Interview: Talking The Future Of Lost Ark With Community Manager Roxanne Sabo

mmorpg.com:

Lost Ark has been one of the most successful MMOs in recent memory, having maintained a strong user base, consistent updates, and a thriving community. It's not always been perfect, but overall it’s always great to see an MMO reach this level of success, and everyone involved, from the players, to the people working on the game, all make it happen. I was once again fortunate enough to talk to Community Manager Roxanne Sabo, inquiring about the current state of Lost Ark, relative to the newest content, and everything there is to come!

MMORPG.com: The Letter to the Community was chock full of great announcements and changes, and many of them are rather unexpected, and unprecedented. Some of them, such as the truncation of tiers, aren't even present in other versions of Lost Ark. Will these changes be exclusive to the North American version, and will we see more of these changes in the future?

Roxanne Sabo, Community Manager: Following our first full year of live service for Lost Ark in the West, one of our major focuses for 2023 is addressing the feedback we’ve received from all types of players. One of those major points of feedback is the difficulty in keeping up with the pace of new content, especially if you’re a new player or someone who wants to return to the game but is intimidated by the amount of work needed to catch up. One of several tactics we’ve identified to address this, as noted in the letter to the community, is to consolidate the current four progression steps into two progression steps in order to help streamline the honing process. 

This change is planned to affect all Western players of Lost Ark, not just those in North America. There are new players coming into the world of Arkesia every day,