Problems with Bleach Online

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Disclaimer: Before I start, I just wanna say, I love this game to death and if I ever get enough money, I will either buy this game / donate / create a spinoff. This game was a big part of my teenagehood. I started playing this game back in 2014, had to drop it for school, took it back in 2017, had to drop it again, and now I just got back into it about a month ago.
1. Pay To Win.
Pretty self-explainatory. But I will say, I do understand and respect that this game does not make alot of money for the time and effort that has been put into it (I think). Another thing is that alot of Events are focused more around the VIP players and from what I can see, that makes up 90% of the community and I can see why they want to focus on the majority, but I think events without gold would satisfy everyone.
2. Slow Progression
It is very hard to progress in the game. First day I've heard people could get to lvl 50 as f2p. I've personally never done it but it seems like the skilled players / has too much time players can do it with ease. After lvl 50, the game just goes too slow for me. I had this one account that I've played for a month and its only lvl 56. Maybe thats just me. I think that there should be new equipment and new partners every 5 levels and maybe a lil quicker as you progress in levels, but the exact opposite happens.
3. The Achievements
Quite an easy fix. All that needs to be done is not give the awards so low and useless. Like "Main Character Reaches Level 85" and the reward is green silver and exp book and 7 coupons. Like come on. I do apreciate the "Special Rewards Section" and that you can get Zanpakuto for rewards even though getting those zankpakuto is more expensive than recruiting a partner. Now I'm not saying overdo it with the rewards, because even though I want that, other people probably wouldnt.

4. The stages not giving enough exp.
For someone who does not get that much vitality, the stages give too little exp to compensate. I literally had to resort to using Instances to lvl up when I had no more vitality.
5. Vitality Itself
My personal opinion I hate the mechanic of vitality entirely, but what more people will probably agree on is that the Vitality Giving rate is so low. Also the Vitality Costs are so high. I can't find that many scenarios that are relateable to other players, but for me Trial takes too much vitality for its worth. I get 3 vitality every half an hour and it costs 9 vitality to clear a stage. I have to wait an hour and a half just to collect enough.
6. Gift Codes
Was this even a thing? I can't imagine finding a gift card with a gift code on it in an actual store. The only place I could find them was on a website that has nothing to do with gogames. I don't even know how that happened but I claimed a gift code in 2014 and what a surprise, they only had like 1500 codes available and they dissapeared fast. First of all, given freely and they had 1500 and not even from gogames.com . Second, the reward was so small. If I recall it was like a small amount of gold and something else that I quite can't remember but it was unsatisfactory. Not even a lvl 1 spirit stone box or anything like that.
7. Full Account History
This should be easily accessable to the player and the account. It's not like there are many hackers that are stealing accounts or something like that. ( I tried to use cheat engine. Tip: Doesn't Work) I literally had to email the support. Granted, I did recieve my answer in like a day or 2, but if anyone knows anything about any public game its that players will consider emailing the support a final resort. However I sent them a few more emails and I think they either got sick of responding or just got sick of me in general. What I want is a Ctrl-F type of thing where I can just search up a in-game player name and it will tell me of all the logs of all the servers and the last times they went on, so I can find my friends easily and see if they still play this game or not. One of my friend said he had no trouble with the thing that pops up under the "Start Game" button after you log in. However I did.
8. Friend List In-Game
This is not helpful at all besides the Jigokucho and going to their house and messing with their girlfriend which is a pretty weird topic in general. I should be able to check their profile and see how strong they are. I literally have to physically experiment how strong they are in the Arena because I can't find their information in the friends list. Wait a second, why am I talking about battling a friend? Because literally everyone is your friend. You friend everyone on the server if you know whats good for you because of the Recommended Friend Button. Out of context that seems so lame, but its literally to use them for your own gain. The only things they gain from it is maybe getting their Jigokucho to level up, but that's basically nothing. Also there is a 5 minute wait until you get to use the button, what? You never know when you should stop clicking it and adding more friends because there is no acccurate way to know how many players are playing the server. Maybe because they are trying to hide my next point.
9. Small amount of players
I have no accurate way of determining the number of people who play this game. But what I can say is that the forums have like no one talking on them. I'd wouldn't be surprised if this post gets a maximum of 5 responses.
10. Too much servers
For a game that I am 99% sure that has not that big of a playerbase, there are too much servers. The first server I played on what the 16th one from the US and I already thought that was a big number. Also the time it takes to make servers is inconsistent. I don't know what goes into coding these servers but they seem to be the exact same thing. Imagine copy and pasting. Thats what I feel like it is because no server is unique. And there is new ones like every 2-3 days from what I can tell, but if I was playing on the 16th one back in 2014 and now in 2018 there are 568 at the time of this video (Just from the US) the math doesnt add up.
11. Players moving on too quickly
People literally stop playing a server just to hop on to the newest server for some reason. People who spent money on the game, people who are f2p, people in the top 20, everyone. This is a really bad quality to have as a game. Consider Skyrim. People enjoy maxing out everything and then they restart. Now Skyrim is a high budget game and the budget of Bleach Online pales in comparison, but for something that is so long and stretched out to me, people are moving on too quickly.
12. Nothing to do sometimes.
Literally Once you've done all the daily tasks, there is practicly only one thing to do, which is wait for the daily events. I've literally looked at my screen for accumulated hours just waiting for my cooldowns to go down.

That's all for today. I will continue this at some point, because I am passionate about this game, but I feel like all my efforts will be wasted on just a few replies. Don't worry. I have a ton more.

sivern

HOPE they will read this lol

kinikas100

Well on some level you are right for example that this game is focus on VIP players but understand game to, to maintain it and create something new considering it's low population take's a lot of effort and time, and i don't even include money, unless there will be bleach online player base explosion they gonna focus on VIP players as they are now, next  about vitality, yeah for free player it might look like it, low income and high price for instance with low reward, but that's only one side of the coin, you heard of Event UBP right ? that's the only way we can get partners or zanpakuto's outside tavern or csb for free ( by free i mean not investing gold but vitality that is kinda free), it take's lots of time to collect for free player yes, but it's still possible, so we all  should be grateful for it. Going next About lot's of server now let's say you want to start new game because you had a break or broke your current account. You want to start game ASAP pretty much and that's where new servers come's in, yeah it divine's already small player base, but after month or so servers get merge, so from 10 servers that they have like 1 or 2 active players they make one that have 10 or above players. And lastly i Agree with you about slow progression, that's keep bugging me for a long time to, just same routine without much happening kinda forces you take a few weeks break after few months of non stop playing. Just so you know i'm not a high VIP player i;m just a vip 4 Player , small Pleb, but from my exp i can say for sure to start enjoy game to the max, you kinda need to get vip 4 to skip battles, that;s all i have to say and i hope i didn't insulted you.

adnane.bek

INtersting , whatelse?

adnane.bek

and dont answer Nespresso                            

adnane.bek

i am interested of what u saying cuz ur game experience is the same as mine, i did started at 2014 around server 24 in eu, then jumped to 28 then quit to come back a year later then come back again, i'm a big fan also of the manga and anime, and in a masochistic way of this game

from what i stand, what i find a pity is this game didnt give much consideration to the weight of a guild, it would have been amazing to get some epic raids once a 3 months for example, many other games give this experience where there is a comon ennemy to fight where even if u vip1000 u cant beat alone, and u need max dmg from all guild memebers to achieve and unlock things ie weapons silver farm stuff and even partners; at the end of the event the guild splits the loots and being high or low vip everyone is thankfull to have played around,

Potdenutella

adnane.bek replied at 2018-7-13 02:58
and dont answer Nespresso

Look at this punk boosting the thread until is has a minimum of 5 posts.
> I'd wouldn't be surprised if this post gets a maximum of 5 responses.

5. Vitality Itself
My personal opinion I hate the mechanic of vitality entirely, but what more people will probably agree on is that the Vitality Giving rate is so low. Also the Vitality Costs are so high. I can't find that many scenarios that are relateable to other players, but for me Trial takes too much vitality for its worth. I get 3 vitality every half an hour and it costs 9 vitality to clear a stage. I have to wait an hour and a half just to collect enough.

Most of the browser/mobile game has a rate of 3 vitality for every 30min, it's not only Bleach, also one of the purposes of the stamina system is to force the players to shell out moneys to buy the stamina, the other is so we don't have to play the game non stop, otherwise we burn out too quick and quit, trust me the system is really helpful; That is what made us keep playing for a longer time. For more info, check the Action RPGs and MMOs part below https://www.giantbomb.com/stamina-bar/3015-3569/

10. Too much servers
For a game that I am 99% sure that has not that big of a playerbase, there are too much servers. The first server I played on what the 16th one from the US and I already thought that was a big number. Also the time it takes to make servers is inconsistent. I don't know what goes into coding these servers but they seem to be the exact same thing. Imagine copy and pasting. Thats what I feel like it is because no server is unique. And there is new ones like every 2-3 days from what I can tell, but if I was playing on the 16th one back in 2014 and now in 2018 there are 568 at the time of this video (Just from the US) the math doesnt add up.

You wouldn't want to start on an old server filled with overleveled players, would you ? Furthermore the devs love focusing on the new players, they target them while they have no knowledge of the game and the price of the partners etc etc that's the kind of player who cashes $1000 just to buy ONLY Haschwalth (for example), they are the moneymakers of the game thusly keep it alive, the old players or so called "big spenders" aren't; It's because they have the knowledge'n'shit that they pay less for more reward than a new player, too intelligent to be the moneymakers.
If they weren't focusing on the new players, they wouldn't make a ton of server and keep only at around 50~100.

11. Players moving on too quickly
People literally stop playing a server just to hop on to the newest server for some reason. People who spent money on the game, people who are f2p, people in the top 20, everyone. This is a really bad quality to have as a game. Consider Skyrim. People enjoy maxing out everything and then they restart. Now Skyrim is a high budget game and the budget of Bleach Online pales in comparison, but for something that is so long and stretched out to me, people are moving on too quickly.

It reminds me of a player who wanted to be the first in the BP ranking and everytime someone take its spot the player moves to the newest server and try again, but hey you wanna hear a joke ?

The joke is that this player is VIP0, any plebs who topup not even $5 can surpass it.

The legend says the player is still trying to this day.

12. Nothing to do sometimes.
Literally Once you've done all the daily tasks, there is practicly only one thing to do, which is wait for the daily events. I've literally looked at my screen for accumulated hours just waiting for my cooldowns to go down.

Same as #5, who the fuck play that game for 10 hours straight, there a better game to play out there. The daily (including events) take 2 hours to finish or less, that's alright I guess but more than that hell no. Again it's not only Bleach but the browser/mobile games in general.
Or you do not have the habit but once we finish the daily we play another game until it's the event's time, it's simple, you sound like you're hella addicted to that game and we all don't want you to be like that.

pockmeryn

just another f2p pleb whos been playing since 2014..started on us13 with the likes of absan duffy reijin but then again its like 4yrs back so who remembers it lol..stopped twice or thrice inbetween due to exams and stuff and then came back for some casual gameplay..its a p2w game if u really wanna be competitive otherwise just play it like me who has made everything kinda auto with auto clicker...only doing the bg manually otherwise everything is on auto clicker....just open bleach at night around dinner ....start up autoing things and watch anime....everything done >.>

theunknown404

'this game does not make alot of money for the time and effort"

That's because the developers suck. "Time and effort" my ass. Most of the paying players left because they won't work on anything new, and they won't fix a lot of their many bugs. When was the last time we saw a new PvE event?

They suck this much, and yet they still manage to make thousands of dollars. Not so bad, I'd say.