Amazing feedback and written post.
Thanks for taking your time and put this together.
+1
Hope the right people see this.
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And Smilegate lets all of this happen.
Maybe i had to much hope listening to Saintone & co about this “amazing” company.
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Good post with credibility of experience with other versions. AGS right now is basically EA games, AGS is jsut GS with Amazon in their name because parent fundings, manipulation and hard pay wall decisions when other versions are lenient to the overall playerbase.
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Thank you for taking your time to post this!
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That’s a Great feedback, Thanks for posting it, hope things can change for the Better
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I still hope something changes and we actually get the game experience the director talked about with T3 being great and T1 and 2 very quick (and later in the game life skippable).
On the German part of the forum, one of the CMs, @Maselbart, literally confirmed that Smilegate is not reading the forums and is dependant on the feedback of AGS.
We as players can just hope AGS is open with Smilegate and not holding things back.
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At first i was hesitant to read it all, but in the end i just had to. WOW this is actually insane. How can smile gate get even CLOSE to allowing this. I keep thinking the game will be saved as in Korea the community loves the devs so much and they do so much for them. But with all that being said. It seems amazon is calling more of the shots then i originally though. Bad on them. Lost ark deserves to be represented by a proper company. Good Feedback, and it really opened my eyes. I hope the devs can see this and explain why they are lying from boosts to censoring and everything else they might of lied about. And i hope they start to put more effort into it
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Amazing post with bare truth for everyone to see.
Let’s not let this post be forgot
AGS and Smilegate are allowing this shitshow happen.
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The director said he read the Lost Ark reddit NA/EU … so i guess he is well aware of the state of the game 
Furthermore, it is Smilegate who develops the game (like honing chances, no challenge guardians etc …) so, again, i think they are well aware of the situation even if Amazon misleads them.
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@invicta Can you post this to reddit with something along the title of “Golden River please read”? or something like that. If he does read Lost Ark reddit na/eu then he might see this and things might have a better chance of change? idk its some hopiume
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Seems like a good idea if the director really reads the subreddit.
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I mean its worth it if it actually does save the na/eu version of the game? im really sad that this is not the version we wanted but a twisted worse version of what it could of been
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I am afraid gold river is behind these changes.
People often get too lost in people praising smilegate, but you have to remember that even before this the game was pay to win, for reference, the latest major p2w change was ‘‘esther bonds’’
tldr of esther bonds: there is an entirely new tier of weapons in korea called the ‘‘esther weapon’’, essentially, these weapons are unique in the sense that as you upgrade them, they visually change, and are the current strongest weapons inside of the game.
Currently on korea, to get your esther weapon maxed out, an estimated 45k usd needs to be used to fully max out your esther weapon.
Note that the 45k number changes based on a variety of things, such as the price of USD to Gold on KR, as well as the price of the actual stones ranging from 500k gold to 1 million gold each.
The reason these stones are so expensive by the way is that they are an extremely rare drop of an extremely hard raid encounter (Kakul Saydon and Brelshaza P6)
If you were to actually ‘‘farm’’ these esther stones, you would probably need 1-2 years of clearing these raids on a weekly basis on multiple characters.
This was a ‘‘whale exclusive’’ content and none of us minded it or commented on it too much because our love for the game simply made us put a blind eye to any shady shit they would do, because again, the game was fair to free to play players who put in a reasonable amount of time a day.
I think while most people here will jump to blame AGS, which I wouldn’t be surprised if they were the reason behind these changes, I think Smilegate is actually the main player behind these changes.
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Ah… i mean i could complain here all i want but it wont change anything. If smile gate wants their game represented this way in the western markets then they will lose western players as a whole the western community HATE the P2W model where as the eastern community doesnt mind it and accepted it. I would love to pick his brain and understand the reason for doing this when it is completely different from ALL other regions. 
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This is a huge myth that apparently eastern people are fine with p2w.
They arent.
Maplestory was a disgustingly pay to win game, and the reason for lost ark’s success in korea is because a lot of maplestory players moved to lost ark because the game in korea is actually fair to free to play players.
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Also side note, if they released that here i personally would not mind at all. Because that DOES NOT lock you out of content. where as it stands we dont have enough material to actually hit it the first released raids while maintaining even a small margin of what real life is xD
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Ah yes the maplestory days. No joke i sunk $10 every week for like 4-6 years on that game. My mother gave me $10 a week to eat breakfast. skipped breakfast for NX LOL… ah that game… can’t deny its P2W and if Lost Ark turned F2P friendly i hope they do that sooner here. I do understand there are things that are better with our version then Korean that people dont talk about.
- Pet Powers ie +10%crit etc… is a blue crystal gatcha theme for Koreans.
2.) The Aura as well
thats just a simple one that we take for granted. I wonder what will happen
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pet powers are whatever, they’re about a couple thousand gold a month which is basically nothing, its like paying 5 or 10 gold a day for it, not a big deal.
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So in the end typical “korean p2w mmo” stereotype won’t change because as we’ve seen korean devs are the most greedy mmo developers on market. I think It is good that they’ve showed their morals this early.
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But still we can’t deny that its better here then over there in terms of free to play. BUT yeah… if its that little amount then its not something major. Just really sucks because i wanted to play this game BECAUSE of its F2P acceptance. lets see if they change anything then i guess
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