Shroud Says Lost Ark Players Should 'Get Over' Pay to Win Controversy
Lost Ark, the Korean free-to-play MMO recently published in the west by Amazon, remains incredibly popular nearly two weeks after launch. Part of that success is due to successful Twitch streamers like Shroud consistently featuring the game. Lost Ark is not without its detractors, however. The game's heavy-handed monetization is often decried as «pay-to-win.» Shroud recently addressed this during one of his Twitch streams, telling his audience of over 10,000 viewers to «get over it.»
«Get the **** over it,» is what Shroud tells his Twitch viewers after they ask what his thoughts are onLost Ark being pay-to-win. To his credit, Shroud doesn't deny or try to obfuscate the fact that Lost Ark has pay-to-win monetization, a standard response to the query. He's simply entirely comfortable with Lost Ark's monetization and doesn't agree with the current controversy.
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Shroud does describe his attitude on Lost Ark's monetization, though, or at least he tries. What Shroud believes is that all MMOs are pay-to-win. He says that even in MMOs without gameplay-impacting monetization, there are «cheaters.» Cheaters like gold miners are able to sell gold to other players outside any game's Terms of Service, which can be used by players for in-game advantages like loot or high-end content runs. In Shroud's view, game developers should be providing these types of services, so that they can profit.
As forLost Ark's monetization, he acknowledges that the MMO's current microtransaction monetization «can be expensive.» He even describes it as «not worth it.» But he believes it's worth it since it makes a lot of money and the only trade-off is «some rich shmucks spend thousands of
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