Things can change from today till the day of release (5+ years kekw)
My concern is more Bandai than Amazon at this point. They are so hit and miss regarding quality control on alot of their games that I just don’t know if they are the company I would trust with MMOs. Also Japan has such a shaky history with me regarding MMOs. People like to praise and lift up FF14 but they seem to forget what 14 was like before ARR.
Too many titles for 2023 … i’ll try them all and would definitely settle for the ones with the best PVP system, Graphics, Story, Game System/Complexity and last but not least, a real mmo unlike LA 
100% Agree! Diablo Immortal is the biggest abomination in recent time. But as you can see, there are people defending this kind of game while at the same time making snarky comments towards people “defending” Lost Ark and what not. “LOL”
Sometime i just cant believe what i am reading even tho its in plain sight^^
idd DI is fu!@# badly monetized
2 things tho
it consume much less time to do daily “chores”
it not limited by itself version from other country and its publicity
actually they put a loot of changes even gived 1 extra gem/week (should be 10/week imho for amount required to max out anything 
)
“rubber band” exp is also something worth mentioning
now what is not right with LA you know better than me so
DI being bad dosent make LA good sadly
No it doesnt. Thats a fact i think anyone would disgree on. BUT its the “lesser evil” if you want to look at it this way.
I dont care if its less daily chores. The fact that people got shunned and called out in a game for not buying crests to juice runs, that you need on average 150k dollar to deck out your character and the big “season pass” is already enough to make it worse than LA is.
And pls dont argue with you dont need to, you dont have to, you can by playing… Cause you are doing the same to LA players trying to “defend” their game. Double standards much.
I’m gona chill here and wait for Riots new mmo… if that one fails I’m done with games in general , gona become a monk or drunk …
probably should go back to playing single player games XD. Usually those do pretty well.
lost ark will probablybe my last mmo. The path monetization is following is too much for me. All those FOMO inducing systems and rng to force swiping if you are unlucky. This is not for me. If not for the guild i would have quit a long time ago.
And to think that there was a time in my life when i was mad i could not subscribe for monthly premium account ( had no job yet ). Man… i wish those things were back instead of whatever helish monetization system the current game have.
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Bold of you to think you will be alive in 80 years when the riot mmo comes out.
Also going on history and countless examples the amount of hype the riot mmo has had for years based on absolutely nothing no matter how good the game might be when it releases it’s going to get ripped to shreds because people won’t be happy with it. Every single tiny issue with the game will get picked to death and make a good majority of them quit because we live in bandwagon sheep generation where as soon as any influencers say anything they absorb it as their own opinion.
Not really. 95% of Lost Ark concurrent players quit the game 1 month in even with all the hype videos and lies from streamers. Doom videos followed after the mass exodus. That bandwagon sheep generation is only the 5% left playing.
Most streamers and influencers quit the game in 1 month too that’s why they all left same sheep if their influencer quit they quit simple. We are talking about actual streamers and influencers here not the randoms that still stream it today lol. Almost everyone still streaming the game today was playing the kr version before global was out anyway they have nothing invested in the west apart from milking viewers for money.
This only affects the mentally weak. Ive never been forced to buy anything because i can actually choose what i want to do.
Definitely D4, only because of Druid re-introduction (my all time favourite). Altho not sure if u can call it a fully fledged MMO. Only some parts will be available, like world bosses.
Out of that small list of games… Lost Ark.
But to be honest, another MMO has my heart and money atm, and I don’t see that changing any time soon… Sadly it’s not on your list.
The majority left when on release EU servers were flooded with bots you couldn’t log in for weeks and you were always behind. The rest fell off even before reaching 1370.
1340-1370 is where the majority of players dropped, simply because casuals won’t hone into that dead zone.
EUW and SA abandoned. NAW being bot central for a year now to a turned off captcha. Delayed classes, poor communication, and the list goes on and on.
Players didn’t need streamers to tell them any of that, they witnessed it firsthand, along with the fabulous management of AGS. While they might have influenced them into trying the game, they didn’t get them to stay.
You are correct about the sheep mentality, but that accounts for only the minority of the overall population that played the game. For instance, anyone who sees current inflation knows for a fact that playing legit requires an insane amount of hours and/or swiping, and will leave regardless of what the influencers say.
Look at the threads here and on other platforms, they all revolve around the experience of new players being a bot infested game with insane gatekeeping and huge inflation. Funny enough that was always the case from the get go, so whether streamers stayed or left, it’s the same miserable experience.
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If Lost Ark dies I will retied from MMOs. No other good fast paced games at the moment. FF14 is boring, WOW is okay. Throne and Liberty looks fun because of PVP only, but rest of MMOs looks quite boring and especially Diablo 4. Prefer the top down camera angle or charcter a bit away with great class feel. Short stories…good looking skins and best raids.
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Most people were dropping out in tier 2 after trying the first 8 people raids they felt like they completed enough. I watch many different genres of games all bought into lost ark because of the hype and they all started quitting at the same time. It’s a social game many people play for a person not for the game it’s self.
There is a reason why even low viewcount streamers of a few hundred get sponsors worth thousands every month to play a game for 1-2 hours. You are insane to think gaming is not almost entirely based on influencers in this generation lol.
Everything you are talking about is more to do with why the game is losing players every month still today not for why it went from a game with millions of people to below 300k in only 1 month. All you need to do is spend 5 minutes in any stream ever or any youtube video ever and see all the “omg so true you are so right i always thought this too” comments on games.
Use the new hogwarts game as a test today. See everyones reactions on the game today in the first few hours what people are saying then look again in 2 days and see what everyone “thinks” then. 100% it will just so happen to match what influencers said about the game lol.
This is why I stopped watching Asmondbaby. Everything is bad except wow, which also has bots and P2W. People dont want to play games they enjoy…they want to suffer in games that their streamers are playing. Like pets to a owner. To me…this game is pretty awesome. 2nd best I have played. In 16 years of gaming…but that is MY opinion.
this type of game is designed to pray at the weak. thats the point. lucky will never need swiping.