Not gonna lie, I didn’t read that monster of a post cover to cover, but from skimming it I have to say it’s been a while since I’ve seen such a huge post and agreed with every word of it [that I read]. Kudos.
This especially I want to highlight. To anyone who isn’t the OP: it really doesn’t matter whether you think classes are content, because AGS and SGR think classes are content, as every other entity in the game industry would likewise think.
I honestly believed them with the LostArk will be adjusted to Western audience and now they are proudly announcing Yoz’s Jar working the same way it works for Koreans lmao
It’s kind of unfortunate that people are so upset with the class release cadence that (with a couple of exceptions) they’ve completely ignored the whole jar thing.
Which won’t happen anytime soon cause we’re pushing the upgrades all the time in order to catch up KR
Well im from the opinion that lootbox is deceiving by its nature, instead of attaching a price tag you wanna make the water murky so you can get more suckers to bet for it instead of making a informed buy.
If you wanna sell the legendary skill for 500-700 usd well put a price tag and don’t be shy about, dont try to bullshit people.
What a facepalm post
first weeks of launch = we want the korean version
and now we want western version…
u cant make everyone happy
because that’s the topic for people willing to spend a lot of money, not many of those, and they simply will. And for poor people with FOMO, their fault, for both issues, nobody cares. What else would you want to discuss?
I have never heard anyone saying they want the Korean version in terms of monetization, all I have heard is people wanting the content some slower and others in a faster pace.
There is a huge swarm of people wanting purchaseable power passes. There have also been posts from people wanting to be able to buy honing materials straight from the cash shop because “mari’s is the same thing”.
well, it’s simple really. We want capitalistic life for socialistic prices. Somebody should bring it already 
Power pass completely understandable because Western audience is used to such mechanic.
Direct cash shop for mats only the whales lmao less than 2% of the players want something like that.
thats true but idk why people cry about the new skins (jar) ?
is it your first game u play in 2022 or what…
like every other game has loot box as monetization where u dont chance to get your item 100%
we can still buy it with gold
better change, fifa, apex and all the other games with loot box for the western audience
it will never happen and they wont because its free $
smilegate have to be stupid if they do it as a company and the problem is many people will still buy it at the end
then you are just too “young”. There was a storm about how “we” want KR version of the game without any AGS interactions and ideas in it 
Just “translation” and “servers” and “we” are good. That’s since beta.
Concerns about “slow” and “fast” came just before the start.
Given how upset people are about even tiny things like Arcana → Arcanist, I’m not sure people even want a translation 
You don’t create player retention nor make players comingback like you can do it in the korean version with classes in our version, we’re 3 months old in the middle of the progression phase, it won’t work.
Because of its rates, I have seen a lot of posts it costs more than 500usd. Now what you said about Fifa, etc its true, I am not used to p2w-rng-bigmoney in games because I usually play mobas or mmorpgs but yes you are right western audience is already used to these mechanics in other genres
well, they wanted it before they saw “swiftness”, “berserks”, “wardancer”, “scrapper”, “roster”… “machinist”…
the different is in the other games, u dont have even 1% chance to get ur item at the end its just pure RNG, in lost ark you have auction market where u can buy it or sell your stuff
its not like u have to pay $ for it, i will buy it with Gold when its not to expensive because my RNG sucks anyway 
You lost me here. What is this? Sly advertising for Prime?