For anyone saying this video could be shortened, you’re absolutely right if this was a high quality edited vid channel 😂. However this is just a place where I upload vods clips and highlights and rarely edited content. You can listen to it during your chaos dungeons or you can just press X if it’s too long. ❤
I remember your video on Behemoth, and you were the only one to really bring up the issues with elxirs/transcendence, and everything in the video did really happen and it's been kind of a disaster. We're down to 17.5k concurrent and what looks ahead seems pretty rough with t4 piling the crap t3 has.
This video practically reinforces a decision I made in Echidna Hard, which from then on would just be a normal raider, but in any case I think that 2025 should be the last year of this game in the West. Thanks for the great work, Mr. Zeals.
Well saint claimed behemoth is ez on release even on ilvl with low gear. And he doubled down on that after in a reddit thread. There are certainly people looking through whale-tinted glasses that can't understand the struggles of normal players.
U mean people who dont take care of their chars or come with 1620s and do 1600 dmg? idk u guys need start lookin at your own 2 feet instead of blaming others for ur incompetence
That's why Lost Ark will die here in the West and in the future in Korea, I'm not saying it will die today or tomorrow, but it will die for the simple reason of being unable to attract new players and offer a good experience to them. players, there are no more casual players in the game, just lifeless addicts.
This is the dying phase of an f2p MMO game. Every player need to pay a lot more due to shrinking player size. Also, another glaring issue is that this game is not p2w friendly. If I pay a lot of money to max my gear, let's say Esther, $50k, I would like to carry my dead weight friends through all raids. Nope, this is not the case with so many wipe mechs. So why would I pay?
gee, i wonder why devs keep throwing around vertical progression like crazy *SPOILER ALERT* because there's whales dumb enough to pay everything, fomo everything, including zeals, all to have an easier time on raids, bigger numbers, cruel fighter on mvp screen, and for CONTENT. (same content that "mislead" people into thinking the newer raids are easy) zeals most likely realized his pockets ain't deep enough to keep up now, and gone full doomer.
to be fair that was his job as a loa content creator. he was a streamer and newsflash, other streamers did the same thing. in fact, some of them also violated smilegate/ags policy and bought rmt. did ags ban them? nah. if anything this just proves smilegate doesn't care. ags is also just as bad as a publisher. recent wins when they could had done much better from the start. just incompetent bozos.
The issues I see between the Westen players and the game is that the community is to addicted to following blindly at what they are told. So many in this game feel they “need to min-max” everything. Feel they need to be at the ceiling of their dps, doing hard mode day one, and in the end they play the game like a job and have no real idea of just playing to have fun. Like think about your favorite character and then think about how much time you ACTUALLY spend on that class. This is why, for the time being I’ve opted to taking only 1 toon to T4 for the time being. There’s no real incentive to having a multi character account unless all you’re going to do is just grind fest your time like a drone. Which if that is what you enjoy, awesome, but don’t try to mask it behind the guise of “requirement.” Because the reality is the game is centered around what is predicted to be “average” things like lv7 gems piss poor transcendence and elixirs etc- Hard is supposed to be HARD, it should take you time and your SKILL is what should really settle out if you clear. But too many people rely on overgearing and then consider that to be the measure of “skill.”
A big portion of that is like 10 or so different aspects of new progression in T4 it will take a while for low spenders to close that gap on relic books, accessories, bracelets, gems
Used to play another kmmo (rip TERA) where skill was valued beyond gear meaning that p2w players got gatekept if their dps didn't match their gear. This would never happen, but it'd be interesting to see if LA gatekeeps would change if there was a website where meter logs get uploaded. This might benefit those who are mechanically good at the game, but don't have the gear to be invited by the average party.
No cause the game isn't about pure parse, some or actually alot of parsers were grief or being toxic bozos the most on week 1. You still see those occasional 1/2 fail=kick lobby which are red flags. They rarely if ever 1 tap the gate. You need some critical thinking outside of guides. When ppl started respecting the normal patterns and not getting soaked constantly, the raid parse overall increased. But ego Andies too obsessed about meter can't see outside the lense of their own parse. There is huge gear diff between supports too nowadays. Full trans support gives roughly ~20% DMG to their party, so one party could literally grudge value with same uptime, cause meter doesn't qualify trans on support that well or at all.
@@FrontierChampion valid point , having public logs would indeed lead to people griefing for their own numbers which is probably why it would never happen. Started LA about a month ago (1610 atm) it’s been interesting seeing how messy party finder in this game is compared to others I’ve played. Not sure what could be done to bridge the gap and help players who’d rather suffer on older solo content than pug.
It's not there because SG doesn't want titles to be an indication of skill for the reasons you said. There's a reason the only skill titles are released on raids at least 6 months after they come out, Thaemine being the exception as a RMT sting operation. The simple change is make each clear title no longer get progressed if you are dead when it clears. No bussing titles or floor POVing to scam a clear title. Due to how gates work only the final gate would matter for this.
I've been thinking about stuff like that a lot lately. And that people that are overgeared for content, swiping or not, are essentially just making the game easier for themselves, which goes against what I even play this game for. I play for the cool and challenging fights. I get making it easier for yourself over time just to farm content, but on release being over prepared for a raid? not for me
Gatekeeping in west is more ridiculous compare to kr. Even Benji was shock when Stoopz teach him how to gatekeep on HM Echid because he sees Benji just accepting and not checking their profile.
So hear me out. Most games when a new tier is rolling out you get to chill and enjoy some fun things they add in. In lost ark you have to prep and grind so you are prepared for the next tier. If you ask me thats kind fucked.
I look at the start of T4 and it's just sad how quickly we've already progressed through the first tier of gear. It's already been less than 6 months and we're probably already looking towards mid ancient gear for T4.
Nah, before there is a first tier reset, i would say we get another progression raid.. some shit like 4 man abyssal dungeon that gives gear set level 4 or something
Typical KR company. Catering to giga whales a few years after the game is released, making content and vertical progression so fast that normies cannot possibiy catch up without swiping is how you kill your game. Exactly what happened to Blade & Soul.
That's a lot of vertical. It's been fun while it last. From now now I'll probably play on maintenance mode, basically only play solo, and alot of the time maybe not even logging in. I'm so tired of keep chasing everything like this
Anyone who spend money in this game now is basicaly paying to lose. All that money you waist on gearing will eventualy be given out for free in some sort of express. It has happend since the start of this game. You spend a few thousand trying to get to 1620 you thi k your top tier gamer. Boom a free express to 1620 8 months later. But gues what you now you get to drop another few thousand and push to 1700😂😂😂
What's the point of introducing new raids if the casual players aren't even honing to get up to them? What happens with the people at the bottom of the graph you showed? Do they get to the current endgame raids in a few months after their release? Do they get to do these raids at all? I think these are the questions that the current direction should ask themselves about the game. They need to design a seperate activity for the players who can't afford to reach the endgame raids except for the solo raids we have. This game needs another endgame activity through which players can still progress their characters without having to stress about being on ilvl for the next raid imo.
Ngl the pacing, transcendence bullshit etc. broke me. Not even solo mode will help. I am out, though I will stay subbed because I like watching you Zeals. Pce and thank you for many years of entertainment.
It was the best time to quit after Thaemine and selling gold... it doesnt have to get worse but it is far away to become better. This game will bleed players in T4 especially when other games come out.
I'm going to be a casual and never raid. I don't even bother with solo raids anymore just log in every few months for the next character boosting event to level up my roster for cheap.
So i'm going to break it down for you slow people that don't understand whats happening. Most games have a finite lifespan and SG knows this they know their game is not designed to last forever. They are lucky its came this far so what they are doing is trying to suck every last penny out of this game before its end of life. Its at critical mass now they won't make it easy enough to enter for new people because they can't without losing profits. If they were smart they would remove the vertical from prior content and just add it in as normal progression without the massive gold sink.
@Aratal- they said MOST games. Making the comparison to WoW is kinda silly. WoW is sub based and doesn't need to put predatory systems in the game like LoA does in order to make money. Grindy free to play games by nature, burn people out cause the grinds are designed to get people to swipe. Extreme grind games that require co-op have a very short lifespan
It's weird cause no transcendence and elixir Jills don't really exist at all in the west. That thing would be gatekept from fucking Gargadeth. In NAE ppl ask for full trans now and don't even look at elixir cause they assume it's there. You get gatekept if you don't have a lvl23+ weapon and lvl10gems.
When hearing the part about 1575's in clown, and max ilvl parties etc etc, I was like who the fuck is max ilvl in the west? I've seen like 2 ppl since launch with esther weapons, and I play with some pretty insane gamers. Then he got to the part where 72% of revenue comes from in KR... It all started making sense.
As a near free to play player (only real money spent was 3 character slots; no royal crystals, no mari shop, no gold) vertical systems broke me too. Was the one always alive on valtan ghost phase, getting all the counters, never breaking the stage on brel but in the end, high uptime on entropy, I just couldn't match the damage of the turbo whales that were 20-50 gear score higher with level 10 gems in every slot. Eventually just went back to wow; hard resets every 6 months so I can just hop back in to endgame right away and not pay to win in the extent that LoA is. I greatly miss many things of lost ark. But the requirement to advance while still being brutally difficult in hardmode, having to run chaos and guardians on the daily, and sitting in the group finder for hours only to get jailed from someone with more money than game-sense is why I eventually quit.
I get that u pref a game that u not need to be extremly invested in but there is a good chunk of people that rlly dont like this Half Hearted Sht where everyone can just get BIS stuff with no effort basically . Some People rlly like to actually grind and spend time .
@@41NewVAWE Ok buddy, if your definition of a "whole hearted game" is HAVING to either: do 18 group activities a week (and other daily stuff) or pulling out that credit card just to be able to do the new raids when they come out, then I'll take a half hearted one any day of the week. At least in wow, if your m+ key gets bricked, you can just run it back instead of getting jailed on gate 2 for the whole week. And to the grinding people: give them low/no impact on combat stuff to grind; titles, pets, toys, hell give them new spell animations.
My friends and me stopped playing lost ark after 2-3k hours because of the ongoing gold nerfs and the stupid alt system. Dont get me wrong, we love the battle gameplay and boss fights, but the alt and gold system have been the worse decisions ever. I hope this game dies, with their stupid alt and gold system. Smilegate or whoever is responsible, if you read this, you deserve the decreasing numbers of players. we loved this game, but you never listened to the players and ruined it for us. I hope the players realize what a parasitic thinking their decisions are and leave this game. oh and dont remind me of elixirs and the other stuff just to be gatekept.
i'm just cycling between going nm or hm i was 1415 on valtan release 1430 on vykas release 1475 on clown 1490 on brel nm 1540 on brel hm 1580 for kaya hm 1590 for akkan nm 1620 for voldis hm 1625 for thaemine nm 1630 for echidna (although first week i did hm g1 and nm g2 because my static fell apart due to scheduling) and now im going for aegir hm 1680 i'm pretty certain ill not be going brel hm day 1 honing is always a bitch and base entry requirements always take time to chill down akkan hm week 1 was only lvl10s akkan hm right now is event gems voldis hm is 40elixir but fuck if you need that shit voldis is 0 dps requirement even with 0 elixir and event gems thaemine nm is 0 requirement but most lobbies will take elixir 40 and 1620s only so that they can effectively run 4c4 bcz they understand people can't use push immunities for shit and will fall off aegir hm seems fucked but will get substantially easier few weeks in brel hm on the other hand i don't see it getting easier she is extremely mech heavy with 1 shots and overgearing there will only help to an extent and even if lets say bracelet is like 30% more dps again that would just mean that you'd be able to afford 1 glue sniffer
You mind if I ask what ilvl you are? My whole static is 1650ish and we decided for hard mode week 2 or 3 mostly cause we probably won't have enough t4 shards to hit the required 12-9 hones in 2 weeks.
@@frking100 currently 1655 with 25 weapon so i'd need like 4 armor taps to get 1680 iam not hard comitted doing hm week 1 you only lose like 6 materials from doing nm so not the biggest loss
Zeals: Lost ark KR making Bank Comment section : GAME IS DEAD , OMG ITS JOEVER , RIP making whales whale more and giving the rest better acces to baseline stuff sounds good to me idk about u guys
@@41NewVAWE yet another dork comparing status of NA to KR culture/popularity/etc. Over 10% NA player loss over last 30 days despite a new raid and lots of free stuff being thrown at them...but you're right, LOA is on the upswing, totally 🫠
It's really not. I beat Thae HM on release at 1630. Most of the playerbase is just bad and thinks they need to do HM day 1 when they don't have the skill required.
@@tropicalrubi_LOAnumber of hour prog ? lol it is always these people claim the raid is essy when asking , always tell me 5k+ hour and spend entire week to prog e
@@petetam7394 Your comment isn't really in legible english, but I'm going to assume you want to know how long it took me to beat it. It was a while ago but I think it was around two nights before we killed g3.
to say that the on ilvl hommies in kr are "behind" is so wild, u already showed how only less then 1000 chars are above 1720 so are those guys 6 patches ahead with +100k$ spend in the game or the 99%+ of the player base are behind ? and for the raid to not being cleared day one by the on ilvl players on "HARD", don't u think that's how the game should be played ? I don't wanna discredit want u said, this game is P2W etc and u have valid points, but this always has been the case and the truth that most players don't really care about p2w since 99%+ of the player base are f2w with the graph and stats u already shared and in the end of the day u just need to have fun in the game and don't take it that serious, i clear behimoth on ilvl with my friends and we enjoyed it, and maybe my best advice to anyone reading this comment, if u are only playing lost ark, go play other game, trust me that will improve ur relationship with lost ark, and u will start enjoying the game more , dk but this is my opinion
@@lelainet6478 yeah thats what i said, he mentioned a really good points and don't wanna discredit what he is saying but also, he said some things a bit questionable that's what i meant, if u recheck some sections, u will notice what i am talking about; but in the end of the day really appreciate his video and sharing those info but some takes are a bit misleading in my opinion
@@crackedup3378 I used to play wow at a pretty high lvl back when the game was braindead easy. I've nearly 40 now and just play these games for fun. If the average gamer is worse than a boomer then i don't know what to say about that. I finally had the time to prog G4 this week got 2 clears and will be heading into The First next week. I assume it will take a week or two with 1-2 hours a prog per day. The game isn't hard its more about the raid knowledge.
hey i have a PhD in math, math is pretty easy for me. what a wierd take, Saint can also clear it with 1 engraving. The issue is not that raid easy for you or him, it is the raid hard for 99% of thr other player 😂
Objectively in the west THE ONLY WAY this game survives is them pumping Solo Raids. Its just impossible to catch up, but with Solo raids being a thing you dont need to. You can just play for fun now. As a returning player I am prepared to drop hundreds on skins, but not if they stop doing Solo content, because I would just leave the game again.
Hello to the 4 cats left playing this game, Does any of you know when they will announce server closing forever? Pretty sad to watch every week steam charts, and seeing lost ark losing players to the ground. This company still refuse to perma all bot's (50% of curent players) just to hide the current playerbase, wont give to return-new players stuff like: LOS 30, RUNE 8-9LVL, all of bullshit gold drain UPGRADE'S, all rune for skills and most important! FCKING RAID ACHIEVMENT to avoid gatekeeping (YES, no one care's if u got them by "HARD WORK AND WAITING SIMULATOR", u wont have players soon if they wont gift those stuff to new players) Have fun when server will close off and u lost everything (IF this soon wont happen bsz u get carried by korea spender keeping the game alive for the global audience) Ah yes if u are willing to answer to me, make sure to keep defending this game and call me crazy or some shit, no one cares and u dont even get paid for defence this game going underground. :)
For anyone saying this video could be shortened, you’re absolutely right if this was a high quality edited vid channel 😂. However this is just a place where I upload vods clips and highlights and rarely edited content. You can listen to it during your chaos dungeons or you can just press X if it’s too long. ❤
0.15 percent players making 40 percent of profit to smilegate make me laugh so hard.
I remember your video on Behemoth, and you were the only one to really bring up the issues with elxirs/transcendence, and everything in the video did really happen and it's been kind of a disaster. We're down to 17.5k concurrent and what looks ahead seems pretty rough with t4 piling the crap t3 has.
Very insightful I needed to hear all of this and also take a step back and evaluate myself and what I want from this game
Vertical systems and how rapidly we get them finally broke me. T4 makes this problem even worse. I'm done LOA, good run. Have fun guys.
This is true vertical system is the hard part specially trans take so much time and so expensive.
Can I have your gem?
pls gems
No, I'm not giving anything away... hopefully SG/AGS fix their game and I come back someday. #copium
Lol you already got beggars😂😂😂😂😂
This video practically reinforces a decision I made in Echidna Hard, which from then on would just be a normal raider, but in any case I think that 2025 should be the last year of this game in the West. Thanks for the great work, Mr. Zeals.
Well saint claimed behemoth is ez on release even on ilvl with low gear. And he doubled down on that after in a reddit thread. There are certainly people looking through whale-tinted glasses that can't understand the struggles of normal players.
His takes are always bad.
That guy is a clown
U mean people who dont take care of their chars or come with 1620s and do 1600 dmg? idk u guys need start lookin at your own 2 feet instead of blaming others for ur incompetence
just use dps meter. thats all what it takes for you guys to improve about your dmg
Always bad so tired of his full of sht
new jeans collab in LOA will increase the revenue XD
LOL
New jeans? Are they still a thing after MHJ? Lol
Kanima 2.0 transformation completed
Can i ask you what you mean? (No flame, just pure curiosity)
Kanima basically echoed what Zeals said like 6 months before Zeals started talking about it. He quit and is playing FF14 now
damn right, prolly this guy wont be entering the new raids so he trying to demolish the usual obvious p2w system that exist obviously
I'm fine waiting for everything solo personally.
fomo isnt real😊 pay to lose😁
That's why Lost Ark will die here in the West and in the future in Korea, I'm not saying it will die today or tomorrow, but it will die for the simple reason of being unable to attract new players and offer a good experience to them. players, there are no more casual players in the game, just lifeless addicts.
This is the dying phase of an f2p MMO game. Every player need to pay a lot more due to shrinking player size.
Also, another glaring issue is that this game is not p2w friendly. If I pay a lot of money to max my gear, let's say Esther, $50k, I would like to carry my dead weight friends through all raids. Nope, this is not the case with so many wipe mechs. So why would I pay?
The biggest difference with KR and NA/EU is NA/EU don't have the hyper giga whales that KR has. Or at least not as many.
Finally the guy is waking up .....
Actually hard mode is normal mode at ilevel, and ez mode is hard mode with juiced char, noted.
gee, i wonder why devs keep throwing around vertical progression like crazy
*SPOILER ALERT* because there's whales dumb enough to pay everything, fomo everything, including zeals, all to have an easier time on raids, bigger numbers, cruel fighter on mvp screen, and for CONTENT. (same content that "mislead" people into thinking the newer raids are easy)
zeals most likely realized his pockets ain't deep enough to keep up now, and gone full doomer.
Doesn't change the fact that he's speaking the truth.
to be fair that was his job as a loa content creator.
he was a streamer and newsflash, other streamers did the same thing. in fact, some of them also violated smilegate/ags policy and bought rmt.
did ags ban them? nah.
if anything this just proves smilegate doesn't care. ags is also just as bad as a publisher. recent wins when they could had done much better from the start. just incompetent bozos.
The issues I see between the Westen players and the game is that the community is to addicted to following blindly at what they are told. So many in this game feel they “need to min-max” everything. Feel they need to be at the ceiling of their dps, doing hard mode day one, and in the end they play the game like a job and have no real idea of just playing to have fun.
Like think about your favorite character and then think about how much time you ACTUALLY spend on that class. This is why, for the time being I’ve opted to taking only 1 toon to T4 for the time being. There’s no real incentive to having a multi character account unless all you’re going to do is just grind fest your time like a drone. Which if that is what you enjoy, awesome, but don’t try to mask it behind the guise of “requirement.”
Because the reality is the game is centered around what is predicted to be “average” things like lv7 gems piss poor transcendence and elixirs etc- Hard is supposed to be HARD, it should take you time and your SKILL is what should really settle out if you clear.
But too many people rely on overgearing and then consider that to be the measure of “skill.”
A big portion of that is like 10 or so different aspects of new progression in T4 it will take a while for low spenders to close that gap on relic books, accessories, bracelets, gems
Thank you got it - I'ma sit T4 1680 sadly i am already part of .15 % of smile gate contributors the whaling continues
Keep on spending brother, thanks for keeping the servers alive!
Used to play another kmmo (rip TERA) where skill was valued beyond gear meaning that p2w players got gatekept if their dps didn't match their gear. This would never happen, but it'd be interesting to see if LA gatekeeps would change if there was a website where meter logs get uploaded. This might benefit those who are mechanically good at the game, but don't have the gear to be invited by the average party.
No cause the game isn't about pure parse, some or actually alot of parsers were grief or being toxic bozos the most on week 1. You still see those occasional 1/2 fail=kick lobby which are red flags. They rarely if ever 1 tap the gate. You need some critical thinking outside of guides. When ppl started respecting the normal patterns and not getting soaked constantly, the raid parse overall increased. But ego Andies too obsessed about meter can't see outside the lense of their own parse. There is huge gear diff between supports too nowadays. Full trans support gives roughly ~20% DMG to their party, so one party could literally grudge value with same uptime, cause meter doesn't qualify trans on support that well or at all.
@@FrontierChampion valid point , having public logs would indeed lead to people griefing for their own numbers which is probably why it would never happen.
Started LA about a month ago (1610 atm) it’s been interesting seeing how messy party finder in this game is compared to others I’ve played. Not sure what could be done to bridge the gap and help players who’d rather suffer on older solo content than pug.
It's not there because SG doesn't want titles to be an indication of skill for the reasons you said. There's a reason the only skill titles are released on raids at least 6 months after they come out, Thaemine being the exception as a RMT sting operation. The simple change is make each clear title no longer get progressed if you are dead when it clears. No bussing titles or floor POVing to scam a clear title. Due to how gates work only the final gate would matter for this.
I've been thinking about stuff like that a lot lately. And that people that are overgeared for content, swiping or not, are essentially just making the game easier for themselves, which goes against what I even play this game for.
I play for the cool and challenging fights. I get making it easier for yourself over time just to farm content, but on release being over prepared for a raid? not for me
Gatekeeping in west is more ridiculous compare to kr. Even Benji was shock when Stoopz teach him how to gatekeep on HM Echid because he sees Benji just accepting and not checking their profile.
Benji never raid leads in KR so he doesnt even know what to look for.
Benji literally said he doesnt lead groups and doesnt care
Where does your chest skin with bunny ears comes from pls ?
The best thing you can do before Tier 4 releases, is a uninstall 😂
Good bye nobody cares
@@mohamedsami9087 and yet you still comment🤣
@@TheSkyNlnja to let you know people who walks away just unstall and leave just saying
@@mohamedsami9087 Steam numbers looking really good.
@@mohamedsami9087 Never said anything about my departure lol
I miss the glory days of zeals. Wish he made a truce with all the other streamers and make a huge comeback
u mean the other way around right
You know you have to Do the Work for these raids.
So hear me out. Most games when a new tier is rolling out you get to chill and enjoy some fun things they add in. In lost ark you have to prep and grind so you are prepared for the next tier. If you ask me thats kind fucked.
I look at the start of T4 and it's just sad how quickly we've already progressed through the first tier of gear. It's already been less than 6 months and we're probably already looking towards mid ancient gear for T4.
Nah, before there is a first tier reset, i would say we get another progression raid.. some shit like 4 man abyssal dungeon that gives gear set level 4 or something
Typical KR company. Catering to giga whales a few years after the game is released, making content and vertical progression so fast that normies cannot possibiy catch up without swiping is how you kill your game. Exactly what happened to Blade & Soul.
That's a lot of vertical. It's been fun while it last. From now now I'll probably play on maintenance mode, basically only play solo, and alot of the time maybe not even logging in. I'm so tired of keep chasing everything like this
Anyone who spend money in this game now is basicaly paying to lose. All that money you waist on gearing will eventualy be given out for free in some sort of express. It has happend since the start of this game. You spend a few thousand trying to get to 1620 you thi k your top tier gamer. Boom a free express to 1620 8 months later. But gues what you now you get to drop another few thousand and push to 1700😂😂😂
That’s the reason you should only use real money for skins and nothing more but FOMO is a bit.. for a lot of people.
What's the point of introducing new raids if the casual players aren't even honing to get up to them? What happens with the people at the bottom of the graph you showed? Do they get to the current endgame raids in a few months after their release? Do they get to do these raids at all? I think these are the questions that the current direction should ask themselves about the game. They need to design a seperate activity for the players who can't afford to reach the endgame raids except for the solo raids we have. This game needs another endgame activity through which players can still progress their characters without having to stress about being on ilvl for the next raid imo.
I like this zeals arc where he's just goin, "I told you so"
Ngl the pacing, transcendence bullshit etc. broke me. Not even solo mode will help. I am out, though I will stay subbed because I like watching you Zeals. Pce and thank you for many years of entertainment.
It was the best time to quit after Thaemine and selling gold... it doesnt have to get worse but it is far away to become better. This game will bleed players in T4 especially when other games come out.
even NM mode right now is quite a grind, well too bad game is designed for whale and addicts
I'm going to be a casual and never raid. I don't even bother with solo raids anymore just log in every few months for the next character boosting event to level up my roster for cheap.
So i'm going to break it down for you slow people that don't understand whats happening. Most games have a finite lifespan and SG knows this they know their game is not designed to last forever. They are lucky its came this far so what they are doing is trying to suck every last penny out of this game before its end of life. Its at critical mass now they won't make it easy enough to enter for new people because they can't without losing profits. If they were smart they would remove the vertical from prior content and just add it in as normal progression without the massive gold sink.
wow is 20 years old...people still play it...not sure if you can just generaly say games die over time...true for some...wrong for others
@Aratal- they said MOST games. Making the comparison to WoW is kinda silly. WoW is sub based and doesn't need to put predatory systems in the game like LoA does in order to make money. Grindy free to play games by nature, burn people out cause the grinds are designed to get people to swipe. Extreme grind games that require co-op have a very short lifespan
@@Aratal- wow =/= Lost Ark. Wow is 20 years old but they are sub based with very little P2W.
It's weird cause no transcendence and elixir Jills don't really exist at all in the west. That thing would be gatekept from fucking Gargadeth. In NAE ppl ask for full trans now and don't even look at elixir cause they assume it's there. You get gatekept if you don't have a lvl23+ weapon and lvl10gems.
When hearing the part about 1575's in clown, and max ilvl parties etc etc, I was like who the fuck is max ilvl in the west? I've seen like 2 ppl since launch with esther weapons, and I play with some pretty insane gamers.
Then he got to the part where 72% of revenue comes from in KR... It all started making sense.
I pressed X, thank you bye
As a near free to play player (only real money spent was 3 character slots; no royal crystals, no mari shop, no gold) vertical systems broke me too.
Was the one always alive on valtan ghost phase, getting all the counters, never breaking the stage on brel but in the end, high uptime on entropy, I just couldn't match the damage of the turbo whales that were 20-50 gear score higher with level 10 gems in every slot.
Eventually just went back to wow; hard resets every 6 months so I can just hop back in to endgame right away and not pay to win in the extent that LoA is.
I greatly miss many things of lost ark. But the requirement to advance while still being brutally difficult in hardmode, having to run chaos and guardians on the daily, and sitting in the group finder for hours only to get jailed from someone with more money than game-sense is why I eventually quit.
I get that u pref a game that u not need to be extremly invested in but there is a good chunk of people that rlly dont like this Half Hearted Sht where everyone can just get BIS stuff with no effort basically . Some People rlly like to actually grind and spend time .
@@41NewVAWE Ok buddy, if your definition of a "whole hearted game" is HAVING to either: do 18 group activities a week (and other daily stuff) or pulling out that credit card just to be able to do the new raids when they come out, then I'll take a half hearted one any day of the week.
At least in wow, if your m+ key gets bricked, you can just run it back instead of getting jailed on gate 2 for the whole week.
And to the grinding people: give them low/no impact on combat stuff to grind; titles, pets, toys, hell give them new spell animations.
I've quit chasing HM raids since Akkan. That's not news to me.
My friends and me stopped playing lost ark after 2-3k hours because of the ongoing gold nerfs and the stupid alt system. Dont get me wrong, we love the battle gameplay and boss fights, but the alt and gold system have been the worse decisions ever. I hope this game dies, with their stupid alt and gold system. Smilegate or whoever is responsible, if you read this, you deserve the decreasing numbers of players. we loved this game, but you never listened to the players and ruined it for us. I hope the players realize what a parasitic thinking their decisions are and leave this game. oh and dont remind me of elixirs and the other stuff just to be gatekept.
Lost Ark is just another crappy eastern mmo. With awful progression and paywalls. No wonder so many people quit. Rightfully so.
i just quit haha
Nobody cares bye
@@mohamedsami9087 u did spend your precious time to leave a msg bye
i'm just cycling between going nm or hm
i was 1415 on valtan release
1430 on vykas release
1475 on clown
1490 on brel nm
1540 on brel hm
1580 for kaya hm
1590 for akkan nm
1620 for voldis hm
1625 for thaemine nm
1630 for echidna (although first week i did hm g1 and nm g2 because my static fell apart due to scheduling)
and now im going for aegir hm 1680
i'm pretty certain ill not be going brel hm day 1
honing is always a bitch and base entry requirements always take time to chill down
akkan hm week 1 was only lvl10s
akkan hm right now is event gems
voldis hm is 40elixir but fuck if you need that shit voldis is 0 dps requirement even with 0 elixir and event gems
thaemine nm is 0 requirement but most lobbies will take elixir 40 and 1620s only so that they can effectively run 4c4 bcz they understand people can't use push immunities for shit and will fall off
aegir hm seems fucked but will get substantially easier few weeks in
brel hm on the other hand i don't see it getting easier
she is extremely mech heavy with 1 shots and overgearing there will only help to an extent
and even if lets say bracelet is like 30% more dps again that would just mean that you'd be able to afford 1 glue sniffer
You mind if I ask what ilvl you are? My whole static is 1650ish and we decided for hard mode week 2 or 3 mostly cause we probably won't have enough t4 shards to hit the required 12-9 hones in 2 weeks.
@@frking100 currently 1655 with 25 weapon so i'd need like 4 armor taps to get 1680
iam not hard comitted doing hm week 1 you only lose like 6 materials from doing nm so not the biggest loss
Bozo devs don’t play their own game
Is lil bro gonna quit? no vid on main channel for 3 months
He’s uploading here isn’t he
Milo Lights
It's over.
zeal when you gonna play another game? wake up call
Pretty sure he already does
Zeals: Lost ark KR making Bank
Comment section : GAME IS DEAD , OMG ITS JOEVER , RIP
making whales whale more and giving the rest better acces to baseline stuff sounds good to me idk about u guys
@@41NewVAWE yet another dork comparing status of NA to KR culture/popularity/etc. Over 10% NA player loss over last 30 days despite a new raid and lots of free stuff being thrown at them...but you're right, LOA is on the upswing, totally 🫠
TLDR: game is miserable on ilvl
It's really not. I beat Thae HM on release at 1630. Most of the playerbase is just bad and thinks they need to do HM day 1 when they don't have the skill required.
@@tropicalrubi_LOAnumber of hour prog ? lol it is always these people claim the raid is essy when asking , always tell me 5k+ hour and spend entire week to prog e
@@petetam7394 Your comment isn't really in legible english, but I'm going to assume you want to know how long it took me to beat it. It was a while ago but I think it was around two nights before we killed g3.
Karli Row
KR beta testers.
to say that the on ilvl hommies in kr are "behind" is so wild, u already showed how only less then 1000 chars are above 1720 so are those guys 6 patches ahead with +100k$ spend in the game or the 99%+ of the player base are behind ?
and for the raid to not being cleared day one by the on ilvl players on "HARD", don't u think that's how the game should be played ?
I don't wanna discredit want u said, this game is P2W etc and u have valid points, but this always has been the case and the truth that most players don't really care about p2w since 99%+ of the player base are f2w with the graph and stats u already shared
and in the end of the day u just need to have fun in the game and don't take it that serious, i clear behimoth on ilvl with my friends and we enjoyed it,
and maybe my best advice to anyone reading this comment, if u are only playing lost ark, go play other game, trust me that will improve ur relationship with lost ark, and u will start enjoying the game more , dk but this is my opinion
You are literally agreeing with what he said. If you’re ftp and happily enjoying it and not FOMO swiping you are chill is what he was talking about.
@@lelainet6478 yeah thats what i said, he mentioned a really good points and don't wanna discredit what he is saying but also, he said some things a bit questionable that's what i meant, if u recheck some sections, u will notice what i am talking about; but in the end of the day really appreciate his video and sharing those info but some takes are a bit misleading in my opinion
TL:DR this game is a waste of my fucking life
Zeals case of stockhold syndrome has finally worn off
And you talking about all of this while still swiping banks? Ridiculous.
He literally said he doesn’t swipe gold anymore. What you mean by still swiping banks? Why can’t he talk about it?
@@lelainet6478 He's blade was literally tens of millions of gold, he gave them insane profits and now complains xD
i did clown on ilvl with 4x3 it was easy.
Congrats!
Do hij think you are an average mmo gamer?
@@crackedup3378 maybe incompetent people should just care more about gettin better then crying cuz they are bad.....
@@crackedup3378 I used to play wow at a pretty high lvl back when the game was braindead easy. I've nearly 40 now and just play these games for fun. If the average gamer is worse than a boomer then i don't know what to say about that. I finally had the time to prog G4 this week got 2 clears and will be heading into The First next week. I assume it will take a week or two with 1-2 hours a prog per day. The game isn't hard its more about the raid knowledge.
hey i have a PhD in math, math is pretty easy for me.
what a wierd take, Saint can also clear it with 1 engraving. The issue is not that raid easy for you or him, it is the raid hard for 99% of thr other player 😂
DoomWorkHK
Skill is much more worth than Money so dont panick and start playing the fkin game
Objectively in the west THE ONLY WAY this game survives is them pumping Solo Raids. Its just impossible to catch up, but with Solo raids being a thing you dont need to. You can just play for fun now. As a returning player I am prepared to drop hundreds on skins, but not if they stop doing Solo content, because I would just leave the game again.
1st
I did clown on mokoko server 1475 with shit gems xd one shoot..but not comparisson we knowed raid already
Ok but they give us 40 set and some transcendance for almost free which does make the Behemoth raid free on ilvl.
It's not enough since they only give lvl 3 transcendence and elixirs that aren't usable
Hello to the 4 cats left playing this game,
Does any of you know when they will announce server closing forever?
Pretty sad to watch every week steam charts, and seeing lost ark losing players to the ground.
This company still refuse to perma all bot's (50% of curent players) just to hide the current playerbase, wont give to return-new players stuff like: LOS 30, RUNE 8-9LVL, all of bullshit gold drain UPGRADE'S, all rune for skills and most important! FCKING RAID ACHIEVMENT to avoid gatekeeping (YES, no one care's if u got them by "HARD WORK AND WAITING SIMULATOR", u wont have players soon if they wont gift those stuff to new players)
Have fun when server will close off and u lost everything (IF this soon wont happen bsz u get carried by korea spender keeping the game alive for the global audience)
Ah yes if u are willing to answer to me, make sure to keep defending this game and call me crazy or some shit, no one cares and u dont even get paid for defence this game going underground. :)
Are you okay??
Game is go dead.
U want to play lost ark with the 4 cats left playing this game? WELL THEN RMT ABOUT 1-2-3K EUROS XDXDXDXDXXDXDXDXD
Are you okay?
My mans is cooked