Their reasoning was an expectation that more people would be there, and I’m inclined to believe it given the forums during the alpha and beta were - to my knowledge - complaining the game was too easy. It was probably a legitimate oopsie, not intentionally malicious. That said, I also do want to see their future roadmap. That, more than anything, will prove if their apology was sincere.
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Yar, I am not a full tinfoil hatter but I also see no reason to kowtow to a company. You should be nice to people not product. I’m staying optimistic though! I know its strange but this game tickles my old DFO roots. (which btw was a hot pile of mess over here even though it was/is wildly successful in the microtransactions)
I hope the new patch tomorrow helps and we get a road map soon too.
But I’m still really concerned how they messed up the argos release.
Didn’t smilegate have a bunch of data from Korea that showed that players hated being stuck in the 1340-1370 deadzone and a huge portion of them were ending up stuck there for months?
If so, why then would they repeat the same mistake?
And the other issue, why is content that is 1355 entry requirement in other regions locked to 1370 for us? Really hard to see this stuff and not think it’s malice and they are trying to get those whales to swipe for that 1370 push.
The best was our good Korean bros were upset about them making the same mistakes with us.
I will not forget SooYeung
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This the part that always gets me, they had the data, could just follow the KR game, and then you ask yourself why did they do this, changing GS for content, i may be wrong, but the only thing that comes to my mind is money
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Yea, they traded reputation that was earned from the other servers and threw it away for some quick money off of people who FOMO’d.
But there’s also plenty of gullible people who think apologies from multi millionare corporations/businesses are genuine and matter despite having data that shows what they were doing was going to be detrimental. So it’s whatever at this point
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I garantuee you that most players didn’t do that. Most players are casuals and they rarely look up stuff and sit the whole day infront of the pc to figure stuff out about a game. I have quite a few of them as work collegues and friends.
I think your image of the average casual player is simply wrong. What you describe is already above the average gamer and we all know that the amount of players that have more than 1-2h a day to play games is only a small percentage of all players.
Sure, there are some who then research the game and want to play one certain class, but those are not half the players but maybe 2-3% who then leave.
Youre missing the point, imagine how many players would have stayed when they first came in and if they had the chance to try the awesome scouter, flashy lancemaster, shadow assasin reaper etc, they would be charmed by the game much enough not to leave.
Classes are really importnant in game, thats why league of legends has over 150+ champs and probably over 100m plays it a day, because everyone has something to play.
This is the most hillarious thing ive heard in a while. Websites like facebook, yahoo, and google already track you out the whazoo
Your “private” convos on facebook? Yeah sorry bro, daddy zuc reads them to his kids at night. Google? Sells your browsing information and plone number to advertisers. These are proven things. In the case of facebook they even admitted it saying it was for “security reasons” or something along those lines. If youre using the internet without a good VPN, nothing is “private” in any way, shape, or form. Its sad
Yes there would be a few more but it’s a small number that has little impact on the whole population. You would see mayb 10-50k more daily players now at most.
Also LoL as around 3.5m daily players. Lost Ark is probably looking at a similar number (or maybe even higher) right now.
I’m sure we will never know but it’s a business so undoubtedly earnings would have been a factor.
There used to be 30 people at illusion isle. Now I can afk and stay in 10th place
Why are people so scared about the population drop, do people not understand how “hype” works and that people are going to try games and not like them?
Absolutely mind boggling when people let numbers dictate how they act towards a game.
Different from other people thinking/mindset, for me, a game that is F2P should have a better population then a paid game, bc its literally free
With free games you don’t feel the need to play it religiously because there’s no initial investment, so getting your money’s worth isn’t a thing. A f2p game CAN have a better population than a paid game but there’s a lot more factors that go into a steady population than just being free or not.
I see a company that is actively trying to make their players happy but there’s a lot to fix. It’s not going to happen overnight because at this point I think they’re trying to figure out what is actually broken. If you look at the forums it always seems like 50/50 praise and complaining. They probably want to find a happy medium but there’s challenges to bringing a game to the west, and from what I’ve seen no company went unscathed their first year.
Yes I want my main, yes I want new skins and heck let’s throw in a healthy economy. I’m not 100% pleased right now either but a company communicating with us and making changes(for better or for worse) is better than silence, as long as there’s communication then these problems can be fixed over time, especially changes that were just the wrong decision.
I think people need to take a breath and just see where this goes. I truly don’t think this game is already dying.
They are not trying to make me happy by holding classes this long, im wasting everything i have on a character that wont be my main, it frustrates me, of how hard will it be depending on how long it takes to release my main class, to get it up to the current content when it comes out, and even more that they arent transparent enough with the roadmap or when it will launch, im seeing i will probably have to wait some classes comes before my main, and it has already been so long and no classes, that means mine will prob be delayed even more, that is if the leaked roadmap is right, which may sound selfish but i hope not, i wish there was not only 2 classes being released at the same time, but instead 4 or more
You thought you ll play smartass to me with these info? I preach this shit before it was famous.
I dont have facebooks or instagrams or anything like these trash.
you need to know, in steam privacy you can hide your game acitivitys. ill do this to but to be honest i mostly stopped to play this game except to claim daily login rewards cause the whole game is actually pretty boring.
Everyday i can do is to solve my dailys and fail at honing - thats no fun content and this games really does not provide content to enjoy except weekly abyss dungeons and daily guardian raids. Collectibles are just stupid and even Chaos Dungeons starts to become annoying.
I decided to just collect honing mats to push my upcoming main class in near future - dont wasting time into classes i dont enjoy.
a lot of players stop playing because they made it hard, released 1st boss argos and a lot of players that have played this game b4 KR RU JP were not there, some of them still sitting in between 1335 1365 or so. it got boring I sit 4 weeks in t3 and got to 1355 it is too much work, sure I could have spend 200 300 euros in first few days get myself 100k or more blue crystals and be in 1400 or so but I have better places to spend money. Game as it is right now is not enjoyable rotation of dailies and alts. And update that they bring today is worth nothing it does not change a thing in all this boredom and frustration seeing those 6x or more burns on making item +12…