4 years of content and this is what we get?

I would disagree.

I don’t think this game had much potential in the West. We are used to games that we can sink into a month straight, even years. This game does not provide that. It’s a twice a week game which generally doesn’t meet the standards of the western audience.

Just think how much time the west has put into older MMOs. Hell even single player RPGs like Skyrim. I bet people played Elden Ring non-stop. You can’t do that with this game.

I don’t know about others but I invest in games. I learn things about them and play them a lot.
This game doesn’t want me to play it a lot. It literally cuts you off.

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Dear OP,

At the end of the day, we can’t control everyones interest in something, due to their family issues, relationship issues, due to their work schedule, due to their life schedule, sleep schedule, food schedule, everything affects no matter how small it is.

If your friends really like the game as it is, no matter what, they will play.
It’s the same logic as, if someone wants to talk to you, they will bother replying.
If they are being calculative, being catch up or what not, decided it’s not worth their time, that’s on them.

Someone who really love Street Fighter games, someone who love DotA games, no matter how trash they are, did they quit? No. They love it so much they can just stay in bottom tier for years and they still play the same game again and again. You give me 2 days, and I will quit SF games, I think it’s too hard for me and I don’t enjoy fighting games. Do you go on forums and complain that SF games are too hard and should be nerfed until it’s as easy as those “Rock Paper Scissors” arcade games? No.

You can argue how the game could’ve been better and it can make everyone be able to play, but what you think could be the best of what you’re imagining. Everyone have their own thoughts when it comes to anything and they will think their version is the “best” and their “best” could be someone’s else “worse”. When game caters to everyones “best”, it becomes “Shit”. Back then, who cares about gender? Who cares about feminism? Who cares about race? Who cares about sexuality?

Now, when you create a game, they have to have lots of female, they have to have blacks, they have to have LGBTQIA+, they changed Jederico to black, I realized it only after seeing on wiki, that he is originally white. Who cares, why do they have to change it ?!

Yo, I will add some non-game related. Just like how freaking Dumbledore is so strong in the novel, looks normal in the first movie, but suddenly turn gay in the second movie. Such bullshittery.

Just like Godzilla movie, fine, it’s a Japanese title, but if you want to film everything in English, it’s fine. BUT suddenly some random Chinese character have to speak Mandarin!!! for that one sentence!!! And they have to reply him/her in broken Mandarin, it’s so cringeworthy… WHY!!! Does speaking Mandarin HELPS IN FINDING GODZILLA?! It’s so irrelevant and useless to the plot.

And these are someone’s idea which made the movie trash as fk.
“Let’s appeal to more audience, let’s make Dumbledore gay.”
“Let’s add a Chinese dialogue, would be so cool that Westerners can speak Chinese. But ya’know we sponsored your movie anyway.”

Shit movies.

You think the Store is meant to be cheaper than the auction house? The auction house revolves around the store, not the other way around. If the auction is more expensive than the store, it just meant there are more demand.

You ask for skins? We are getting them but only you don’t like it.
You ask for catch up mechanics? We are getting the honing buff but you feel isn’t enough.
You ask for better deals in store? I think you will like Diablo Immoral 0.89$ deal, but you have to pay $540,000 to reach end game.

When questioned, you pull out the “Friend” card. And nobody cares if you’re not at latest content. If you apply that logic, basically new players don’t have to play WoW, FF14, GW2, or any other MMO anymore, because why should they? The content is too far already.

So yeah, if you actually care about your friends, you would help them. If you actually want to play with them, you would help them. Did you bother helping? Or you just come now and say “Problem with long term”, you mean catch-up for your alts, I think you typo it as ‘friend’? Hahaha

Just like if America actually cares about their citizens wellbeing, they would remove guns already. I’m seeing so much killing instead of actual protection. Does Murica cares? No. Just like how you don’t care about your ‘friends’ anyway.

If you want to play the game, you revolve around the game, not the other way around.
If you live in America, you revolve around the system, not the other way around.
If you watch a streamer, you revolve around their community, not the other way around.
If you want to eat, you revolve around what the shop provides, not the other way around.

Do you watch a show in the cinema, hate it, tell the director to change the scenes?
Do you go to a store, don’t see what you want, tell them to sell what you need?
Do you try out a chair, don’t like it, tell them to remake the chair with materials you prefer?
Do you join a community, dislike the people, tell them to act according to how you envision?

Answer to all these are simple. It’s “No”.

No, you don’t like the movie, you stop watching.
No, you don’t see what you want, you find another store.
No, you don’t like how the chair feels, you find another chair.
No, you don’t like the community there, you leave.

If you really want to change the game’s direction, work super hard, be the CEO, change it.
Mad respect if that actually happens, and you can never try to monetize and earn a lot like what they are doing now, or you’re just a hypocrite.

Don’t be entitled.

TLDR: I’m thinking of what to eat while writing these.

Are u kidding with the entitled comment? What is entitled about trying to keep the game population alive? Are u that tone deaf u dont see the steamcharts dropping? We have probably less than 100k concurrent players with 100k bots. See what happened to new world? Ppl quit, and now the game is dead. Do u want this game to die too?

Ill be honest i only read the beginning and the bottom of your essay. If ppl dont like the movie they give it a bad review and dont watch. So if ppl quit the game, that means u lose players and u wont get new players because they see bad reviews and cant catch up.

So let me ask u, do u think its ok that i with a 1490 account can make a 1340 alt to 1415 easier than a new player can get their main from 1340 to 1415? In what world does this make sense when you are trying to get new players?

These people are just trolls. The whole “you didn’t earn it so don’t deserve it” argument doesn’t work in a game where you can buy your way through. Getting to minimum ilvl for newest content easy mode should be way easier. Like half the amount of mats. If you want to push higher for hard mode or to over gear then that should be brutal. Of course having more people able to do content is better for the game as a whole. But people want to be able to capitalize on their progress by selling jewelry and shit so you get responses like you did here. I’m 1455 and would be happy for more people to be 1415 or 1430 after tomorrow.

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Yeah, to be honest, I think the game is a little harsh for a western audience, but I don’t think giving everyone free 1460s is the way to go either. ;D I was going to type more, but I just realized I don’t really care currently.

Would suck to see the game die though. -_-

Further proved my points, if you didn’t read everything, means you only see what you want to see.

I used to like to eat Domino’s Pizza, but it became so bad at my place, do I frustrate myself over it? Do you tell Domino’s Pizza to work harder? Change their recipe? Change staffs? Offer ideas for renovation? What if customers stop eating there?

You shouldn’t be worrying about the game. If it goes under then it goes under. That’s out of our reach. AGS and SM should be worrying, not you.

I dont get ur examples. If u dont like dominos, u stop going, u dont get to enjoy their pizza and they lose business. How is that good for anyone?

What if you gave them feedback instead and they improved the experience? Then u both win

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Don’t get so hung up on a few vocal people. Feedback for the game is good. Most of my friends quit because of the grind as well, hoping it’d be easier in the future, but we’re not at that point yet. The game is going to have to dwindle hard enough for them to throw a global honing buff that extends into t3 our way currently.

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Because the Domino, that I stop going is a Franchise, it’s a branch, and all their stuffs are from headquarters.

My “bad” could probably be, the taste of Domino just don’t suit the taste of people in my area, hence why it drop. Even if you give feedback, certain stuffs cannot be changed.

NA/EU Lost Ark is not headquarters, and they are getting their products from KR Lost Ark.
If KR Lost Ark is blooming, do you think they will change their entire system just because of your feedback?
Do you think spreading negative feedback helps anything? Yeah, help to kill the game faster.

If Lost Ark was new, if Lost Ark is only NA/EU, I would agree with your points but because it’s not, and it’s working for many others. Hence, you are entitled.

Maybe you should reread this, since you skipped it.

If you want to play the game, you revolve around the game, not the other way around.
If you live in America, you revolve around the system, not the other way around.
If you watch a streamer, you revolve around their community, not the other way around.
If you want to eat, you revolve around what the shop provides, not the other way around.

Do you watch a show in the cinema, hate it, tell the director to change the scenes?
Do you go to a store, don’t see what you want, tell them to sell what you need?
Do you try out a chair, don’t like it, tell them to remake the chair with materials you prefer?
Do you join a community, dislike the people, tell them to act according to how you envision?

Answer to all these are simple. It’s “No”.

No, you don’t like the movie, you stop watching.
No, you don’t see what you want, you find another store.
No, you don’t like how the chair feels, you find another chair.
No, you don’t like the community there, you leave.

Why don’t you spread good news? We got the honing buffs, we are getting CAPTCHA, so many bots are banned, so many QoL we shouldn’t even have in the first place, balance patch came instantly, tripods are getting reworked?

No? Because complaining is easier and usually complaining have its motive.

Like… haha perhaps you are an RMTer, but now people getting perma-ban, you’re afraid to continue RMTing, then suddenly you care so much about new players. Let’s be honest, you don’t give a shit. Oh whatever, I’m just speculating, it’s not real, right? Lel

Why I would get this idea, is because you are just talking about your wallet.

this kind of explains my situation. I came back to the game after leaving at the end of Feb to play elden ring.

Tomorrow will be starting my 5th week back. I am 1375 (granted I fcked up and did Normal Oreha thinking I could do Normal and Hard mode bc I thought they had seperate lock outs, because other tiers had 2 abyss dungeon lockout… anyway).

When I came back i was like 1060. so 5 weeks and im only at 1375, which realistically could be like 1380-1385 maybe if I got the oreha hard mode set.

Its kind of annoying. What I find insane is the fact I cant even push my alts relatively fast, I used feiton pass on destroyer and its been 3-4 weeks and hes 1325. I had a deathblade at like 400 and shes 960 right now after 4 weeks. The amount of materials it requires to hone in T1 and T2 is insanity, tower is the only thing that somewhat helps, but even then I could be 3 pieces away from 1100 and then boom I fail a single piece and have to wait an entire day to try again. T1 and T2 should be completely skipped at this point in the game.

They are releasing new content for T3 why wouldnt you want to flood everyone and their alts into T3, where honing % is worse and can yield more swiping and revenue. It blows my mind.

I guess this is just Lost Ark, I like in other MMOs where I can generally pickup the game after a few month break and do like a questline that catches me up to current patch content and maybe 1-4 weeks I can farm for gear and look at that now im doing endgame content progression. Lost ark isnt like that. Im nearly 1.5 months into returning and havent even cracked 1400

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In all honesty we most likely won’t see global honing buff until the player pop/spending drops off. I think thats pretty clear from the OG launch notes. After realizing just how popular the game was the decides to pull the accelerated progression. My bet is the second population drops off global honing buff will be implemented. It makes the most business sense. Not having it now because game is so popular means more people to spend more vs. not having a reason to spend since progression was so fast and easy. Not having when player pop drops off could lead to people not having enough reason to spend (no friends pressuring them, the amount needed to be spent to actually help etc.)

clearly you can get your chars to 1415 so it’s not the game that’s the problem. More like your friends didn’t want to put in the time or money. Maybe you should teach them how you do it. If you think it’s purely, because of RNG, then yes you giving them mats definitely helps.

What are you even talking about my man lol. How does a buff to mains to get to 1415 help rmters?

The best part of the game starts at 1415, if new players quit before they experience it, its because of the poor game management.

Also, ags has enough say to bring to global buffs to help new players. The buffs already exist. If they can remove the jar or bring the stronghold buff, then they can bring the global buff.

What good things are you talking about? Releasing content that already exists isnt them doing a particular good job. It depends how and when its released and they are failing at it.

Yes thank you, exactly what im saying. We need players like you to progress at a reasonable pace and enjoy the game for its longevity. Im not saying get u to 1460 for free, but at least get an easier time getting to fun content at 1415

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Thats cool but what about everyone else? Why give me who can get an alt to 1415 easily anyway another buff but ignore the ppl that dont have a single 1415?

did you not read the roadmap or just blind? that’s a hyperexpress pass coming next month. This is why Amazon needs to tell SG to push out content faster. Faster content = more catchup mechanics, but whiny players just complain how everything 's too fast or they’re not ready for the permanent content.

Not sure why ur calling me blind when ur the one that clearly didnt read it.

Pls use ur eyes and tell me what ilvl that pass gets u to? And then pls let me know how that is gonna help ur main get to 1415 quicker

Hyperexpress go from 1302 to 1415. So maybe you should be the one using your eyes.

Yea I think hoping for a power pass or hyper express for anything beyond even 1370 is smoking crack. The last one we has 960 so my guess is 1325 for the July pass.

why can’t you? just make another alt until you hit your daily limit then triple that number and run strictly rested. stonks