Amazon Game Studios had probably imagined the reaction to the Argos raid in Lost Ark differently: instead of great joy, there was massive criticism of the very rapid release of the first abyss raid. Even the streamer Asmongold, who is considered the most well-known MMORPG player on Twitch, tuned in and addressed the developers with a message:
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Pay2Win through the back door? YouTuber criticizes the new raid
Now Amazon and Smilegate have RPG in one new blog entry took a stand together and promised improvements for the future. As additional compensation, there’s the biggest gift pack since the release of Lost Ark.
Developers admit mistakes
What happened? With the first major content patch, the new abyss raid Argos was brought into play last week. However, you need at least an item level of 1,370 points to participate.
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Lost Ark: This is how it looks in the first Abyss raid
However, this gear limit is a big problem for many players: In order to upgrade your T3 item set to the necessary level, you need lots of gold, materials and a lot of luck.
So if you want to experience the latest content yourself right now, you will most likely have to resort to real money purchases, since the sheer amount of resources required is otherwise hardly accessible.
In the blog entry, Amazon and Smilegate RPG acknowledge that Argos was released too early:
We made the mistake of releasing the March game update too soon after launch. The data we analyzed together with Smilegate RPG from their previous launches assumed that a larger proportion of players would have reached the level required to fight Argos.
However, we missed certain variables such as players spending more time on horizontal content and grinding materials prices increasing due to bots and real money transactions.
This is Amazon’s solution: To appease the angry players, the developers have come up with a new event. From next week you can play a special guardian raid once a day in this, which will reward you with a new currency. You can exchange these at a merchant for large amounts of upgrade materials. So the way to item level 1.370 should be significantly shortened.
A huge gift awaits next week
The new event and the associated materials should not remain the only gift. After several free items as compensation for queues and broken matchmaking in the past few weeks, the developers are now putting together the biggest gift since the release of Lost Ark.
Anyone who logs in next week after the weekly maintenance will find a package with tons of skins, mounts, pets and other useful items. Specifically you get:
- New Tier Skin Selection Chest
- Mokokon-Haustier-Auswahltruhe
- Moko Board Mount Selection Chest
- Lost-Ark-United-Bauwerk
- Appearance Change Ticket
- Pheons x132
- Meneliks Voltage x5
- Legendary Pack Selection Chest x2
- Jukebox songs provided when jukebox content is released in the future.
You can see all the rewards in the following picture:
Hard decision: You can only choose one item per category.
This is how it will continue in the future
Amazon listens to the community: After the developers initially planned to release more new endgame content, the plan has now been revised after the criticism. Instead of releasing new content like the Legion Raids way too early, you will now wait until a sufficiently large proportion of players can play them.
Instead, they want to meet one of the greatest player wishes in the foreseeable future and publish new classes:
As we bring new content into the game, we also want to add new classes that compliment that content. More classes will be available soon, and we’ll share details on them in the upcoming roadmap we’re working on in the studio with Smilegate RPG this week.
how do you see it? Is the new course the right decision? And are you already looking forward to the cosmetics in Mokoko design? Tell us in the comments!
