If this information is accurate then I can’t help but to feel a range of negative emotions, we’re getting another warrior subclass when they already have 3 while mage and assassin only have 2 at the very least they should take this into consideration or we the community should be able to vote for the classes we want to receive.
We’re currently missing 7 sub classes that have been released in other regions, it’s very possible to receive all of these classes in a very short period of time, correct me if i’m wrong but i think at most the text needs to be translated and engravings need to be added.
Classes / Class are speculated to be released in 2 ta 3 month intervals this is very concerning for the future because me and many others could be waiting a minimum of 14 months, over a year… if they release 1 class per interval, if they release 2 per interval it’s still a minimum of 7 long months to receive classes we arguably should’ve had from day 1 and the worst of it all is during this long and pointless process it wouldn’t be unfair to say that we might be a few new classes behind other regions pushing us even further behind.
I share your grieve 100%. And I have given up on AGS, the way I see it is, when my class comes out, I’ll see if I still want to play this game. If I do, well thankfully others have been playing, I’ll come back, whale on auction house, boom, easy catch up.
Given the road map we’ve been shown, it’s 1 class and 1 content patch per month. More than enough to keep folks busy and not starved of content.
We also have events and the like to lace in as well so that’s going to be a very busy 6 months for the playerbase.
Also why content cannibalism is never a good idea. If you no life the wealth of content the game has to offer, fast tracked to T3 via pouring all your resources in or swiping. Sorry, that’s a you need to learn to pace yourself problem and not an issue with the content or roadmap pacing.
I’m quite alright with getting new content (which it will be to the majority of the Western playerbase) and a class each month, which will also have events with their releases no doubt.
To put this in perspective, BDO were getting classes released often 3-5 months after they were released in KR while supposedly on “catch up”
It took 4 years before the content actually caught up so food for thought
I also love the game a lot, but the thought of having to likely wait 3 - 6 months for Summoner is definitely a bit discouraging. I will continue to settle for Sorceress for now (I mean, there isn’t much of a choice) but it doesn’t feel quite right to me like how Summoner did during the beta.
I was hoping to experience as much of the content on the class I know that I enjoy the most for the first time sooner rather than later. It kinda feels like I either need to keep pushing through it on a class I find “alright I guess” in comparison and will 100% be delegated to alt status later, or I just need to stay in a state of saving/selling for upwards of half a year.
Not that I absolutely dislike Sorceress or any of the alts I’ve made so far, but it just feels like a weird state of limbo for sure. Hopefully it won’t take them too long to get the class alterations in a good enough spot that they might consider releasing more advanced classes sooner (assuming that is a reason and not just dripping them for player retention).
Playing on placeholder main is terrible feeling, i dont get how u can time-gate classes, i understand content like raids etc but CLASSES? oh cmon, i dont want to wait for lance master 3+months i rather quit, rly i can’t understand it, that’s so stupid
I strongly disagree with your text regarding classes.
Classes shouldn’t be counted as content. Not everyone likes every class. And not everyone is going to play every class that is going to be released in the future. I played on other regions before our release and I’m waiting for Arcana. That doesn’t mean I’m going to play a reaper when its released => no content for me… and maybe alot others.
It feels terrible right now, because I’d to choose a class to play till Arcana is released, just to play the game. I know some might say “just dont play the game and wait for the class to be released”. But we all know that it’s still better if you’re stacked on mats already/have good horizontal progression when the class comes out.
I don’t see how classes can be content and I also don’t see why they wont release all of them sooner. Waiting another 7-8 months for your class to be released (at worse) will probably make a lot of people quit the game right away. Imagine having to reroll your character in 8 months because your class is finally released. I guess some people don’t know how much time and effort you’re required for end game content. (Not talking about our T3 right now, talking about 1500+)
Yeah I dont really get there thought process with this… Are they trying to build more hype with the updates? If so thats just lame af. We already know whats coming in the future, its just a matter of when. its not a big surprise. Just give us our damn classes so we can play our mains already.
I feel like if they released near all the classes at once numbers wouldn’t fall anyway, people just want to play the game with their specific classes, people like me just stop playing cause I just don’t enjoy my options right now
Just quit and whenever your favorite class comes in, check if you wish to play or if there is any “time gate” you cannot cope with and stay away.
There will still be plenty of players coming, many will try and enjoy new classes.
I’m fine with waiting 6 months for lance master if needed, content will come when Smilegate has it localized, bundled and tested with the other several versions they are mixing in one to drop on this version.
The subset of players who already played the game is already low and many will just play what’s available and enjoy it. If the number was bigger that 10% of success rate on guardians/abyss would be higher.
Smilegate is grouping a chunk of game versions that were released individually into one, they have to ensure this is safe to patch, not cause issues like stronghold’s lab or worse.
AGS is a publisher meaning they provide feedback and work with the patch SG drops on them, we are in the end going the way SG wants us, if they don’t drop everything at once, it means is still not ready, be localization, compatibility, backend improvements and code management that is usually done through versions.
Better wait for things to match their expectations of the patch than get some wreckage like New World patches were.
I’m on the train that is hoping for releasing all the classes sooner than later as well, but I hear so much talk about “my class” and “my main” and the majority of these people have not ever touched the class. If you played on KR or RU, then you are the exception and I understand that frustration, but you could just simply continue playing on the server you were on originally.
Anyone that’s played the game on another server then understands that having alts built up in T3 is important, so playing other classes will still be necessary. Should classes be “content”? In any other game it would be. The only difference here is that the game has been released elsewhere and we’ve seen these classes, but the majority of people playing NA/EU servers have never even played the game.
I can barely understand this post, or the mindset of those that feel this way. Not trying to tell you how to approach how you play the game, I’m just thinking Lost Ark is not for you no matter what is released.
A) Even if you rushed 1370…which is an insane amount of investment…there are still farming and itemizing traits…gems…stockpiling resources.
B) Every time I look at the adventure tome I get queasy just trying to process the amount of tasks in there.
C) Islands of every variety aside from just material ones.
D) Rapport - Yet another almost unfathomable time sink.
E) Collectibles - We’re getting into a trend here.
F) Farming Gems…because anyone that knows this pain in T3…
G) Stronghold
Point being there is so much content that you literally have to go through several tiers stilling getting GUIDE quests 100 hours in. I’m going to guess they slowly roll out content for the reason most people assume and that’s to keep players engaged at a reasonable pace and extend the length that the average player sticks around. I’m going to be honest you’re not the target of this kind of campaign because from you and several others in the post, you just want one thing and judging from that one thing, doubt its going to enhance your outlook on what enjoyment you get from the game, and therefore will stop playing within some short negligible time anyways.
So what the post really equates to, since we know you’re really not interested in the game and COULD go play something else until your desired content becomes available…is you’re entitled and upset you didn’t get something you want in some convoluted understanding of how AGS said they’re going to roll out content.
Comments like yours are really sad to read.
Yes there is a lot of content, yes people shouldn’t rush to finish everything and then cry about lack of content.
Classes being added to the game =/= content.
Classes are how you experience the content.
You NOT having the class you want to play in the game makes your experience doing the content much worse than if you played it on the class you enjoyed.
On top of it its not something thats impossible to add or would take a long time or cause complications to add faster, especially since one of the missing classes summoner was in beta.
This game isn’t about one class…to appropriately play the game as intended you should be doing it on multiple classes…at LEAST 3…ideally 6. The game is meant for you to acquire and funnel power to focuses on your ROSTER.
So when people are upset about one or two classes missing…or the time line they will be added I don’t really think that’s even an approachable issue for long term retention, because those players will likely invest very little if their entire basis of enjoyment is that ONE class. I’m sure there is a very narrow margin of players that might not be true for and having that one class will raise their level of enjoyment and allow alting to somehow become more enjoyable…but I’m pretty sure that number is so slim, again not really worth the time investment.
How do you know how long a class takes to enter…how about the associated content with that class introduction…balancing in upcoming PVP…there are so many metrics other than just “insert class” on demand button.
TL;DR - If you don’t have the capacity to play multiple characters, across a multiple of content you will inevitably run more times that you care to…then Lost Ark isn’t for you.
I’m not even reading beyond you Thread Topic, and just going to tell you to maybe look at playing something else with that kind of attitude,
This isn’t the type of game YOU are expecting it to be.
You need to to lay back and enjoy the ride. Not try and blast through it. This isn’t a Single Player game you can beat in a couple of days.
You talk about multiple characters and alting and all that.
No one here is talking about alts, the people who want new classes want to try them out and use them as their main.
If you want you can have 20 different characters all different classes, you will however still need to have that 1 character you push the most content with and upgrade to the highest item level.
Now we will have T3 raids added to the game, do you know what that means?
People will need to push ilvl for on characters to be able to enter that content, and yet out of 21 classes we only have 15 in the game.
A lot of players want to try other characters and yet we’ll be forced to push ilvl on characters we might not wanna main in the future as we currently have no other options, you think thats okay?
By the time lets say Artist who is probably expected to come out last for us since its brand new in Korea comes out here, we will have pushed our current main character deep into the raids and ilvls of T3 and some people wanted to main that character and do those raids with it.