No one logged in today because of Lost Ark

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Originally Posted by snipski

I dont blame them for playing other games ffxiv endgame is basicly raid once per week then afk wait for S rank spawns if you have everything levled up allready.

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Events are the most mediocre things ever in FF too.

Basically talk to npc -X-Y-Z do fate or sometimes just nothing, get your items and everything can be done in 1 hour.

I might give it a try. Is there a free trial yet?

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Originally Posted by Skiros

Lost Ark

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Lost What?... sorry isn't that just the latest Korean Pay 2 Win? Like seriously you fear a P2W? lol.

Spent another chunk of time last night and my impressions really haven't changed much. They do some neat stuff in dungeons and with world design, but none of it really feels like it has a real impact on the gameplay. The story is still completely forgettable and vacuous. The quests are mindless and actually feel weirdly structured, though this really didn't hit me until I progressed a little further into the game. They'll give you a quest that basically says "Put out the fires with the water buckets!" And there will be 10 fires to put out but the quest will complete after you just do one of them. It's almost like they felt like they needed to have quests in the game so it's another checkbox they could tick off to skate by being called an MMO but actively do whatever they can to make you take as little time engaging with the quests as possible. While it's true that quests in MMOs can feel like pointless busywork, that time investment when structured and balanced right can also cause you to feel more invested and engaged with the world as a whole. In Lost Ark the side quests actually just reinforce how the the world kind of doesn't even matter because they are so fleeting and literally end before you even complete them. It's weird.

I'm still having a lot of fun just nuking stuff with my Sorceress, though, and I've progressed far enough to really be able to start building out personal skill loads out for both solo and group play. The combat really is easily where Lost Ark shines.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I might give it a try. Is there a free trial yet?

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It's Free To Play so no trial required. The official launch was yesterday (though the game was down pretty much all day for supposed server issues) so it might take you a bit to get through the queue, but they're adding servers continuously so it shouldn't be that bad.

Be aware that the game has...optimization issues, to say the least. Constant stuttering, it took several minutes just for the client window to show up after even starting it up, constant FPS drops...the game is fine when it's not stuttering, but it happened quite a lot for me. Also for some weird reason the process would not stop running after I exited the game, even after I told task manager to stop it, so I was forced to restart the computer just to get rid of the process.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I might give it a try. Is there a free trial yet?

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It's F2P, so you can try it anytime assuming you can find a server.

Dabbled a bit out of curiosity. Didn't really leave any particularly strong feelings, tbh. Potentially the isometric view just makes it not feel like being inside a world as I expect from an MMO/persistent world game. More PoE like vibes than MMO vibes. Chat of course is full of garbage and arguing about languages because what is moderation.

The localization is awful, though. Or, maybe all the NPCs were meant to sound that ridiculous, lol

I was curious about Lost Ark but consequently lost all interest upon finding out that their classes are genderlocked. Only women can use magic and be assassins? Seriously? The camera angle of the game is also a massive turn off, count me out. If it turns out to be anything more than just a passing fad I'd be surprised.

The gender locking is really weird, too, it's towards specializations, as well. Like, if you pick a male martial artist, it can be a Striker and that's it. If you pick a female one, there's the other 3 options. ???

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Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

I was curious about Lost Ark but consequently lost all interest upon finding out that their classes are genderlocked. Only women can use magic and be assassins? Seriously? The camera angle of the game is also a massive turn off, count me out. If it turns out to be anything more than just a passing fad I'd be surprised.

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I thought it was just there would be one or two jobs locked to each gender not whole roles D:

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Originally Posted by jameseoakes

I thought it was just there would be one or two jobs locked to each gender not whole roles D:

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From what I understand there are only 2 classes that are not genderlocked, martial artist and gunners. But even they have gender-locked advanced upgrades so its just more needless restrictions.

The whole situation is ridiculous and as a result I do not consider the game worthy of my time.