Just curious, what dailies are you doing that only give you 3 upgrade attemps?
I f2p 1362 right now and each day I get an average of 1 successful upgrade with around 10-15 total upgrades.
Edit: Not full f2p, light spender spent 20$ for the lv 50 pack. But apart from that no money spent.
Skins would have gotten my money just the same as any mats have >.< probably more so, since I would just be enjoying the new styles instead of feeling like i’m being pushed >.<.
Understandable, development takes time. Im a developer.
Is it reasonable to say, then, that the game was released too early? An all too familiar and common determination about a game post-release. The reason I say this: Theres a clear drought of material systems in the game that exist in other regions. Your reason is development time. Fine. The game was released too early.
That, OR… and I don’t mean to be snide…and heres a controversial opinion… this is all a cash grab for the whales. Milking them as hard as possible (People like RichWCampbell streamer). Milk the whales, nearly the only people that can access this content, as hard as possible for as long as possible. And anyone that wants to join in on the fun relatively soon after day one, swipe that card! Milk them too! Its a cash grab. And its ugly. Relay that back to AGS and Smilegate.
What is also ugly is that OUR region, THE WEST, who HATE p2w aspects of games…have arguably MORE p2w aspects in our version that KR/RU. Lost Ark Vets will tell you, and they are on record in various twitch videos and youtube, that Lost Ark has always been free to play friendly, casual friend, and has always been designed and developed around THOSE people, not the whales. COMPLETE OPPOSITE HERE! And its disappointing to those vets of the game, vets of other regions. Relay that back to AGS and Smilegate.
I really think it shouldn’t be so difficult to say some different methods to combat the awful feeling of being a f2p, low spender or even mid spending player. Unless there’s pressure from on high to keep people paying? I think skins would have done the trick, but here we are… 
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It may not be fair to those working on Lost Ark in AG, but many people still remember New World being that it wasn’t that long ago. Like it or not, the view of AG is very poor and expectations are that bad things will happen because of AG.
I think any publisher/developer would receive the same flak at this stage. The way forward may be filled with a lot of frustration coming out in ways that is less than helpful feedback, but assuming the players frustrations about P2W/F2P and honing material issues are addressed, I think the long term positive outlook is good. However, any fumbles in the NA version be it SGR or AG will be attributed to AG unless provided proof otherwise. As they are your partner, that won’t happen and sadly that’s just the internet mob and nothing I or any single person can change there.
thats how you upgrade your alts
and now they are gonna get both
You completely missed the point of his post, if you don’t know how badly our version of the game is being shafted why are you posting?
We gravely need the honing rate increased like in KR & RU along with the extra material sources. Right now it’s bad. Really really bad. A lot of people are going to quit. I made a thread with a lot more feedback. But as it pertains to this particular thread, yeah, I’d say that’s probably more important than anything.
I’ll also say you should probably avoid doing any censorship for NA/EU and release a bunch of cosmetics if you want people to collectively give you a lot of money. You don’t need to make people feel compelled to whale. My main’s 1340 and I have literally 9 alts and over 340 hours played. Getting to 1370 is legitimately impossible f2p right now. It’s going to take weeks, maybe another month. Argos was definitely released too early I think.
Here’s what I think should’ve happened:
We’re also at least a week away from the updated roadmap, I’ve been doing the same daily content since launch pretty much and it’s getting really stale. I failed my hat over and over again at +14 T3 until it finally hit 100% artisans energy and the whole process from start to end felt absolutely horrible because it took me almost a week to go up 1 ivl because of the lack of mats, and im still only at 1360.
I don’t have much faith in AGS right now tbh
That comment made absolutely zero sense whatsoever. So you are telling me you guys didn’t already handle testing and localization of already existing characters despite delaying the original launch by a considerable amount?
You already had Summoner ready for beta. Are you trying to tell us that a class that we know for a fact is ready and localized is not being released because you didn’t “test functionality”. Despite that functionality being tested in literal open beta.
We are tired of hearing excuses. We know that you have classes ready, tested and localized, not all of them, but some of them are ready. So why are we waiting for? Clearly not for localization or testing…
Only reasonable logical explanation is you are holding them now to create hype later.
Pretty disappointing release timelines I must say, based on the current management even Lost Ark Japan PMANG did a better job than AGS unfortunately. Played japan server OBT till 1 month of Biakiss legion raid felt more well planned out than AGS and their messy plannings. They really need to pull things back together.
Then Smilegate should’ve published the game themselves.
A publisher will always, but always have the last saying and the severe majority of the control over their own region.
Summoner was removed by Smilegate, because they reworking Summoner in KR, so no Point releasing it “unpatched” in our Version, just to get it changed after 2 month entirely. (They completely rework it)
I don’t get it what’s your issue with rate exactly ? Are you just talking about 1340 to 1370 or from T1 to T3?
They cry 1340 to 1370 which just take a week if you made alts as every fucking guide said 
Thats literally every MMO. You couldve waited 2 months to play and do it the easy way if you wanted.
Are you implying that you didn’t do this when releasing argos? What kind of studio does not do this?..???
or better yet, did you really think that releasing a patch to 1% of the playerbase was a nice idea? Both options are equally ridiculous lmao
Can you point to where this has been said? This idea has been proliferated everywhere, but I don’t see any information that verified it beyond the vague balancing they are doing this month. Which is for all classes by the way and the director has said focuses on counters and synergies. Nothing as significant as a rework.
More realistically, the devs were dead set on only 15 classes and sorceress was more marketable than summoner. People keep saying rework so much though it’s being taken as fact.
It hasn’t been said anywhere and it’s not true at all. This guy even admitted he’s spent more than most and hasn’t gotten to 1370 himself because the material cost for Argos isn’t worth it yet he argues against change designed to make it worth it.