>What is Lost ArkA pay-to-win MMOARPG set in a grindy, gatekeeping world with poorly designed fights where a single mistake by a single player wipes the whole 8-player raid and wastes the 20 minutes of progress you had, that times 18 raids you must do every week to stay relevant.>FAQIs it dead?Yes, see https://steamcharts.com/app/1599340#All -- half of that are bots, and the remainder is spread across two regions (used to be five, what does that tell you?). The current publisher's license expires this year and the game will likely EoS.Who is left playing the game?Mazed sunk cost retards. They are in too deep, they are beyond saving.How much p2w is this game?Not a single player can progress in this game unless someone, whether it's you or someone else, pays real money for their accessories/build through a currency called pheons.Is the game censored?Yes, skins are censored, half the dictionary is blacklisted from chat, and they made multiple NPCs black that weren't originally.>Newshttps://www.playlostark.com/en-us/newshttps://lostark.game.onstove.com/Main>In-game chatMake an alt on the server of the chat owner and mail them a join request that includes the name of your main.NAE: Lerynsere on BalthorrEUC: Daddypump on Ratik>GuildsNAE: Touchfluffytail on Balthorr, password is fluffEUC: Handholding on Ratik, password is mods>Busing (paid carry) discordsEU: discord.gg/buseucNA: discord.gg/naebusIf you're a new/returning player, you're expected to buy carries, nobody will play with you, gatekeeping is through the roof, and most raids disband after a single wipe.Previous thread: >>2029160
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostarkgame/comments/1u1b577/why_are_we_losing_bis_support_orb/Even reddit is up in flames over the incompetence. EoS is near.
optimal random core selection boxes to craft using mats from the new abbysal raid that releases tomorrow (dps)
really wanna cum in and on that black haired whore of a specialist but idk if i wanna reinstall this for that.
>>2574576Why not do it
>>2574686i do but the game is ass.
>>2574712True, I've barely actually played since I reinstalled.
>>2574745nothing worth doing except erping you.
>>2574751
>>2574773this game needs microbikinis
>>2574798I'm surprised there isn't a decensor anywhere.
>>2574826yeah, it blows. these specialists are built for slutty outfits
>>2574745Hello? Wanna meet in game? If you are in NA we could take some screens
new raid just dropped, and literally actually unironically nobody even pretends to care
>>2574257It's not like AGS is afraid to abandon games, as long as Korea is producing content they just have to translate it poorly and sometimes leave in korean dialog and fuck everything up and people will still spend thousands on skins.,
>>2575209Sure we can.
They can't even censor their skins properly, there's gigantic holes all over the thing if you dye it...
>>2575512the new raid has not dropped yet
>>2576393Nice what s your game name?
>>2579023Well it's in all my screenshots, also on balthorr
>>2576746post discord
>>2582465Uhhh... no. You can meet me in game though and I might give it to you there?
Lost Ark would be in a better state right now if Amazon wasn't the publisher
>>2583248Yea I hope they give it to pearl abyss, or literally anyone else. AGS is a blight.
>>2581915Oh ok Will add you later, shame you are on balthor
>>2583294They should give it to me. I'd make sure specialists are at least 3/4 naked at all times (but preferably completely naked).
>>2583584
This game is the absolute worst piece of shit I've ever played. The only way to do anything is to buy an account or rmt like crazy. Fuck this shit game. Impossible to progress. Fuck this fucking game.
>>2574826Decensor is really easy to do all you need to do is swap data4.lpk in our version for the korean version. I just dont know any KR guy to ask for the file :c
>>2589706Ahh, yea I'd do it if I could.
>>2590216just vpn download it then copy/paste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJ17GZ8KdQ>the name of the track>beatrice's ominous words>the feel of the musicThis was it. The spiritual End of Service. The game is technically still running, but its spirit ended right then and there. The game was already devolved into a raidnigga game, but after that, it really started to go far into the deep end more sharply. The good memories of an MMO for everyone and not just tunnelvisioned raiding is gone... We will never get that sovl back...
>>2589706This is not how it works, if you just do that the game will crash instantly on start up. If you want to try you can use the RU data4 that is on the exact same version as ours, just uncensored, but it will crash.I felt like making the uncensor for the latest june patch earlier today though, but I can't guarantee it won't give you some invisible floating heads next week if they decide to add something else on the lpk for the western exclusive skins that are still not in the files, but it works for now and probably will still work fine next week, so here, have fun: https://www.mediafire.com/file/rf0e18m3curv5qv/data4_june.zip
>>2591805That seems like it worked, though sadly I only have one outfit that it did anything to.
>>2591967It only got stuff that I "added" which is mostly the skins I have.Try all the 2025 swimsuits, the surfwear shorts(look behind), swimsuit pants, onyx dragon night pants, both snowfield skins, alluring nightmares halloween skin, the white wildsoul launch skin, both flopsy bottoms, white scales of dawn pants and dimensional vagabond pants. There might be some more that I forgot about, but I didn't bother adding anything new for now. If you wanna talk on discord I think I am on a server you are in, or if someone else want drop me a server or something.
>>2592248Oh yea I noticed it had some other outfits I just don't have them. Feel free to add me and hit me up on balthorr sometime and we can talk.
>>2591805More closeup specialist pussy please
>>2592389
>>2591805Ty for the decensor pity you have to do them one by one cause there is a lot of them censored. How are you doing the uncensor, are you using lost ark explorer to patch the data pack ?
I would come back if they simply allowed me to get all the money from a single character
>>2591805Just out of curiosity, how do you uncensor the data4 file? (i know the uncensored skins are in the game files already and the censored ones have the US suffix next to them iirc) Is there a tool or script that makes it easier?
>>2575512I'm getting hard, the EOS message is on it's way.
>>2593381>>2596411I don't really wanna explain too much here, plus I am not the one who figured out how to do it, I just follow the instructions.
>>2604629Where can I find said instructions senpai?
>>2599888I know you guys are a bit retarded but publishers cant eos a game they cant even cancel the licence without repercussions . The worst outcome is ags not renewing the licence in 2027
Would you guys play a maplestory reboot type lost ark server?
>>2578405Now it has, and the peak was 11,748. It'll be the new historical monthly low unless we can somehow beat it in the next 2 weeks (not gonna happen), down from the previous historical low of 12154 that we established last month. The downward spiral slowed down slightly for a day, that's the most we can get out of a new raid release now. Grim af.
damn throne and liberty dumpstered even harder than this one
>>2610179we thinking aion 2 shares the same fate?
>>2610183I hope asmongold or shroud plays that, drops 50k day 1 and solos the fucking server
>>2610189don't think asmong would be soloing anyone with his skill issues
>>2610192aion 2 whalemaxxes to the point you don't even take damage from f2poors on pvp
>>2610199that sounds like redditor rhetoric which is likely completely untrue past day 1
>>2610203https://www.youtube.com/live/BRUmyQFOXdM?si=VSRnPoS9jOoYq0V4&t=18698famous clip, it was like a week in
>>2610370>still diesyep asmong wouldn't be able to do shit with thousands of people coming to pk him
>>2591805Thanks for the uncensor ... too bad there's not slutty ayaya anymore :(
>>2610183aion 2 is literally more popular in korea and TW than lost shart at this very moment btwaion 2, from ncsoft, that's how over it is
>>2614975today anon learned that asian people love to play shit game, especially NEW shit game
>>2614975aion 2 has actual graphicshttps://www.twitch.tv/kanonxo/clip/WildStormyVampireCorgiDerp-MAz24E8RVzxZcQLH
>>2621192Was curious about the disaster loaon how is Aion 2 holing in KR but they are not even in the top20 on PC Bang the game is eosing in KR. Unless they do some giga changes for global it may be grim
>>2624726pc bang hasn't been relevant for a decade, everyone is well off enough to play at home with their personal computer now
aion 2 is on phones too (it's excessively botted by phones)
>>2610189Shroud got duped by Lost Ark and has since bitterly complained about it, so he won't fall for that shit again. Shroud is still filthy rich, but he's past his peak of relevance, so spending 50k on an MMO for a week isn't really smart relative to his earning potential if he wants to stay retired this early.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Da1-PsiZ28&t=7306sWill jiggling titties save lost ark? In KR, maybe. In the west, it's already too late.
>>2627224I spent nearly 1k on Lost Ark in the first 2 years and I deeply regret it. I resent the raid game it became. I was lured in by sailing, adventure, endless islands, beautiful locales, dynamic events to visit places and people. Just messing around. The game has nothing of that now. It didn't after the first 6 months, even though I desperately convinced myself that they wouldn't give up on it so soon.
Game still fucking sucks!!!!
specialist ass doko?
>>2650031
You need to push 1790 with 8k cp for nightmare mode
>>2650700cute bum
I really wish this game didn't flop. We need more multiplayer games with ero lolis in them.
>>2656335Need closeup backside view
>>2656335If Smilegate develops what it promised (easy raids with infinite revives, islands/sailing, and open-world content), it could attract new players with some marketing
>>2657277They need to do something revolutionary at this point. Adding shit on top of shit just turns new players off when they have to wrestle with 100 different things to be competitive at the endgame (which they'll just get kicked from constantly). Even if they did another advertising push, I doubt anyone would stick around after a couple of months.
>>2657482>they have to wrestle with 100 different thingsStreamlining some system would be good>to be competitive at the endgame (which they'll just get kicked from constantly)Doesn't the new matchmaking fix that? Smilegate just needs to release it together with the update instead of 6 weeks after.>competitiveI think Smilegate mindset should change. MM raids for casuals. HM for nolife tryhards. Extreme for whales.Think of it as elo in competitive gaming. Not everyone can be the highest elo and the game development isn't focused on them.
>>2656335I would play a spinoff game that lets the raid autist retards have their game and have one that has more emphasis on the open world and islands and more fun events and evolution of the story through the islands. Not always just a one and done, but islands that can have a story that spills over into the world, or the next phase of its story. A world where there is always a reason to return to where you've been, and sail again. Instead of giving up and retreating on these features, doubling down and improving them so they're worth it.
Player numbers for June are out and to say that the situation is grim would be an understatement.Both concurrents and peak reached a new record low, "beating" the previous one (from May) and we're on track to sink even lower in July.Yet another round of cost-cutting server mergers is about to happen and let's face it, EoS will follow soon after.
>shota class confirmed.
I'm curious what this year's summer skins will look like. If they don't deliver value, the global version of LA is finished.
>>2669402I wonder how mamy players do the ru and cn version have?
>>2669402Also vindictus with 200 players on steam hasnt EOS. This game will never close
>>2686384Cope, Lost Ark already EoS'd in Japan and Amazon's LA publishing license expires this year (and they're NOT planning to renew, hence the layoffs)Also, is Vindictus Steam-exclusive? Because LA is.
>>2686554Smilegate MIGHT publish the game itself
>>2669402>4 digit highsThe 99.5% became the 99.9%
This game looks like it's dead with one avatarfag not finding his next digital asylum.What actually went wrong? Even if the avatarfag explains it.Leave out no parts. I am geniunely interested in all of it start to finish.
>>2689386Dripfeed content updateFights are made hard to fish for retarded paypigs with 1hko bullshits, raid wide wipe mechanics, no revivesGrind game is also made with numerous bullshit RNGs to fish for paypigs and to buy more time to dripfeed contentThats the formula thats been used since the beginningFor some reason the gook spun up a story of how the game was updating "too fast" and they couldnt progress past the RNG layers before the new raid with new RNG bullshit is dropped so they "obliged" and stretched new content update schedule even thinner
>>2689552So basically a wave of evil and a foul unwashed stench combined
>>2669402it surely is goin to get many more players after this summer LOA ON
>>2657277it's too late for this onethey need a sequel
>>2690147bro... loa on just happened...
>>2689552Turns out, your time was not respected
>>2690590Yea we will see the effects on july If any
>>2691495Like anyone cares about that. If it's not on videogames then it's on social media.
I almost decided to install this and play
>>2697208its unironically over
>>2697254New update will save this, trust the plan
>>2687946but why would they want to? if it's no longer making enough shekels in the west, it's only natural to let it die.
>>2669402G R I MRIMdaily peaks are consistently sub-8K now, the numbers, despite being bad (a new all time low every month), don't yet fully reflect just how grim the reality is
>>2698359I could be wrong, but RU isn't doing well too and it still lives. Maybe the publisher refuses to let it go. Tbh, I don't know why RU still lives.But, Smilegate could just 1:1 everything from Korea while using IA to translate the new stuff.As long as it brings more money than the server's and "development's" costs. I think it's worth for brand image.And if the new updates bring more players like in Korea, it's a small win. Maybe LOA can become as active as BDO
>>2689386This>>2689552>Fights are made hard to fish for retarded paypigs with 1hko bullshits, raid wide wipe mechanics, no revivesRegardless of grind, if Smilegate gave casuals easy content, and horizontal progression (islands, world boss, stuff like mokoko seeds) to keep them happy and busy, the casuals might have stayed because the combat is good and some stories are good too. Yet, like the anon said, they pandered only to the whales, made a quick buck and now the game is dying
>>2700706certainly, hard locking progression behind raiding is a shitty design too when it went to show everyone about various side contents at the beginning
https://steamcharts.com/app/1599340#1mWe're halfway through July and there's only been one day with a peak above 10K (the first)it's so fucking jover it's not even funny any more
>>2714766Wait for the new update before dooming. It won't do shit tho
specialist romance would've saved us
>>2716091Which pose would you choose?Doggystyle for me 100%
>>2716178missionary, I want the full view
>>2716354While her legs up in the air to the side, feet and face still visible. That's hot
I usually breed my gf's specialists by grabbing their hips and lifting them off the floor, i'll do it to any specialists really, post your ds and you'll be next
sorry, but not even hornyposting can save this game now
>>2716214show front
>>2719511it never could
>>2716537Keep going mhnn...i wanna nut all over this cute cake :3
>>2575512lmao the disparity between that peak and current state
https://www.playlostark.com/en-us/game/releases/summer-of-extremesorb of the sacred nature, the best paradise orb in the game, is getting removed (even though they explictly said those won't be removed)
i require the latest uncensor data4.lpk!!1
Which class has the biggest boobs?
>>2723660female warrior (slayer/valkyrie)
>>2724443Thanks, bro. Is there a second place?Also, which one is more fun to play as DPS. I will only play solo raids and MM ones. So, I think I won't be gatekept by playing retarded builds
>>2724512>which one is more fun to play as DPSBetween valk and slaye?r*
lmk when they move away from exclusive raid autism and retardation and make it a real mmo again. or eos. ty <3
>>2725883game reached eos today
So when are they gonna release the casual stuff?
>>2725883What If I grab your hair, put you on your knees and fuck your dumb throat?
the old uncensor in this thread still works
>>2727657uncensoring isn't enough for me unless it's officially done
>>27245122nd place I'm not certain, I think it's mage being slightly ahead of assassin/gunslinger/guardianknight.>>2724520Haven't played slayer so I can't give a proper comparison. From what I've heard dps valk is more boring in that the rotation is very simple. You basically throw out 6 of your skills whenever to build gauge, then land your 3-4 big attacks and repeat.Slayer might be more "fun" in that it's not as straightforward to play but that also comes with its own set of annoyances.
>>2728646Thanks, anon!>mage being slightly ahead of assassin/gunslinger/guardianknightI tried to mess around in the character creator and looking at other people screenshots, it looks like it is:warrior > mage >= assassin > restSadly, guardianknight and gunslinger are small imo. Correct me if I'm wrong, anon.>>2728646>dps valk is more boring in that the rotation is very simpleSimple is good because I'm a retard.>>2728646>its own set of annoyancessuch as?Also, if I understood correctly, I can swap skins between slayer and valk, so I might end up playing both
>>2729041>Sadly, guardianknight and gunslinger are small imo.From what I've heard, gunslinger and guardianknight share the same body as assassins. That's why I put them all as equal. Maybe the posture or screenshot difference makes them look a bit different.>such as?it's a back attack class so you'll have to chase the back of the boss.Predator build for example I remember the gauge mechanic being clunky>need to constantly attack boss to build stacks>enter exhaustion state after a period of time where you do little dmg>exhaustion duration depends on how many stacks you built upYou would get hit with a long exhaust if the boss goes invincible or require doing mech at a bad time. They probably made some QoL changes since I last tried slayer but I'd expect Predator to still require very high uptime. Maybe not a big deal in solo/MM mode.Idk all the specific of slayer but just expect it to not be as chill as valkyrie.Yeah you can share skins between both classes if you make both of them.
>>2730376>gunslinger and guardianknight share the same body as assassins. That's why I put them all as equalThat makes sense. Thanks, anon.>Maybe not a big deal in solo/MM mode.>Idk all the specific of slayer but just expect it to not be as chill as valkyrie.Got it. I will play as valk first until I get used to the game>Yeah you can share skins between both classes if you make both of them.At least SG isn't that greedy
>>2714936the update came, aaaand surprise, surprise, there's nobody left to care about the matchmaking mode improvementsshould've implemented them 3 years earlier when I first suggested it and it might've saved the game, unironicallyjust EoS this shit already so everyone can move on
>>2736598im still stuck honing at 1685, just wait about 1-2 months then I can make it to the new matchmaking
>>2736598Explain how this game will EOS when Rus versione Is still alive
>queue guardian raid for the first time after a year of soloing>the "support" guy brought dps skills with support ark passivesfucking tiktok griefer it's amazing how after all those years the gooks still haven't bothered to just fucking merge dps skills and support skills into an adaptive set that auto switches itself along with the forced switch to ark passives
>>2736924the publisher signed a contractthey won't back out if it means losing even more money than they're already losingAGS's contract expires soon and won't be renewed, allowing them to simply walk away from this dumpster fire, resulting in EoSthe russian publisher will do the same the moment they're able
>>2736598>releases MM mode for casuals>you must play weeks of solo raids to get thereSG always shit the bed, doesn't it? It made an amazing update for casuals, but new players that hear about it cannot play it. It doesn't make any sense>just EoS this shit already so everyone can move onI hope the devs rework Embers' combat to become better than this shit
>>2737006>paying attention to the skills others use in a fucking guardian raidyou are the cancer that killed lost ark (actually, unironically)
>>2738746>notices the support retard is using dps skill set with support tree and his retarded dps valk pal is using support skill set with dps tree in a mode that inflates the boss's hp with the head count>somehow this kills the game instead of the game's designyou are a fucking retard that should go back to school to learn how to use your head
>>2739580>>2738746This is the trap, this argument between you two is the fact that raids are the only thing that matters. That's why this bitter infighting is even happening. The game doesn't have to be this way.
>>2737029Isnt t It published by smilegate itself on RU? Also SG can Always publish themself for the west
>>2739916>Isnt t It published by smilegate itself on RU?Nope. It's a Russian company
>>2739580hit the guardian and it is simply going to die, it does not matter what build anyone is using, we are way way WAY past the point where anything mattered at all in guardian raids you fucking retard wake up
>>2741202I have to do 63 more of those TODAY or I won't make nighmare mode on release
>>2739722the remaining lost shart cattle are literally retarded, as in incapable of any higher order thinking whatsoever, so this never, ever occurs to them even when you point it out
>Log in (why do I do this??)>look at the server message>[Note] We are actively working on the issue affecting some accounts. If affected, we recommend not playing until resolved.>check discord, pic relatedThe retards just accidentally wiped a bunch of accounts hahahahahha. I can't.
Specialist Microbikini can still save us!
>>2754015>game downgraded to jeet skeleton crew that can't even manage a database without deleting everythingits already eos, they just didn't tell anyone
literally everyone knows it's coming nowo v e r
lmao
mrw when this game finally shuts down
>>2760990the 99.9%...
>>2760990the 99.99%...1k real players when the bot servers are crashed
is there any hope left for this kusoge or have gookgate fully given up? they clearly won't change the game as they're making too much money from mazed sunk cost whales
>>2773982I abandoned all hope long ago. I had hoped when they were making Lost Ark Mobile they would do a hard reset and move away from the raid only autism, but it seems like its no different, so I checked out entirely.
>>2773982The game got a decent endingCredits rolledThank you for playingWhat more do you need?
>>2777860eos really is soon then I guessI'll just wait for the real lost ark 2 but we all know they'll just do the same thing again
>>2777860Elgacia ending was the right sendoff. It was already deep into raid autism, but I still felt invested in the world. Since then, I have felt absolutely nothing. Not even the sad half demon waifu could tug my heartstrings enough to keep me around.
>>2773982only hope left is the lost ark mobile version. lost ark is dead and total shit. its 99% bots and sunk cost people left. no one plays this fuck ass shit fucking game anymore
>>2714936>>2694027Final stats for July are out, and we have two new record lows, both concurrents and peak.
The honing costs for the new item that will count towards your gear score are out... and nobody gives a shit, the game's already dead.
I miss this game but I know I'll never be able to catch up. I still commissioned some porn of my main, however.
>>2784465We are literally only 2 months away from under 10k peak, even with bots.
need specialist frontal views!
99.9% bros, we're almost at 100%
>game is called lost ark>it lostpottery
I enjoyed playing the hammerbro. I think it was the destroyer. Shame those pesky Koreans only care about milking retards because the gameplay was really nice
>>2720274nothing can fill the void but other action mmo slop>tera private servers>dragon nest private servers>dragons dogma online private servers>aion 2 tw (not even close to as good but fills the mmo grinding void)
>>2720274ive been playing grim dawn but combat is brainless compared to la
>another server mergee o sos
>>2790350Kinda curious, how's Lost Ark doing in worst Korea?
>>2802223not well enough to carry the game by itself im sure. thats probably why theyre desperate with mobile
They should have focused on Haal content instead of raid slop
>sywo is back and hardshilling Aion 2 insteadIT'S NEVER BEEN MORE OVERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I65Vba2zHOw
>>2806339Can't wait to spend $300 on it, bust a few dozen nuts, realize it's an irredeemable piece of shit and then move on to the next shiny thing.
>>2806339sywo is a hopeless korean sloppa consumer. hopefully he can break free
>>2806339You can make oppai lolis in Aion2, what hope is there for this game?
>>2802337Its among the most watched games on their twitch, a lot less people play it nowdays but its still among the top 3 of maple/lineage and lost ark. You guys keep shilling aion 2 but the game is already dead on KR
>>2815732looks like it's more alive than wow, overwatch and pubg to me
>>2815732erm but aion 2 is dunking everything else on KR with 30m USD per month
aion 2 is th only mmo im looking forward to. i'll get several months out of it before i hit the impossible grind wall then quit. i can make lolis unless it's censored if it is then oh well i'll play other games then
>>2815732they're using twitch stream numbers to cope now LMAOyeah, wow's at 500 must be a dead game
>aion 2 gooner skins look like thisuh oh sharties...
>>2817600No reason to post stuff from Q1, ncsoft is publishing q3 soon but q2 is looking grim already for aion 2
>>2822856Q2 is latest already, we need to be at the end of september to have Q3 data but they also need time (usually a month at minimum) to cook up a report too>this is the new rising golden goose
https://www.playlostark.com/en-us/game/releases/the-bitter-coldHahaha, there will be no daily login rewards until September.The game is fucking dying, and they're removing the only thing that gets people to log in every day for a whole fucking month? Are they fucking retarded? Oh, that's right, we already knew they were. Holy shit though, that's some next level retardation."HURR HURR server mergers = no login rewards for you! Can't have you obtaining 5 card packs (that would give you fuck all anyway) on an alt on another server and having it merged!!" Nigga, at this point, unironically, just kill yourself (in minecraft).
>>2823165the skeleton crew is just running out the clock on the publishing contract so they can announce EoS and wash their hands of this kusoge for good
Continuation of Service.
Browsing past /lag/ threads in vg 2022-2023 made me realize how badly ags and smilegooks fucked up to the point that some wow pservers has more players than lawest. Its genuinely over
>>2823656Unfortunately It s not EOS, they were lookin at another english position just recently
>>2823999EoS 2027 (Extension of Service)
Doomers in shambles https://store.onstove.com/en/newadventure
>>2824119Now if only they'd fix all the shit wrong with the game so it had actual people playing it.
Now if only they made specialist proportions actually attractive and not targeted at afro-americans.
XDDDDDIs it happeningat last?
>There will also be an option to opt out of the data transfer in which case the account will need to start fresh.Wow, so we can just completely wipe out any evidence of us ever playing this shit game? This is extremely tempting!!!
>>2824119>NOTHING about restoring blackfaced NPCs back to intended design>NOTHING about de-censoring skins>NOTHING about fixing the abysmal English translation that they could do with one competent person using an LLM in less than a month>NOTHING about bots>NOTHING that would in any way acknowledge Amazon's constant fuckups>NOTHING about ANYTHING that mattersLiterally the only good thing in that fucking nothingburger of a message is the vague promise that "maybe at some point we'll sync the release cadence of south korea and the west." We've been hearing that for years, fuck you.No, you retarded niggers, here's what you do: any progression systems that aren't in the west already get instantly released and everyone gets 100% progression in all of them for free. All the unreleased raids are instantly out, everything. This immediately syncs the cadence, and maybe some scraps can be salvaged. Probably not but this is the only way to maybe have a small chance of making something happen. Otherwise, you might as well EoS this shit.
>>2824390They're targeted at my penis.
>>2825219>any progression systems that aren't in the west>All the unreleased raids
>>2825339I don't care how many of them there are/will be by the time the transition happens.Every single one needs to be unlocked and all the progression needs to be granted for free instantly as compensation for years of shit.This is the ONLY way Smilegate can show they're serious about the western version. There's nothing else they can do.
>>2825219low iq mazies foam at the mouth at SG taking over, even though gookgate is the one that designed this raidnig wallet extraction game this way to begin with, and absolutely nothing will change except extending the timeline to a 1k playerbase by a yearthey'll happily get farmed all over again by the exact same gooks the whole year though so it is what it is
>>2824119>https://store.onstove.come/en/newadventureMy response to that load of bullshit:>deeply grateful for the time we spent working with Amazon Games (AGS) to introduce and operate Lost ArkAGS drove the game into the ground (from 1.3M concurrents to less than 10K). Not shitting on them for it means you value your ongoing relationship with AGS more than Lost Ark.>we will listen to feedback>we will do our bestniggers tongue my anus>raid strategies were often public by the time content arrived, which took much of the joy out of solving a raidNot only that but this created the expectation that you must know everything perfectly on day 1. Time-gated titles exacerbated the problem. The fact that this isn't even acknowledged tells me instantly they have NO understanding of why the game flopped.>rather than rushing to erase the content gap, we want to narrow it step by stepSo nothing changes. This was the thing we were told from day 1. No, you need to dump everything into the game instantly and give everyone all the progression instantly. The publisher transition is your one and only chance to do this cleanly. If you fuck it up, there's no coming back.>this is not an easy undertaking>this transition is no small challenge for us eitherGrok, I told you to generate a message that restores white pigs' confidence in our raidslop, and you're throwing yourself a pity party in the middle of it?>we chose this path becauseBecause it was either this or instant EoS. You chose wrong by the way.>the adventure continuesWith nobody left to care.You had to change it so that the new abyssal raid can be done without going through the story, even though the story questline is only like an hour long. This never happened before. It means that, of the people still playing, the majority couldn't be bothered putting in the *one hour* required to unlock the new raid. What does this tell you?Nobody's actually playing your game any more. IT'S OVER.
>>2824119>literally nothing about pivoting away from raidnigger designtrash, literal trash. enjoy eos a second time
>>2825135>spanish language removedoh... my god... what is this otherwordly force acting upon my body?
>>2825219>He still gives a shit when it's only him and 7 players still playing this slopYou're so far gone it's unreal. Amazon did nothing wrong the game state is 100% smilegate.
>>2826891>AGS drove the game into the ground (from 1.3M concurrents to less than 10K). Not shitting on them for it means you value your ongoing relationship with AGS more than Lost Ark.That was smilegates shit design. With or without AGS this game would be in the exact same position>Not only that but this created the expectation that you must know everything perfectly on day 1. Time-gated titles exacerbated the problem. The fact that this isn't even acknowledged tells me instantly they have NO understanding of why the game flopped.Blame MaziesJust eos, the games problem is elitist gooks, mazies and smilegates infinite greed.
heard you guys got EoS'd (Extension of Service) here's an updated uncensorfiles.catbox.moe/lugy06.7zcopied from the previous censor file only, dont expect anything new unless someone got a better data4.lpk
>>2827569I'm neutral overall against AGS but they did make certain aspects worse, albeit just lightly, depending on whether you take them as serious or not>did nothing to curb the bots at launch>instead went to pay shills for "best mmorpg of the year" award>plastered almost all ADs and trailers with black characters>spaced out updates to deliver the original experience of being starved waiting for new class like KR>refused to sell more outfits when the game was peaking steam top 5 because "outfits are also content that contribute to the game's longevity"granted I've spared them when it comes to anything related to the actual gameplay as those have smilegate's involvement, but seeing that somehow china region invented a whole new mode that got turned into a permanent content I do have my doubt that maybe we still gotta blame AGS for its inaction
>>2827770ty cummer sis, also i already planned my exit strategy
>>2827828>seeing that somehow china region invented a whole new modeThe difference I've heard is that Tencent has access to the game code and in-house devs to make their own changes. Which is why they can also make stuff like the field boss summoning system (which was a big mistake) and extreme versions of raids. AGS on the other hand can only provide the idea/concept and depends entirely on SG to develop it. If SG doesn't want to allocate their devs to it, then it won't get made. Though idk if AGS actually pitched anything about new systems or game modes. The closest we actually got were the jumpstart/Ignite servers.
>>2825135>Spanish language removedKEKKKKK
>>2827770sorry, I'd rather play Aion 2
>>2832589Yeah I've been playing it too. LA's cooked.
So we getting uncensored specialists or what?
am I ready for endgame raids?
>>2832589that sexy costume will cost $80 so no i will not play, as much as i'm tempted to check it out. im done giving sharty korean companies money for sexy skins when the actual content is just autistic raid trash
>>2834995I literally got it for free
>>2835267fully transparent short nightgown with full asscheeks showing? for free?? hmm, if you say so. i suppose i can investigate. thank meow
>>2832589post ur ds
30-day peak players danger close to dropping below 10K
>>2836402SG will fix it, trust the system
>>2836539nothing in their post said it would fix anything about how the game is nothing but a soulless raid sim. they wont do shit
game is still complete dogshit. never played a game that had peak game play but everything surrounding it is watery shit
>>2837729>everything surrounding itthere is nothing surrounding it, not after the first few months when it turned into a raid only autism game. what youre really saying is that raids are watery shit because thats all the game has anymore
>>2823060so much soul in one video.
what are you going to play in aion 2? we're all moving to that gameI dont know what to play, I'll make a tank, a summoner and a chanter for starters
>>2841114I'm probably gonna main a Templar, been playing one on tw and I really like the way it plays. I was watching some guy's stream yesterday though and ranger looks overpowered as shit so I might make one of those.
>>2841114archer or whatever long range non magic class. those are my favs to play in fantasy mmos
>>2841114i think it was the spiritmaster(?) that was broken as shit in the first game? i might make one if availablealso, is pvp optional? or am i forced to partake? i just wanna chill
>>2841836pvp is not optional. just play casually you will not be able to keep up dont bother trying.ignore the above statements if you plan on whaling then your bank account is the limit.
>>2841114i'll pick a chanter, buffers and debuffers tend to have less skill requirements and are always highest in priority for vain dps that want to boost their own no matter what. im just looking for an easy ride, idc about doing dps myself
>>2841849cool, I'm gonna get world first on everything then.
>>2841114Sorc, Brawler, Gladiator
I don't know if Aion2 is going to scratch the itch. Saw the EO(ag)S announcement and now I kind of want to run around on my specialists again...
>>2854959I haven't played for so long I unlearned everything. And given that all there is to do are raids, I probably won't be able to get back into it since it gets demanding.
LA is done. Aion2 will be the new loli goon game.
>>2860005i was going to play ms classic but 2 weeks locked behind some massive expensive package is a fuck you from me. i never played tera, is that based?
>>2861686this looks like modded black desert but not sure
>>2860005s-specialist xisters?...how do we compete with aion 2 lolis?
It finally happened. The 30-day peak dropped below 10K players.
>>2863758Even the bots have had enough. Rip
I really wish they'd make an (uncensored) sequel for this. The lolis are s-tier, but the game sucks.
This game peaked at Valtan
>>2865267valtan was shit
>>2860005Jesus Christ, ban Koreans from character design positions.
>>2865296I'd say get used to it because you're going to be seeing a ton more of them when the game releases next month.
>>2865267centering the endgame entirely through raidshit and homework was the beginning of the end, so basically only after a couple months
>>2864906Which pantsu is that? Show ass too pls
>>2869362full moon pants (the urban ones are even skimpier)
>>2871303Global version?
>They lost all the player data during the mergeCan't make this up
>>2875804That's unfortunate.When will they live broadcast the team's suicide?
>>2869362it's swimsuit you dum
>>2875804KEK worst time to fuck up this bad with Aion 2 in a month
No I will not play Aion 2. If you still play Korean mmos at this point, you are a cuck. I was a cuck, but no more.
>>2875980Dem ass cheeks...!
>24 hours of downtime>AND COUNTINGhow can these fucking retards be so incompetent
I'm gonna lose the daily login streak I've had since the game was released
>>2876465the game was run and published by scamazon they spent a year and a half race swapping characters for no reason. thats how retarded and incompetent they are. smilegate was so dumb to trust it with the western release. now all smilegate cares about is their newer lost ark mobile game they are putting all resources into and lost ark original is basically on a skeleton crew.
mazoids will blame anything but the raidniggetry that actually killed the game
>>2878530its some ancient ue3 garbage. the technical debt is probably so insane that they are just trying to make a hybrid mobile game with a pc client that, at this point, will probably look and run better than the pc one. shit is fucked. and it will still be a raid autism game that i want absolutely no part of still.
>>2876479Holy mazed.
Paradise top 100 was 100% exploiters in every season.Even reddit jannies are triggered.AGS panicked and disabled the mode but the damage is already done, done, and done again.
>>2885775It got two inven threads. Apparently, there's no automatic ticket restoration in SK, it's an NA/EU-only thing because AGS couldn't afford to hire a full time jeet to handle sending these out. Ugh.https://www.inven.co.kr/board/lostark/6271/4052631https://www.inven.co.kr/board/lostark/6271/4052593
shouldnt you guys go play other coop games if you are against raidfagottry?heres somethinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjhLu2oenm8
>>2885775KEK mazies spent the last 4 years of their lives in the raid soul prison just for exploitchads to crush their hopes and dreams with gook programmingno saving this kusoge now
>>2885858tarae looks not too bad. a little too much power creep from day 1 for me, but meh... korea gonna korea. anyways i stopped playing lost shart a while back because raid games are trash and boring
>>2885775they could've just stopped sending the ticketsbut why do that when you can instead annoy the fraction of 1% of original players that are still playing, right??? holy shit
Final player numbers for August just dropped, and it's looking GRIM.
So since fagazon is gone, will Smilegate un-black the changed npcs and give artist her cute pantsu outfits?
>>2897813how the fuck do you go from 1,324,761 players to 3,432 in less than 4 years? this doesn't make sense, it's like taking a multiple choice test with 4 possible answers and only getting 3% of questions right, you have to be literally retarded to manage this, holy shit
>>2902935dogshit gatekeeping dogshit raid faggotry dog shit pay 2 lose mechanics.To do raids you need to1. Play the game every single day for hours a day on multiple characters to farm gold2. Spend thousands of dollars per month real money trading for gold3. Join a 'static' or guild that expects you to play hours per day or get kicked.4. Pay hundreds of dollars per month to buy a carry or a bus to do the raid for you if you don't join a guild or have a staticAnd buy hours a day it means you have to fully invest in every character to farm the gold.Only way to do that is to do the end games raids as they give the best gold. And guess what raids have mulitple 1 shot mechanics so if one person fucks up one time you need to start the raid over again.Surprise only a few thousand people in this world will ever do this long term. No one else does. It's torture.A brand new player starting out as f2p without ever paying any money will never be able to do end game raids. It would take them at least 2 or 3 years to catch up. Fuck this shit game.
>>2902935More and more people realized they don't want to play a worthless raid game where the only thing you do is go through a humiliation ritual that is stressful anyways, even if you get through the whole process to even do the only narrow thing the fucking game offers.
>>2902935It's simple. This game was never supposed to get this many players.A good chunk went in thinking it was an MMO but an ARPG. These quit as soon as they hit Tier 1.Another chunk went in because they were starved for another MMO since AAA MMO launches are extremely rare.And another chunk were legit bots. Botting in this game is STILL around because it's still pretty profitable even when gold is so cheap nowadays.None of these people were going to stick for long.From that 1 million, even if SG/AGS did EVERYTHING right. At best we would be at 50k players because this game is just a raid simulator with chores in between. All MMO enthusiasts would quit eventually. That doesn't change that they were retarded though with the management. We still have mandatory 6 character rosters, dogshit client, dogshit EAC unstable net, no flex mode, 99% of pointless content and queues no one does, dogshit balancing, P2W systems that somehow keep getting worse, etc. And somehow the game is STILL top 100 in grossing, and it goes to top 10 on big updates. Because P2W is great for making money at the expense of killing your playerbase. I know niggas who spend 1k+ trying to get into Paradise top 30. It's insane and that just motivates SG to keep the P2W bs.
>>2903357I came back a couple months ago and you are mostly right but it is possible to have some fun in the game casually now with some of the recent changes if you accept that you won't catch up if you aren't playing a million alts. Basically the game has a caste system now where if you are a newbie or rat then you can comfortably farm ~100k raid gold per week (half roster bound) by staying at 1710 and doing solo+matching raids (only serca has matching / infinite revives no wipes). You can get like another ~50-80k by selling everything tradeable and doing lifeskills. If you get lucky with Paradise or fate embers that can be like another 50k gold. Of course it is pretty hard to get to 1710 but it is doable especially with express events (Currently there is no event or express and it's depressing as fuck).Solo mode is a little depressing but I have fun with the gambling and just slowly getting stronger. Eventually there will be more matching raids. Hopefully they go back and add them to all the T4 stuff but i doubt that will happen.
>>2907681I've been playing Crimson Desert. Not a perfect game by any means, but the single player MMO description is relatively accurate. And the best part is that it has no raid autism. You can redo bosses at your own discretion, at the level you want to, and there are other things you can do to gear up or prepare, or just to kill time. I miss having real people around and doing stuff together, but not having to deal with the endgame design autism is much greater. But a game is a game, and this won't be able to hold me over forever. Aion 2 will be good for launch period goon shenanigans, but I won't be sticking with that.I, like a fool, will still hold out for a new MMO to embrace. But I won't tolerate endgame raid autism, which means that search will be drawn out.
>>2897813One week later, and it looks like daily average is going to drop below 5K. It's jover.
EVEN IF I SAAAAYYYY IT'LL BE ALRIGHTSTILL, I HEAR YOU SAAAAAAY, YOU WANT TO END YOUR LIIIIIIFENOW AND AGAIN, WE TRYYY TO JUUST STAAYY ALIIIIVEMAYBE WE'LL TURN IT AROUND, 'CAUSE ITS NOT TOO LATEIT'S NEVER TOO LAAATE
>>2920667good. i will continue to laugh as all the remaining raidlets still think argue the solution is doubling down on more raidnigger shenanigans
I haven't played since Valtan and am playing through the story nowWhy is there a Wakanda Forever continent
Hello bros. I'm coming back to the game from 2024. Had a few questions if you guys don't mind. 1st is all my characters were in universal storage but I have 9 characters sitting in there but my extra character slots are gone not sure how to get them back? (I got the platinum launch edition). 2nd is I'm a scrapper player from way back but I recently looked at all the new characters and really like Valkyrie playstyle. Is it any good or just visually nice? 3rd The only reason I'm coming back is because amazon is dropping the game and smilegate is taking over. I'm a 18k hour bdo player and I've noticed that KR companies tend to run the game better than the US companies they hire so I'm expecting the game to get in better is that the general consensus? also the returning player shit is nuts I had some thing that bumped my character from 58 to 62.
>>29243781. Go to the 2nd page and click the slot, you should have gotten tickets to get your slots back.2. Her dps has fallen off somewhat towards the lower end. Not enough to be considered "bad" though and the ease of play might make up for it.https://lostark.bible/stats/raidsYou can check this site to see how classes perform against each other in the current endgame raids.Personally, I recommend prioritizing a playstyle you enjoy over dmg potential. Dps rankings shift around all the time from balance patches. Valkyrie has 2 rounds of minor buffs in KR that have yet to arrive in our version.3. Depends what made you drop the game in the first place. For better or worse, AGS has kept the main gameplay content mostly the same as KR for a while now. So the issues you have with the game might really be the fault of SG's design. You could cope that SG will somehow tailor the game for the western audiences even more than AGS.The expectations for SG are somewhat mixed from what I've seen. Only thing we can say for sure is that the game isn't shutting down just yet.
>>2924647thanks bro I appreciate the help. And for the last part I biggest issue at the time was that they were slowfeeding content from kr to na and there were classes (like arcanist) that I wanted to play that I had to wait a long time to play. I haven't played in 2 years so honestly a lot could have changed so I don't know if smilegate taking it over will be a net positive or not but I am hoping so.
>>2920667>even the bots are starting to disappearit's bidone
We used to have five REGIONS with like 14 servers each.Now we have five SERVERS.Let that sink in.
Can't wait for the Lost Ark 2 announcement!
>>2930372Smilegate is in serious trouble. Crossfire in China is an ultra boomer game and the Chinese are cracking down on it hard, they want a domestic one to be top dog. Their Spain studio made to make a AAA game got scrapped and was written off - a major financial bust. Now their western made Crossfire game will also bust just like other examples Callisto Protocol also did. Lost Ark is dead, Epic Seven is also a dying boomer gacha, and their Stove store is just a puny failed indie repository.
>>2920667AAAAAAAAHHHHYOU COULD HAVE STOPPED THISWHY DIDN'T YOU LOG IN4K IS THE FLOOR THOUGHTHE 30-DAY AVERAGE WILL **NEVER** DROP BELOW 4K!!!IT IS MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLEHODLLLLLLLLLLL
>>2931449if Smilegate were smart and not just a bunch of greedy gooks, they would take some time off to rework the game and relaunch lost ark in the west without the raidnigetrythe game was literally at its peak when there was a world to explore, all they have to do is design actual content to do in it
>come back>get boosted to 1700>see the new bullshit system at 1700>quit again
>>2936573>aion 2 waiting room
>>2936640Oh hi, I'm also there
>>2936970Is this really...? Specialist btfo? Shall I give it a try after all?
>>2937885it's AI slop
>>2937885idk, i got it from there
>>2937885you can make oppai lolis in aion 2it's over for sp*cialists
>>2920667Daily average:August 2022 -> 168,339 playersAugust 2023 -> 26,145 playersAugust 2024 -> 19,985 playersAugust 2025 -> 15,694 playersAugust 2026 -> 5,044 players2025 -> 2026 drop is crazy, that's 70% of players gone. It's comparable to the post-release filtering.When Smilegate takes over, there will be nothing left.They'll likely burn it all down and release Lost Ark Classic, a full reset, despite the promises.
https://playlostark.com/en-us/game/releases/dimensions-unboundARE WE EXCITED BROS?
>>2948691>Tier 3 gatherables in the Stronghold Farm have been renamed from Oreha to Papika.LOST ARK IS SAVED
>>2947843I spent so much money on this trash, I'm embarrassed to admit. I will never ever return and never give them another dollar until they actually turn it back into a proper MMORPG that offers content for all it started as, and not be some hyper specific narrow raidnigger game.
https://www.playlostark.com/en-us/news/articles/lost-ark-2026-roadmap-part-4bros... ? I'm not the only one left am I?
First time the game does not get to top 10 globally on a class release, it does get to top 5 or higher in europe though, so until whales quit it ain't dying lol. Azoy is already maxing a sid for time twink.
>>2952362>eurokeksits over, they will keep it alive as a desiccated zombie for another decade
>>2952362that's not terrible desu considering that Sep/Oct of this year is particularly stacked with game releases/updates. About 6 of the games higher on the list launched within the past week. Still far from the better days when it had an unbroken streak of 2+ years in top 100.
I like to check in every few months on the Eos status? What were the next coomer games? Was it Aion 2 and Vindictus 2?I need some Korean honey back in my life.
And we did hit top 10, again.>>2953651It seems we are not dying until KR dies first, which will happen once Smilegate dies, which depends purely on the divorce status and if the CEO's ex wife will want to destroy the company to spite him or not.I suggest you to play Aion 2 since it will be pretty alive for at least 2 weeks and it has pretty good coom material.
>>2954411>I suggest you to play Aion 2 since it will be pretty alive for at least 2 weeks and it has pretty good coom material.I'll look into it, why is Kannon lookin so rough these days?
>>2954464He is like 40 something.
>>2953651Aion 2 playtest opened today I played the full 6 hours and I'll be honest its pretty great combat wise with lots of side activities to eat up your time if you're into it. Unfortunately the playtest didn't have access to cash shop but I'd recommend just looking up full shop skin videos on youtube to get an idea for them. Super coom friendly.
>>2954695Didn't he date Jenny for a time or something? Or maybe he still does. Either way, what a lucky man. She's such a turbo qt.
Do they ever give away reskin tickets? I want to use a new hairstyle but no way am I gonna spend 800rc for that
>>2962706They gave away 2 of those iirc, the first one was right after release and the second a year later when the first one expired.Realistically, there will never be another one, at least not until SG takes over.There are some head skins that alter your hair though.
>>2963103Now that I think about it, there might've been a third one when that long-term new player server (Kayangel) that ended up merging with Gienah (and now Arcturus) launched. But maybe *that* was the second free ticket? Either way, we haven't had one in like two years.The best solution to a bricked character is to uninstall this dead game.
why didn't they just make this third person
>stoopzz is playing Aion 2 insteadIT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE OVERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC_8iPaMTso
>>2966596I don't like pvp because I'm a noob and suck ass, so I hope it has some non raid relaxing content to do.
>>2964440The maps are made for isometric view, it's why you can't use photomode or zoom in in a lot of areas.>>2966596He always plays new MMOs. Aion 2 is going to be the last MMO AAA release in a while, he needs to milk that. Lost Ark content was dead since Thaemine and will stay dead unless SG really was cooking with the update they delayed for a year now.
>>2971947I don't even know what SG could possibly do for tier 5/Sea of Aldebaran that would revive the game
>>2972142I do think they will do something. Aion 2 and Maplestory have dethroned Lost Ark for a while now and they've had no meaningful updates since Kazeros. They must have been working on something for 2 years right? Lmao.We've been promised plenty of content to do post Kazeros that they've been discussed about bringing back. Sailing. Islands. PvP. Hell Modes. With tier 5 they have the chance of a relaunch. I'm not optimistic about it but I can see some chance of wanting to compete since they've always been competitive when it comes to winning the korean audience. I don't think we are hitting even 10k CCU again and if we do it's going to be short lived unless SG taking over really does make the difference.
what happened to the screenshot section of arca?
>>2977039It's still there, what do you mean what happened?
>>29029351,3 million bots
>>2966596>he's a react andy now>last video a year agolol
>>2974568cheesus korea is hopeless. league, then soulless gun and ball game, then itsoverwatch and even ROBLOX??? kim jong, let it be done
>>2974568>We've been promisedyou can't be this retarded at this stage of the game, their words are meaninglessthe remaining mazoids could quite literally force change immediately if they simply decided to finally quit the soulless husk lost shart has become
>>2971947lost ark pc version is perma dead only hope is lost ark mobile. lost ark pc was really fun too
>>2987136have you seen the latest mobile chip? shits crazy yo, its legit as strong as a desktop gtx 1050 ti, SUSTAINED. thats right, SUSTAINED perf. its burst peak is actually above that. given that it can pretty much run desktop lost ark at triple digit fps at 1080p (at least on launch), lost ark mobile can look good. better, even.
>>2990518wow! a heckin 1050 ti that was sub-entry level 10 years ago? maybe you'll finally be able to play roblox with no stutters!
>>2992251my point being that it runs pc lost ark at 1080p native at hard locked 60, minus probably more recent unoptimized raidslop
>>2992251https://x.com/play_vapor/status/2104017738586874289look at that. running gta 5 at native 1080p high settings at ~70 fps. not too shabby, and thats with massive pc emulation overhead on mobile, which eats up a ton of performance. a mobile first optimized game wont have that. mobile games nowadays can look insane if the economics made sense. but it doesnt
They are hiring a CM for streaming and video production for global. Do you believe now?
>>2997480who wants to be the punching bag and tard wrangler for minimum wage?
>>2997480Come back, Roxx
>>2997480I know you're a brainrotted mazoid but you do realize nothing will change if the game stays the same raidniggerfest right? SG taking over just means EoS is delated by 1 yearthey're the devs, they could have fixed the game a long time ago, but they refused this whole timebut you now "believe" in them because they're hiring a CM? are you actually retarded?
The new class has potential.Too bad that the game is dead.
Aion 2 has UE5 and bigger titsIt has never been more over
Doomer Chad here. I hear AIon 2 is out can some translate what is the slayer class equivalent in terms of sex and can support?
>>3005320>>3005638are we making touchfluffytail and handholding there? how are we gonna do this?
>>3005743It will be dead within two months, there's no point. A guild only makes sense when there's long-term potential like there was in LA.
https://steamcharts.com/app/1599340#AllFinal player numbers for September just dropped, and it's beyond clear that it's overAverage players dropped below 5K despite the peak managing to climb just barely above 10K again.People logged in to see the new class, then immediately logged off because the game is fucking unplayable right now. And many quit.
>>2999896How would they even change that, koreans are the ultimate tryhard
>>3003540>Male SpecialistWho is the target audience for this besides fat bald gay pedophiles?
>>3009737Maybe they want the fujo audience
>>3008150They need to remake the game on Unreal Engine 5.8 and also rewind and undo all the retarded game decisions they've made and go back to a massive world with tons of adventures and islands that remain relevant and dynamic.
>>2978460do I need to be signed in to see it? my old bookmark is empty
>>3019974Looks cool, share preset maybe?
>>3008224If Lost Ark had Aion 2's macros. And dialed down the raid shit from 100 to 25 we would have a healthy player base. I miss my girls a lot but Aion 2 may fill that gap.
>>3019974Oh, I guess so. Don't know when that change was made.
>>3022633Raids are cool and cinematic and shit. Cool the first few weeks. Then it just becomes a soul sucking piece of garbage. I just want to relax and go around the world and just do medium difficulty stuff with whoever is available. No stress about scheduling, or other prep. I would accept slightly less epic bosses if it meant a more freeform and flexible game. I mean don't get me wrong, big fancy set pieces like Brel was or whatever is important too, but it shouldn't be what it is entirely revolved around.
>>3025096I play it the same way as always. Do my raids then play other games or help peeps with my non gold earners.Unless you mean that Aion 2 release will kill Lost Ark. Personally I don't know anyone who quit the game for Aion 2, the people I know who are into Aion 2 will be playing it after finishing Lost Ark homework.The thing about Aion 2 is that Lost Ark still has superior gameplay and raids in comparison. Anyone who keeps playing this game knows that there's no other game like it in that regard.I am playing Aion 2 but it's giving me the same BlueProtocol vibes, it's actually kinda boring and I'm just staying until my friends get bored.We all hope Aion 2 deals some damage to Lost Ark so Smilegate finally starts fixing shit, but who knows. Voting with your wallet is pointless when whales get this game to top 10 earnings on every fucking raid release even with 3k players left.
I hate Lost Ark so much it's unreal. On the one hand, the combat felt so good even after 2 or 3 years that it completely killed any and all desire I had to ever play a tab target MMO ever again, but I wasted $3k over that time for no reason. They will NEVER release another MMO with combat just like Lost Ark so I'm destined to just grow old waiting for something that will never come again.
>>3025096Yes, it will be basically dead just like how it died when Blue Protocol and Throne & Liberty released.
>>3025096Honestly playing aion 2 makes me want to play this game again, although I won't because been there done that know it's pointless. I just miss LA's combat so much.
the ccu dropped even more with Aion 2 release.Itll probably be too little too late, but I have a feeling that, with the delay of content in KR, and the SG takeover next Jan/Feb, they will announce some kind of massive rework/Loa 2.0 relaunch at the next Loaon.
>>30250968k bdo hours and 3k lost ark hours I'm at like 80 hours in aion 2 right now (unemployed and early access) and the game is fun it definitely has the classic kmmo numbers go up but it does not have the lost ark polish and combat. I mean i don't know if there will be a game that scratches the same itch it's just so damn good but hey that's okay. hopefully smilegate can turn things around. I haven't played lost ark in like 2 years so hopefully they have a big revamp coming or something
>>3029921there is literally nothing they can announce that will bring me back. nothing they can announce that they can actually practically do, that is. just another stupid ass raid for the few losers that only care about that
I'm a loser that only cares about raids and even I would never come back to Lost Ark. Blind prog (the fun part of raiding) doesn't exist in LA it's nothing but speedtrannies. Hell mode is a thing but that's just whalebait. If a game could at least recreate lost ark's combat + guardians i'd hop in immediately but nobody can do combat anywhere near this good it's insane
>>3037162>Blind prog (the fun part of raiding) doesn't existYou can have blind prog when NA gets updates at the same time as KR which they've stated is one of their goals after taking over from Amazon
> remember the Inven post from over a year where people fed their char to AI to make it look > try it out again to see how far the models have progressedI'd say that's a pretty big leap forward compared to the blurry shit back then.
>>3037389>goals"catching up" to SK was the goal since day 1it was bullshit then, it is bullshit nowif you genuinely still believe in the bullshit, unironically kill yourself (in minecraft)
>>3005743handholding chud herebig titty cow is playing the game so we makin'
>>3044020im an elyos :(
>>3044280there is no difference between them now who cares
>>3044442visually thats true, but now i cant play with anyone in the general. i bricked myself because literally everyone in the game is asmo. its a 75/25 split. idk why asmo is so popular when its basically the same as you said
>>3027041>Unless you mean that Aion 2 release will kill Lost Ark. Personally I don't know anyone who quit the game for Aion 2, the people I know who are into Aion 2 will be playing it after finishing Lost Ark homework.Only the mentally ill play two gook mmos, heck even just 1 is a bad sign. The best thing for lost ark is to EOS and come back with lost ark 2 with a lot of lessons learned.
>>3044725well ripmost of the chuds were swearing asmo so I just went with the pack myself. you sure its bricked?
>>3047987theyre giving out server transfer in a few days, but its not a faction/char change, so yeah im still screwed. i could reroll but meh... idk, i wasn't planning to play it long term like i did with lost ark. maybe i'd find some normie people to play with
>>3049897that sucks. but its allright my guy we don't know if we're sticking in that game either.having a green server locked for creation and some shit flat out character-bound and server-bound is not very conducive eitherand, lets be honest, faction locks and two-faction warfare in 2026 is gay but gooks never learn.
Why are sharties shitting up everywhere they go?Onlyfeet has 14, but only 4 active, or 5 if we count the leader.
>>3052308shartmazies try not to shit everything up with raidniggetry challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5gpNZYvPo>less than 1 day>already 200k views purely enraged koreans all dooming togetherits last stronghold is literally revolting. and whats even more sad is these stupid gooknigs are just going to ask for more freebies so they can do the next raid and quiet their fury. it wont fix the fact that its not really an mmorpg and lost any and all of its sovl a long ass time ago.
>>3053933>fully maxed out soul eater (including maxed out sidereal weapon) is getting rejected from every party because their class isn't top tier and is literally unable to meet the dps requirementROFL, yeah, that's lost ark all right, thanks for playing
By the time smilegate takes over, there will be no players left.
Is this general just people jerking each other off over how bad this game is?
any decensor update? Id update it if i understood how to
>>3054825i occasionally post specialists
>>3054928sex
>>3054928Sex. Post ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVPPA4YXUdY&t=22This.
>>3056322Trve. But it's not that it's sweaty that's the problem. It devalues true sweat and becomes an arbitrary, nearly meaningless rat race of fake internet numbers (io score, gear level, muh cards, tokens showing raid kills, etc). People never want to measure your skill; they want to measure your e-peen. Which, yea, fundamentally shifts how people play the game and how they interact with each other. For the worse. It drives away bad players and good players alike while amassing shitty people.
>>3057753As much of a meme as it started out as, I think something like Fallout 76 is conceptually something closer to an ideal MMO design to me. It's not massive, so MO is more like it. I love the more massive aspect obviously, which FO76 has nothing of. But the truth of the matter is that people "play alone together" is the way it works now. People want no commitments, and engagement on their own terms, yet they want to know the world they're in matters. They want the window dressing.
>>3053933>SG makes even harder raids with harsher conditions for maximum gatekeeping>it's so hard with so little else to do even cuckreans are revolting, but the devs don't careyou've been warned, lost shart will be an even bigger nightmare than before under the devs
>>3061988what the fuck is their problem really
>>3061988i dont blame the devs. season 2 literally happened because they wanted rng weapon upgrades and more p2w and a focus entirely on raids to flex that wallet, so they made sidereal weapons. fucking drone people deserve this trash game. they literally asked for this
>>3053933Gooks literally asked for harder EX modes after they complained Brel was too easy(after they autistically researched and made a guide based on China's version).So since SG was not going to modify Mordum any further they just cranked up the HP to infinity. Retarded on both sides but the fault is mostly on SG since they cannot balance raids on the average ceiling on endgame players.Time twink has a 550m dps median while FPE artillerist has 429m. Top classes do 25% damage than bottom classes. In Mordum the gap is even worse, probably 30% or more. EVEN after the nerf, 8000 CP+ lower OP classes can do Mordum just fine while 9000 CP+ classes cannot.They could easily fix this by making raid exclusive changes. Like how League of legends has exclusive modifiers per champion in ARAM to balance them out. This is now even easier with AI doing it for themselves, yet they won't do it. I guess because gooks would complain any other way.
https://lostark.game.onstove.com/News/Notice/Views/13573EOS is here bros.... It was a fun ride.
>>3074196https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw1lcm-qJ10Good riddance. Stupid raid game trash. Make a new Lost Ark and this time don't lose your way to raid autism.
>>3076229>they brought piss river back to piss on their remaining hopes and dreamskek
>>3076742They're so fucked. Summoning that guy is an emergency button that loses its effectiveness every time they use it. People are already feeling indifferent seeing him. Use him a couple more times, and it will no longer have any effect on quelling rage.
I feel really sad when i look at the state of lost ark. Didn't played at launch due to irl responsibilities + being focused on other games so i ended up skipping it till recently. When I boot the game i see an enormous foundation for a good mmorpg, completely empty and dead. Such a good game killed by greed and bad decisions, its just sad.
>>3076229>Piss riverHonestly I'm insulted atthis point. He is the reason the game is like this and frankly lost ark just needs to fade away like a bad memory.
>>3077399welcome to kmmos the graveyard of good ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDaLldrSjx8All the constant doomer videos are really pouring in and getting traction now. Absolutely zero mention about its dogshit game design philosophy which is what is really killing the game though. lol
>>3085439Trusting retarded Koreans. They will eat shit for another 6 months and do nothing now that they wheeled out piss river.
>>3085910they are really willing to destroy gold rivers rep just to keep this scheme dragging along another year. it sadly still works, because it is enough to get people feeling cautious. but before you would even see relief or hope, so you can tell it wont last. the next time they try to use him, it will have no effect anymore
>>3086333Piss river destroyed his own reputation. External circumstances like covid is why he lucked out and saved lost ark the first time. He's all for the rng, alt shit fest, milking players so he can buy a yacht.
>>3086333>>3094787he never had any you dorksits all marketing buzz
>Aion 2 lost 100k players in 18 days>Lost Ark lost 15k players in that amount of timeWe gucci boyz.
>>3085439The issue is that video is from Portia and the guy pretty much confirms koreans ruin the game since he claims killing RMT will kill the game and he wants SG to actually promove RMT selling, it's retarded.I prefer this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTXoD7JuzqQHe pretty much sums up the whole recent drama.
>>3106037He's a based accelerationist. He knows Koreans are hopeless retards that love and demand p2w and RMT, so he is asking them to turbocharge it so it dies faster and everyone can move on.
>>3106006Maybe because they take care of bots and rmt unlike Lost Shart.
>>3117261More MMO makers should really take the hint from Pearl Abyss and just lock down trading entirely.
>>3120818>just make the MMO single playerbased retard
>>3126582Enjoy your botfest forever. I only care about a world where you can see others and play together. People that want to play monopoly and rmt and cheat and fuck everybody can stay in this shit ass game.
SK just announced that most of your progression (gear quality, accessories, bracelets) is going to be deleted (same as transcendence and elixirs were)that perfect accessory you spent a million gold on? gone, just like that
>>3138341Are they gonna remove ark grid too?
>>3138817no, but they're removing that 30-step thing in each of the ark grid tabs that you use destiny stones to tap, I forgot what it's called
https://steamcharts.com/app/1599340#AllFinal player numbers for October are out, and surprise, surprise, the downward spiral continues.Average players at an all-time low, "beating" the previous month for the 6th month in a row.Monthly peak concurrents dropped below 9K.EoS is an absolute certainty at this point; there's no recovering from this. But that's not exactly news, is it.
>>3141838its sad, i lost 1k on this game like a complete chump retard
