KG-mv5uo: 'Major problems in Lost Ark' recurring for the past 2 years...

RedWill42: If you are still playing lost ark the reality is you are paying out the ass to enjoy it's combat, everything else about the game is miserable.

It isn't even P2W, it's simply pay to play now, I cannot imagine anyone still playing is F2P these days.

SkyDev95: I know this is the design of the game, but why the hell is it forcing me to play five extra characters just to increase the power of my main character? The game forces you to do this because if you don’t play with alts, you won’t be able to power up your main character properly due to a lack of gold (unless you engage in RMT). As a result, you won’t be able to join any lobbies and will essentially be gatekept from a large portion of the player base. Some might say, “If you’re being gatekept, just play solo modes.” But then, what’s the point of playing an online MMORPG if I’m stuck playing solo? I could just play a better single-player game instead. This game has even bigger problems than bugs, RMT, and hacking. I don’t think there’s any real chance for new players to start and stick with this game. And even if they do start, I doubt they’ll play for long. The company only cares about the money going into their pockets, and as long as bad actors keep paying them, I don’t see any hope for this otherwise beautiful game to improve.

atheistium: The stronghold used to have the honing stuff once you got to a certain ilvl. They just stopped updating it :(

MostWantedWannaBE: we do have the alt helping systems

1. Training in SH up to 69 (1lv below the minimum)

2. A bunch of honing reduction researches in the SH (although these researches are very not up to date)

3. Book sharing

4. Gem sharing

5. Tripod building

thats all that i can think of

but they are indeed helping raise alts more than the main

also events like hypers are usually for the most part used to raise alts but as those are time restricted i don't count them

@ the swiping value

I stopped spending on the game when they released the emote packs

we begged them for standalone emote purchases for 5-10$ for those that swipe for cosmetics and not for power

Them bundling the emotes with the materials was just criminal and since then they don't deserve my $

if ppl think AGS not getting any money is better than getting some money then they deserve every shit sandwich AGS throws at them

SignOne: Wait, promoting busses prohibited!? Is the world healing? I'm sure they will fight back but if they could crack down on bussing and bots (regular and chaos bots), the game might actually save itself from certain doom

davlar9714: The thing is, both AGS and SG takes action. But, that’s usually only when things have gotten really bad.

Think of it as cancer. They let it spread, and once it’s obviously starting to affect the organs and so on, THEN they take action.

This has kind of been their trend. Too little too late. I quit month’s ago, no way i’m coming back right now with Wilds on the horizon and other fantastic games coming shortly after.

I’m not done with LoA, but I have absolutely zero interest in returning right now, or anytime soon. The game is in a horrible state.

And this comes from someone who’s invested thousands of hours and spent easily over 7000$ on the game.

Pong670: we talk about this and that, ags has been trying to make it decently accessable for us. we all know the overarching issue , its a KR MMO every possible system is basically monetized, its literally the same shit for the past 2-3 years we started with the whole pheons required to gear our chars for 5x3 ect, money=solution. you can only get money through raids and the shop or as we know as the culture of bussing and rmting(these are symptoms not the problem),botting and rmting will never go away but atleast try cracking down on it(you will never solve it in anygame).when we were essentially capped out in t3 (we pretty much started to get our level 10s) and every other system. what t4 essentially did, INSTEAD OF A RESET it just extended the grind and move the goalpost and the power disparity is bigger than it ever has and we all know how expensive it is to cap out in terms of books and gems ect. it basically put a magnefying glass on the shitty grindy system that always existed. if you're still playing expecting things to change. stop coping respect your time and yourselves. also this game is already a death sentence for a new player and theres a reason why no one can ever recommend this game to anyone. you're essentially within a niche and hardcore set of players if you're still playing, no one is pretending or trying to defend why its losing players for a reason. when someone quits we congratulate them. THIS ALL COMES DOWN TO SMILEGATE as ags CANNOT change this as the first point they are trying their best to give us the better experience. this is WHY people hope CHANGES CAME FOR THE KR VERSION WHEN community is on FIRE, because it will overall give us the better experience aswell. if you read this far you a real one

siximpack3291: The moment they start banning players is the moment the game will die. I guarantee you only 5% of the players playing the game right now are legit. The rest are gold farmers who inflates the market since they can sell 5-10M gold per week. One gold farmer can have at the very least 5 account with six 1660 in it. And everything he acquires goes to the market/auction and sell the gold he earn for that week for $400. And that is just for a week

itsasickness: good vid. its cool that you still care. im actually happy (and kinda surprised) that anyone in the west still cares at all.

loa would make a good case study for any other company thinking of managing a game like ags did in the west for smilegate. everything ags did, thats the thing you dont wanna do if you want your game to be successful.

i'll disagree with you on one point though. i dont think permabanning people at this stage makes any sense. the game has been ruined for so long that almost all the honest players peaced out ages ago. if they start permabanning people now, after letting the game rot with cheaters for 4 years, they might as well just unplug the servers.

chicknwing2742: I want to see UI improvements so I don't have to take my eyes off combat to see important buff and cd information.

HalfAnOreo: Alright hear me out folks the best way to combat chaos botting is to just GET RID OF CHAOS DUNGEONS AND PUT THE REWARDS INTO RAIDS WHOS WITH ME????

dreamforger7166: Problem with feedback, is mostly not about the feedback, but where to gather it.

Most of the time it is only a minority of players that complains or give feedback.

Majority ignore problems, stop playing or do not care enough to give feedback on a place where devs can get it.

We can see that the ones who a passionated about the hobby shares thought of gaming overall, but also feel like they are the majority... meanwhile games like fifa, cod, fortnite etc. Continue to cash in.. yeah even the hated Diablo immortal.

That should not stop us, as I believe we do benefit the hobby by giving feedback (or complaining), we just also need to realize, we are often the minority :)

Ghostlytoast420: Idk if you saw that but at the bottom of that bussing text they talk about piloting and how it will be met with perma bans

Maesira: "I had to re-record bussing" om

are you gonna do a review for Blade and Soul Neo? :)

itzclutch5377: completely agree with the swiping value part, id love to swipe but the rate is so trash and i dont want to rmt

nub0rn: I loved playing the game with my favorite class, but stopped way back, when it was apparent that there was nothing to do with my character. A bit of raiding every week and thats it really. What good is enjoyable combat, if there is no where to utilize it

ryanc9876: Good upcoming update/announcement they dropped. But some of my gripes are and probably always will be bot/rmt related. I still get frustrated seeing bots turning all the sage's tower channels red, seeing them in chaos gates, vern, etc. And I really wish they'd finally take serious action against rmters instead of these bullshit slaps on the wrist. Ban half the existing player base if needed--the bot/rmt problems prevent many players from sticking around or joining even.

I'm with you and Cauhtty though: normal shouldn't be so hard. Getting to content ilvl shouldn't be so hard. And I do prefer the idea of hard being same ilvl but just significantly more difficult. But my other wish is that if they refuse to make normal easy enough to feel comfortable just hitting matchmake, then we need to cut down the raid player size. I've been saying it for awhile now but with our much smaller player base, wider array of time zones, and a different gaming culture, having to line up 8 people to do (relatively) difficult content every week is a hassle that a lot of people can't do. I think it's far more possible to do that with 4 people. So either A: make it so players can just hit matchmake and not worry about finding groups or worrying about their time getting wasted in a jail--or B: make it so the parties are small that you can both PUG and static a lot quicker and easier without as much juggling.

My 2 cents.

kaymanigeorge: ok i agree with some if not most things you said. the in game shop is waaaaayy to p2w but not as bad as kr and ill leave it at that. but what I want is gems, honing/adv honing rework or revamp my reason for this is raid lock out and it takes way to much to just raise 1 character this needs to change.

f12rTheSniPeR: ags never wanted to make the game better for our version. Just think that the shop was thought so badly that it could have become a strong point but they didn't give it importance. In these years ags has always tried to squeeze western players as much as possible rather than improve it with a more f2p vision and with stricter controls from day 1 on who cheats, who does rmt and who does buss. The smartest were the Chinese who created their own version, right or wrong, but they had the courage to put their idea in. Today we find that ags support is managed by bots, any ban they do is 100% final, so with the thousands of false bans they do it doesn't matter and if you try to prove with evidence it is managed by bots. Last thing, the ags department on lost ark is managed by a small group of people and with a little budget available they try to keep it as alive as possible with false hopes. The Korean version will live on but the vision is no longer what it used to be and they are realizing it.

cummies6526: I enjoy the game but i refuse to pay to get caught up so unfortunately I will stick with my one 1675 character :^)

adritraaki: Hi, f2p lost ark player here (only skins and ark pass). Maybe spend 150euros in 1,5 year with 3K hours. I love marvels rivals and the monetization like league of legends. I spend already 250 euros in skins :) im so dumb

kaly8329: What I love in the west is that, the cheaters get banned and they still yap in discord.

Atyuialsen: ABOBA cot tee sent me here.

Feb 23 2025

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