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Lost Ark - CBT2 Preview - A Fast-Paced Play Style - MMORPG.com
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Lost Ark - CBT2 Preview - A Fast-Paced Play Style - MMORPG.com
For those not following along, Lost Ark is an action RPG MMO testing right now in South Korea. It has been extremely popular with MMO fans and presents a fast paced play style similar to Diablo. The game is doing very well and western fans have been trying to break into the closed beta as they have been launching. Here is what we know so far.
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just saying people still have high hopes for star citizen and it slated to never come out lol
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BDO was same but at least they promised since start a western release
And last I read, there is no plans to bring Lost Ark to the west.
No way! Absolutely no way! Not in the west. Western players have too much money and too little sense. Just like Black Desert (which is F2P in all other regions) they'll milk the morons for as much money as they can.
And who can blame them? Heck, if I was a developer I'd do the same thing. In game development there is really only one motto "A fool and his money are soon parted".
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In Death - Sacrifice.
The Release probably will be after the Korean one obviously but they said it will be global unless they changed their plan. The dev has stated they will.
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As someone who played Devilian until end game, its biggest problems were lack of content and some serious bugs that were never fixed since Korean launch. Trion worked their magic pushing cash shop updates while not pressing Ginno for fixes. Population drops off affecting stuff like queues for dungeons and PvP. It had only two end game 9 player raid dungeons in Korea. When Trion released those same dungeons, they were end game only in the sense of the level caps instituted at the time. I left after level 56 cap so that was last July.
The archdevil dungeons do require party play (3 players) until outgeared but there are only 5 such dungeons and some of the mini bosses are the same ones from the standard soloable normal, heroic, or hell difficulty dungeons with some added mechanics. The version Trion has is a mess of recycled power crept content since the Korean version didn't really have much to begin with before it was shut down (only online for an year + 2 months).
The only other licensee was a Thai publisher who got the same Korean code (just with poor Thai localization) and they released all of the content in around 4 months, received no further content from Bluehole Ginno after September 2015, and spent the next 9 months just running events for a population that dwindled over that period. The server is still up but literally has no one playing.
Out of curiosity, I just logged into Glyph and found the population on NA is pretty dead as well. The level cap is now like the original at 60. What's amazing is that Trion only released level 60 in May this year. They managed to draw out just 6 months worth of content for close to 2.5 years!
If Lost Ark ever does see the light of day in the west, publisher will be important. Anyone know if Smilegate has some kind of investment in the dev Tripod Studio? Looking at Smilegate Wests' Glassdoor reviews is not promising at all. Looking at the inevitable forum post on their two published games by a new player, often times has that cynical response to it with lower player activity and shitty publisher.