What We Know About The "Censorship" and "Westernization" of Lost Ark

I sadly doubt that, since reddit and steam are getting censored all over the place at least here on the offical forum we still can voice our opinions.

Though i hope AGS will at least back off now at least a little bit and reconsider at least “SOME” changes since i dont believe they wont change something in the game. I just wanted to enjoy Lost Ark in the fullest…

@Lowe Really nice video hope to see more from you in the future.

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Saw the video on YT and I am totaly against censorship and westernization !!!

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I have to say I’m extremely disappointed by Amazon doing this. Luckily people can just play the RU version of the game instead of giving Amazon money for their crappy alterations to the artistic vision of Smilegate’s glorious game.

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Hi everyone! There are numerous threads about this and even a video with Roxx herself explaining this on YouTube, I highly suggest checking out past threads or looking up the video but here is a statement from her (:

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here its the video ! Lost Ark Is NOT Being Censored For The West - YouTube

So, you claim the game is not being censored with a clip of our CM saying exactly how the game was censored? lol

I’m confused… x)

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omg default skin its not cconsored . all the skins are in the game ! nothing changed

Not gona argue with you, its pointless, just let it sink in.

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wow . smart conversation :+1:

The video you linked clearly shows Roxx stating that the starting outfits are different, not as revealing. They were moved to white drops you’ll never get or farm. More importantly, that default look stays with your character, always. Not these white drops.

Note that it’s about principle. I myself prefer the new outfit for the mage, I really like it - save the double stockings. The gunner outfit looks like a cash shop legendary though. Martial artist looks ridiculous.

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Ohh yeah, I saw that worthless video a few days ago. I had to laugh as he shows her saying Hey guys we only censored this one thing! and other people are posting videos with evidence, screen shots and such of censorship but… It’s totally NOT being censored guys! hahaha how dumb!

He’s huffing hard on that copium. Might be main lining it even.

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Im a bit confused over here, is the thing that EVERYONE is complaining about, a change to the armor set you get during the tutorial? Basically the one you will have equipped on you by default if you chose to skip the prologue?
Becuase if this is the case, i really couldnt care less for an armor set you wear for about 2 minutes.

Or is the thing everyone is complaining about just the preview costumes you are allowed to see your character in during character creation?
This would be slightly upsetting.

But, if what they changed is how your character looks naked, when you unequip all gear, then yes im willing to bring thor’s hammer over whoever decided this is a good idea.
Remember how this happened in blade and soul? I remember. The underwear was sexy asf and it was basically replaced with a pair of black textures resembling bloomers…

Yes. It’s both. It’s all three. It’s everything you said ^^

It’s also scary for the future.

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Mostly people are upsite by censorship by principle and any unwanted changes.
It can look small now, but we shouldn’t let it grow/stay.

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@Arthorius said it best, however there’s one thing you missed @darkwish98. As time went on what was being said by AGS shifted as new things came to light. At first it was just the starting gear. Then you realize it’s also how your character looks when it has no gear on.

The cash shop only had ONE costume during the beta so we couldn’t see if the “marketing changes” were not in the game. See how things are sliding and if we hadn’t made a noise the “marketing version” of the Sorceress founders avatar may of ended up as the actual avatar. We do not know because the “marketing version” was changed back to the original. They said they got the incorrect rendered version to put on the website. Where did that come from in the first place?

AGS constantly say they’re not removing anything just adding however you find out that they asked for the presets and faces that were available in KR, JP & RU to be removed and give us completely different ones.

If we do not keep a close eye on them who knows what will happen. We love the game. Me personally been waiting since I saw the teaser pre alpha for KR. I did not want to have to go through the hassle of buying an account and using a VPN to play on KR. So I’m invested as a lot of others are.

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they changed only on caracter creation. nothing more. when you pick new items set chage is the same as you find in KR

No the “naked” look has changed as well as the first armor set.

Faces have been removed too, a good third of them.

They added different outfits for character creation though, which is what you are talking about. They didn’t change any existing outfit for that but made new ones. Although the previous ones can’t be previewed anymore now …

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FYI. Here’s the response concerning the faces and presets direct from the CM fingers.

I don’t know who asked for that. I know I never said I wanted all new faces and not to have the old ones. I love how Asians look.

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Yeah I’m up to date on all changes Amazon made but it may be nice for other people.

I will never understand why they needed to remove these faces to add others. I could understand an indie solo dev saying “there’s no scrollbar at the moment”. But that’s about it.

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