This version of the game has been out for less than two months
Why exactly does it matter if our game released 2 months ago? The game we see that got us attracted to this in the first place was the KR version.
Most of us saw all the cool classes, all the legion raids and end game stuff along with really neat cut scenes and honestly the combat looks super fun with classes like Lance Master/Reaper and the PvP scene was small but thriving due to so many options for classes.
It seems like by us playing on a 2019 build of Lost Ark where the game was not popular, we are crippling this gameās health permanently in the West by not simply copying Gold River and his teamās solutions that they used to get out of the rut that weāre currently in now.
I am not blaming AGS because I know Smilegate had a say in all of this too, and I donāt want people to hate on Roxx either but iām just genuinely wondering which party was responsible for giving us an old version of an existing and updated game.
Btw pre-launch a lot of people were sharing this video around:
Content creators were making videos talking about how weāll have all this awesome stuff that KR has and that the game will be incredible, so many people were hyped and then instantly disappointed to find out that more than half the game is literally missing:
Watch how many creators hyped this release up like it has all the content there, not only was the clickbait real but none of this was announced beforehand with the community either.
They need to milk the whales. Whales will always pay to progress as fast as possible so you have to drip feed them content.
Once the whales leave, theyāll try to keep the game alive by making it better for the f2p. This is literally the marketing strat all f2p eastern games follow.
But we all know the simple way to save the game and keep everyone happy. Add skins. F2p will buy skins. At least thatās what Iād swipe on.
no one āhyped this release up like it has all the content thereā. Everyone knew the game only went up to t2, until the developers called out amazon for not saying the game would release with an initial piece of T3. at which point everyone was losing it, talking about how too much content that was.
after all the bitchin after argos was released, making the game more whale friendly, imagine thinking it would have been a better idea to release the entire game.
no wonder you need to create a throwaway account to ask such a question.
I also believe they should release content faster than the current pace and pull us along the way. Maybe itās the lack of updates or roadmap, but this feels kind of slow to be on an accelerated schedule.
But one reason is probably enough to explain why we are playing an older version.
Localization. I believe they have a few Legion Raids prep and ready, but I highly doubt we have everything up to the ācurrentā version localized.
If they released the full game at once weād have even less players than we do now. Considering so many people were already angry about T3 being available at launch, and considering 85% of the players still havenāt figured out skill builds and engravings let alone tripodsā¦ Those threads about how guardian raids were too hard? Probably 100 times as many of them if we we had punika passes. Complaints about abyss dungeons being too hard for the newby wewby players? also skyrocketing. And then thereād be a few hundred added threads about how Argos is too hard, or how Valtan is too hardā¦ Wouldnāt be surprised if people would be even angrier at whales on the forums tooā¦ āBoohoo I just reached argos f2p but the whales are already on Kakul.ā
What? Weāre not Koreansā¦ Western players are often either too dumb or too lazy to figure out core character mechanics and thatās a sad but harsh truth. Lost Ark would be too difficult for them if they had to figure out skills, combat stats, gear quality, gear transferring, gems, tripods, tripods storing, engravings, cards, optimal skill rotations, boss mechanics and like 15 types of currency they have to collect, all at the same time. Everyone who didnāt play RU or KR would feel overwhelmed and quit right away.
Bro Lost Ark is just dodging red circles and spamming the same 5 cooldowns rotations.
Same can be said about WoW, FF14, Etc.
The difference is that the Western games have way more quality in the content they provide:
This is one of the many grand raids WoW did, and the mechanics were so fun the whole map was the boss at one point.
You canāt just say Western gamers/games are bad when the West is the blueprint for the MMO genreās success. Without Western MMOs, there would be no successful Eastern MMOs.
The fact is the current version is based on the KR one with ādisabled contentā.
This disabled / locked content (to gate us) is not compatible with all the patches applied to it.
Everything is endgame based, wich we donāt have access to. Like the changes about :
engraving,
honing,
golds and materials generation,
bound items we canāt trade,
1325 ilvl entries were modified to 1370 ilevel,
etcā¦
This is the worse version of Lost Ark we can play right now
What they should have done was go all the way and lock Tier 1, then unlock all Tier 2 content, then all Tier 3 content.
Without removing (locking) artifact-grade gear, challenge Abyss dungeons, and challenge Raid Guardians
No one really knew iād say. They believed it would be though since Russia/JP was that way. Then people were crying on the forums saying T3 IS TOO FAST. Now people are crying that there isnāt enough content/canāt access the content.
Iām not looking either but I also am not going to believe that people asked for an older version of this game so much that AGS was forced to literally cripple their NA launch.
