The amount of information you’ll need to acquire before feeling any semblance of control is staggering. The freedom you’re gifted is simultaneously exciting and intimidating compared to other games in the genre and elsewhere. It’s a massively multiplayer role-playing sandbox and if you’ve never played one before it’s going to be hard to fully convey the experience you’ll have.
On a scale of playground tag to American football, Black Desert is approximately the Quidditch World Cup. Black Desert Online is a complicated game.