A stunningly beautiful MMORPG that is needlessly complex. There are a gazillion moving parts that all interlock - to the point that when you're still level 10-15 and are trying to figure out how to sell some fish you got experimenting with fishing, and you google "BDO Fishing Beginner's Guide" you get guides full of min-max advice about connecting towns with contribution points and strategies for min-maxing your contribution points and spending $12 on cash shop fishing clothing and...NOW YOU'LL MAKE MILLIONS EVERY NIGHT!

FFS. They're ALL like that. Any little thing you could ask about BDO leads down rabbit holes of "Beginner" guides that are definitely not for an actual beginner.

Here's what a Beginner's Fishing Guide should look like. (Hint: These don't exist for ANYTHING in BDO)

"Get a fishing pole off the market in Velia. Go to the docks and turn left. Run down the beach until you see a gaggle of people standing there. Equip your pole. Get near the water. Hit space. Go make lunch and come back in 30-45 minutes. You'll have fish. Follow the road up the cliff, then turn left and go to Loggia Farm. Find the guy by the road and invest 2 Contribution Points with him. Fish are a Trade Good. Now you can sell him your fish and make 5-100k depending on how many fish you have. There are many more layers to this process, but these are the basics. Click HERE for our Advanced Fishing Guide."

Content like that doesn't exist, so learning to play is usually (for me) 5 minutes of playing, followed by 5 minutes of looking up how to do something, followed by 2 hours of struggling to set up some other interlocking system that I don't understand the point of.

Beautiful Game. Needlessly complex.