No one logged in today because of Lost Ark

[VkhaliTia]

Oh yeah forgot about that and other games to release, no wonder it seemed like it took a little bit longer to queue into a daily roulette.

[Roflcopter]

I really tried to give Lost Ark a shot and it just kinda sucks. Probably an unpopular opinion. They tried to cram two genres together and made something that was a hollow echo of each one with a “free to play” moneypit jammed on top of it all. It isn’t a particularly good arpg or mmorpg. I remember a Korean knockoff of Ultima Online called Dark Ages back in 2000 that was a better and more engaging game than Lost Ark.

[aveyond-dreams]

In any case, Elden Ring is coming out soon. I look forward to being able to play it seeing as how the model quality and graphics are 10 times better than Lost Ark, and the fact that the game doesn't lock me out of different playstyles due to my gender! Imagine that.

[SieyaM]

I am sure Lost Ark will gain a core group of players that will buy into it and keep the servers on, Perfect World is still running after all. Whether or not that is a success or not is up to what the developers and publisher are hoping for. As for it being such an incredible success in it's origin market, if it was such a smashing success there then it begs the question why did it take so long to move into other regions? Surely a game that is successful with great player retention and growth would be very eager to move into new markets. I think the more likely scenario is that the game was looking for a way to regain some of its bleeding player base and took whatever assets it had and poured them into expansion into new regions and Amazon, who may be looking to recoup losses from New Worlds very poor player retention, saw an opportunity to make some cash from an already developed and running game that only needed a publisher.

[StriderShinryu]

I am sure Lost Ark will gain a core group of players that will buy into it and keep the servers on, Perfect World is still running after all. Whether or not that is a success or not is up to what the developers and publisher are hoping for.

Exactly. I don't doubt at all that LA will maintain a core group of players. It's been not only surviving but thriving in other regions for years now. It's a popular game and, frankly, a good game (if you can look beyond the grind forced monetization). The thing is, it really is a game that goes against the grain of what most MMO players in the West generally want and it hits such a slender niche so hard and so specifically that it will end up turning way more players away than it will keep.. but it will keep some for sure. It almost definitely keep enough of a player base to stay running, especially given that at end game it almost completely runs on whales. So, yeah, any one standing by and saying it's going to completely die and/or disappear are almost definitely wrong. But anyone saying it will be the next big MMO are absolutely wrong.

[Caurcas]

I don't care for the movement in Lost Ark. Feels stiff on KB and on controller.

[NishaSetsuya]

Again i'll say it, Lost ark will be cool for the first year afterward the real Krmmo will start and you will feel hell.

People who once complained about relic grind in FFXIV will be crying for the grind in a Krmmo, and i'm talking from experiennce with Elsword|Nostale|Blade&Soul and a lot of other

[Arundel]

For me this game slowly turns into Blade and Soul cash grab(with its toxic community). NA/EU version of LA should launch along RU version.

[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!

[Conundrum]

Logged in just to bump all your troll threads.

That's pretty pathetic.