No one logged in today because of Lost Ark

Can't talk, playing Elden Ring.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...609792/4ac.jpg

No one would log in Lost Ark at 28th because of Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Update(

651,185 playing 2 hours ago
928,641 24-hour peak
1,324,761 all-time peak

https://steamcharts.com/app/1599340#1m

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Originally Posted by Skiros

Man, Lost Ark just keeps getting better and better! A chaotic zone chat, fun raids, awesome and spectacular dungeons, great combat system. If it has FF14's straightforward systems and cut the system bloat and P2W elements it probably will get everyone to swap!

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Which it will never do. Its core is a P2W Korean MMORPG. It can be more lenient than the likes of Blade and Soul and Black Desert Online, but still P2W regardless.


F2P clownfish are constantly reminded that they should pay to skip. Dolphins pay small at first, then keep increasing their investment. Whales just throw in money to conquer whatever contents where gear that are matter, and they will always find a way to win-trading, which attracts win-trading sellers. Their title can be as meaningless as FF14's burger crown, but as long as it is rare and they have it, they don't care.



And, believe or not, whales are always the target audience, and a Korean MMORPG is always designed to milk whales and turn F2P into dolphins and dolphins into whales. A few thousands of players play without paying doesn't change its greedy core, and only attracts other players who think they can give a try without paying. Line, hook, and sinker.



But you have fun spending time/money in it, who can stop you enjoying it?

Since this looks like the thread for it, I'd like to vent just a bit about Lost Ark. I decided to give it a try, and made a Mage character. The intro promptly dropped in my lap that I'm not only the chosen one, but the double chosen one and the most special person to have ever lived among my kind at that.

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

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Originally Posted by Rosenstrauch

Since this looks like the thread for it, I'd like to vent just a bit about Lost Ark. I decided to give it a try, and made a Mage character. The intro promptly dropped in my lap that I'm not only the chosen one, but the double chosen one and the most special person to have ever lived among my kind at that.

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

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Welcome to FFXIV, Where you start as a "god" and can't be harm or killed.

Except for all those times where you are severely harmed and/or almost killed.

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Originally Posted by Rosenstrauch

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

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You can try out Lord of the Ring Online. You're basically a "hero of another story". You will go where the fellowship doesn't venture, like Angmar in the North, Mirkwood in the West in first few expansions, until you meet up with the fellowship post-disband as you accompany the Rangers going South toward Helm's Deeps. You occasionally meet up with big names like Gandalf, Aragorn... and fight together with them, but for most of the time, you have your own adventure to do. You're the champion of your own story, but not a godly one like Warrior of Light.


For writing, up to Gondor, the writing is quality. The presentation is more wall-of-text and barely any cutscene compered to FF14.


LOTRO is a F2P with strange cash shop. You can grind cash shop currency to buy quest packs/expansion packs and can actually own every content without spending a penny, but I would suggest to pay sub to skim though some early contents and save points for necessary expansions.

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Originally Posted by Skiros

Man, Lost Ark just keeps getting better and better! A chaotic zone chat, fun raids, awesome and spectacular dungeons, great combat system. If it has FF14's straightforward systems and cut the system bloat and P2W elements it probably will get everyone to swap!

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Didn't enjoy the controls and the story didn't really grab me.

Now if only anyone could log in my ffxiv so I don't lose my houses, since it's basically what I'm paying a sub for at this point...