Esagi005: EOS coming soon!

TheSoundOfReee: Yeah. the game will have like 4k players max before ags contract ends. I like the game but i sometimes wonder why do i even bother since i really do not want to interact with ark grid more.

bakterija3089: Cant wait for aion2 to quit LA

Kytes93: Lost Ark will follow New World's steps soon, at least on global

viannap: dude your videos are tiresome and pointless

adriancortez5479: Solo raids and matchmaking is an improvement. If now old raids would be playable for gold aswell and new players would get express events each week it would be a nice game which you could play more casually. But as it is currently going just enjoy the ride till global EOS feb. AGS and SG wont invest any resources anymore and hope for some last drops of cash of some players.

Shigoshidn: the best change to bring this game back its a relaunch with a lot of change

AcidKaraoke2: I started 3 weeks ago story mode and absolutely love it, almost to Kurzan.

I don't see a scenario where I can raid outside of solo as I won't have card sets, engravings, or any other thing... and who even wants to bother?

I'll wait until they remove that sh*t LOL

alejandronunez7650: DEAD GAME!

Xioneer5: The chance of EoS is likely high at this point or people just not playing since there is 6 months left so they want to see what happens. Also someone posted somewhere that paradise season ends in 2027 feb 3, seems very convenient. There is only silence from them which makes me assume its EoS. Also people forget Smilegate doesnt have many mmorpgs as far as I know.

Midoriana85: Very little have changed for the past year, Lost Ark have been hovering around 10.000 players for over a year.

geko1410: i 100% agree with you i just tryed to come back after quiting right after mordun had a roster at 1710 main 1736 and now just tryed to come back but its just solo mode unless my friends are wilkling to carry me on content until i catch up, is not appealing.

chrisjo9840: 9:06 lmao u almost had me

tobiaseks: everyday doom, boringgggg

Ninjutsu2K: The "worst lie, is the one even you believe it." you pointed out is exactly that—the community and developers convincing themselves that aggressive gatekeeping protects the raiding experience, when it's actually just starving the game of the fresh blood it needs to survive.

The progression wall and resource starvation that veterans are facing isn't a new player issue; it is a systemic design flaw engineered to heavily monetize progression and force artificial scarcity.

If the game doesn't stop punishing new players for simply trying to catch up, the player base will inevitably flatline. A healthy MMO ecosystem requires a continuous influx of casuals and newbies, not just a shrinking, insular pool of hardcore veterans gatekeeping weekly chores.

It is a brutal reality, but the elitism is a self-inflicted wound that is slowly killing the game.

The problem I see is that the executives of this game think more FOMO equals more money, and they do not believe casual and solo players can bring in revenue. Yes, they can, but it's not easy to measure. Casual players might or might not pay for a blessing, and they don't buy cosmetics very often. Because it is hard to predict their spending behavior, the executives think it's better not to change how the game operates. It would make it too difficult to forecast their monthly or quarterly earnings. And here we are: 4K players and declining.

countyingula: I bet more than 90% of the money they make and people they pay have nothing to do with making the game more fun or better. Just a bunch of suits in a room yapping pointlessly and none of them even like games. While a small crew of people that actually program things and make the game possible are ignored.

SFSomega: The main problem I have with lost ark is, character progression becomes a dead end at around 1.620-1.640 CP if you are not spending big money.

There is always one specific material missing to upgrade gear. And the worst problem, at T4, gear upgrades cost gold instead of silver. And gold is very rare.

I have over 1M silver but no gold.

Materials and gold can be bought at the cash shop.

The game is designed to make you pay and has no respect for the players.

xRay5454: I played a lot at launch. Gave up eventually. Not a fan of games that play like chores more than fun providers.

robertjordan7280: I do exclusively solo raiding because screw gatekeeping. After dealing with that bullshit for two years while being a casual that has a full time job and life outside my pc, i uninstalled and only cane back because of solo raiding. I have no interest in “keeping up”. Ill go at my own pace abd that has made it 100x better.

If they want to gain or retain new players they need to make decisions for the new players or casuals, instead they cator to the hardcore whales.

1. Make a “random raid” feature where you and/or a matchmaking team get a random raid up to your item level with the bosses being naturally scaled up, and have this be outside the 3 raid character limit.

2. Combine mokoko raids with design to encourage friend groups and guilds. Such as a full gold bonus if you have a mutual friend with you and another gold bonus if at least 50% of the group is in the same guild, AND guilds being able to generate honing discounts or something to make honing more efficient outside of “give more gold”. With the requirements being you having already been with the friend and guild for at least a week of course.

3. Put the actual world bosses and world chaos gates in a random city so there is panic and sense of invasion

4. Stop being stupid and stop fighting against your customers.

SIEFäää: For every lost ark player: might check out aion 2 , launches in september 30

petetam567: The only good thing recently is they release more solo raid and Serca matching mode. But these needs more polish as unlimited revive in the matching mode alone is not making people proging the raid properly, they just brute force thru a clear. Other than that, the game is still in a very bad state as non of the core issues about balance, Arkgrid, playtime got address properly. I have a feeling director Bozo is trying his best with unlimited resource. My hope and cope is on this Winter LOA ON

cyborg7162: Lost Ark was a rly great adventure , next raid will be my last, time to let it go even if i will miss my chars. I might play aion2 and some solo games till gw3

Thanks for pushing our voices during all those years ! Peaace !

Mimir_The_Wise: goated video as always

maxdoesdamage: Hey Dohrok! Great video as usual! You’re probably the only creator I agree with on pretty much every point.

I’ve been playing since day 1 (even paid for the 3-day early access) and honestly had a blast over the years. I met some people along the way, but most of them have left, so I’m basically playing alone on EU right now.

It’s really disappointing that neither company decided to make any substantial changes, and that AGS still isn't enforcing the rules, not to mention the white knights defending both Amazon and the game, even with the player count down to 5k. 90% of my friends list is permanently offline, and about 80% of the remaining 10% are RMTing.

I honestly don't see a future for this game, which sucks considering how much time (and for some of us, money) we’ve put into it. I'm really glad you're making videos like this; it's rare to find an unbiased creator who just tells it like it is without sugarcoating anything.

Best of luck, man

jamzbraz: The devs don't want to make a good game you can play, they want to play you into spending.

MrGlutting: KR F2P games are known to have fun combat but completely lose the plot when it comes to end game content. Quitting F2P games is the best thing I've done for my wallet

slacker9148: lost ark dying?

good.

Aug 08 2026

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