No one logged in today because of Lost Ark

[Roflcopter]

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.

WoW started doing that in the storyline though at least starting from Warlords of Draenor. You shift from just being another run of the mill adventurer to the champion. They even give you your own garrison which is supposed to be the only one… Layered on a million others of course. It progressively becomes more focused on you as the lone champion as the expansions wear on. You are even the lone chosen champion to travel through to the Shadowlands.

[SturmChurro]

we can do some erp :3

Unironically how a lot of people get the most out of their sub.

[Hanayumi]

Yikes, Lost Ark died off pretty quick, its infested with bots now and queues for anything but endgame stuff is horrible now. Guess theyll slap that sucker onto mobile and move on, lol...

[Rosenstrauch]

WoW started doing that in the storyline though at least starting from Warlords of Draenor. You shift from just being another run of the mill adventurer to the champion. They even give you your own garrison which is supposed to be the only one… Layered on a million others of course. It progressively becomes more focused on you as the lone champion as the expansions wear on. You are even the lone chosen champion to travel through to the Shadowlands.

WoW is not exactly the most story-focused MMORPG. Far from it. But by that point in WoW, the player has done more than enough to deserve recognition. I'm talking about the beginning of the game. I don't need the game to start blowing my ego just because I finished character creation, is what I'm saying.

[Tranquilmelody7]

died off pretty quick, its infested with bots now and queues for anything but endgame stuff is horrible now.

So like FF XIV then?

[Tlamila]

Yikes, Lost Ark died off pretty quick, its infested with bots now and queues for anything but endgame stuff is horrible now. Guess theyll slap that sucker onto mobile and move on, lol...

Died? EU servers still have long login queues, and even on my NA server, which is one of the emptiest and considering I play at times when most people sleep, I still always have to fight for gathering resources and killing enemies for quests, so crowded the game is.
As for the bots....like the previous poster said, hard to complain about bots when playing FFXIV, which I have yet to see matched by other games in number of bots running around.

[Starshower]

Interestingly I was one that was super excited about Lost Ark and liking it, but it didn't last a week for me... Not because the game is bad, I really like it! It's just that FFXIV captured my interest at the moment, I'm addicted to doing mentor roulettes while watching videos on another screen. My Astrope is within reach and I'm having a lot of fun!


But I have noticed the game seems a bit dead... Sharlayan empty and limsa not that crowded either...

[Momo_Kozuki]

Interestingly I was one that was super excited about Lost Ark and liking it, but it didn't last a week for me... Not because the game is bad, I really like it! It's just that FFXIV captured my interest at the moment, I'm addicted to doing mentor roulettes while watching videos on another screen. My Astrope is within reach and I'm having a lot of fun!


But I have noticed the game seems a bit dead... Sharlayan empty and limsa not that crowded either...

Typical pre-patch period. The population will rise when the latest patch drops for one or two months, then fall again. Only x.5 will decline slower as people return to binge through all patches and do prep works for next expansion.

[Skiros]

Wow, Lost Ark is actually tackling RMT bots!

[Minthe]

Wow, Lost Ark is actually tackling RMT bots!

It's about time lol, I couldn't go anywhere with the chats being filled with bot spam. I know it's normal in mmorpg's but it was getting pretty bad