SIEFäää: the game had so much potential

potatoe1975: I've stopped swiping when they implemented Ark Grid in the game. I've stopped playing when they openly admitted the faults with the system itself and declared that they have absolutely no intention in changing it any time soon.

I ain't the target audience Smilegate - do better.

cyborg7162: One of the rarest that stays pragmatic and that doesnt cope to himself regarding the recent game direction !

Many bored users on the edge of quitting waiting for LOAon to move on, numbers will not looks great for SG end of 2026. It will reach the ultra niche state and run as a KR MMO meme in the west (i.e Terra,BnS,… during their last lifeproduct cycle)

chicknwing2742: The writing has been on the wall.

YeppersLA: I knew you were cooking when you brought up SG removing chaos dungeon funneling. I felt like i was going insane for ages because most people were like "It's good that they're moving away from having multiple characters." Obviously the reason they did it was to nerf people that actually grind the game and try to make them swipe in the cash shop. If they actually wanted to move away from multiple characters they would buff things you can do on one character or once per roster but instead they always do nerfs. It's the same reason the next raid gives character bound gold instead of roster bound gold. So many bootlickers support nerfing people grinding instead of maybe reducing the grind.

Lord_Žižka: If they wanted to save the game they should have completely revamp the leveling system and make everything soloable at day1

MMORPGS survive on their casual audiance not the sweaty hardcore players.

PureRandumosity: Im so glad I quit this game last year. Once they announced that chaos dungeons are solo only is the day my husband and i quit. I've never played a game that I felt so insignificant and hated by the company who makes it more than Lost Ark. And it looks like it got even worse, its so sad seeing so much potential being squished.

ouroboros4664: thank god i quit this dogshit game a long time ago

CaliuYT: WARNING: LONG TEXT

Hey DJ Dohrok. With all the points you mentioned, you forgot one: the servers for this game are very unstable and unreliable. Obviously, you and most people living in the United States aren't having problems, but the routing of the servers specifically to the rest of the Americas is very bad, if not downright awful. Amazon says it's an ISP problem, but that's not the case here, since any other game with servers in Virginia or nearby, other than AWS servers, doesn't have any routing issues. And the infrastructure we have in South America isn't an excuse, since everyone's fiber optic cable runs under the ocean without any problems. I'd like to know why Amazon isn't providing any solution to this problem, which has been going on for almost six months. Thanks for reading, big fan!

Mimir_The_Wise: yoo bro, goated as usual. its your boy here Mimir XD

countyingula: Was happy for barely 2 months after winter when they added 2 solo raids. Only just to nerf the rewards by a bunch and not follow up on any of the other things i wanted, and then to add they are focusing less on soloraids. half a year later, and nothing has changed for the better. The promise of more open world stuff to be casual and fun to progress never happened. More of the exact same old crap raids and bad nerfs.

Also welcome back! Been a long time since u had a vid out.

lurk3937: I ain't even playing anymore but gotta watch my goat

jezngalab99: Ark grid, horizontal prog for new players, inana azena blessing, gatekeeping, what more can they add? i quit lost ark after brel 2.0 release, cameback thinking something has changed and i quit again solo raid is good addition but……

mq9727: I have stopped playing after they brought that raid after atakan, I also thought I would come back after the game gets better but every time a look into it all I see is bad bad baaad responses from the community, soo I never came back. the best update I have experienced with this game was the introducing of solo raids, and then my friend made me try POE and I was saved.

JesusFistus-rn6xb: I Must I say I dont have a Problem with p2w but it needs to be in Proportion and it also needs to be kinda expensive if you get 1 week worth of raiding loot for 10 Bucks many ppl wont do the raids just pay 10 Bucks and then quit after some time. But how expensive it is right know it dosent make Sense at all. Also I Never understood why the increase from dailys is so small with Rising item lvl imo a 1720 Chaos should give alot more loot then 1700 but its just 10% more. It needs to be like 30% more loot for higher guardian and Chaos so people get rewarded Daily for honing higher. Such an easy fix imo. Also loot from dailys can stay bound but needs to be like x5 to x10 the amount gettin like 1-2 weapon tap a week from doing Chaos every day feels horrible.

MrTechDz: sad but true ark grid is the worst system i've ever seen in any type of games. how can you not revoke that decision of having epic cores and green astrogems?

AnonW: Honing is not exciting, running the new raids are, dont need more vertical progression, just churn out more new raids that are accessible. The direction to ease off iLvl progression was the right step, end of funneling is another good step, but bound mats needs to be buffed 6x and that step is missing, engraving and gems should be sold by merchants at fixed gold cost, theres no need for the market.

exoticreload9493: Yes seems like Korean company doing cooperation between company to Let AION2 Success its like they doing this on purpose.

petetam567: The people call you doomer are just turbo shills , a lot of them were in both the Lost Ark sub reddit and discords. I have been calling this game out since 2023 with the predatory p2w practice and no good faith to really fixing the core game issues after every single LOA ON but these shills always said the game is in best state it had ever been lmao. Guess I am right after all given 3k addicts are playing with 3k bots in NAEU .

I think game is donezo at this point after AGS and SG have squandered all people's patience. The game is not even growing in KR anymore and has been pushed out of top 10 KR PC Bang ranking even on reset day in KR recently.

At this point , director Bozo from Scumgate is just trying to milk the rest of the addicted whales while it last.

IbkStorm: I'm not even mad anymore. I'm just sad and disappointed. I still hope for a better future but my hope is getting lower every year.

phonk_val: Reading some of the comments here, and knowing the general type of reaction to this kind of content - I love how probably the most common type of reply to "doom content" is: "you said the same x amount of time ago and we're still fine". That's where we should stop and make sure we're on the same page. The game is not fine, and it hasn't been fine for a very long time by now. If you think it's "fine" for a game maintaining hundreds of thousands of CCU in the initial year to lose like 95% of that, if you think having near 5000 average CCU for an MMO with 1 launcher and 1 platform is fine (unlike many other games that beat LoA on Steam AND also have their own launcher as an option to log in, or are also available on console\mobile) - I am sorry to tell you but that is not fine. And you can say "subjective" but I will reply - exactly, and that's how you can see that 95% of the playerbase subjectively decided that the game is not worth their time and moved on. That's why people quit your game. And there's nothing "fine" in that.

It's when you quit the game you truly understand the scale of the issue, because the literal second you stop intentionally searching for Lost Ark content - you immediately forget this game exists. I found this video simply because I heard of somebody mentioning it being recently made, and I know DJ so I specifically looked it up. Nobody talks about this game, nobody knows anything about this game, nor they want to. To the mainstream gaming\MMO audience Lost Ark is a strange abomination from archaic fairy tales. The reputation has been ruined and sticked to it forever, because neither Smilegate nor AGS did anything to change it and help the situation - no marketing, no nothing - and no wonder - because fundamentally the game has not changed, so there was nothing really to advertise. It was always a monetization vehicle, and it stayed that way till today.

It is very addictive and keeps running by milking its fellow stockholm syndromers who manage to pull the game into top 20 steam sellers regularly, buying damage in a videogame while running the DPS meter and calling themselves "hardcore" and "competitive". But the fact that Smilegate\AGS were able to find this niche that is able to financially support them enough to prevent EOS does not make the GAME any better.

I very much agree that there hasn't been an intention of longevity with this game for a while now, at least with the western version, and it primarily existed for milking because "why not", while sometimes throwing in a small fake bait-bone for people to chew on and keep up the hope that "something will change in a positive way", just a convoluted system of psychological manipulation where the cash shop always ended up staying the #1 priority in front of gameplay, one way or another. I quit the game once again and I dread the day when my combat system addiction will make itself known once again, and I hope there will be another MMO\MMO-lite soon that is able to replace Lost Ark for me.

Dohrok - you are one of the most real players I've encountered, with your approach to the game, and your takes on various things. I don't know what your plans are for the future, but I really hope there will be a game soon that respects and appreciates our kind of gamer.

Messiah991: I’ve played lost ark in 2,0 season. Really liked the game, spend a lot of time in it. But due to life staff had to quit. A year and a half later I decided to get back only to be met with a system that doesn’t want me to catch up. There is not enough material in a free pass to hone one character. And you supposed to be doing this on a couple. (I previously had established 6 chars roster but to get them all now to a good place is nearly impossible. ) and on top of that the game just have bad design now with systems of honing on top of systems of honing on top of system of honing. Wtf is that and how am I supposed to do all that and figure it out?

I played like two weeks and abandoned the game. This time I don’t think I will ever come back.

Lord_Žižka: Amazon's contract with Smilegate RPG is a standard 5-year agreement that could expire around February 2027 (marking five years since the game's February 2022 Western launch)

So i dont think they will end it until their contract ends, but we might get news before that about the service for the game ending at that date.

Tim_Silvers: They gonna shut it down to make room for Aion 2

unluckyman214: Yall been saying this legit since Argos lmfao, yall doomers are something else

ZakuRX82: I stopped right before Kazeros came out and was missing the game. Thanks for this video and saving me time/money.

nicormoreno: ags is just shit, i contacted game support once for a mistake i made for a purchase, i had been playing and spending some money in the game and i was not asking for a refund just remove the wrong purchase (that has not been used yet) and give me the gems back, i even offered to delete the complete character since it was new and i did not care about it, they said no sucks to be you and i decided i was never going to play anything from ags ever again, god i am so happy with that desition, its painfully obvious they have no idea how to run a succesful game.

May 22 2026

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