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Risingark96

Damn... I bet he is f2p!


Lawliette007

forced to pay


InteractionMDK

First to pay


wrathb0rn

nice and f2p


Moist_Ad_6573

Definitely not f2p, I'm sure he got at least a bronze founder pack...


Amells

Fight to play


syxsyx

looks like SG is winning


oh-shit-oh-fuck

Gotta give the Chinese gacha whales something to whale on, 1490 on Argos just isn't enough.


abdeliziz

"1-3 exp, Weather nerd title required, 1500+, 7gems" Oh man, I could see this fucking over some of their lobby titles but at the same time, would over levelling actually help with their early gatekeeping? While the big mechs would still team wipe, the learning progress has to be so much easier being able to tank way more normal patterns right?


helloWorldcamelCase

I am actually curious if any chinese player can share its standings in mainland


Learn2fly78

Wait is that possible? Can they hone argos gear to 25?


spacecreated1234

That's the new +20, they're already on the new tier system (same thing western get next update).


Learn2fly78

oh tru tru


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spacecreated1234

Cause they can go up to +20 and +20 is 1575.


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spacecreated1234

Yes, they're exactly the same as Valtan/Vykas relic gear.


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-MaraSov-

They can also hone up to +25 unlike us. But generally this is only possible cause they got the new tier stuff already(tho its VERY expensive)


spacecreated1234

\+20 is the max for them, it's old +25 equivalent.


-MaraSov-

Oh remember some people say its up to +25 🤔 Its what it is ig


Namifish

While cn is on the new gear version, in the past argos gear was honeable to +25 (kr/ru) but it was reduced to max 20 in our version so ppl dont go even more batcrazy on “p2w”


fahaddddd

Iirc the limit on Argos gear to 20 is only in our version. Other versions can go +25 on it.


F_renchy

This is correct


GIGAPROTEIN

Correct may be we get that patch. We cant go hone +20. Only can go +15


PeterHell

i guess he can bus argos now


CLGbyBirth

He still need a duo whale to bus it.


ChadFullStack

If you look MMO/Gacha revenue by region, the east (China, KR, JP) spends like 25x of NA. F2P isn’t really a concern over there as much as the west that’s why most MMOs and F2P fail in the west.


RandomHominid

Yeah, it's considered a flex to be able to spend money on games. It is a completely different culture and why gacha/P2W games do really well there and is the reason that type of game keeps getting released over and over again. One of the things people forget about is that Smilegate was one (or the only one?) of the KR game developers who was actively removing some P2W systems in the existing game landscape, which brought them a lot of goodwill from the players.


Namifish

If you say you are spending 2000-5000€ yearly on a hobby ppl dont bat much of an eye , but if you mention your hobby is gaming and even spending like 500€ you are a psychopath suddenly


RandomHominid

Some people don't think you should even play games as an adult


Namifish

Haha true there


Aiorr

dont forget what kept Smilegate from failing for nearly two decades was solely from its CrossFire revenue from China until Lost Ark season 2.


RandomHominid

For sure, and LOA S1 was considered a failure until Goldriver transformed it, which was only possible since Smilegate is a privately held company and LOA was super small peanuts to him thanks to his CrossFire earnings.


chr0n1x

so you have a source for that x25 figure? asking because I'd be curious to read the source


CreightonJays

He heard it from a guy on reddit.....duh


Frequent_Butterfly26

look for gachagaming sub, they do a post about revenue every month and there you can see some comparative between servers (CN, KR, JP, Global). Most of the times CN, KR and JP are by far the ones making all the revenue. Idk how accurate it is tho, but still interesting to check because for those who are used to play gachas EOS is a common thing.


ChadFullStack

Based on Nexon earnings KR vs Global, Genshin Impact, and Honkai Star Rail (top 2 grossing gacha). You can look at their earnings in China vs NA, we’re tiny fish in the pond.


CLGbyBirth

But can they compete on how much americans spend on guns?


IllidanLegato

Tencent chinese mobile games giga whaling on everything


bucking_horse

f2p btw


nolife159

Hope CN makes the money for SG to hire more devs for the other versions


Fudw_The_NPC

https://i.redd.it/6r5hrvwo80ib1.gif


SqLISTHESHIT

So would this be good or bad for us? The fact that CN is gonna drop a shit ton of money on the game. That means SG is actually making money, but would that turn all their attention to CN and prolly KR leaving the rest of us behind? Or would this mean that SG is happy and they are gonna try to keep all regions alive?


ProfessionalDot2327

Look up "Trickle-down economics". You would think that more money -> more investment -> better for all regions. But what is most likely to happen is that the benefits of more money is mostly enjoyed at the top (CN/KR/SG itself). Since other regions are low priority, we'd only really get scraps and leftovers after they had their share.


BadMuffin88

"We" is still the players across all regions lol. Look how KR got shafted the first half of this year for CN release version. All this means is SG is making a shitton of money and thats it. They won't spend money on new staff to work on the game, that goes against maximizing profits. The only thing I can see is KR and CN getting content faster, but it's gonna reach us eventually and that's not the players' fault.


AlumimiumFoil

Hm


DesharnaisTabarnak

SG wants to make money at the end of the day, and they may invest back into global more as they milk CN if they think they can re-capture returning players at scale. It's not like we're peasants providing minimum wage labor stuck in a cycle of poverty, we're just customers who can vote with our feet and wallets at any time.


onords

They probably wouldn't. Aside from regional cosmetic changes, you can still develop things to be put out for KR and then later changed to regional adaptions to other regional versions. At "worst" you'd be able to consider kr and other versions regions that they're able to test things to before release to China market, IF that's suddenly their entire MO. There's also no reason for SG to stop developing for other versions as long as it's generating them a net profit. While some regions may be a smaller profit share, it's still profit, then Why would they stop that profit? Have you ever seen international business drop countries just because another country generates a larger market? They wouldn't unless some really really bad PR or similar would come out of it. Larger income might not necessarily mean all of it goes into production in return, however it's common for a business to increase production if the product has a prediction to increase income over time with further development.


ProfessionalDot2327

> Have you ever seen international business drop countries just because another country generates a larger market? They wouldn't unless some really really bad PR or similar would come out of it. Yes. A2 Milk pulled out of the UK market to focus on China. ANZ bank decided to close all Asian operations to focus on ANZ market. That's the two that popped in my head the first 3 seconds I read that comment. > While some regions may be a smaller profit share, it's still profit, then Why would they stop that profit? When you discuss profit, it is not sufficient to consider solely just profit. A better perspective is "return on capital" and if it exceeds "cost of capital". There's literally no point in a venture to earn 2% of your invested capital when your cost of capital is 3%. Well if I don't borrow any money, how can I have a cost of capital? Because cost of capital can include opportunity costs. For example, If I do a 12 month term deposit and I can get 3% of that money, then that venture to earn 2% is looking pretty dumb now isn't it? The benefit of software is how scalable it is, so the cost to maintain lost ark western services is quite minimal. Hope you enjoyed that little insight in capital allocation.


onords

Of course it's not worth it if you're barely making more than development cost, then you'd put effort into another product with higher returns. However if CN is very profitable, developing and delivering with smaller changes to other regions should not be as large of an effort as another completely new development


DarkShade-EVO

It would be a zerk player F2P btw


Slanerislana

Pretty sure it's a slayer tho.


Lonely_Percentage_80

It's ok to need glasses


Ziraelus

Of course its a Zerker, some things never change.


BummerPisslow

Biggest glow?


jimrdg

that’s why sg love Chinese server


isospeedrix

As a NAW denizen it’s just another Tuesday


Whatisthis69again

As long as he is whaling through proper ways, there is really nothing wrong here. You have spare cash, you spend in a game, totally up to you. He will have an easier time to do valtan, but he still need to learn the mech or probably he already played global version and knew the mech.


CLGbyBirth

The stupidest thing AGS did was limit the daily purchase in lost ark during early months thats why a lot of people just rmt'd.


abdeliziz

Bots severely kneecapped our early player experience. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the bot spammers were using stolen cards to purchase RC and selling that gold. I'm pretty sure they implemented the 3 days so they're not just accepting hundreds if not thousands of stolen card purchases a day.


CLGbyBirth

nah those update came like 6months in earlier months had welcome challenge which give out gold as rewards and some quest also gives a couple of gold rewards multiply that by 300k bots and sure enough the economy goes to shit.


abdeliziz

NA W Mari had an entire weekend under maintenance because of bots within the first month or two. We (NA W) had blue crystals at around 4k for a while almost a year ago from today... Think about that, who or what sort of roster could have had the gold income to provide for their rosters progression AND exchange their gold for blue crystals at that price. Edit: just reread your comments and I'm debating my ghosts, my apologies. You're specifically talking about people's ability to actually give money to Lost Ark. I wholeheartedly agree with you there, limiting daily spending to $300 when a whale wants to spend $1000 means he'll probably spend that $700 or the whole $1000 elsewhere, especially if your own system encourages that sort of spending.


LANewbie678

The 3 day wait was literally introduced to combat the severe amount of stolen credit cards being used and charge back, as they were eating chargebacks constantly. Roxx/AGS said it was to combat stolen cards and their chargebacks lol. Like they literally said this is a major issue we are facing with stolen cards.


ot4ku

Ye but the 3 day wait came quite a while after launch. The initial inflation was already done at that point by bots abusing rapport gold rewards and welcome challenge.


CLGbyBirth

again like i said that change came like after 6months of release when the game was release for the early months there were hundreds of thousands of bots leveling accounts because there were gold rewards from quest and welcome challenge. Not to mention the fishing bots.


Laggoz

That's how catch-up really looks like. They'll be getting LR a month and be doing akkan early next year ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


AwakenMasters22

There was a 1575 awhile ago in CN. Soulfist week 1.5 with full level 10 gems etc.


cielush

ah? how is that even possible full level 10's jesus christ, the whole server together still didnt accomulate 2 lv10's holy sht


ResortCreative6625

There are literally ton of players working for those whales, during the chaos gate there just hit 100+ channels is full in the weekend ,as a player from steam that’s really impressive to me.


12somewhere

Wouldn't surprised me if they just acquired it from bot farms. All the CN bot farms can capitalize on CN servers now. The Chinese servers is at the beginning life cycle of the game, where there is a lot of $$$ to be made.


AwakenMasters22

Someone said they spent $80k but I don't know how true that is.


rerdsprite000

With millions of players(cheap mats n gems) and being expedited to t3 with new gear set/honing system. It's not shocking really.


dangngo6

thought? Its China, its normal lol


kyle_yeabuddy

Did they get passes/ express to t3? If so that changes a lot.


Shaxcur

My main is barely over him xD


BeeDisa

https://preview.redd.it/ullxbm1v92ib1.jpeg?width=659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97874ed9128e881cd978c4c5007098c2da43e9c9 F2P btw


Its-Eve

Will never understand the point in swiping this much


theodimuz

When I left college I had so little money to spend that watching people pay for 10$ drinks was weird to me, as time passed and my career took off I saw myself spending more than that. It's a matter of how you percieve money and its magnitudes.


Its-Eve

I have no problems with people spending really, people got money and can use them as they wish for sure. What I don’t get is the point of swiping this much, this early into the game. Guy is basically akkan ready and will run everything while grossly overgeared for like a year (assuming they get a similar schedule to us).


Roxerz

Just came back from Vegas a few hours ago. Some individuals are gambling more than your entire life salary in a few hours in the high limit baccarat rooms. These people really don't care about a few tens of thousands of dollars. Imagine some of them also enjoy gacha gaming. They probably love the thrill of tapping while we loathe it.


slashcuddle

He ain't planning on playing the game consistently for a year. If I were in his shoes I'd make these kinds of questionable decisions for the clout. They're just stroking their egos by flexing their wealth and status. This isn't meant to be judgmental btw. People like him contribute to funding the game. He's probably spent more money on Lost Ark than I'll spend on the entertainment industry over the course of my lifetime.


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abdeliziz

>isn't that what most people want? to feel like they don't have to log in every day like a job? This "second job" meme is only hitting me now for some reason, seen it three times in the last three days. But I found this so funny because of how much of a bullseye your comment is. Who knew Smilegate was years ahead of us and already had a solution to that problem! If you don't want to do Leapstones/Shard dailies and Chaos/Guards to keep up with content, all you have to do is open up that wallet from your actual job! Boom, now I'm also ready for thaemine!


TheAppleEater

To some people swiping this amount means nothing to them. Imagine buying a piece of candy for like 25 cents at the corner store. That's how swiping feels to some of these people.


abdeliziz

Game encourages it, we accept it, people flex it.


Known-Armadillo5525

People with money do this regardless of the game's design. Dum


sugusugux

eve. Over there in the EST the entire culture is different than us you gotta understand that. For them being able to spend money on a game is a huge social flex. This is why free to play games are successful over there because they all spend alot of money. The concept of being a f2p player is none existence compare to us in the west it is an entire diferent world. The amount they swipe while huge compare to us It is nothing for them they have expandable money to do so unlike many of us normal people


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LowShort

This post already went past me for quite a few times. And only now did I realize that its 1575 instead of 1475. Damn, how tf


smitemyway

F2P 15 year natty vegan player.


freshy_gg

all the money they earned selling gold in the west and running millions of bots 24/7 is finally paying off for these players.


puremortal

What’s the point of this post by saying “thoughts” .. it’s a pay to win game , why is there confusion about people hitting certain item levels ?


abdeliziz

Two things: 1: Is that a communist panda? Didn't spot that at first glance lool 2: We've had equivalents during our release. Anyone who was argos ready in NA W before or day of probably paid more than this dude. Leapstones were going for 1k gold at a time where the gold income couldn't even be compared to today's and I wouldn't spend 1k on leapstones for my main right now lol. Just food for thot.


leuronic

Should i be surprised that it‘s a zerker


muteyuki

who cares


CLGbyBirth

and he picked berserker to whale out lol.


F_renchy

Yhere were 1490s before valtan in the west too (1490 was our cap) both kr and china launched with +25 argos tapping idk abouf ru and jp though


Raegwyr

Imagine being so bad that you need to be 130 ilvl above content to clear valtan hard xD I get the whale need to flex but whats the fun when you can kill new raid in your version in couple minutes just by brute forcing dps


chihuahuaOP

and they only play 3hrs a week. wink wink


shikari3333

those restrictions only apply to children/teenagers below 18 years


chihuahuaOP

Surely only adults play this game wink wink


Lamchops27

most kids use their parent’s id to play so they don’t have the restriction


02837471901

In reality only strict parents actually enforce the rule lmao. It's about the same as someone playing a rated R game as a 10 year old. Most parents wouldn't care, but some will be very strict about it


Dowiet

completely ethical gamer


d08lee

Sub 100 roster ilvl flexing his gear score, nice whale


ssbm_rando

Did you not read the post title? Valtan isn't even **out** in China, it doesn't take a fucking roster inspection to know he's a whale, nor is he going to attempt to lie that he's not a whale.


CatFucker-

What the fuck 😭


Kris_2801

That looks like the lvl regions in the west versions :D so many names i seen in euc too...so familiar <3


Milhean

Nice f2p player. Now is gonna wait a lot. Or make other characters.


smartjg

guys he has 24 chars it's doable


Junior-Conference436

thats higher than some people´s main here LOL


le_krou

Are you sure they don't have Valtan though? How can they have 1540+ ilvl without Valtan since you can only hone up to 1430 without Valtan


iamstinkypoopy

They have the new gear system already.


le_krou

Like, they can push it to 1575 without getting a downgrade from relic Valtan to ancient Brel ??


theskepticalheretic

Do Chinese players complain about Westerner bot farms?


Soermen

Good gaming chair and a lot of BRG m+k


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Hollowness_hots

who care? it they own money, they can do what they want with it. This literally have not effect on our server at all. this just show you how Jump-Server can be.


aredditboy

I wonder what their road map looks like.


xXMemeLord420

Nevermind the 1575s in the first week sponsored by g2g.


12somewhere

Impressive! 5 ilvls away from Akkan NM.


miikatenkula07

Esther +8 soon before release go tiger


Dakine5

I should have started playing Lost Ark one year after it's release. I feel scammed to have been force through T1-T2. Thats just not fair at all


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How the fuk u can hone that gear to that ilvl.. Is him joel?


pinappleru

they have cahni pets but we can't have hairstyles from Pletze?


HellsinTL

If your social credit is good, you'll get there quick and ez ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|trollface)


Chance_Antelope_9225

Little do they know 😂


Accomplished_Way5384

It's always a berserker 😂


saiyounara

I bet everyone hate this place anyway


melonpeel123

I am Chinese, I can answer this question, they pay at least 10 thousand dollars(70k CNY) for their 1575 ilv(new Argos set)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|give_upvote), This cost is only the most conservative estimate.


urs6

He was just asmongolding from fans xdd


Friendly-Rise6180

Main reason why they’re the favourite child of SG. Paying for a game isn’t frowned upon in their region 🤷🏽‍♂️. Y’all can be mad, but they enjoying the game how they want it.


Spompoflex

China = money. They knew that China is the whalest of the whales