Agreed.
When games have tons of meaningless currencies, it usually gives away their will to control each step of purchases with precise statistics.
What they do with those stats? Shape the game accordingly. Therefore players buying gold to buy honing materials is the worst possible idea.
Its like training your dog. If all players just purchased skins and didnt bother buying gold for mats, there wouldnt even be honing rates.
True.
and whales are gonna quit if they keep delay content release, they do everything wrong, this game will die in our region i believe
ah the only clever person in the community post … we are all dumbs good that you reliased that to us …
turning on render distance on max trying to find who asked
Sounds cute on paper but as long as the game has goals, objectives, progression and FOMO…there will always be paying players in a P2W game. Additionally, the mere mention of this will sound like high pitched whining to them and they would spend additional money just because they are frustrated at the noise being made.
The ability to make alts and link them together in the same account is what makes this game far better than most mobile games.
On KR people are just constantly raiding everyday. Even with the 6 alt limit there’s MANY raids, not just a couple. And raids happen so much across each character that people use their main characters to bus other people and get their alts to ride a bus from another driver.
Imagine trying to tell me what to do with MY MONET lmao
I catch myself buying stuff because I am lazy and can’t wait but I don’t feel forced to do it. It’s just me being stupid 
the time gate is normal in all MMOs even subscription ones like wow. Relevant content is once a week.
Promised myself that if will be skins only going forward. One 40 quid pack a month.
lmao, so true.
imagine people thinking that the game’s monetization is predatory, but people spend zero real life currency and still got over ilvl 1370+ 
Yeah it’s time gated, but which mmo isnt? You have the option not forced to spend money to get over the time gate or not. If not, there is another way to get over the timegate, make alts and use those alts to make more ingame gold to fund ur main.
using real life currency to get over time gate is AN OPTION not FORCED
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Which you can buy with gold
Which you get more of with roster level
Which you can’t pay for and when they’re done they’re done.
Standard MMOs have a weekly reset on raids that’s once a week.
Then I guess WoW’s p2w too because m+ is once a week.
Make alts and you can do more of them.
Go play another game no one cares if you leave.
Theres a difference between a solo game and a mmorpg, if they released us the current version on KR, people would be here crying even more about how predatory this game is and its just for whales and they did it to milk money.
why? because in peoples minds if they cant do something day 1 of its release, they are missing out on loot and money they could of gotten if they could of cleared it, If we had access to abreshul hard or whatever whgen the game released, something that will take players months of progress to get to while the whales can basicly get there in a day, then yeah people would be here complaining even more
You can hit 1400 F2P by now with a couple of hours each day. You have two months to go from +12 to +17.
Yet still, it was proven over and over again that KR servers have many more sources of gold and mats, which makes it a lot more free 2 play friendly.
Let alone the other “changes” (or “Westernization”), like moving 1355 content to 1370, releasing Argos when only 0.1% of (paid) players are ready for it and more.
If a western version of an Asian casino-game is more P2W as the original, you messed up big time!
The Argos release wasnt even on AGS, its on smilegate, they decided it and shipped it, they have done the same mistake on KR several times
Yes the gold problem is a problem and theres a reason why its a problem for us, because we are running on a recent build of the game with things disabled to make it look like an early build of LA but it isnt, so we have the gold nerfs KR has, but without the extra content. Smilegate and AGS didnt think about it, its on them.
They have more sources of materials to ofc kinda due to the same thing as the gold but releasing this content thats missing, like heroic guardians is just gonna enrage the f2p playerbase even more since its more content that the “whales” can currently do and they cant, leaving a bigger gap in playerbase.
I dont know the full reason to increase the ilvl of stuff and i also find it weird, but looking back at the nerfs they did to t1 and t2 content since people cant deal with a oneshot mechanic, i think its a good compromise instead of hardnerfing content. but i would much more prefer it being 1355 for the challange since argos is to easy
You can also argue that KR is more f2p friendly since you start the game in t3 and u can hit 1415 within a day due to the honing buffs they have…but its a catchup mechanic we shouldnt have yet ._.
How does it matter if AGS or SG milked us? If it was SG, that would be even worse, in terms of implications!
Which wouldn’t be a problem, if they had started out better!
Gold River said they want “people in t3”.
Yet, there isn’t much of a real proof for that, and they rather wanted to stage a No-Life/Whale race to get to t3 so that they can enjoy the gold rush, before the market crashes and everything gets worse.
Having T3 at release, was basically the biggest divide in player base they could even create! You got some people sitting on 6 digit amounts of gold, while everyone else has to get what they can, just to even pay their basic utilities like honing/crafting etc.
From the same publisher right 
Ill make sure to reply to your post in a months time.
Even if you did spend money its pretty shit, isnt it like roughly 20k gold for $100? No wonder a bunch of people RMT in this game.
How does it matter if AGS or SG milked us? If it was SG, that would be even worse, in terms of implications!
it matters since if its SG it proves its not AGS milking this game and having predatory implications or whatever. Besides whats funny is that everyone says the western version of the game is more p2w then KR due to this and that, but they forget to think about the fact that buying mats from Maris is not worth in our version due to blue crystal > gold prices, while in KR its very worth to do so.
so in a way 
we are less p2w then KR
I mean if thats really how you want to describe how lost ark was in Korea, sure.
Theres many things they decided not to implement that they have in KR. Like transferring gear costing honor shards,