ragnorak5095: FF14 lift raid locked out close to new raid released, Lost ark needs to do the same, so when Serca raid is released ALL raids upto Kazeros should be able to be run infinite amounts of time for its progression resources (I.e Aigir tokens/karma/Ark cores). Can still restrict gold but not resources.

Lord_Žižka: Lost Ark needs a FFXIV a realm reborn moment.

They need to release tier 5 without pay to win, and focus on casual friendly content and storytelling.

dreadedronin24: I don’t think your should blame yourself for trying to take advantage of systems in the game. At the end of the day people are wired to try to get the most benefit out of things. I think it is still on the devs to make it so that you don’t feel the need to do such extremes things to get the full value out of events like this. Sometimes we need the systems to be designed in a way that it save us ourselves.

oosik411: Outside of all the issues main one is you can never catch up if you get behind without swiping.

Anathyas: Hello Mr John,

thanks for always putting in the hard work, keeping us up to date on things and giving your input. I'm really glad that we have you (and of course a lot of others as well) as our representation of Lost Ark on Youtube, Twitch and co.

It's always nice to see you helping out new/existing/returning players and giving ideas on how to make the game better.

Keep up the great work and have a wonderful day if you are reading this c:

jacob6852: Selling my gems and im out.

vitalkp95: They should implement some core pities for doing dailies, either through dailies, chaos gate or field boss. Most people are probably unlucky and you get slightly under 200 and you have to wait for next week to progress.

nerotv747: Scraping the barrell, under 10k concurrent now. It's over. Whales can keep the game alive for 2 more years max. This is the last stage of milking, the game will collapse soon, then they will announce Lost Ark 2 or reboot or however they will call it (the UE5 mobile trash). This game had such potential - insane combat, great raids, a really-really cool world, lore and characters. I loved every minute of it, but it's over, let's face it. I had a great time, 3k hours, I don't regret any of it. The launch and the first year was exceptionally good, the best MMO time I ever had. I'm happy I was part of it, but nothing lasts forever. Let the game go guys.

_S0Y: Remove ALL lockouts. Cap gold earned if needed, but we should be able to run any raid, dungeon, field boss, island any hour on the hour grouped or solo period

FixThisBrokeGame: To sum up Lost Ark in a nutshell: on reset day, I log into my 1740 main character and complete my three gold-earning raids in under two hours. Afterward, I have the option of doing paradise, life skills, Guardian Raid, or Chaos Dungeon. Throughout the rest of the week, I can revisit life skills, Guardian Raid, Chaos Dungeon, defeat the World Boss, clear a Chaos Gate, or visit a Gold Island.

That is the core experience. However, if I want to repeat that loop, I have the option to create an alternative character (alt). The problem is that the game lacks substantial 'real-world' variety or depth once the weekly checklist is finished, which is its biggest issue overall.

ThimLife: When New World was in beta/alpha or whatever, people started to find the most efficient ways to reach max level and max out life skills. When the game was released, many people just followed those routes and didn’t actually play the game; instead, they optimized it.

If we go back in time, when there weren’t hundreds of guides and tools out there, 90% of the player base of any game was bad, not optimally equipped, and so on. Due to the way today’s world works, everything has to be efficient—no matter if it’s a game or something else.

You can’t just go to the gym anymore; you have to be ripped. Man, what are you even doing there otherwise?! The same goes for games. A small number of people whale and min-max, and others feel like they can’t keep up.

If most of us would just play a game, there wouldn’t be so much gatekeeping and predatory company behavior. Surely, companies would find other ways to make us spend money, but I think you get what I mean.

To me, the biggest problem today is player behavior.

TheSkyNlnja: AGS happened

Balmung_: LMAO. I ain’t reinstalling lost ark when they keep intentionally making the same mistake to cause friction and induce fomo

MemeMememejgdiff: So what is the problem ? That u can do the upcoming event as much as possible ? Who cares lmao grow up and decide for urself if u go and do alot of guardians or if u just dont care that much :D or is there a different problem, i didnt get ?

Kalimdor199Menegroth: The idea that Kazeros is now easy comes from people who have good statics. PUG experience is a whole different experience. Those in mediocre statics also have a different experience. On my end, almost every reclear lobby I have joined for Kazeros has been more or less a semi-prog experience. Lots of resets, lots of needless deaths, lots of novice mistakes.

Kazeros HM is not a homework friendly raid due to its length and difficulty, despite the nerfs it got. HP nerfs are fine for medium to moderate difficulty raids, but for raids like Kazeros, pattern nerfs need to be added as well. I gave up doing G2 HM after I got my 5th clear, because this shit was getting exhausting as fuck. Nobody should spend half a dozen hours or more each week to find a decent lobby to clear this on pug. Very badly designed raid... and then people wonder why this game is depleting itself of players.

DJStrong53: Yo, I feel that at 1 hour in. Been teaching raids since Kayangel the burn can be real. The thing that has helped me the most is have a mod/ teaching team with-in our discord who can give me a break when I need it.

Drummerfy: Coming from someone that enjoys doing them and who’s been doing their dailies every single day (since release) and now on 18 characters (12 full char dailies alt CDs) even I agree they need to improve the new player and even the veteran player experience. They gotta come up with a way to not feel like you have to play the game 7 days a week, all day to maintain 6 characters or even 1 main character

cyborg7162: i dont play the game anymore since i cleared kaze HM W1 but i always listen to your videos and cauttyh’s video and leave a like as a little support for everything you guys did for the game and community, you guys are rhe pillar of the community !

maybe ill get back to LoA one day more casually who knows, stay safe , take care mr john

emmusing: Thanks for the yap sesh.

TheOriginalTmans: As someone who quit LA very early and never came back, I think the reason the game is dying and isnt getting new players is because when all is said and done, no one TRULY wants to play a p2w MMO. Theres already MMO FOMO when you see people with the latest gear in games with no P2W, imagine how draining the FOMO is when the game is p2w and you arent willing to spend money. Also games being p2w in the way LA is, is kinda dumb. Literally ruining the player integrity (believing that a player is good cause of gear) just to make a couple extra bucks. It really sucks tho because this is an extremly pretty game.

enquestaba: last time with this event i got 23 to 25 with the free taps in my main :)

supaaznjigga: The comment about I can't do this bullshit 30 min Kazeros hw just to wipe to sacrifice or some GS in raid doing 0 stagger and wiping you at stagger mech." Yeah, basically, why I quit around xmas onward. After a month with the new raids, you realize the raid design is too much bullshit. No matter the nerfs, no matter how strong your characters are, the raids are too jaily and won't ever become hw.

On top, class blance AND Ark Grid isn't remotely balanced, so why fucking grind 3 months for one build you may not even enjoy only to have to grind another 3 months for another Ark Grid build you may not like either. What if its just a shitty class or worse yet, your beloved class becomes forced shitty play style. The developers literally don't play the game. Looking at Korea, you can see your classes aren't getting build changes or balance that you need /want and its been years. The game is literally fucked. 75% of the remaining vets quit because of Ark Grid /Kazeros the past 6 weeks. The game is in free fall to 0 players left.

andisun14: Already quit LA back in december just after LOA ON.

SG clearly doesn't know what they'r doing, pushing for more character bound gold & mats in a game with roster system??? if your gonna make each character have their own progression then lift the 6 character limit, close the market, adjust the gold cost of vertical systems and forget about roster. Every time they try to fix one thing they f up another, and i wonder how they'll manage the balance with ark grid, mfs can't even balance the regular ark passive and now each character have 2 build with 3 variations each

IIIIIIIIIIIIIiyi: the players remaining already quit the game , the last of my friends who played with me since russia has left after clearning kazeros and now they're playing aion 2 in taiwan and the new ranked league on league of legends , they sold their gems and high high acessories .

dercuwuin: I played non stop for 2 years had 300k mileage when they released that shit and probably thousands hours at this point. Literally non stop until during Christmas holiday I injured my back at the gym, I couldn’t sit and just laid in bed reading books basically for 2 weeks until now. I think I might quit due to the fomo of missing 2 weeks progress - especially with arc grid being new. I thought about quitting a few times throughout the years but I always just enjoyed the game more than I wanted to quit, I also liked the friends I played with. But the mmo fomo is too strong, 2 weeks during new content release (ark grid) might be it for me

LostarkDegen: Lost ark has such a bad reputation idk how you can change the opinion of it anymore to market it. It will only get new people in game if the word is spread differently about the game.

MostWantedWannaBE: i know a guild mate of mine is going to be running 50 guardians every day

30 of which on 1 single account

and then you compare this to someone running it only on 1 or even 6 characters

last time they "capped" it but they made it impossible to reach the cap unless you WERE running 30 characters

so imo they should make it so you can rerun the guardian for just the event reward and receive rewards only for 6 clears

that way 1 character rosters are equal to 30 character rosters

Jan 14 2026

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