The most disappointing in the interview was the argument of the so called “fairness” between regions when roxx and stoopz did talk about esther and the legendary skins.
Taking esther and skins aside there is already enough stuff which is not fair like the huge differences between the crystal-ratios.
There are regions in LA which have 0 issues with bots and they enjoy very fair crstal-ratios.
They enjoy good trailer and decent roadmaps.
KR people enjoy the LOA, we have literally nothing although we are those region with the most players involved into the game.
But we deal with disconnects, we deal with very expensive prices (I’m so sorry for SA) and AGS throws every time the excuse of the regional monetization-team against the wall.
Yeah SA just got shafted and I’m sad that it’s gotten to that point
Otherwise people are speculating that Ayaya will come with the 1 year anniversary, just because it’s a huge thing that LA would be out in Global for 1 year, why not
Plus it would keep up with that 2 month Cadence since we’re pretty much caught up with classes besides Ayaya once Summoner comes out
Unfortunately with no proof this is all just a load of hoopla, but from a marketing standpoint it would be ludicrous not to
I mean, i play solo anyways, so i dont care about everything… you people think bs reasons why not play game. Majority buys rmt gold, no madman gonna spend 20 eur just to get 10k gold from ingame store. My guildies, friends, rmt all the time cuz its cost efficent… u say prices ar high cuz of bots, bruh, you get so much gold from legion raids each weak that u dont care
showing how much you want x class just encourages them to hold it longer to keep you playing. I think you are going to need a better reason sorry, they already know you want it xD
Honestly from profit perspective, it’s in SG/AGS’s best interest to release artist in February for global first anniversary. It still follows their original “class release every 2 months” schedule (even though they keep changing their mind about it), creates hype for anniversary with a popular class, and easy advertising (if they bother with marketing at all). Delaying it means pissing off the current player base who are waiting for the class, plus losing a good opportunity to draw in new or returning players.
They said that they consider advanced classes to be content way back when they announced 2 month release cadence, so it isn’t anything new.
Right now we are getting Brel + Summoner, Brel being pretty much double in content compared to any previous raid. We also had Reaper month ago, together with some random stuff.
What exactly could they release in February that wouldn’t look bad for a western anniversary? New continent would be OK, but after 1.5h you are done with that and barely care, so it would be on “meh” level of awesometer. They need Big Bang, and nothing speaks Big as smol Artist together with Aeromancer would.
I also found this to be a little weird. Who cares what skins we get and why that would matter? We also have some differences in how games are handled across regions so the experience is always different.
Just off the top of my head KR has better Aura on their server, I don’t see for example 4th row of Crafting or 3rd Manor slot in the Stronghold for us. So where is that fairness for something like that?
Esther I do understand as it was a pretty late stage gold sink and also I’m guessing people in KR have a better likelihood to actually swipe for the Gold versus what AGS is doing here which is not making the actual gold exchange more competitive.
The Skins we’ve already concluded have minimal DPS impact (since most players have scuffed uptime/stats/Quality whatever).
The exchange is completely scuffed in our version: unfair, way too expensive and too much stuff without an pity-system. This is also the only reason why we have to deal with bots… I think in RU you get around 450k-500k gold for 100 bucks I think… KR is a bit more expensive but well, they have around 150+ people with esther weapons and the cultural circumstances (economy and stuff) is very similar situated like in the EU.
So basically talking about fairness… Our western version lacks a lot of things… Compare the trailers, for example, with the cinematics for overwatch, or the texts for the roadmaps also never recieved much love. Which is a massive shame because Lost Ark has so much potential getting a huge game for our audience.
Not sure tho, as someone who spends a bit in the game I just don’t feel respected. Not respected for my time and not respected for my money. And the issues getting worse and worse with every update we get. And it sucks, it pisses me off.
