I get what you mean - but when I write 1/7th of what we had initially, I mean in terms of crystals and values.
I for one - already used all my royal crystals, primarily buying blue crystals that I funneled into my main in form of mats from shop.
So yea - AGS offering me 1k crystals instead of 7k crystals - on top of skins I can’t trade, seems like a huge middle finger 
Yeahhh the whole currency issue in Lost Ark is a stand alone problem. Super confusing at first but once you got the grip, you’ll know how much things are worth.
Very well written post, full of facts. Well done.
For me it’s not the leveling perse, but doing it multiple times in so short of a timeframe. I would be fine doing 1-50 again when I stopped playing for a year or so. So the question for me boils down to quitting or not.
Yeah, repeating the whole levelling process would also suck for a lot of people. I collected the Mokokos while levelling so I have over 500 now - no way I’m doing that again. I also cleared all the side quests until Shushire, also something I don’t want to repeat.
It’s a lot of progress to ask someone to abandon.
They took your founder money (and mine) and are laughing. Just like New World. It is my own stupid fault for falling for it a second time.
Anyone remember queue times on silk road online back in the day? Sheesh :[
I apologize in advance for mistakes, English isn’t my main language
I think main issue eu is being neglected is that we dont have any loud (in media community sense) voice. Immagine the storm if similar issues would happen with na and streamers with huge auditory (asmogod and others) shine a light on that? We as eu community should speak louder, spread to streamers, hell, maybe smilgate themselves, to get our fair share of thier game. We aren’t at fault that publisher has made huge mistakes that affect half or even more of game auditory.
Sure, at this moment theres no good solution, since problems escalated too far, but we deserve atleast appropriate mitigation of problems caused by publisher.
Okay, it isn’t technically possible to open whole new realm instantly, with a fingersnap. But why attempts on encouraging us to switch realm looks like joke and spit to the face. How possibily giving same extra founders, starters packs (not this joke of leftovers) can ruin things even more they are now? I can almost guarantee that if we get back founders/starters/drops we had on original servers (all of those we are entitled to, since they are here in my inventory already) and with some compensation similar to galatur’s (but i personaly would we preffered instead of 30day aura free powerpass for account with 50 char on euc server), probably close to half of current euc players would switch.
We as players can help you, ags, solve problems caused by you, but if we do, we expect treatment of equality atleast, not being treated like shit.
Very good point. EU has lots of little voices (us) but no big voices that I’m aware of.
The negative publicity that comes from streamers etc complaining about the game will make AGS act faster, but we need more of this to come from EU’s side.
There is one more thing I miss in here, when talking about too less server capacity in EU:
The game had prerelease packages. A company like Amazon should be able to count sales and they should know how many players have bought the prerelease package.
So what I really don´t understand is, how can it be, that there where already so much too few server for EU, during first 3 days early access?! That even more players are going to join, that did not buy the package, was sure.
I cannot imagine that the currunt issues were not expectable on basis of sales. So was this all calculated to save money or what?
Good point, Founder’s Pack sales would have told them a lot about who to expect and where from (assuming they could share regional data with Steam).
the “compensation” is a massive joke, if you think about it. So we players fix their fault by switching server/region and get less for it.
Great post.
Well articulated and thought out.
Shame not one of the devs will pay attention to it. You’ll have a forum moderator reply sure… But the devs have 0 intention of rectifying any of the main issues people are screaming about here.
It’s a shame, they kind of have a soft cap of 6 days to fix this (Elden ring release) I know I’ll be leaving.
in my opinion, these fail launch companies should be fined by a high amount of money. government is regulating cars for climatic change and hundrets of thousands of players need to let their pc run for days/weeks just to be able to play.
i think they just sold the rights to amazon for europe and dont care at all what is happening here.
I bet the majority of us never visit forums. I for one never do. Though i’m actually getting more enjoyment here than in game. Baffling concept of release you have here AGS.
@DoXLocK I hope not… but i’m afraid it’s true. we are their biggest player base yet 0 input… 0 answers for days.
Its like they have no fix and are just waiting for a natural decline in players… Surely not…? JOKE COMPANY
They mustn’t want money or good reviews/publicity 
at first, sorry for my poor english.
the problem is, they cant fix the problem without hurt someone. they have had gone the wrong way. now they need to hope player move by themself, or move servers from eu central to eu west(if that is possible). people could not play with server from eu central anymore.(this way is just a idea of mine) there is no other way. the cluster is overloaded. even if they add more servers to eu central they cant fix it, but they could make the switch to eu west more interesting instead of hurt the people with the “compensation”. its better than nothing but so many people are pissed.
No need to apologise, i understand you just fine! (:
There’s ways that an entire server could be cloned. they could split EUW & EUC 50/50 solving the issue… Take the game down for 2-3 days, fix it and rerelease…
The issue being here is ROI… they’re refusing to invest more in to our servers because their statistical estimations estimate they’re going to lose more money through natural declination than they would gain through player retention (server & traffic communication improvement.).
My opinion and advise to anyone wanting to try this game is simply: DONT.
sad, but true.
i will continue playing, cause i like the game. i dont want to drop the next game, cause the publisher ruined it.