Society you are judge many do not like it
Part of it is keeping up with the Jones
Part of it is manufactured guilt
Part of it is “woke priveledge”
Part of it is just being generous
Part of it is all the TikTok vids of drivers eating your food
The reality is when you select deliver, food is hostage and no tip means shit “service”
Aka food will be late, cold, lost, etc.
Sometime restaurant will just cancel order.
At a restaurant among friends its a time to show off and not be “cheap”
Americans judge others a lot I mean we have more than 200years of it
and unfortunately embedded in our society fun fact inner cities all aka places that are now $5000/m rent used to be referred as Ghettos on National News Media derogatory.
Now we call it “Urban” “Gentrification”.
Starting off super easy, instead of creating 1500+ only lobbies for Valtan/Vykas, maybe just take 1 or 2 1500 iLvL and take the rest on iLvL. this way you carry/help peoples alts who will surely do the same -give and take just like anything. I see too many Valtan/Vykas lobbies accepting only 1500+, people need to understand that this is overkill and completely unnecessary. You wont gain that much time anyway…
I am going to break down my example scenarios and apply it to Lost Ark for you.
Isnt this what is happening with Lost Ark at the current state and rate?
Why do you think it’s getting worse?
Why do Lost Ark communities are becoming like what you think it is?
Why did it happen in the first place?
Prime and most recent example I can provide: Pheons immediate retraction while leaving DC problem intact.
Community gets angry and you gaslight them and then expect them to solve it within themselves?
If you apply my scenario to Lost Ark - why would the devs care about community the company doesn’t even care about? What is the incentive to improve said community to calm down the angry waves?
If the incentive are not even there for the devs, what makes you think community have instead? Your solution is simply to “quit” yet you are asking the community here to “better the community” because you state this:
The roots of the cause is quite clear, don’t you think?
You also need to understand the gameplay design Lost Ark offers to completely understand the whole situation of the community’s complaints. Gatekeeping is created through game designs as well - if you play up to the most recent content whilst maximizing profits etc - aka hardcore - you would know how this is so; which is, what this game is catered to and for btw.
I broke it down for you quite generously; if you still can’t comprehend and still expect others to do the charity work, then its kind of doom and the conversation should end here lol.
No, players who dislike the service are still playing which means they are satisfied with the quality of service no matter how “low” it is. If you dislike the food but keep coming everyday and order the same food, then what do you expect?
Toxic players are the same all across other games and MMOs. Take a look at Argos and figure who is the problem.
Perfect example. You saw them for who they really are, why are you still supporting them or playing their games?
Players themselves are not helping eachother but are toxic to one another and gatekeeps one another. A nation deserves its government.
You quit if you are dissatisfied with the service, believe it’s not improving for a longtime and have no intention yourself of benefiting the community but “turning toxic” because of them.
No, again look at Argos and think about it. Moreover, in WoW they gatekeep the same even gatekeep new classes like the Evoker. It was never about the design but players being unskilled and wanting to be carried super fast without putting effort.
Then don’t expect free pheons and complain about it. This is a business and not a charity.
I made it very simple for you to grasp, hopefully it sink in even if slowly.
I think posts like this generally encourage people to doompost more. Say this to the people who got involved in the ban incident. They’ll probably spit on you for saying such nice things.
If you’re genuine, then it’s not the right time. A pretty flower wont extinguish the fire, it’ll just burn.
it doesnt matter. if theyre not 15-20 levels above item level and have all lvl 7 gems they will still be gatekept. gatekeeping is going to kill this game.
A better idea would be a way for everyone on a server to chat, aka a LFG chat like most mmos
Ironic. Like very. Your white knight defence are too strong. You can simply take the “win” here as I am done trying to give you the other side of perspective lol.
I hope you know I wasn’t attacking your character, but simply pointing out why your suggestion, realistically cannot come into fruition.
You literally showcased yourself to be hypocrite, and an insufferable know-it-all (whilst lacking fundamental basic understanding of EQ) while gaslighting behind a facade of: “I am trying to create a better community”, You are quite literally defending and enabling the company to be greedy to a questionable degree because “this is a business not a charity”. Yet you expect their loyal customers to provide charity while attacking against their dissatisfaction.
You… have… quite… an… interesting view point or are you simply that lacking? (Yes I am attacking your character at this point cz it baffles me severely).
If you are too obstinate to look at the other side, and perpetuate the idea that the community is the sole problem… then you go ahead and stay that way lol.
If the core problem really was just because of community; then this on-going issue would have been solved a while ago.
Last reply cz clearly this isn’t going anywhere. Enjoy.
Perhaps people would have more time for outside game stuff (art & such), if SG were to lighten the ‘mandatory’ daily activities count. It does get quite stressing when you have over 10 alts to go through (daily).
in his def back in the day fandom around game did this for free crossplay, fan art, events
but nowadays especially after pandemic and increased monetization of games, artists demand compensation. Cosplay in 2023 is NOT cheap. We talking hundreds thousands of dollars and some 6 months long commitments. Hard work and so they only commit to scenes that off respectable prizes.
Genshin did the same crap OP says do work for free and blowback was lol
2020s we are diff gamers nowadays, you monetize pay up shut up. That means SG or AGS would offer cash prizes to community events since nowadays expected. Even DFO offers cash prizes. I bet my money LOA aint doing shit but splurge on themselves. Don’t recall any player at LOAON getting cash rewards or compensation in KR.
They killed T1 - T2 content by having T3 available on release, the community was under the assumption T3 wouldn’t be available at launch, we weren’t informed it would be until days before the game released. They then maliciously released Argos that 95% of there player base couldn’t participate in as they were either stuck in the T3 dead zone that they left in on purpose to capitalize on FOMO or stuck in useless T2 content.
