Player base needs to chill out or we going to die": Lost Ark players call for better behaviors from whales
Despite the tremendous success Lost Ark has had with its western launch, some fractures have appeared. As is common with many MMORPGs over time, the endgame content has created divisions among players.
Amazon Games had apologized in March over the introduction of T3 content. While that is a problem from the developers' side, it seems that the game has a whale problem.
According to one player, a few whales act as 'try-hards' and are unhappy if someone makes a mistake. The player believes that such behavior will be problematic in the future.
Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG received unprecedented success when Lost Ark was introduced to a larger audience. The game received a positive response, breaking the million concurrent player count threshold.
However, there have been specific problems that have appeared. Some fear that those could spell doom for the game. If anything, misbehavior by whales can accelerate the decline.
Whales are usually referred to as players who spend a hefty amount of money on a video game. In Lost Ark, spending heavy amounts can fast-track a player's progress. While that might be fine for them, one player has criticized the behavior of some whales.
Reddit user u/Biglaborn posted about their experiences with pugging (playing with random people in groups). The player is at level 1392 and complained about the behavior of some whales.
They said that such behavior has the potential to kill the game more than dry spells of content.
One player referred to the whales in the discussion as elitists and said how such people are found in every MMORPG.
The above response was countered by another person who stated that so-called elitists rarely play in random groups. Even if they do, they don't mind carrying their
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