Im only interested in building my main. maybe i would consider an alt, but the keybinds are so fing bad and stupid, that i dont wanna invest learning another class.
actually u are right theres a lot of content, but for 3 skill points as an example i would have to grind like 20-40 hours and thats not worth the effort in my opinion.
so i do have an alt, close to t3 and im just waiting for the resets daily or weekly. and im somewhat getting bored because i cant even play my alt right now bc of said things.
and when my alt is in t3, the only thing i can / would like to do are the dailys/weeklys of the exact same content.
for me there is not much after that. yeah i mean collectibles or achievements never interested me in the slightest, but theyâve also never provided boosts or progression to my main.
after ive done the most âeasyâ progressionable collectibles that didnt require me to grind for hours/days im done with content until i hit 1370.
i could grind another alt, but ive seen all the content and even those guardian raids are just so annoying and repetetive that i dont even do them on my main. chaos dungeons were fun maybe the first 50 of them, but now its just getting boring/annoying more than anything else.
theres also so much QoL content missing. the keybinds alone makes me furious, every time i fucking change my spec, idk where the f my spells are. or that i cant have keybinds for my alts. or beeing able to have multiple keybinds for 1 action.
the FOV and ingame scaling is ridicolous and so on.
still missing new world, i cant remember when i had so much fun in a game :(.
Bro im telling you now for a fact, most people saying that are full of it. Theyve either RMTâd or paid money. 100%. Ive wacthed multiple streamers try get from 1350 - 1370 and it cost 300,000 - 500,000 gold. With all the mats they had up until that point as well. Youre talking a very few players.
A lot of people dont like to admit theyre p2w, facts.
Also im 1350 and ive just stopped here to chill cuz i dont have the heart to see my mat disappear. Ive been 1350 for 3 days now maybe 4
what about island dailys, chaos gate, kaltherz slaves etc.
thats not the âonlyâ daily content. i think 1,5hours for a âmain charâ including everything is pretty spot on.
alts would be much lower since alot of it is ârosterâ gated.
Doubt anyone here is defending the crazy release schedule, thatâs a valid argument but multiple points made by the OP are non sensical and have more to do with the genre and game design than the schedule.
Itâs crazy how Koreans, RU and JP can survive months on an update and weâre all doom and gloom in a month when people who play more than a full time jobâs schedule run out of things to do 'coz they donât like alts, time gates or horizontal stuff.
Holy crap dude if dailies take that much you should look up a guide or something, youâre doing something wrong.
I can finish up 3 of my altsâ dailies in that time.
I do not rush, when I go to islands and I see pvp island I must go there and gank other players, between dailes I go to Arena, or visit other undiscovered before islands, mostly before I finish all my dailes I already played like 2-3 hours xd Sometimes I had situation when I wasted 2 hours fighting in pvp island xd
A problem is that alts and horizontal/collection type play are both niche playstyles in the Western MMO market. The core of the Western MMO market is progression â itâs by far the most common reason people play MMOs. There are significant portions of the MMO playerbase here who also like a lot of alt play and who like collections/completionist/horizontal play, but those are both niches compared to the core that is progression-oriented.
Lost Ark really forces you to play those niche playstyles, whereas most players in this market are used to games that permit those playstyles and facilitate them but do not require them in order to further your progression or to enjoy the game for more than an hour or so.
Itâs another aspect of the design of Lost Ark that isnât a great fit for the Western MMO playerbase.