In Black Desert Online, the developers have fixed a faulty event and taken the items back from the players. This leads to high debts.
What is this event about? The “Pearls Blessing” event recently took place in Black Desert Online. Here, players can spend pearls to receive corresponding rewards such as outfits. This gives players additional rewards for their spending in the Black Desert Online shop.
However, there was a bug during the event. When the event started, players were not reset to 0. Instead, all players retained the status from the previous event, which caused many to reach the items further along the event path more quickly.
But the solution to the problem caused considerable frustration among the players.
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Everything back to zero
How was the bug fixed? The developers only noticed the bug after the event had started. Instead of rewarding the players for their progress and learning from the mistake for the next time, they decided to reset the progress during the ongoing event and only count the newly spent pearls.
Those who had already received items that they shouldn’t have gotten had them taken back by the developers. If they had already been sold, the transaction was reversed as well. This resulted in players losing a lot of silver and some being left in the negative.
The negative amounts occur because the silver gained from the sale was deducted, even if it had already been used for example to upgrade equipment.
This is also the case for a Reddit user, who shows that after the rollback, he stands at -27 billion silver in the auction house. He also shows the notification as proof along with the evidence of how much silver was taken from him. This causes a lot of frustration among the players.
What do the players say about this? Some players claim innocence and presumably thought this was not a bug but rather a deliberate incentive from the developers. Others are simply upset that the problem was resolved this way, forcing players to deal with their negative silver. As players write on Reddit:
- Dumbusta: “Lmao wtf? So they just decided to saddle you with 27 billion debt?”
- mynameisnemix: “I would initiate a rollback, to be honest.”
- MainSmile: “I would just quit, lol.”
- Thread creator ArgosVII: “I didn’t know those were unintended rewards. Had I known that, I wouldn’t have used them. Nothing indicated there was a bug. You only found out it was an issue after they finished the event and posted the notice.”
Even though the developers made the technically correct decision, the more popular option would likely have been to leave the event as it was and allow players to keep the additional items. Now they have upset paying players, which should be the opposite of the event’s purchase incentive.
Black Desert Online is one of the enduring titles in the MMORPG genre. Those who have been following the game’s journey for a while will likely have become sentimental this year, as the story came to its finale: The MMORPG with the best action combat system ends an era after 9 years, leaving fans emotional
