if i had the choice to start knowing it’d be like this i’d play on jp server instead. can’t swap now too much horizontal content that i spent time on tho.
Wow this is actually beautiful and nice. Won’t mind switching to this game when it will be release honestly if the current state of game continue where no action are taken on bot and RMTer. TC would be happy to get the publishing right of this one though.
Not at the moment. Tell your friend to find something else to do. The game is great but whoever is running it is just not capable enough atm. Watch how the game evolves or devolves and then see what comes of it. Also, the later he begins playing the game, the more classes he’ll get to choose from. So none of this bs limitations we have now. Tell him to check back with you around March next year.
now this is a good looking game indeed
True, I am F2P but even I can hardly play the game for more than 1 - 2 hours anymore, The most fun I had was when the game first came out and I finally got to sail / see the active area chat and finally hitting tier 3
don’t be fooled by the nice graphics and good looking trailer.
ncsoft games are not casual gamer friendly.
if they did not change the way the make games, I’m pretty sure you have to hard grind your way to the top
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I’d say no to starting now. Judging from your post and being in NAW just the act of trying to play the game requires 1-2 hours of waiting in the queue.
Not to mention the very first experience he’d have is the masses of bots he’ll be encountering. Imagine trying to score a tag for those mobs questing your way to 50… I wouldn’t like that especially when the bots are stacked to the brim.
Your friend will without a doubt have a negative view of the game probably curse you for getting them into this shitty game lol. I park a t2 alt in vern and ocassionally I see the stragglers making their way there asking questions like we did day 1 and they were floored to see an actual player. That unfortunately is the state of the game right now.
This game might be here later on but who knows. Definitely not worth investing time in it right now.
game is by ncsoft, i learned my lesson from aion and aion classic
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It’s made by NCSOFT. RUN Fast. It doesn’t matter how it looks from a trailer.
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and why didn’t you learn it in new world and are you still here? you don’t like mmorpg, otherwise you wouldn’t say that
what?
i never played new world
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He should play the game, but dont incourage him to expend anything if he cant afford or he will abuse the amount things he will buy, and say to him that the game is hard, and to not fomo
also lost ark is nothing like aion lol
Don’t.
Every single friend i had and was impressed by the game, i would tell them not to start and despite my warning they’d waste their time figuring out the mindless grind it is and quit short after.
Counting 4 people so far with only one remaining. This game keeps showing more and more lack of respect in players dedication.
Let me think you another thread.
If you’re looking for a more in-game socially active community, that thread would tell you that this isn’t that type of game. People come on to do their thing and leave. You won’t find people hanging around and typing, they’d prefer to Discord and not have to read messages from randoms.
At this point? Absolutely not
I can’t recommend any f2p or whale friends to this game anymore because of the queue times, botting, and rmt. A lot of the people who still play the game do so because they are addicted and scared to miss daily/weekly rewards.
Hey @Roxx and @Shadow_Fox,
Do you see this. These are the kind of qualitative data that a business intelligence tool does not give. Look at this example : NCsoft developped a high quality game Throne and liberty, but look at all the players who play a game developped by that developer. Due to past horrible experience some might not even want to touch that game no matter how great it look. (@Katnip,@Pleione and @theDrastik, thanks for the valuable input)
In the world of analysis Quantitative and qualitative data are important. The gaming market is a booming market that is expect to continue to grow. Personally, i don’t think AGS ultimate goal is to stop with the publishing the game of Lost Ark. You guys should use Lost Ark as a stepping stone for all the upcoming project in development in AGS studio.
Tell management don’t hesitate to spend more on this to turn the ship around. Make it work, this is a turning point for the studio, AGs have failed with Crucible and new world. Don’t make Lost Ark another failure because if it does forget about the new game or any future project of AGS that will be releasing as player from crucible, new world and Lost Ark will not give it a chance. Make Lost Ark a redemption point some Lost will incur to make great thing just like when Amazon firstly started with consistent loss every single year because of reinvesting in AWS division which is now a profitable one. Same thing with Gaming division, the possibility of a successful game division is limitless. Think about IP, merchandising, if later on Amazon decide to make its own games which become successful like League of Legends, how about film from that franchise or toys or VR game etc. You have to go big just like when Jeff started Amazon business, his vision is not to stop with simply selling book but becoming the #1 in online selling, then movie then space. AGS should do the same, but before going to this big AGS and SGR need to have a serious talk and make this Lost Ark successful in the West. SGR will be happy and AGS regained its reputations towards the player community then it can start to roll out its other project.
There is nothing more that I want to see this game to succeed such as many complainers in this forum. People complaints because they still care about the game and still want to give it a chance, but this might be the very last one for many base on the many post I read so far. So make it worth this chance and turn thing around.
A lot of thing can’t be seen with simply quantitative data and require insightful long term thinking to see thing what data or other don’t allow you to see. One prime example is Disney in the 1990’s, when you look solely at the number back then it is solid or average like the other business, but the Mickey mouse and all the other characters/IP which were not reflected back then quantitatively are worth more than the company itself.
TLDR: we know where Disney is at this point. If AGS want to achieve this Titan status in this area, it first needs to earn the goodwill of players of this Lost Ark game first then next one with its own game.
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if they’re gonna fail which i hope they don’t but at this point they should give this game to a better publisher, i’ve already added AGS to my list of nope