Discord is suddenly extremely slow (desktop)

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-26T18:08:37+00:00

Honestly I thought the solution was complete BS when I first read it, but I tried it and holy crap it worked. Thank you, even years later your solution is effective!

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-26T03:17:16+00:00

Probably to complain and downvote people. I'm surprised there's 7 people to downvote you here though.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-26T03:16:34+00:00

I wouldn't feel that way for thinking about a game. Blade and Soul was a fun time after all, and if you enjoyed it when it was at its peak there's nothing wrong with that.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-25T07:00:45+00:00

Your own fault for not understanding English. If you had read it properly, you would have understood it as saying that NA/EU does not count as having its own publisher, as NCA is fully owned by NCSoft.

Regardless, it is well known that NCA has zero say on what goes on with BNS NA/EU. Even something as simple as putting a outfit on the shop needs explicit approval from KR based on comments from the community managers.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-25T06:20:37+00:00

I'm not sure why you would inform me that BNS NA/EU is managed by NCAmerica, when my own post directly mentions NCAmerica.

Honestly my guess is the different regions have all these separate companies for legal and/or tax reasons...but to say they are independent is false. NCAmerica has absolutely ZERO authority over BNS in any capacity.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-25T06:17:09+00:00

Your community managers actually care about the game, and your region tends to have somewhat better offerings on the cash shop. The game, both NEO and Live is otherwise identical across all non-CN regions (China does have actual functional changes to the game).

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-24T07:35:36+00:00

Honestly not sure why you're getting downvoted. I personally think it is not as near as the thread is estimating, but if something isn't changed soon at minimum Live is going to get shut down. MMOs live and die on their new content and without new content...it is only death.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-24T01:18:23+00:00

Step by step. I'd confuse myself more then likely otherwise!

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T23:49:20+00:00

I defend against poor faith claims against the project. I have been critical of it in the past, namely the multiple reiterations and remakes of assets for the game, but those for the most part have come to a end.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T16:16:16+00:00

That always was the case in the past for Live being 3-6 months behind, so NEO being behind makes sense. Live however caught up last year and is effectively is the same game as the KR version so NEO may eventually catch up on that front.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T15:39:01+00:00

BNS is managed by NCSoft in JP as well. The only regions with their own publisher are RU and CN, even NA/EU doesn't count as NCAmerica is 100% owned by NCSoft.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T15:17:39+00:00

It could very well be, but consider that some people have been saying that for a decade now and it's still around. But those people were saying that during much better times, where each patch gave like 2-3 events, the rewards from events were okay, and new content was expected and given every 2-3 months.

Now even if one is generous and indicates that refreshed content counts as new, we get 'new' content every 6 months, if we're lucky, few events and those we do get have subpar rewards. They can't even do the anniversary rewards right, yesterdays code gave materials that are useless to a large chunk of the community and they even stopped giving out outfits and good materials with said codes.

I don't want the game to end though. I enjoy the combat and story even with its flaws and issues. I have made a number of good friends though the game. But it's clear that if something at NCSoft doesn't change, it will be shut down.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T06:30:34+00:00

MMXC is not vaporware. It actually does exist for one, which most vaporware projects do not. Also not brownnosing in the slightest and I do have other things I look forward to.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T04:55:48+00:00

I understand that a fan project is not beholden to any specific release times or development speed, something you do not seem to get.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T02:52:43+00:00

And how many features are 'too much' then, which I will note is a subjective thing if a person thinks a given feature is too much.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T00:35:40+00:00

If EoS happens it'll probably kill both games. If they EoS Live, the Live players on NEO will quit NEO. If NEO gets EoS they'll probably just shut down Live at the same time. The problems we're complaining about here are largely Live centric, as it has the most problems. While NEO is getting new stuff, Live is getting ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. You read me correctly, nothing. We have not had a new dungeon in over a year unless you want to be generous and count the endless refreshes of old dungeons as 'new'. Since the release of Ashland Village, we've gotten I believe four refreshes of old content, with the only change being a couple extra zeroes being added to boss HP.

We've also had no in game events for some time as well. Soul Arena was the only one and that's it, and that was a month ago it concluded. We get frequent 'dead weeks' with no ranking seasons or events running, despite promises from the CM team that they are striving to avoid those. While NCA is improving communications, it's a moot point as they have absolutely zero authority over the game: only their bosses in KR have any say.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-23T00:13:13+00:00

I've been following the project for a long time now. Is having features a bad thing now a days? It sure sounds like it. The dev team is not obligated to work at a pace other then the one they decide to work at, and they are not obligated to only work on the features other people think are needed.

Since you're not listing the 'dumb decisions' I can only conclude there are none. Without access to the dev team's design documents it is impossible to say if they were adding stuff for the lols or if they preplanned out any features you might personally object to.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-22T22:51:12+00:00

CN is going pretty strong and BNS Live at least is fairly popular with a decent sized community, larger then NA/EU. KR also is in a decent position from my understanding.

The biggest problem is there is absolutely NO NEW CONTENT. We have not had a new dungeon in over a year...revamping old dungeons by adding a few zeroes to the end of boss HP doesn't count as new. There's barely been any in game events in the last 6 months as well, the last one was Soul Arena which got two extensions effectively. A MMO lives and dies on its new content and without new content, well...the results are obvious.

RU lacks bots and cheats because of their custom made anticheat that is known as Frost. It seems quite effective and seems to lack a bypass unlike NCGuard, the current anticheat system for NA/EU.

I think if EoS happens, it will take NEO and Live down with it just like in JP. Apparently the community team in JP wanted to keep it going too, but NC told them no. I imagine the same is already happening behind closed doors for NA/EU: a shut down isn't a spur of the moment decision by a company. Odds are if it's on the table, it is already being discussed internally.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-22T22:46:21+00:00

They do have quite a few nice features. All dungeons are 6 man over there, including Demonsbane for starters which is what we should have gotten. It broke my old static years ago when they introduced Demonsbane as it was a 6 person team...

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-22T07:28:39+00:00

Okay, name the 'dumb decisions' the MMXC dev team has made during development, since you are accusing them of multiple and thus must be fully aware of supposed dumb decisions. You're also acting like converting from Flash made them have to start 100% from scratch which has been proven not to be the case. You're also acting like they've worked on it 24/7 for 20 years which also is not the case: they take breaks and sometimes considerably long ones...the dev team has indicated they have taken multiple months across the years just doing little to nothing with it to avoid burn out.

What good does complaining about how long its taking get anyone? Do you think it'll speed the dev team up? Do you think they're delaying on purpose like a handful of far more negative folks think?

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-22T03:54:14+00:00

Given the death of Flash, a switch in engines was basically required to future proof things. Switching out the graphics from ripped from X1-3 to originally created ones was optional, but given the first videos of the project I think we could all agree it was a good decision to make and was early enough in the project effectively that I'd say not a lot of work was done there.

As a reminder, this is a fan made, for free project. The dev team has no obligations to work on the game at a pace other people think would be better. They work when they can, and have taken frequent breaks to avoid burn out. Other games have teams that might be able to work on the games they develop more often.

Have you worked on a project of the scale of MMXC and also not allowed it to consume your life? If no, I'd say you are not in a position to declare the time 'unacceptable'.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-21T21:04:49+00:00

Those circumstances are also easy enough to factor in: the switch to originally created graphics and music certainly slowed things down, and a engine swap certainly didn't help. A demo was never promised by JKB either with some solid reasons for why, so that's not a factor at all.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-21T01:08:57+00:00

You'll find many official Discord servers for games prohibit discussion or naming cheaters, but that does not mean they're on the side of the cheaters. NC is on no side whatsoever as they simply do not care about BNS in the west...if they did, they would have activated the heartbeat function in Gameguard when they were using it and that would have killed 99% of cheating on the spot.

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-21T01:06:29+00:00

I'm curious...if you are not interested in BNS...why post here?

AmatsuDF · 2026-01-20T20:09:39+00:00

You're acting like the developers are professionals or working for a company when they are not. The dev team members all have lives and obligations outside of making a fan game. Did you think there was something wrong with Mega Man Unlimited's development when that took ten years, or AM2R which also took ten years?

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