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Amazon Details Lost Ark's Upcoming Closed Beta, Monetization Plans | MMORPG.com

After being delayed until early 2022, Amazon and Smilegate have announced a closed beta for Lost Ark in the west, which starts November 4th. Today in a series of blog posts, the team detailed what players can expect to see, as well as how monetization will work for the free-to-play MMOARPG.

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enesisxlr8

Missed the boat on this one... Lost Ark, 4-5 years old now?

Bayen

So Royal Crystals are the only currency bought with real money, but then you can use the Royal Crystals to buy the Blue Crystals which you use to buy stuff from the cash-shop.

In the other regions I played this game, the cash shop had many mats in there for upgrading gear.

FrodoFragins

enesisxlr8 said:

Missed the boat on this one... Lost Ark, 4-5 years old now?

nah. There aren't enough quality multiplayer ARPGs out there. This and Last Epoch should do quite well next year.

Tokken

alright, ready for closed beta.

godsmack1

hmmmm
lets see if they can pull it off
i love new world actually!.. but trying to keep up with blizzard numbers.......
big shoes to fill my friend.

Kratier

i hope they dont mess this up

BrotherMaynard

The game is currently not available in the Netherlands and Belgium.

That is all we need to know about its business model...

Asm0deus

Will give it a try but will have to see how the monetization goes..... I am skeptical.

MaxBacon

They also clarified the pets change.


The monthly optional subscription can be bought with in-game earnable blue crystals, so the pet benefits are not paywalled. Pet benefits that come from the ability to access bank anywhere, extra inventory and such are quite used in raids for example.

Scot

Does anyone else feel that playing a game is now like taking out a mortgage or investigating investment options? We never used to have to look at the fine print about the fiscal policy of the game you know. Sigh.

MaxBacon

Scot said:

Does anyone else feel that playing a game is now like taking out a mortgage or investigating investment options? We never used to have to look at the fine print about the fiscal policy of the game you know. Sigh.

BrokenSilence

Bayen said:

So Royal Crystals are the only currency bought with real money, but then you can use the Royal Crystals to buy the Blue Crystals which you use to buy stuff from the cash-shop.



In the other regions I played this game, the cash shop had many mats in there for upgrading gear.

Buying mats to upgrade gear is NOT a good sign at all. I really hope it's no where as bad as Archeage or Archeage Unchained.

Nightfyre

If i click the red Play Lost Ark Now, it takes me New World instead. Teehee

Vrika

BrokenSilence said:

Bayen said:

So Royal Crystals are the only currency bought with real money, but then you can use the Royal Crystals to buy the Blue Crystals which you use to buy stuff from the cash-shop.



In the other regions I played this game, the cash shop had many mats in there for upgrading gear.

Buying mats to upgrade gear is NOT a good sign at all. I really hope it's no where as bad as Archeage or Archeage Unchained.

This monetization doesn't look good either: It looks like free players will be able to earn gold for some enchantment attempts through raids and certain quests, but at end-game whales will just be able to buy stuff for more enchantment attempts.

This looks too much like another Asian MMO that lets you play pretty far without spending anything, then at end-game hits you with enchantment grind.

FrodoFragins

BrokenSilence said:

Bayen said:

So Royal Crystals are the only currency bought with real money, but then you can use the Royal Crystals to buy the Blue Crystals which you use to buy stuff from the cash-shop.



In the other regions I played this game, the cash shop had many mats in there for upgrading gear.

Buying mats to upgrade gear is NOT a good sign at all. I really hope it's no where as bad as Archeage or Archeage Unchained.

I'll play it until I feel that I'm being forced to spend money to progress and catch up with whales.  There are too many other options out there.

Dattelis

BrotherMaynard said:

The game is currently not available in the Netherlands and Belgium.

That is all we need to know about its business model...

These are the regions that banned loot boxes I think, aren't they?

IceAge

I mean .. I played in RU servers. I got to max level. Great ..

...except the leveling process is one of the most liner i've ever played. It reminded me of Cabal, Rohan, 2Moons, etc.

Didn't stayed for the "End Game", which I heard is ..better than the above, but because the servers were pretty empty and because of the leveling ..thing, which bored me a lot, i /quit it.

I don't see myself playing it.

Oh, and the P2W is REAL and it will be REAL in EU/NA too. Imagine Lineage 2 and Archeage had a baby....a big baby!

ConstantineMerus

I'm really looking forward to this game, been waiting for it for a long time. I actually would prefer if it is P2W, since I don't have much time and lots of monies, or was it the other way around? I'm not sure... anyways, great game. And what a combat for an ARPG. 

Sovrath

enesisxlr8 said:

Missed the boat on this one... Lost Ark, 4-5 years old now?

It's not milk, it won't go bad.

They'll have plenty of people trying this.

Shinobe

""Amazon states this means most of the items found on New World's store will be obtainable in the world, barring Founder's Pack and name-change items. ""

Maybe you want to fix that in your text "New Worlds store"

olepi

Scot said:

Does anyone else feel that playing a game is now like taking out a mortgage or investigating investment options? We never used to have to look at the fine print about the fiscal policy of the game you know. Sigh.

When EQ first came out, I thought "oh boy! another RPG to play!"

I got it home and realized you had to provide a credit card to play, and no single-player available.

I took it back and got a refund at the store.

Today, it's more like "Ok, how many currencies are there in this game? How much will I have to buy?".

Tiller

IceAge said:

I mean .. I played in RU servers. I got to max level. Great ..



...except the leveling process is one of the most liner i've ever played. It reminded me of Cabal, Rohan, 2Moons, etc.



Didn't stayed for the "End Game", which I heard is ..better than the above, but because the servers were pretty empty and because of the leveling ..thing, which bored me a lot, i /quit it.



I don't see myself playing it.



Oh, and the P2W is REAL and it will be REAL in EU/NA too. Imagine Lineage 2 and Archeage had a baby....a big baby!

Never thought I would say this but these days I don't mind some brainless linear leveling, as long as it's consistent. The fun for me is in the raids, even the sp dungeons. Yes this swg vet has been indoctrinated into this type of gameplay over time. Do I miss sandbox? yeah, but this is fun too. Even though I mostly play solo; honestly it feels like a really cool Diablo, but with more players around providing better multiplayer ambience. Kinda feels like how GW2 should have been. I don't see NA and EU being as empty as Russian servers. They are consistently frugal in their spending, hence why most of the players on RU are outside of the country.

jtckline3

Haha i cant believe u guys are falling for the same scam again. ALL korean mmo are P2W or P2AF by 50% so F2P can smell the fart from behind.

Levrion

Amazon Game Studios? Hard pass. I've seen what they do with games with New World. Bug ridden piece of trash.

Tiller

jtckline3 said:

Haha i cant believe u guys are falling for the same scam again. ALL korean mmo are P2W or P2AF by 50% so F2P can smell the fart from behind.

 So what you are really saying is that you hate Korean games because they are Korean.

Nothing really hidden here, game has been out for years so we know what we are getting.