Unless your tech is WOEFULLY old you should be fine.
. . .as to the question, you have about 2 hours before they go away.
Unless your tech is WOEFULLY old you should be fine.
. . .as to the question, you have about 2 hours before they go away.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Why should I get a Founders pack?
chixdiggit
Member
Honestly, you are fine without them. It offers things like exclusive pet, a little extra money, and 30 days of the premium service.
The premium service is totally optional and really not much of an advantage. Game plays just fine without it.
At this point? There is no point. You were going to get it for the headstart and a few extra cosmetics or in-game currency. It Here is what you get from the uber-pack:
The only thing in there that is a non-nothing are the Royal Crystals and Crystal Aura. Together, you can get both for about 80 bucks in the cash shop. The founders skin is "who cares" in terms of utility, and the silver Card Packs, feathers, Ascent Chest (just contains more silver and potions and shit) and tool chest are all things you get in game (I got the Bronze Pack which only came with the Aura and have like 70 feathers from just playing the game and Twitch drops, though you will get most from playing the game).
. . .long and short, unless you really like Cosmetics, don't bother. This is basically one of those "Character Headstart" type deals that games will give you to make you strong-ish early game (the base game is not difficult).
Fare thee well
Neophyte
I watched a ton of letsplays so far. Big chonky beefcake armored muscle dudes just isn't my style. I also don't trust Korean games when it comes to grind vs microtransactions. And games' where you just swirl/smash through hoards of weak minions, just aren't for me.
I'm glad everyone is enjoying it though, esp those who really wanted a Diablo-like game.
I'm glad everyone is enjoying it though, esp those who really wanted a Diablo-like game.
MastAndo
Member
Pretty sure it's down for a scheduled maintenance.Lost Ark seems to have some wicked launch day disruptions. Only 50k online right now.
Blue line is Twitch engagement.
PerfectDark
Banned
I been playing Lost ark and got to lvl 40. I don't play mobile games. This is 100% a mobile f2p game. Seems like allot of streamer hype and streamers desperate for a game for more content after New World bombed. The power of streamers. Just pay 100 top streamers and get fake hype.
This game will lose 75% of its player base after one month. Once a bunch of streamer move onto something else shinny this game will fall off. Its a mobile game.
I been apart of every big mmo in the last 30 years. My favorites being SWG's then WoW. Not WoW 20 years later but years 1-5.
Even MMO''s that bombed like RIft are 10xs better than Lost Ark.
This game will lose 75% of its player base after one month. Once a bunch of streamer move onto something else shinny this game will fall off. Its a mobile game.
I been apart of every big mmo in the last 30 years. My favorites being SWG's then WoW. Not WoW 20 years later but years 1-5.
Even MMO''s that bombed like RIft are 10xs better than Lost Ark.
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Definitely looks this way, and I was skeptical at first. I will say it's a very very polished game with far more scope and MMO hooks than most ARPGs would have (for better and for worse). A blend of PoE/Diablo and FFXIV is how I'd describe it. But yeah, I'm almost 50 now and pretty hooked. The end game seems pretty grindy so not sure how long it'll last, but it's definitely been worth my time so far.
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There were half a million players on the game the moment it released and ZERO Twitch presence. You REALLY think half a million players got on the game just because Asmongold was screaming "Big dick energy. . ."
. . .to say nothing of the people who were jumping through hoops just to play either the Korean client or a horribly translated Russian client?
This has "I've got refined tastes and there must be some other some other reason more people don't have the same impression of the game that I do" up-your-own-ass energy. No offense.
You matchmake lowbie dungeons, but it's pretty much singleplayer until endgame. There's nothing really to co-op until then (or that you need to co-op).
midasmulligan
Member
Same thing happened with new world. Thirsty gamer syndrome in full effect.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
extended maintenance
Eh, it happens with everything. Happened with Halo and that barely had any streamer presence.
New World was a new IP that was woefully overhyped. This game is not new. It has been put through the paces for years already. People KNOW what the content is. That is why they are excited to play it with a local, straight forward log-in client.
I mean if the game isn't folks cup of tea that's fine, but this confusion and/or attempt at caveating WHY the game is doing well is just bizarre.
Yamisan
Member
Extended maintenance at release time to delay launch ? LOL Is this a blizzard game?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Eh. No big, maybe I can play later tonight. My kid has a ball game so maybe after they go to bed.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
worse, my good friend, worse: AMAZON GAMES.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
You must be new to MMO's. Launch is almost always a clusterfuck for big releases.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Friends told me about this game a few days ago, I looked into it, promptly told them no. I have a hard stance against these games that essentially ask you to dedicate a piece of your life to it to stay current or else you get left behind.
The second games start to feel like a chore or job I lose interest. They've been on it nonstop for the last few days, they work from home, and all I see is "we have to hit level 50 so we can make a new character to keep progressing". I'm like FUCK
THAT SHIT.
I'll just keep playing Dying Light 2 while I wait for Elden Ring.
The second games start to feel like a chore or job I lose interest. They've been on it nonstop for the last few days, they work from home, and all I see is "we have to hit level 50 so we can make a new character to keep progressing". I'm like FUCK
THAT SHIT. I'll just keep playing Dying Light 2 while I wait for Elden Ring.
SoggyBiscuit
Banned
They've taken the server offline again lol
The truest MMO launch experience
The truest MMO launch experience
Whats happening? The servers haven't been up since 5am EST.
GHG
Member
Friends told me about this game a few days ago, I looked into it, promptly told them no. I have a hard stance against these games that essentially ask you to dedicate a piece of your life to it to stay current or else you get left behind.
The second games start to feel like a chore or job I lose interest. They've been on it nonstop for the last few days, they work from home, and all I see is "we have to hit level 50 so we can make a new character to keep progressing". I'm like FUCK
I'll just keep playing Dying Light 2 while I wait for Elden Ring.
Do you know if they are playing it that much because they genuinely enjoy it or because there are daily/weekly time limited rewards?
Holammer
Member
Looked like they had it sorted and players online on Steam stats soared for a bit. Dropping now.
It's still borked.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
I'm sure at this exact moment it's a mixture of both. They're known to be attracted to games where the main attraction is grind for the sake of grind so this is right up their alley. But I've known them for years, they go hard in the beginning, say it's the greatest thing ever, then there's always a steep fall off.
New World just recently was going to be the greatest thing ever...they played it for maybe a month before dropping it, but they played the shit out of it during that month.
Craig of War
Banned
Damn that crazy all this games that i never heard of putting up crazy numbers on Steam imagine what Elder Scrolls 6 will do probably 5 million plus on steam day 1
Holammer
Member
844k players online. There we go.
Yamisan
Member
No I'm not, and quit trying to use that sad excuse " you must be new" to defend something you like. MMOs don't delay launch day for maintenance. Grow the fuck up, this isn't normal for ANY mmo on release, pathetic fanboi.
Swift_Star
Banned
Like everyone has been saying: someone will always fill the gap.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
Hari Seldon
Member
Just logged on to steam, the game is no where in the top sellers list or anything. I had to search for it in order to download. That is insane that they pulled it from the front page lists because it is too popular haha.
The end doesn't seem to have much of a paywall though? Absolute ton of content that is entirely free? Paying seems to be a really min max thing/cosmetics.
Yamisan
Member
You haven't hit end game it seems.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Holy shit. I been looking at some gameplay footage, and the camera work and combat look positively fantastic! Jeez! I'm tempted to get into this one.
Inviusx
Member
I imagine end game is just running dungeons over and over again for incremental stat increases or PVP, same as New World.
So anyone that quits before end game probably played all the best content anyway...
There's like hundreds of hours of content so no obviously not. The store is accessible though and plenty of info in terms of what the end game entails and while it's clearly time consuming there's little to be gained by spending money.