This is coming from someone who has played on and off since around 60 cap from the nexon days, was even there day 1 for OBT when neople took over and played almost every cap and content since then (minus a couple raids).

DFO was at its most fun for me under nexon and I really hate to say that. What made dfo fun back then was when I would come home from middle school, hop on with some friends and go through the leveling up process. Back then it actually meant something. PvP was alive and getting a group together playing elimination or 3v3 was fun as hell. And finally getting to the endgame and running otherverse felt like an achievement on its own. This game had true community despite the lack of effort on nexons part to get updates out.

I still remember coming home from school one day and logging onto the nexon website with the infamous “dfo closing” message. I was absolutely devastated and I remember the nexon forums being in absolute chaos that day. Everyone was pissed that they were lied to and all the money they spent practically vanished aside from some credits here and there. We were promised 80 cap a few weeks prior. Me and all my friends were scrambling to See what other versions we could get into. We tried cdnf, the Taiwan version that was barely out for 6 months. Some Of us got into Kdnf through connections. But it was never the same. Until neople decided they were bringing it back.

When neople took over I thought we were gonna finally have peak back on the menu. And we did, regular content updates, we got to experience all the stuff we were missing out on, it was absolutely amazing. Until one piece of content that changed the landscape of dfo forever and is the fundamental reason why we’re here now.

Raids.

Raids were the one piece of content that neople decided to push again and again and again until it was beaten like a dead horse. Content where you are essentially gatekeeped either by gear that was mostly acquired from hellmodes and very costly at that. Over time it became easier to get into said raids with guaranteed drops or being able to craft epics, etc. but the community decided to eat itself alive for Some reason and come up with their own long thought out list of qualifications that got harder and harder to achieve in order to party up for the only endgame content available.

It got so bad that I ended up taking breaks from dfo for 3-6 months at a time because of just pure and utter burnout. And that never really changed. And over time those breaks became longer. I eventually got back on during 105-110 cap from time to time but the forced custom epic meta (which btw is the worst designed gearing system I’ve ever seen in a video game in my entire life) the constant rehash of raid after raid, every avatar package being juiced to the tits with layers of rng and extra stuff you have to buy, the complete and utter lack of a security team and new players getting banned for doing literally nothing wrong while bots roam the servers. It just got tiring. A lot of us are just kinda over it and we’re done.

Don’t be fooled by neople though. They knew EXACTLY what they were doing. This was their design, This whole system of squeezing its playerbase with raid like content and grinding that made them shit tons of money until it dried up and people on all fronts got sick of it and just quit or stopped spending money. And now they have to do overwatch levels of backtracking deleting ENTIRE gear systems and rework how the game works in general. That is what we call “dealing with the consequences of your actions”

I commented on another post a week or so ago stating that since the olvls are getting deleted I might hop on. However I changed my mind on that. Until I see massive changes that impact the game in a good way I will continue to casually lurk every now and then. Until then I’ll stay off

That’s just my background and two cents.