Imagine the following:
You live in Miami, Florida. As far South as you can get on the East Coast and still be in a town that people have heard of. One day you decide you’re going to take a trip across the country, see the sights, expand your horizons, eat real pizza, etc.
You go to the travel agency and propose your plan - you want to see everything this country has to offer. You know some people who did a similar trip in Korea and Russia, and they got in their Land Rovers and Mercedes and had a great time. The travel agency looks at you and says they can provide you with the means to take this trip, but unfortunately the only cars they have in stock right now are Honda Civics.
Now, you’re a big person - your legs, sizeable tree trunks that they are - don’t fit in a Honda Civic. You ask when the agency will have more cars available and they said “We should have every car available in 2-3 means. I mean one car in 2-3 months. I mean a few cars every 2-3 months. I’m not really sure, I dunno, eventually, here’s a map, give that back it’s not ready.”
You are understandably confused by this manic personality, but you really want to take this trip so you accept the Honda Civic - you don’t quite fit in it, it’s not comfortable or preferred, but you suck it up and start driving. The travel agent tells you how great New York is going to be, and how you should stop and see all the sights on your way to New York. He goes on and on about New York.
You start driving, day one you get to Orlando and it’s pretty great. You see Disney, Universal, Sea World. It’s a fun time, you think okay this might not be so bad. So you call your friend back in Miami and ask him to join you, he agrees and says he’ll take a plane. You try to explain that the whole purpose is to have these experiences, but he insists on taking a plane and the next day he’s in New York.
You, meanwhile, finish up in Orlando and start driving… and driving… you’re going to Georgia and the Carolinas and there is just nothing but this horrible drive in this uncomfortable car. You know New York and Washington DC are further ahead but this drive is so unbearable that before you hit the Maryland border you say screw it and turn around.
Meanwhile, your friend in New York spends a few weeks taking in the sights, but eventually he also runs out of things to do in New York. The travel agent desperately tries to keep him on the hook by suggesting other destinations like Chicago, Los Angeles, etc. and your friend visits a few but in less than a month the destinations have run dry because he just flew there each time, and there was nothing to keep him interested beyond the initial tourist rush.
This is what you are doing to your game, Amazon. This is what is happening to your game, Smilegate.
The people who are trying to play it without whaling are getting bored by North Carolina, and the people who are whaling are going to run out of interesting new things soon. You have no sustainability in the direction you are heading, and you’re making us do it on classes we don’t even want to play. You’re drip feeding us classes, and slamming us with content most of us can’t even reach yet - and even if we could, we don’t want to because we need to hoard mats until you ever so nicely let us play the class we want.
This is not sustainable. Players are already getting bored, your numbers are already dropping. More than half your population is formed by robots going beep boop buy gold. Lost Ark is an amazing title and I’d love to make this a game I play for years to come, and I am pleading with you to reconsider your approach to how you are handling the global version of the game.