Lost Ark Podcast! Asmongold invites popular creators for the game, Stoopzz & ZealsAmbitions, to talk about Pay-to-Win, Class Balance, Whaling, New Content, Amazon, Smilegate, Lost Ark’s Director, how players feel about the game & the changes that are being made in response.
Stoopzz https://www.youtube.com/c/StoopzzTV/
Zeals https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpDcj6E73QeFkmqk7gH5wxA
0:00 TEASER
1:34 Introducing Zeals
2:11 Where the F is the Honing Buff?
3:12 How much have you spent, Zeals?
3:54 Introducing Stoopzz
4:19 Smilegate Has DONE This Before!
5:38 Director Warned Us About The Early Raid Release
8:46 This Is NOT Pay-To-Win
10:47 People In Tier 2 Complaining About Tier 3
12:19 There’s A LOT In Lost Ark
15:39 When The Game Becomes Un-F2P-friendly
17:35 Proud of Wasting $$$ THOUSANDS
18:45 P2Winners Just Want to Show Off
21:30 New World
23:47 Stoopzz’s Guilty Pleasure
25:39 Amazon Is Afraid of That
26:40 I Feel Bad For Amazon
27:47 Western Censorship Was A Lie
31:40 Everybody Is Exactly The Same
33:00 INVESTING $$$ In Lost Ark
36:17 I Always Played WoW but then…
39:20 Amazon Listening & Making Changes
41:22 Lost Ark WHALE Donates to Asmon
43:02 The Real Whales Are Hiding…
44:37 This Guy Has Been Watching For 7 Months
46:08 Rich is a tiny little fish.
48:27 What Amazon Should Do Now
51:07 Keeping Up With Your Friends via $$$
53:55 You Don’t Know What Pay-To-Win Is
55:47 WoW Players Are Bots
59:28 I Said To Blame Asmongold
1:00:12 Closing Thoughts
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iunno why people are so mad, i got 3 chars at 580, 1 at 980 and another at 1060, does not matter whats being released or if its p2w, just out here playing every class i like, if anything im trying not to get to the end game to quick so this shit last longer because i really like this game right now lmao
slottttttttttt maaaaaaaachineeeeeeee
this is an elitist game . worse than maplestory
Peoples are treating one additional boss like it's the last one. in new world everybody said there was too little content, now it's coming in too fast. i'm happy if they just push more and more and more bosses out there every month rather then try to expand the releases over long periods of time, players can catchup to releases but releases cant catch up to players
You guys should do this more often for big patches/content drops/big issues etc.
Where can I apply to be an editor?
Not sure if you want to or not, but if could set up a podcast or just maybe even have them more on stream that would be awsome. The flow of the convo just flowed so natural, and it was really refreshing to listen to. This is the type of content that I personally love!
But this is simply one basement devellers opinion so I am not sure what others might think.
did parts of their conversation repeat ? like i heard the guy say he wakes up and just watches his stream when he wakes up and hears people giving the wrong info i feel like i heard that twice
I love all 3 of these guys so much man
Best (ark)AllCraft episode yet
i havent spent any money cept for founders and the crystal pack and im 1340ilvl im not rushing it.
Zeals is awesome
amazon is gunna put IRL polititcs into lost ark. amazon are not gamers.
7:00 That's the problem. People think it's a job. it's not! It's a game. If you put in"WORK" that is not fun to you…it's your problem, I'm gonna be honest here. (of course I can understand you being mad then)
[Big essay inc.:] Now of course I'm not at all defending ags/smile gate's decision to release this so early fostering not 100€$, not 200, not 500, no but from what I hear now 2k-5k $€ transactions. For a game? You could say, bluntly put: How do such dumb people have that money, hahaha.
So all this is not cool of course.
But I do think endgame achievements should be very hard to reach. Why? Because otherwise the game is solved – and will get boring or rather said lose quite some charm for people who enjoy the game.
I always tell people to see it this way: You don't HAVE to reach the most endgame. WHY? Because developers EXACTLY KNOW how players' brain work, uncontrollably strong urges to reach the most endstate, this was even used in Diablo2 mods like Median XL, just for game play reasons! (FYI: Totally free to play) And long before… So this is nothing new At ALL.
It's an artificial hard to reach state, intentionally build in.
In those classic game's for fun. Nowadays for profit because of more and more accepted shops. (BTW you can even find it in extremely many "modern" smartphone legitimate android apps where you pay 100$€ for a simple feature adding up to 500$€ and more, again just games!)
So what instead of wanting to reach the utmost endstate? Let me tell you. What about people that have fun playing the game, and grinding when they feel like, as much as they want But not over the point when they feel it's work. And on top of having fun, get loot for that. Wouldn't that be amazing??? Guess what, we actually have that. People are simply not appreciating it! If I had to be honest the complaints about that are really… (Sorry it would be too offensive to say). So the benefit of this game is, similar to an RTS where there is no gear to reach but pure gameplay, that you can play it so much! – being so much fun to you possibly, (like that RTS being so fun to grind), but here you you will get "something out of it".
HOW WONDERFUL! (IF humans were only nice beings… But they aren't naturally, not at all.)
No. Yea wait, some players actually have a problem with this really awesome design. What, how comes? Yea, cause they feel they MUST FOR ANY PRICE (I mean let's be real here >250€$ already is quite a price for a game) reach the absolute endgame. Now look at the video numbers, (2k-5k$€) did I tell too much? And again it's a long known principle of endgame that is used before you were even born. That's why there is random factors, too, btw.
Now. Why is this not cool? Again, because the developer can artifiically RAISE THAT WALL to earn artificially theoretically infinite money, for almost no work.
So I don't want to blame anyone. But in the end it's the developers "fault" making the abuse. Just to be clear I'm not defending anyone. Then the people are falling for it is another thing, not a fault, but a phenomenon if you will.
To put it in a nutshell:
IMO endgame 100% BIS gear not being easily achievable is an extremly good design, it rewards simply playing when you enjoy the game longer than usual. Which adds so much more fun for those that have fun playing. However nowadays it's found this can be abused like crazy, and that's the only problem about it! (again proof: ppl spending 5k$€) (the rates are actually not a problem, in very old games we had drop chances for BIS stuff of less than 0.1% and less, but the problem is you can buy it with RLM now. The point is this: is taking away from that magic)
It's really sad to me that people are that crazy about it, because it devalues this awesome design, and some game's get too easy and trivial by that because of the following complaints by others wanting to "achieve" the same….. It's a hopeless topic I feel, it's easy to understand but there are always millions of new people not being aware of it.
FYI: I'm not even at T3 (yet, who gives a shit.), but I have long tiem game experience. Long haul and personal enjoyment is what matter in a game!
You should understand after this essay. (and if you understand me not being T3 yet is on purpose, then you won)
Disclaimer: Sorry if anyone is put off by my way of writing, my mother tongue is not English
8:00 Feedback – when you guys talk. Perhaps the game sound should be much more quiet or be put off. For my taste it should not even be doing other gameplay than what you talk about…, but I can see you want to grind… Just turn off sound for a video ^_^
This western release is a sad topic for me, despite or because the advertisement for thsi game was so great, it could be the next WoW honestly – in terms of size. But everything AGS did from release always felt wrong to me, from my long year experience. And it's going on and on, they won't stop, it doesn't seem like they invest their money into more experienced staff. No instead we get western Pop music in their first LoA trailer. Like WTF
Like this is a really new and fresh game to most of the players. Having the first 2 months feel great, having players buidl up a love for the game in the west – because the majority was not playing it in Ru/KR, let's be honest here… Is IMO the most important thing. And that's why I love you guys, you perfectly point that out:
– "Enjoy the ride" is what really matters for a good game. (quoting Zeals) Not this "get it done q" mentality like having sex with a grandma.
– LoA is like getting laid with a mercedes, you want to enjoy each aspect… It's that good in each aspect.
If there wasn't the Pimp ( = western publisher/developer, ags/smilegate), saying: Look at the clock you have limited time ( = Amazon saying: Here is Argos, you're too slow aswhole!)
Simple question: Why am I rushed through a game that just released. I don't care about some other version somewhere TBH, I care about my game experience.
I’m the guy that got the astray before upgrading lmao. Good bye pirate coins 🤣
Wait what billion damager zerker are they talking about?
Stoopz is way too biased to ever give feedback on any game. "The raid should have come out 2 weeks later, because it would have been better timing for my friends who grinded a lot"
Gotta figure out how to block this douchebag from recommendations.
LOST ARK IS PAY 2 WIN.
LOST ARK IS NOT PAY 2 WIN IN RANKED PvP.
If someone tells you otherwise, they are in Copium or Lying.
that was nice and fun!
i dont like the censorship because it looks worse. plain and simple
the problem with this game is youu cannot matchmake at all.. people are too stupid to learn mechanics of fights and never question why everyone on their team gets one shotted. Instead they go on reddit and cry about hard dungeons because they dont know something
Great vid
I Would love to know what percentage of people hit the cash shop at the same time they release these patches that they then issue an "apology" for later. I feel like they know they will get a % of players to instantly spend money prepatch and after patch. They face no backlash from players only gains since they say sorry and they will do better next time…..then do the same thing again lol. SmileGate knows how much money they can expect to make from these stats with each patch issued.
1:27 – 1:30 this is the focus of people that end up saying the game is pay2win … “just get maxed gear fast af on one character”
This guy is laughing like a thirsty girl on a first date
I don't know if anyone has actually noticed this, but the first image about the censoring stuff is literally like, extremely obviously edited in paint lol
There's literal blocks of single colors in the exact locations the censorship supposedly happened.