I can assure you many will quit the game if the raids remains as frustrating as they are and many probably already have
But also any successful business needs to know its target audience, which seems to be more and more of a problem nowadays. And it looks like AGS does not know the target audience of this game or any MMO.
Do you think that the players who complain now about difficulty will suddenly stop complaining about difficulty when the true endgame stuff comes to us (which is many times harder than anything we currently have). This game has been such a huge success in other regions because of this content and this content is definitly not casual friendly and is not meant to be played by casuals. This game offers plenty of activities for someone who just wants to log in for an hour and do something and then log off again, but endgame is not the content for that type of player.
For a MMO to succeed, you need a core of players that love and play the game A LOT and also spend a lot. Casuals come and go, but this core is what a MMO needs to protect.
just putting my 2cents out there. If you watch Zealsambitions, he’s the number 1 (certain class) player in KR. He’s mentioned on stream that nerfs have happened as well in KR, this is not something that is new. However I am appalled by the fact that cosmetics were actually nerfed and censored regarding the launch items/in game npc as well. THAT is something that we need to not have happen, otherwise I’ll just stop playing. I’m here for the cosmetics of the KR version of the game and gameplay as well. But knowing amazon, they’ll probably do nothing and this will just result in another New World fiasco.
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There is a difference between nerfing new content that just came out and adjust it as it was indeed too difficult or nerfing content that has been in the game for years just to cater towards some casuals. I watched his vid and in general he’s right, the problem however is that we are simply not as far as kr with the content patches and thus those nerfs make no sense as this is the content we currently have.
Why are you even deflecting that, YOU, as in AGS, asked Smilegate to change the game. They didn’t do that on their own.
Good luck getting through to people. I’ve been trying to get the word out and there are still folk beating a dead horse. It absolutely insane. The West is the laughing stock of Korea, players not even having the intelligence to do research before speaking. They imagine things and them they speak. I’ve never seen anything like this before in any game.
The need an enemy and i can’t be Smilegate. They are perfect
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I’m pretty sure that metric is only for Alberhastic and she’s using it as an excuse. The way she said it implies it’s the lowest metric of all of them, yet the changes are for a lot more content.
The Guardian Raids are way to easy even without those nerfs, the T3 Raids are a fucking joke, i watched a video where someone explained 3 different key mechanics the boss could do to wipe the party, and guess what, he didnt make a single one of them because we skipped it with our dmg. Nobody was overgeared or something. I could let my 12 year old cousin play that boss fight and he would have got it, just because those fights are just a joke.
The fights are so boring, i already thought about quitting. After Tytalos i thought the difficulty would ramp up from there, but the bosses even got weaker. After Tytalos ive never had a fight again where i had to que twice to get the kill. In T1 i had some ights going for 10 min straight and in t3 there wasnt a single fight longer than 4-5 mins.
Alberhastic was a damn joke, he didnt got to use a single key mechanic in 2 runs, 5 min fight, every t1 boss was harder.
Are you…stalking me now, reporting my posts? It’s rethorical. Go ahead and read. Maybe you’ll be less panicked about the changes that are coming and you will find more clarity on the Amazon-Smilegate relationship here. Cheers!
I’m just having a laugh, don’t mind me
The cosmetics issue deeply bothers me as well. I don’t even know how to possibly begin in order to influence any change on this issue.
Someone’s already tested the hp pools and there’s been no increase between regions
Casual gamers make up the majority of the player base, streamers, pvp, elitists don’t mean shit numbers wise compared to them. You have things the wrong way around, casuals and the average player make the game, they’re the numbers, they’re the people with purchasing power. They’ve already said guardian raids and abyssals in T1 and T2 are being nerfed because the success rate was less than 10%, imagine you’re a new person and you have to go to the same guardian raid 9+ times just to do 1 daily, that isn’t a good game experience so they fixed it. Also we didn’t start with KR / RU balance. They increased guardian raid hps due to feedback from EU/NA feedback. Our honing process in the EU is also vastly different from what RU / KR players enjoy, like our honing process is substantially worse. Do some reserach.
You really don’t use your head at all.
2 weeks into release, no one has familairised the game at all and you’re saying ok game shoukd be nerfed. You’re writing pointless posts because you and the other players thought that instead of doing your homework you will just pass the test straight away like elite gamer pro’s.
You’re supposed to be learning throughout your 9 tries, not rushing. Are you gonna ask nintendo to nerf mario’s first level cuz you cant speed run it like a pro? also another fool believing in the hp buff when there isn’t even a large difference between the regions based on a guy testing it…
And nice clear points of you saying our honing is worse with no examples.
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Lost Ark is not an easy game by default , if they nerf T3 Content they nerf the Content that made the game successful in all other regions. The legion raids a praised for their design and challenging fights. Why im talking about T3? There is no way if they feel the need to nerf t1/t2 that they don`t nerf T3 it is like 10 times harder . If the people do not learn their game now they will be smashed into a heavy wall later.
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This is literally discussed under the post you’re responding to. The person you’re referring to tested EU and RU only.
If you can find numbers from Korea that are the same that would be interesting, but the only ones I found were lower. I don’t feel like trying to sift through Korean websites and videos with google translate though to find more. I did list one of the Korean sites the numbers come from above if anyone else feels so inclined. There’s also a ton of Korean youtube videos on LA.
Only hope would be finding a korean player to test out the differences and note the changes.