I’m just seeing a lot of illogical \ emotional thinking with regards to one part of the roadmap and feel like giving my own input to the situation can be a benefit.
We’re always going to be behind KR for our entire existence as NA\EU Lost Ark players. There will never be a situation where classes, or new continents, are released in KR on the same day as other regions. This is because Lost Ark is exclusively developed in KR, and localization in other regions is contracted after content is made. The only way we will be caught up is if Smilegate actually develop their game for all regions at the same time, or they hold KR content back until all localization work is done. That is possible, but it would also require Smilegate to completely change the way they run their business.
We are on a “catch up” track as far as scheduled content yet to come. Meaning we will never be more than 1 year behind at this point. That time difference will only shrink over time. Artist is 10 months away, I predict a year from now that we will always be up to 3 months behind KR, because it will take that long to localize any new class for the other regions.
JP had to wait nearly 2 years to be caught up to Artist. RU had to wait 3 years. I’m sure there are many people in those regions that also complained. That said, I am sure Smilegate have access to the data that shows releasing classes sparingly has monetary advantage to the business. Yeah it doesn’t feel nice, I sympathize. That said, it’s not unreasonable for a company to be considerate to their profits. Perhaps they don’t have the budget to localize all the current KR content right now? They have 3 other regions to think about, not including their own.
Content is being released in NA\EU is at a reasonable and good pace. We are at Vykas in 2 to 3 weeks. We didn’t need to spend a year in Shushire. We will see Clown and Breshaza legion raids by the year end, and maybe the most recent Elgasia content early next year. That’s the projection as it seems right now. Maybe I’m wrong? But I’m not going to be upset.
A lot of good things are coming, even in June and July.
Ahh, the typical “Complaining makes you manchild” comment, very constructive indeed. I have not seen anyone being a “spoiled 5 year old” really. The playerbase have let them know what they wanted, classes faster than the 1/month pace, and they decided not only to ignore it but to go AGAINST it.
The fact that we will always be behind by a few months on brand new releases is something that the vast majority is aware of and you will only see a very small amount of people ever complain about it in the future, it is NEW and they will mostly be excited and hyped for it, cause if you wanted to play the new class, it would be next in line for release. What they aren’t okay with is being behind on old classes for such a long time, having to wait for multiple classes to release while having no idea when the one you want will release.
The company has to make money no doubt, but are they not making money in KR? Is it worth it in the long run to drive so many players away just to squeeze every possible penny out of the players who stay? Is that amount of monetary gain really worth actively going against the feedback of the playerbase? From my experience with other games, this is not the case and always ends up backfiring.
As it stands right now this game is just bleeding players. Friendlist is dead, I started playing this game with a few other people, the last one quit after the roadmap. Guild is dead, just me and GL left, and server fails Ghost ship/World boss/Chaos gate regularly when we used to fill out at least three channels during these events just over a month ago. But let’s hope with AGS/SG that withholding these classes will bring all these people back somehow am I right?
It was bound to happen. No mmo can hold up 1mil concurrent, especially such niche one, while being vastly different from usual western mmo’s.
As for servers, i play on euc zinnervale, channels are full, thunderwing gathers up to 20 channels worth, no issues with gates/ships. If you choose unpopulated server, sucks to be you, one hope to wait for server merges/transfer
Don’t misunderstand us we are pro-quitters. There’s a better place for people that complain about everything. Did you guys know another WoW thing is coming?
There are absolutely valid complaints about the game, and negative feedback that AGS and SG should listen to; there is also a legion of mouth breathing morons who don’t even understand the issue they’re complaining about, much less the incorrect solution they’re demanding be implemented.
There is a vast difference between complaints that are objective critiques and “complaints” that are pointless demands, cried out as loud as possible accompanied by any form of attack.
But hey all is fine as long as we can disguise it as a “complaint” or as “feedback”…
People are going to suck anyway and the honing upgrade is going to come out at some point anyway. You know what I learned from T1 and T2 bosses? They aren’t worth the time or effort.
People who complain for honing for example have never probably played any other Asian MMO. Honing in LA is pretty good. You have fixed hone with artisan energy but you can hone the part earlier which is plus. With the last events and 3-4 alts you have materials for many attempts weekly. I really don’t see what is bad about it. You need to play effective and optinally. Many of the complainers are just lazy people who want to be on paar with people who actually doing the things right.
“It’s OK for us to run out of food and starve and only eat one meal a day because people in Pakistan only eat one meal every three days and get bombed”.