ryanc9876: John was too lenient with his answering. Saying he dislikes paradise as is, but then puts it to neutral. If it's neutral, then you have no issues with it because you have no strong feelings one way or another. I think my biggest issue is that playing paradise, you don't feel like you're playing the class you're playing for too many classes. A lot of them depend on what used to be class engravings to feel "right" and with that gone, some feel awful and others feel weird. And I don't want to have to buy a new page or always change my skill setup just for paradise for those specific classes. I'd probably be closer to neutral if that was the only change.

I know some people will say something like "who cares, the rewards are all that matters" but hear me out: what if the rewards can feel good and the process is fun? Why the hell do people not want both?

ineriRS: I can only repeat myself as much crying as this will force from the addicts: It's too late. This game is finished.

If they would've started doing significant changes a year ago already when the writing was already on the wall, they could've saved Lost Ark. Now the game is falling apart, rightfully so.

How do I know this? Just look at the recent March update:

- has to bribe people with freebies so they can even reach 3500 survey entries, tells you how low the pop already is

- server merges announced for May, they will cut down significantly on servers... EUC probably with 2, NA with 3-4... down from 5 and 9.

People are leaving the sinking ship. it's heavily noticeable on all ends. Smilegate also shows zero promise to make the new player experience any better so that's the next issue. New player retention is important for any MMO, else it will slowly bleed out.... which we see now with Lost Ark.

Veterans are also leaving because the top end scene gets repetitive and boring. People are burning out on the game, it feels like a chore to many. Their class doesn't improve where it's needed, swapping main is a huge whale bait.

By 2027, AGS's contract with Smilegate will also expire and now they already cut down significantly on server structure.

Just another obvious spoiler.

I would love to be positive, but the game doesn't give me or many others a sliver of any hope... it does the opposite, it works on demolishing itself and make players quit. Even the korean version is declining.

dreadedronin24: I put I played in the last Month but might not play in the future and they took less feedback from me vs when I said I’m currently playing.. they are actually taking less feedback from people who feel like quitting the game

IamDeo25: JOOHN

JOHN, Don't abbreviat combat power

JOOOOHHHN

lostinthought1994SP: I decided to quit after playing since day 1. I finally was able to break out of the slave cicle that is lost ark...not gonna waste 3 hours to get into a lobby for 35k gold...times 18...the breaking point for me was when i spent 240k for a random ancient ark grid core from act 4 hm only to get the ONLY duplicate ancient that I already had ... no more RNG rage gor me ..bye bye Lost Ark..hope others r gonna remove their chains as well

countyingula: Ark grid isn't a long term system though. Some rich n lucky players are done already. Other will struggle for a long time. It's just a bad system that creates a bigger divide.

countyingula: Chaos dungeon making no gems sucks, gold nerfs for 2 out of the 3 raids u can do solo sucks(shouldn't nerf any raids, but if they insist on it, shouldn't nerf anything people have in their weekly rotation of doing.

People make alt accounts as a work around to make gold and send to their main and get free carries with mokoko status while unlocking ark grid which gives a massive power boost. While people that spend money and support the game to play naturally from buying more slots on 1 account make no gold for that and have no mokoko leaf, so they're essentially punished for not trying to game the bad design and systems and punished for trying to make their characters stronger before trying raids instead of just leeching free carries as a mokoko.

Time gates suck as usual. It's exhausting for many... More importantly just not fun to be so limited in what u can do.

petetam567: Lol, this game is donezo and Paradise is never a solution, it is just an overhyped bait to get people into the cash shop.

Not a single sheet of fundamental issues got fixed, p2w, toxic , gatekeeping, this game on Steam even having less players than BDO and ff14 just show a no turning point reality

RandomNeat: from and outsider:

the problem with lost ark is that its just korean p2w slop that needs a walk through to play a flow chart of like 50 trillion islands. Like i just want to play the game and blow shit up with the fun class I picked i'll never understand this island hoping bullshit when they could have just made like infinite torment rift levels like diablo or even better maps from poe. If they just did that shit with whatever endgame has somehow manged to keep people hanging onto it for this long it would probably be pretty sweet

nyztan0: JOHN UNLEASHED BABY, FINALLY BRO SPEAK YO MIND

LeAudaciousPanda: this is nice and all, but i havent played since ark grid system dropped.. remove it- its killing player base

MostWantedWannaBE: regarding the luck comment

there is a range of luck that is acceptable

i spent 24 ancient clicks for 1 upgrade and 36 relic clicks for 1 upgrade

thats simply unacceptable considering thats averaging 1 upgrade per week when you have to get a total of 36 of those

making it nearly impossible to get geared up if you aren't hard funneling from a giant roster

you should not feel forced to do something so degenerate just so you can "compete"

nor should you be content with being forced out of competing because you got "unlucky"

Ruckusr: no zeals no lost ark that is when is started dying...when most of the korean chads quit that was it no na streamer will ever have that kind of pull or status...sadly it is time for a part 2

Nibitidea: Nice vid, Im new here, Is it possible to play casually with friends? Or is it mandatory to perma grind just so you can play the game?

Thx.

TheSevenFight: 6:50 - I don't know if people notice but at least on EU, we have the same players in TOP 1-3. That mode was suppose to be a rng fest yet we have the same people in the TOP which is suspicious (especially after someone find out exploit for Crucible). In my opinion those who got TOP shouldn't be able to get again in next season. If you were TOP in season 1 you can't be in Season 2 but you can again for Season 3 (and i am mostly talking about being in the leader board and not getting the rewards, the only rewards that should be excluded are those cosmetic banners because they already have one from the season they were TOP). Paradise right now is so unfair that people don't bother carying about that leaderboard because it's impossible for most to be there. Most of the players already said multiple times that leaderboard should be SKILL BASED not RNG BASED but Smilegate always knows better and we are where we are...

- Frontier is a good system for Casuals and people who are tired of doing raids week by week all the time but bad for vets with statics who want to have fun. My idea is, give those statics groups an additional difficulty but without a new title (even if its cosmetic, people will 100% gatekeep based on that) they should put there Tradable and Untradable Mounts Pets and maybe skins. That's it. No mats, no gold, no title just pure cosmetics. If you are a vet and you gonna ask - then what's the point of doing that then my question is - you want to do it because there is no hard content or you want to do it because you want to benefit from it? Most of the vets are simply hypocrites that actually don't want something harder but if it is that means they can gatekeep with it, they will do it.

Overall it's good that they keep givin those surveys to do but question is - how good they are in understanding them and if they learn from it or just do what's THEY think is better for us based on that. We probably know the answer...

toml1882: Paradise and crucible feels like a chore that is mandatory. Im doing it on 7 characters which might be the reason why it feels so but fomo. Its free mats and gold that I can use to hone up my chars basically for free. I enjoy each hell key, because its pretty much gambling and I want to see what reward ill get at the end, but paradise needs to be changed, i do 35paradise runs minimum plus any extra tickets I get. Change paradise into some sort or elixir-type cutting minigame. Make it 5-10mins per character per week and ill do them all

DanielBrennen: Gane is so boring now...

weblan-d2w: game needs more advertisement. Events and all good but if ppl dont know games existence what use is there?

nyztan0: PEOPLE HEART ME OUT, UPVOTE IF YOU AGREE:

I just had a CRAZY idea for what paradise crucible SHOULD be, you know when a boss enrages and does super fast animations, THIS is what crucible should be, who ever can LIVE the longest places the highest, then it becomes a true SKILL simulator and you also get to PRACTICE your skill and IMPROVE at the game... HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO MAKE A DECNT DESIGN SMILEGATE? YOU HAVE THE GAME, BUT YOUR IDEAS SUCK.

Jonax3Digga: Me with my 7 other static mates and we never saw on the special hell keys a 80 floor season 1& 2 this is a myth geting there!

c1ege: Paradise would be great as a skill check element in the game. Ex. enraged guardian patterns or Tower movement-check levels. It's just a very shitty chaos dungeon atm.

fluquor: the problem is john won't carry me tfm

ToRecallE: I got to Floor 100 2 times. 1 time season 1, 1 time season 2. but i do key on 20 characters. and both Floor 100 are low level alts, no even my main 6th

Mar 09 2026

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