According to the steam charts more than 50% of the player base is already gone. Look into all the criticism people put a lot of effort into providing so you can save the game before it’s too late and we have another “New World” situation.
Your greed is going to be the downfall of Lost Ark. In the western release we have significantly lower honing success rate AND we have fewer materials to since we don’t have all the content yet. This is the biggest reason right now that people quit.
i mean didnt people cry about this when the honing buff got leaked before release? people thought AGS/smilegate decision with the honing buff before release was gonna make the game way too easy…
Maybe. But it’s causing mass exodus at the moment. So maybe they were wrong? Games like these requires constant adjustments and at the moment those adjustments aren’t happening fast enough.
That doesn’t make it easy.
If you think rng is difficulty maybe…
The honing rates that were posted originally in the launch patch notes are obviously going to be coming out in the april update and amazon will be like “we heard your cries we have fixed the rates” Even though it was already planned.
They will act like the savior, even though it was all calculated for revenue.
yes it is very frustrating and you lose interest, if you’re like me after more than 40 fails and only on T2. then you can lose interest.
at the beginning I played very intensively. now that I haven’t been able to get any further for 2-3 weeks. I play only the most necessary daily. or busy raising other characters, I have 5 currently.
No one can make up their mind about anything.
“T3 at launch is too fast, we’ll feel burnt out, too much content, boohoo”
T3 releases at launch and not even a peep, everyone’s enjoying the game all the way to T3
“Beta testers saying the game is too easy, make the guardians harder”
Game launches with “harder” guardians (in quotation cause it’s never confirmed that our guardians had more hp), apparently 90% of the playerbase can’t clear some guardian/abyss, it then gets nerfed
“Where’s content, I’m T3 there’s nothing to do, where’s Argos where’s Valtan where are my classes etc”
Argos launches “too early” and ppl cry about not being able to experience it day 1
Everyone thinks they have “the answer” to fix the dropping player base and the crying over Argos/P2W. It’s always “I want this” “I want that”. The situation in the West is very very different from KR, and I want to believe that AGS/Smilegate are doing whatever they can to mitigate issues currently in the West, including bots, since bots aren’t that big of a thing in KR.
What I personally want is some sort of communication from AGS/Smilegate. Tell us what you’re working on, give us a roadmap. Tell us why you released Argos this early on, without content to bridge the gap between 1340-1370. I don’t want to hear it from some MMO Andy that claims that “it’s all in it for the P2W, they want the whales to swipe harder”. Because let’s be honest, there are cash shop boxes full of enhancement materials available in KR (outside of Mari shop). It’s much easier to swipe for 1370 if they put those in, but they didn’t. I’m fairly certain there is also a “swipe” limit per month or per week. If they wanted the real whales, they wouldn’t add that.
It is a bit of FOMO though I’ll admit, and it sucks. But being a week to or two behind the big content drops is not the end of the world. The game director had already said, they don’t want people to burn out, they want people to enjoy other games and come back to Lost Ark when they feel like it. So honestly, for the “50% of the playerbase” who have left, good for you. Lost Ark will be fresh and updated, better than ever when you come back. They’ll probably be new classes, Valtan, etc to look forward to.
I think personaly what happen was… people cried about it making the game easy so Devs decided to nerf the honing value so "people can enjoy it in there own pace and not get burned out " (what people cried about before launch) but they didnt change there road map with the nerfs…thefore argos came out way too early for the current player base…which is now causing the uproar of AGS/Smilegate needs to buff honing. the game has only been out a couple months…