Nope you are right on point if nothing is address soon pretty much a gradual dead game. Even the giga patch coming by year end by industry standard of any game cycle is pretty much late.
Recently, I started back playing FF14 after 8 months of Hiatus as i was grinding Lost Ark. Im already catch up to the latest content in a matter of 2-3 weeks and beating the crap out of the old boss for the fun Omega-M and Pepsi man.I just chopped some tree and transform it to finish product and sold it on the market and then bought off gear and continue raiding.
Can i do the same in Lost Ark taking a 8 month break and coming without grinding it like a job and see inflation obliterating the entire wealth, no this game does not allow such flexibility unfortunately. By all means it is a great game, but as time pass this feel more like a chores / mobile game than a real MMO like FF14.
I’m critiquing this because the game can still revive itself and comes out to become one of the top dog. The social aspect of this game is greatly lacking and the only way people can generate gold (major portion) are through raid unlike FF14 where I can go 8 month AFK and chopped some tree and refine it to make profit.
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My mother and boss aren’t incompetent though
Found a Roxx reply and just copy pasted it here to save CMs from copy pasting.
Thanks for this post, I really appreciate it! It was super exciting to get to work on such a unique project for the game and really play into some of the story and settings. I’m glad folks enjoyed it! 
Currently, I personally feel a lack of content.
How so? We got so much for the time the game has been out. Sure you do everything multiple times but I definitely don’t feel that we don’t have content
Because the “so much content” is actually not that much content. The game also follows a mobile gacha way of releasing new content. If you’re coming from other traditional mmos like GW2, FFXIV, etc, Lost Ark can be seen to be pretty barebones. Most of the time in ither mmos, you get an expansion with lots of content that have raids. Every couple of months or so, they get new raids, etc tacked on. In LA, you’re just waiting for new raids. The new continents are only several hours long. Which is stretched out, because each character is forced to go through it.
I like the game, but I’m mostly here for the raids and combat. When something better comes along, LA wont probably have much to hold my attention.
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My friend got from 1405 to 1445, dy doing nothing than logging in, collecting login bonuses and maybe doing a chaos dungeon once a week. Idk what this 1370 ceiling is, when the honing is so boosted untill 1415 that it doesnt even really cost anything.
I quit pve content and progression a few weeks ago so for now am only doing arena casually. The classes I want to play aren’t released yet. Amazon is hoping that people like me will come back to the game when their class is out and drop thousands of dollars to try to catch up but that’s not happening.
Ranked pvp might be fun for a while, we’ll see. I’m most likely going to be playing another game when it relaunches fresh servers in december. It’s disappointing because this isn’t a bad game and I saw myself playing it for a long time. Unfortunately they chose to delay artist and reaper and now I’ve almost completely lost interest.
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Dude that’s even worse. How do you call logging in for 2 minutes a day playing a video game?
That just shows how bad the game design is… putting all their eggs on legion raids and ignoring most of the content they placed in the game.
It’s like saying ok I’m off to work walking in to the office punching the time card and then heading home afterwards.
Continuing this:
Kuku is an extremely fun raid. I was ready to give up on the game, but this ruthless boss being purely intuitive and reactionary boss with minor memorization involved in G1-2 is excellent prog for the moment
The burnout can be avoided by simply ignoring alts and whatever. I have everything on full rested and I couldn’t really care less since i have 4x 1430 and 1x 1490 at this point. So I just hop in and do whatever after rapports. That helps a lot to enjoy the game tbh, even though it’s a shame to miss out on so many mats
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LA dont respect the time
Just a checklist grind simulator, with a little fun on raids
I am thinking back to FF XIV too
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No need to bring up kind of this topic to forum - People who hates the game will just whinging when they can just be quite and quit the game in silence.
17 days since I started this thread.
Im honestly starting to feel the burn out. I been playing other games on the side and then I started to ponder, why do I play lost ark? The sense of community? Nah even in a guild, everyone does their own things on alts that are in different guilds and end up selling busses.
The guild content? Honestly, the amount of gold we get in weekly guild activities (gve/gvg) should have been scaling up. Its barely worth it now and there is no incentives to keep going.
The raid content? The same raid over and over that takes 30 min to clear with nothing else to do? I love my main and my main alt but… I got nothing to play on them. Doin 3 unas, 2 chaos and 2 guardians is NOT challenging content to be doing on a main character to prepare for a raid that will be hard for 2 weeks when it comes around in a few months.
There is no engaging activities to do weekly that is challenging or even fun to play as a group. 99% of the loot we find ends up being broken to get meager mats to send to another toon.
Play another alt to enjoy different classes! But… where does it lead to? This is branded as a MMOARPG but… where is the MMO part? the bots I see in the millions that AGS and SG still havent found a clue on how to deal with them (I mean, putting a GM in specific locations would have helped but…).
I did enjoy the game for a while. But I think its time to put this as a side game. Even login in every day for a little bit to do dailies on 2 toons is becoming hard. I dont even touch my other alts on my roster to grind the legion for gold.
Ive spent a fair amount of money in the game but I cant support it anymore. Im not even sure where this leads anymore. Brelz every week with more guardian and more chaos to then do the same guardians and chaos on my alts to feed into a gambling fomo addiction to push my main further.
Dont get me wrong. I enjoyed my time and got my money worth. But it no longers leads anywhere. I did my horizontal, I did my vertical. I had fun. Im looking forward to Brelz and Elgacia. But its not worth the grind anymore. Its worth the weekly login maybe to make sure my main and main alt stays healthy and get my log in bonus and make sure the shareholders of AGS / SG get their bonus on the player count.
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It’s not a problem of honing, as a matter of fact I have so many T3 honing materials my inventory is bursting at the seams. What I lack is gear capable of being honed.
Maybe I am a noob, but there seems no way to obtain better gear (1370+) unless one is willing to do abyssal dungeons. I play pretty laid back, and just can’t dedicate to learning abyss mechanics and all that weirdness. Plus, unless you are willing to spend an inordinate amount of time waiting in queue and failing in pub abyss dungeons, it’s mandatory to join a clan with fixed playing hours. Tried that, couldn’t accommodate (my RL is busy), got kicked out.
Point is, the game pretty much tells me “You got this far, now you need to promote Lost Ark University and spend a LOT more time in-game to get further”. I’ll pass.
There should be a “hard” way of obtaining gear, and a “long” way of obtaining gear. Lost Ark has the former, but not the latter. Therefore, I am stuck.
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Thank you for appear again!
Thats it: the grind of dailies seens not worth.
I am playing other games too, the grind dont need be these checklist fomo model, even with rest bonus.
I loved my time in LA. The gameplay is amazing, but the chores do 90% boring e no challegenge stuff againt the 10% fun is not balanced
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Y’know what, I posted here a few weeks ago with my feelings and I feel like I wanna make an update
Kakul has been going fantastic, still haven’t cleared G3 but got to Bingo which is huge, I have a good feeling this week
The whole Kakul fight has been the most fun I’ve had in a long time, even with G3 being the way it is (it reminds me of a better Argos, more structured but still as much chaos)
No progress on my defensive card set, stupid cards lol
Been doing my Valtan runs but decided to skip 2 Vykas runs this past week, I was just lazy lol
2 alts to 1445 and gonna work on getting the third one there soon, along with getting their relic pieces slowly (then Arty once balance patch)
Main is 1487.5, 30% Artisan’s on last piece, crossing fingers lol ← Got 1490 after 5 hones the other night, hell yeah
I agree 100% and tier 3 goes completely against what tier 1 and tier 2 were. In the beginning stages you had multiple ways to play the game and could gear up how you see fit. Once you hit tier 3 you are funneled into only 1 way to get gear and one way only. No crafting gear, no overland gear sets, or gear from doing other content. You must raid and that is it, and that is going to turn a lot of people off your game, especially game that was built around “play your own way” “play at your own speed” “content for everybody.” At least in the Russian version of the game we could buy gear off the auction house to continue to progress, but Amazon and SG in their infinite wisdom decided to not do that here in the US for whatever reason. If it was to stop bots…lol.
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jep T1 and T2 was amazing, loved the islands, the dungeons, the stories
This…!!
They got it all wrong with the hype-induced content that’s related to the class cadence
They don’t understand that this is not a brand new game and they don’t need to advertise classes to cater for a longer content release schedule
People have known LA for a long time and most classes should have been there at lunch rather than being drip-fed into the game to create excitement (it does the opposite, especially after the two months release timeline was set out)
I’m sorry but they lost so many players because of this and they’re wrong thinking those players will come back cos nobody will set aside months of lost content and farming while they’re waiting out they’re favorite classes to main!! This is an MMO, you’ll never get on top of it ever again if you do that and ppl don’t play MMO for causal-style gaming!!!
Those players have moved on and they’re not coming back given how hard it is for new players to deal with the current market condition (inflation and instability)
The game as of now is highly unsuitable for new players and AGS doesn’t wanna directly intervene in the game economy but that’s just another can of worms anyway
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