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It is pay to win. Soon when Amazon wants more money suddenly the grinds will get heavier to force you to spend $$. If today you need 3 daily hours of grind to catch-up it will soon be 5 and then 8 and then 10 until there is no way to catch up without paying. Then the cash shop will become slowly more expensive.
The trick is to do it slowly enough that the time/money sunk phallacy will keep most pushing forward and by the time they finally realize they have been scammed they will be 100s or 1000s of dollars out.
Kudos to Amazon though. Excellent plan. Any good dealer knows the first bump is free.
Mobile gaming type monetization with different currency just to make it less clear how much u actually pay. Arbitrary giving out fixed amounts of free currency wich ultimately is just there to tease, so ppl are willing to spend money easier. And u can earn everything ingame. Except it just takes eternitys to farm up for it and developers introduce game mechanics that are just grindy in nature to sell u a solution from the cash shop. Absolutely aggressive P2W mechanic that give me bdo ptsd. Obviously this is opinion based.
Oh please there is a difference between getting things 10% faster and 2x 3x 4x faster. These devs are good at obfuscating the p2win but 4 currencies exist only to make money. And sure in every game people p2win BUT it isnt normally the games business model and encouraged. Sad they took this path when they have a game that looks so good it doesnt need it.
So yes… it is pay to win
Very very pay 2 win. Honestly worst game I’ve ever played when it comes to pay 2 win. Worse than BDO. Still very fun game that I want to play though
Answer: Yes, but no, but actually- yes.
I dont understand why people have to make a competition out of everything. In Ranked PVP your gear and stats are equal, so your progress does not matter. (For competitive) and why tf would I care if someone spends hundreds of bucks to be faster in PVE by a month. Have fun with the boys, the game and the grind. 0€ spent max lvl 500 gs and the Game is great so far for me.
PVE Is P2W maybe. But why would
I care if the game is good ?
There is no advantage of paying
Other than having faster pve
And a lighter pocket
I love the Game to be honest
But I dont try to defend it
Just enjoy your lifes more
Sometimes. Not everything
Is a competition of a run.
Have a nice one. 🙂
Can i topup royal crystals with paysafecard ?
Ahh… the usual bs excuse again… "…but you can acquire it in a normal game play…"
If you can buy your way past a free player then yes it is. And I'm sorry it's not.pay to not grind it's pay not to play, so what's the point in playing if your paying to not play some of it.
IN CONCLUSION: You can LITERALLY use real life money to upgrade your gear item level. If that isn't pay to win, then nothing is…
Not to mention you can speed up everything you do with real life money, the problem above is much worse.
come to the point my man.
"you could buy blue crystals with gold"… you can that in live EU now so?
100% p2w you can buy crafting mats from the store to craft your end game gear.
It's P2W.
Basically 2 of the same skill level players. One pays, another doesn't. The one who pays will reach and grind all of the end game content and be miles/weeks ahead of non-paying player. Will F2P player ever reach that point when he/she will feel up to date? Possibly – it will be a very short enjoyment period because the next expansion will drop them back on the ass. So yeah… this game is 100% P2W
can i turn blue crystals into royal ones or is that impossible
Whilst watching this video, I cancelled my Lost Ark download. I forgot just how much weaker I'll be if I don't pay
In my book of options it is ptw . When a raid a raid guild will take a paying player over a free one because there at the finish line first. That sed I've been playing lost ark and it is vary fun . I have mixed feelings about it . I wold rather a sub or and about cost and have none of that shop stuff in my mmo but the games now days that have that model sill have the same sort of shop two. So I guess we are all just in a world u can not exape it . And when u think about other games doing all the methods and this one only have the shop maybe the shop is a bit wore it sill fills mostly in comparison fare…… thanks good video
why people those days spend a lot cash just to progress fast I mean should you Enjoy the storyline!! what about feeling the game by completing hard quest and hard raids
kids those days …. sight
im 55 hours in. i just started analyzing Mari's Secret Shop and Gear Honing. It's most definitely P2W with Lootbox issues since iLvl can be advanced with real money. The content and the core combat loop are great. It's unfortunate it's marred by such predatory monetization.
I'm leveling up right now and I'll make my decision when I get to endgame … But IMO, pay 4 convenience should have the same negative connotation as pay 2 win. I mean, some game companies make it super obvious that they design the grinds in their game to take way too long, with systems that have way too much RNG and feel extremely tedious… But if you just open your wallet, that boring, frustrating and tedious experience will be a lot less. Obviously, I can't say if Lost Ark is as bad, and to be clear, I'm certainly not opposed to grinds in MMOs (noramlly, happy to do it), but there is a huge difference between normal-ish mmo grinds, and F2P/P2W grinds that are obviously stretched beyond any reasonable measure. If it ends up being the latter, I'll quit for sure.
You can tell which ones are the PoE players in these comments…You're not "winning" anything by buying things in this game, all you're paying for is either convenience or time skips. To add to this, there are hard cap limits on the materials that you can buy from the shop, so even if you can buy them it's only set amounts.
There's a reason why this game has more than a million people playing and breaking records, and the "tHiS gAmE iS p2W" clowns are just that…clowns. Seethe some more.
I think people are overthinking this, if you need actual examples I would definitely recommend watching Kanon's video with the #1 f2p player in Korea. You definitely don't need to p2w in this game, as in every game. You grind = good reward, more you grind, higher reward. I would recommend watching starter guides to improve quick, each lvl 50 you get, you can do dailies and weeklys which is easy gold to progress quicker. Like I said before, watch Kanon's video. If you have an available 2-3 hours to play a day, you can easily progress in this game to end game within each time there is an update to increase the ilvl.
The answer is “yes, it is pay to win as much as any (non-mobile) game is. It doesn’t matter if you can get the same stuff by grinding because money will buy you performance enhancements faster than grinding for them. It’s not just a cosmetic system like other F2P games.
well sayed man
Is the weekly card pack worth it?
That intro was incredible
"I spent 56 hours in this game, got to "level cap", got to their dungeons and raids (paid for the $100 platinum preorder pack).
This game is the epitome of abusive videogame designs. It has at least 10 currencies all of which are used throughout the game, earned in different ways, and utilized for distinct purposes. It has at least 5 systems of "collectables" that must be collected in their entirety to get the best reward. At the same time, the game intentionally gates the player from hitting higher content by requiring a "gear score" to proceed. "Gear score" is gained by "honing" your armor and weapon, that process costs some of the special currency, and isn't actually a 100% chance to succeed. This currency can only be obtained in the dungeons.. which is fine – their dungeons are fun! However, you only get loot the first two times you finish a dungeon in a day. You can continue running the same dungeon more often than that, but the loot you'll get will be ultimately miniscule. The only way to get this currency then is to make a full account of alt-characters, get them to "level cap" and run two dungeons per day on each character just to "funnel" currency back to your main character.
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What's that?
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Don't want to do all that?
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Oh just buy all these currencies from the shop for crystals and crystals can be purchased with USD right here in-game!
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Anyone still playing this game is willingly subjecting themselves to an abusive significant other." a review yoinked ^-^.
"as a free player, you can get, acquire, achieve, unlock every single thing that someone who pays does and can but some of it you will do and achieve much slower." <<– This sounds like you've never played gacha games. yes, you can get everything, but getting it on day 1 than prolly getting it in 1 month's worth of farming. hmmmm (that just shouts pay to win to me). let the people that play mostly eastern games/mmos speak. cuz we know a p2w game when we see one and we still enjoy playing most of those p2w games. f2p p2w games have been the type of games/mmos we have been getting as far as I can remember. (2004 when I started with ragnarok online) The term pay to win solely is tied to progression. whether it be gear or cosmetics etc. mmos hook you because of the progression (you didn't get in real life). Do you want to RP? you need to look good. oof! good looking cosmetics are only available in the cash shop(p2w). Do you want to pvp? you need gear. welp, I can't compete "right now". people that swiped got everything geared to the teeth and "I still need to grind" for my gear (p2w). Now let's talk about the crystals. So giving you small doses of crystals in game is just a marketing thing for you to get hooked into the thing. most eastern mmos do this. it's like illegal drugs. they give you tiny doses of it until you get addicted to it and eventually pay. they didn't put it there not because they don't want you to think they are p2w but they want to lure you in. Let's talk about the whales dropping things in the auction house for in game currencies. That is also a thing in BDO and that game was unanimously dubbed as a p2w game. LA is not different in this case. I dont know why people are defending it. it doesnt diminish its value as a good game.
You have a very incorrect definition of P2W. Pay to win means you can buy things from the shop that aren't purely cosmetic and therefore game functionality assisting. If I pay money, will it make the game easier to play in any way? The answer is yes. The game is P2W straight up. No ambiguity. There is nothing about convenience or "pay to not grind". If I can pay to not grind, that means I can pay to skip content, therefore winning by paying. That's all there is to it.
great video, really in depth. my only remaining question is, ok so its faster to get max level and gear by paying… but by how much? if its only a week or two as rage said, i consider that not P2W and totally fine. but there was some rumors floating around about a video with asmongold where a veteran korean player said it would take like, 2 years to get max level from character creation totally F2P? and i can totally see a situation in which this vet was assuming there was no blue crystal grinding and ergo no late game crystalline aura helping, so maybe some mat caps contributed to the numbers there, despite it actually being bloated.
so which is the case here?
In GvG (guild versus guild pvp) gear is not equalized. It is p2w, but still it's lovely game to play without paying.
this video is full of misinformation, you are able to go from level 1 to 50 and get a full set of raiding gear for abyss in the span of one day by using the cash shop
Equalized PVP kinda won me over.
Pay2getfaster is pay2win
RageGaming: "It's not pay to win, it's pay to save time"
Me: "Pretty sure that's the definition of pay to win… but thanks for trying to put lipstick on a pig."
They make sure ftp players won't be able to reach tier 3 until tier 4 is released.
Ftp players are stuck in irrelevant gear.
And gvg is not balanced because they of course wanna entice those whales with underpowered players to push around.
This is pay to win period.
so its utterly pay 2 win except for no-livers and the 3 sloppy pvp modes (which exclude 1v1 and gvg). thanks for the vid.
As a free to play player u are never going to get the best gear.. the game is pay to win simpel…..
People calling p2w LostArk are either dumbs or have never played a p2w game. Yes gold can be obtained with cash, id prefer that than my global chat being spammed by gold bots. Secondly u can spend ur earned gold for mats or whatever in Mary shop, gold is fairly easy to obtain. Other than that, theres no paywall theres nothing there that stops you. ffs im f2p in EU and im at 1100 ilvl. in less than a week. Not a single dime put into it. People are a bunch of cry babies. If you are broke and cant have stuff you want in game it surely happens IRL, so fix ur life then spend 10+ playing a game. fucking kids.
Oh my, I thought I recognised you from somewhere when I heard ur voice. I cant BELIEVE that youre the same Rage that I used to watch 9 years ago when I was like 8 years old. I remember watched ur quick build challenge series like it was yesterday man. Glad to see youre still around <3
you can buy gear for money, discussion closed. now talk about smth interessting, like how bad is it? whats a sensible amount of money to invest? the tldr on this is get the lv50 pack and maybe the subscription if youre invested. scrap the rest. youre welcome.
WHERE THEN HELL DO YOU BUY CRYSTALS
Stopped listening because you babble instead of getting to the point. You don't have the nicest voice on the internet, so maybe use it sparingly and without too much emphasis on words. Just some friendly advice if you're planning to release more videos.
This is free. If you don't have time, money can buy you. If you have a lot of time, you can play for free. Don't force it. it's free Hole Shit!!!
can someone tell me where can i use blue crystals for gold? in the shop i can only buy gold with royal crystal
To save you 16mins, TLDW: You can upgrade gear with RL cash, the very definition of pay 2 win.
What can I buy from the store to gear my character?