717623307
>SEA server
Why would you want to play on a server where you can't communicate with each other tho?

>>717622960
You see... Absolutely nobody talk/type anything in MMO anymore lol

>>717623384
One always has to deal with the nip/gook captcha but its worth it

>>717623598
>No farm bots
>No spam
>Less chance to find someone conflictive
>No puritan user base
>No artificial inflation
>No psychotic community managers/game masters/mods
There is always a niche and dedicated western population seeking to play there, so there are always people to play with

>>717624126
>no farm bots on SEA server
yeahh I doubt that

>>717624126
What are you on about?there are tons of bots and spam in SEA. Worse they spammed something you can't understand kek

>>717624126
>False
>False
>Kinda true
>True
>Kinda false
>RNG
t. numerous SEA server player

Is this game going to do the typical MMO shit of locking character names to one per person? Am I going to have to name myself Fagdick43014 because every other person who tried to get the ign Fagdick logged on 30 seconds faster than I did?
I fucking hate how most MMOs do that shit, hell even shit like BDO has separate account/character names and they still fucking restrict it, its retarded

>>717625081
>Is this game going to do the typical MMO shit of locking character names to one per person?
No it uses an ID system so multiple people can have the same name.

>>717625081
I believe it allows you to use the same name, and you just have an actual ID that is unique to you

>>717625370
>>717625393
Based
I will now play your game
Seriously how does China get this shit right but Korea is still fucking retarded about it

>>717625370
I actually hate when mmos change from the norm on stuff like this, im so used to making weird unique fantasy names idk how to make normal ones

>>717625684
China unironically is the leading world innovator right now. And it's kind of fucked to say that.

>>717625829
That's what happens when you focus on actually building your country and its people, rather than focusing on retarded shit like immigration and fag shit.

I signed up immediately. This game looks like it may as well have been made specifically for me, a classical MMO weeb who is fed up with how things have been going on games like FFXIV.

>>717588082 (OP)
did they remove the censorship?

>>717627614
we traded western censorship for chinese censorship

>>717628230
Chinese censorship is preferable.

>>717628230
Chink everyday.
Nothing happened in tianamen square.

>>717628230
So going from removal of a ton of stuff, leaving only frumpy clothes and making everyone black
To all the stuff remains, but now the girls wear skin-tight body stockings

>>717608469
>daily energy systems
holy dropped

>>717627614
yes, it's a completely different game reusing the assets

>>717628929
There are some panties, swimsuits, etc, but nothing super overt and spats on many outfits.

>>717628983
for life skills only, like how bdo or lost ark did

>>717628983
it doesn't have daily energy on anything but gathering/crafting that anon is retarded

>>717588082 (OP)
She's cute.

>>717621314
You don't even know what that means.

>>717629019
Skin tight body stockings tho

>>717621314
Play it on Linux. It can't access the kernel then. If you're paranoid, flatpak Steam to further containerize everything. If you're really insecure, run an immutable Linux distro.

>>717628929
more or less

>>717621314
Source? Steam page doesn't say anything.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3681810/Blue_Protocol_Star_Resonance/

>>717630337
they're going off the chink version which has tencent ACE

>>717630094
I'll have to skip this "stormblade" out of spite
you just KNOW it's going to be the most popular class
>is a dps
>has katana
>uses the "coolest element" (lightning, as opposed to others using light, ice, wind and earth)

>>717630206
>he thinks chink anti-cheat works on linux

>>717630492
It's by far the most popular, it's not even the most fun to play so you're not really missing out anyway.

>>717630613
which is the most fun? please say overdrive

>>717630660
both wind knights for me

>>717630613
What's the most fun to play?
I was considering either Marksman, Frostmage or Heavy guardian

>>717630707
Marksman is too vanilla but could be fun if you like being a turret, frost mage is the more fun ranged class imo, heavy guardian feels like shit at first but does get pretty fun later on, the other tank is also fun but for me it's >>717630689

>>717630610
The most I've seen happen firsthand is a separate program run in the background while the Chinese MMO was running. Forgot the name of the game.

>>717630837
I actually wanted to play that class first, but felt like it's going to be very boring and spammy,
I'll just have to see when the game releases
How's the class system anyway? is it 1 class per character or can the characters swap classes like in games such as PSO2?

>>717613221
>stealth
Alright shills, tell me if there's any part of the gameplay which has any depth to it beyond just grinding to make numbers go up
The last mechanically interesting MMOs I played were TERA and BDO

>>717631046
You can play all on one character but it will be very difficult to actually do so because of progression systems, maybe later it'll be easier though but for the start you'll probably just want to main one class, I would use the beta test to try out everything you want to try

>>717631158
They already nerfed one of the dungeons on master mode because it was too hard for the average player, the hard mode raids are currently a wipefest too.
Clearing content in this game when you're at-level is pretty engaging, but when you outgear it, it does become a snooze. Luckily they stole M+ from WoW so you don't really outgear dungeons unlses you're soulless and farm the lowest difficulty because it's faster.
The combat isn't as good as those games but it's good enough, as long as the encounter design is good.

>>717589648
How fun is the ranger class? What about the guitar support class?

I for one have fully committed to Shield Knight and I look forward to tanking for my bros

>>717631480
I don't like the ranger, it's a pretty generic spammy archer class, guitar class however is cool, it's kind of a melee healer which is interesting.

>>717630094
I need this in my life. Tharja broke my brain as a child, haven't been able to function since.

>>717631767
>as a child
I was about to sperg out and then I remembered that Awakening came out over 12 years ago and I am basically Methuselah at this point.

>>717631767
You're in luck, that outfit is in the game for bound rose orbs (earnable currency)
Pretty crazy considering it's one of the best looking ones both for male and female

>>717588082 (OP)
don't care if its p2w I'm gonna go all in. FFXIV and WoW are both so unbelievably fucking bad and degraded in both story and gameplay that I can never go back.

>>717631767
>as a child
underage b&?

>>717632480
Dude's probably close to 30 at this point.

>>717632480
FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING

>>717630689
Based. I finally get a fast paced grounded spear class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU0P5M9bSBw

>>717632836
it's the fastest class in the game, gets double the effect of the attack speed stat on top of a shit load of built in attack speed, literal piano class

>>717633010
I might not be able to keep up with it but I really want to try. I want to become speed

>>717588082 (OP)
Wasn't this that game that was raped, censored and DEI'd by fucking Amazon?

>>717633239
I unironically thing it was self-sabotaged like ubisoft, just so the chinese could buy them out and do something "better"

I refuse to believe a hype can be that badly squandered if it wasn't intentional

>>717633239
The JP version was so bad that Amazon didn't even get a chance to butcher it beyond its blackwashing promotional material.

>>717633239
Yeah, ARR moment but without amazon

>>717633361
What, you think Amazon was in on it and had some interest to rape the game for the sake of the chinks? Sounds too far fetched. Occam's razor is that Amazon is Amazon so they tried to pozz it because that's what they do.

It's too bad, I did have an interest in this game but not in the Amazon raped version and I don't really have an interest in the Chink / CCP censorship version either.

>>717633361
Nah, bamco is just that bad.

All that matters is story.

MMO fags will try to blind (You).

>there’s so much content!
>raids are so good!
>the exploration is peak!
>classes are so cool!

However *slams MMO wizard staff into the ground*

All that matters, is story.

>>717633764
No, japanese devs euthanized their passion project instead of seeing it raped

>>717633913
buckbroken xivvie hands wrote this

>>717593139
>>717593806
Focusing on exploration is retarded because it's a one time thing, for MMOs, gacha, or any live service game you want a gameplay loop that is fun and engaging, once you explore a place and gets the chests/do the side quests you have no reason to go there again.
What you want is breath of the wild, not genshin.

>>717633913
Story is the least important thing by far.
What matters most is how good the social interaction features are, dressing up, hanging out and making friends the only reason to play an MMO over something else.

>>717633764
Not amazon, Bamco. The west didnt even get the game in the first place.

>>717633913
>story
You mean setting and world building. The whole point of playing a MMO is to live in a fantasy world.
WoW and XIV had great world building that immersed the player in a living, breathing world, and it's no coincidence they are the most popular MMOs.

>>717634009
Genuinely a Discord-tier post. You probably listen to K-pop TikTok drama reels too.

MMOs are about the setting and your investment into it.

>>717592558
Also, the pajeets corcodlike game. I don't even remember the name of the game.

>>717634002
I’d actually mimic Fortnite instead. What you want is faster traversal mixed into moving to objectives.

>>717634249
what do you do in the setting

>>717634234
They’re all related. WoW worked via world building, XIV worked through characters.

>>717633913
>giving a fuck about story in fucking MMOs
What
Just read a book nigger

>>717623104
You mean the expansions you and everyone bought for games?
>a-ackshually
Silence.

>>717634371
It’s analogous to life.

People that hold the mentality of “content being king” don’t lead lives they enjoy, so they project materialisms (what they believe will uplift their own life) into a game’s design.

The entire concept of the MMO is: “What if games had this huge world everyone could interact in? Like real life!”
They’re a social simulation genre wrapped in D&D mechanics, and the entire point is the world and how invested a player becomes in the emotional aspects of it to be able to tolerate the grind, like having a family to tolerate to 9-5, or the 996 for the now chinese devs.

>>717634002
>Focusing on exploration is retarded
>That's why you want the game that did nothing but try to hype up the exploration and quite literally nothing else

>>717634587
Why would I do things in MMOs with no narrative context?

It’s a stupid comment because the best bosses and raids all have that behind them. People remember the cinematics and story crescendos.

Why do you think people currently get mad at War Within and Dawntrail, even though the “content”, is the best either game has ever been? Explain that.

>>717634881
their content being the best its been doesn't mean the content was ever actually good though.

>>717634881
Counterpoint: literally nobody plays OSRS for the story

>>717634881
Because gameplay is fun.
Story, like exploration, is a one time thing.
You want people to play daily or at least weekly in an MMO

>>717634701
as an mmo or live service game, I mean. if you want exploration gacha games aren't for you.

>>717635124
Wrong, you’re thinking about story like content again, like a quest line.
Story lingers in your mind. It gives context to things that happen years later, invests you in the current raids and the world.

“It’s fun” is not enough for a game you’re expected to out thousands of hours into, it’s just that players don’t understand the subconscious process behind it.

Still no answer to my OSRS point

>>717635063
It’s gets a pass because of the age. How’s RuneScape 3 holding up? That’s what I thought.

The same as holding Pac-Man arcade machines to the same narrative standards as Mass Effect 2.

>>717635762
Runescape is only 4 years older than wow. 2001 is not that different from 2005

>>717635907
So you think people are gonna stick around for anime an anime MMO when it’s competition is Genshin, Wuthering Waves and Final Fantasy XIV?

If they drop the story, it’ll end up like New Genesis or Throne and Liberty.

>>717636061
My point is gameplay is king. If your game is fun, you don't need story and your game lasts for decades. Story games don't. Simple as.

>>717636061
>Bringing up New Genesis
A game with neither story OR gameplay content is not a valid point of comparison

>>717636180
XIV has neither at this point, too

>>717636171
You’re still wrong, because you have an anime aesthetic, and the game is an MMO.
That means a more general player is watching seasonal anime, playing gacha games; they’re invested in story.

I’ve seen mmos dies out, and they’re always left with “Content Kings”, people who just run raids because they think it’s so fun while the player count in the world is in the hundreds.

You need the story aspect to keep people around, especially in an anime game where in this visual genre it’s expected now. Path of Exile 2 can get away with it, Blue Protocol can’t.

>>717636472
except the mmos that don't die are the ones that have good communities and gameplay. you're a gachatard so i don't think you'd even know good gameplay

>>717636061
BPSR and wuwa are the same company

>>717636061

>>717636682
That doesn’t even mean anything. We’re talking about casual player expectations in the current anime game market.

>>717636682
>square enix that tiny

I don't care about this retarded discussion about story
is there a class that uses a big two-handed hammer? I wanna use a big two-handed hammer

>>717636839
We’re not talking about market share what the fuck are you posting SE holdings for?

If anything, Protocol needs to look at why Wuthering Waves is doing so well right and has really good player retention.

>>717636959
Nope but we're getting new classes I think every other patch and they said they had a lot of ideas so it might be within a few. Hammers are sorta uncommon though so idk

>>717636995
Entirely different core gameplay loops. MMOs are fundamentally different from single player RPGs, gacha or not, anime or not. They're incomparable.

>>717636061
FFXIV lost all their players last year

>>717637065
damn
what about a sword/mace and a big shield? I like those too

>>717636995
good thing they both have tencent money now then

>>717637127
They’re not, it’s an RPG with multiplayer elements.

The only concept that’s different is an endgame loop, where developers need you to do things between releases.

If you stripped out end game, it’s the same game. It’s in the fucking title, “MMORPG”. What the fuck am I arguing here? Tab based combat?

>>717637302
There's a sword and shield class. And there are weapon skins so a mace skin isn't out of the question, but nothing like that right now.

>>717637223
Are you that idiot that ducking posts in the XIV threads? You are aren’t you. You’re that ducking retard that posts there.

>>717637351
If titles and names were actually indicative of the truth, the Democratic People's Republic of the Congo would be a good place to live.

>>717637412
Cry harder xivnigger

>>717637451
I’m trying to get it into your head that Protocol needs a really good story to survive, because that’s just the market now.

If you go into the online discussion and keep propping up the idea that story doesn’t matter and gameplay is king, the game will fail.

The game has already dug that hole by taking from Genshin’s UI design, so the parallels to the player are already there.

>>717637791
redditspacing isn't going to make your point true, wuwafag. story fades away, gameplay endures

>>717637739
>BP threads have to deal with this faggot

Get off this website, and go do something with your life. I’m not having people discuss this game with your ass posting in threads.

Knew something was up with this nigga posting SE graphs unprompted. Fucking dumb cunt.

I'll go Marksman because he has a pet bird.

>"story"
The "story" that is important is backstory. History. Lore.
The reason why the fantasy world is the way it is, why very important characters were and are motivated to do things, and your place in the world. Small and grand things in the background that make the world feel both alive and established.
No one cares about the interpersonal drama of some literal whos being made the focal point.
People want to know more about the -world's- story.

>>717635701
OSRS has the deepest lore.

>>717637865
Have fun with the empty MMO in seven months. What can I say.

>>717637891
>but enough about xivtroons

>>717637865
That's no wuwafag, it's a xivtranny

>>717637791
Story focus over gameplay is what killed monster hunter wilds

>>717638234
Wrong again, the bird auto running between zones and the third person attacks as well as Capcom’s dumb endgame grind killed it off.

>>717588082 (OP)
>raids and housing at launch
>only 10% tryhard content
>90% comfy exploration and worldbossing
Neat, I signed up for the beta.

>>717638409
nigga the whole series is third person wtf are you on

>>717638409
So lack of good gameplay, gotcha. Gameplay is king after all.

>>717638108
jfc
They truly are the scum of the earth.

>>717638526
Nope, wrong again, because bad gameplay can be justified with… good story. See?

Because even if the gameplay is shot, Li Xheng loves his little waifu and will stay because she did something in a cutscene and streamers cried over it in YouTube compilations.

As soon as emotional attachment breaks, all you’re left with are systems, and systems are laid bare to critique.

>>717638490
Fucking play the game Focus Mode attacks fuck me man

redditposting gachatard, just leave

who is this semen demon

How is this game different from FF14 or WoW? Anime graphics?

>>717588082 (OP)
Looks like shit, no thanks

>>717639472
Action combat.

The gotta bring this shit out for PS5. Mobile worries me, because combat always takes a hit at the cost of control complexity on a Mobile’s touchscreen. That’s the problem all mainstream gacha games currently have.

I assume like other MMOs tanks are always needed or is it like who ever dps the best can tank. And is the shieldy man boring to play compared to edge lord katana/scythe or spear guy?

Can you be a proper tank?
Can you be a proper healer?
Is the trinity a thing or is one of those garbage "everyone is a different flavor of dps" mmo?

>>717641865
Classes are overall more self-sufficient / capable of avoiding harm as opposed to attrition-based combat that facilitates mandatory tanks&healers.

>>717642068
Even the end game raids and stuff?

>>717642010
They implemented a proper trinity in the rerelease

>>717642217
You get destroyed as a DPS if there is no tank. Tanks will get destroyed if there is no healer.

>>717642317
Great
Chyna saving gaming yet again

>>717642317
Awful
another MMO ruined