This is an MMO? MOBA has more players in one match and they don’t claim to be an MMO
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The word casual and end game never mix in any MMO. You can be a casual but you’ll always experience late game further behind than anyone else. Simply, you’ll likely get pushed into that content eventually at your own pace. But at that point most people remaining in MMO’s enjoy late game and aren’t that casual. So your only options tend to be learning parties and busses. You don’t have to do either if your geared well enough you’ll find a party on the weekends easily.
Abyss dungeons aren’t much, usually 1 and done, or for cards. That’s content most don’t enjoy, because it’s replaced by more complex raids. A MMO requires interaction at some point if you wanted to play solo don’t MMO, MMO’s have solo components but they are quick and simple and again usually one time things. If you want to grind a MMO solo, with zero interaction with progression. POE and Diablo are better options. As they will be league dominated, by season. So you can always hop on when a new one is out and grind through.
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What does casual mean? Main and 2 alts? Imho lost ark is not a “casual” game. It’s balanced around playing like an hour every day or at least every other day.
Yeah I have mostly quit cause im casual, and only play when new classes come out for a bit… its sad there is no way to progress past 1400 without raids but thats the game.
If you treat it like a mobile game its not too bad. Honestly you can just log in each major patch and see what free handouts that the game decides to give out each time to keep people around.
Its kinda like genshin but has raids at least, and the gacha is honing and not waifus. XD Pick your poison.
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i mean, you can still progress if u wanted, but at that point u just watch others play the game. this game really has nothing at all for casuals tbh
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really this just isn’t the game for you. Not every game needs or should cater to the entire spectrum of gamers and I appreciate when a game hyper hones in on a particular gametype to give me the best experience it can offer for that type of gamer.
It’s the same argument for people who wanted an “easier” darksouls game or whatever. If you want an mmo with more social/rp/casual gameplay and endgame loop then you can get into WoW or FF14. If you want a more crafting and lifeskill focused game there is Albion. If you want a purely gameplay focused game with no grind then you don’t want an MMO.
Like if you like the gameplay aspect of Lost Ark you can always play PoE or hell, Hades which actually tickles alot of the parts of the gameplay I like in Lost Ark.
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And then there are the people that say i switch LA to D4/PoE 2. Cringe.
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LA is that kind of a MMO which also Warframe is.
Whatever kind of MMO this is 
I’ve never understood this tribalism over MMO.
So lost ark isn’t an MMO under your definitions, whatever they may be. Do you feel better now? Has the game suddenly changed? I don’t understand how this is any more a condemnation of the game as like the Dota folks getting upset over the term MOBA.
Going beyond that what is an MMO by standards then? Does it need to hit a certain number of players in a lobby? Does it need to hit a certain number of people in a raid? Does it even need raids? Does it need a persistent world?
I can guarantee whatever standard you arbitrarily put on an MMO it would either include Lost Ark or disclude a game you would traditionally classify as an MMO.
I meeeean, I have 915 hours 
Thats…nothing lol
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