Lost Ark has revealed a new roadmap with the content for the next 3 months after a long time. However, players are angry and feel rushed.
What kind of roadmap is this? Lost Ark presented a roadmap for the months of May, June, and July. The roadmap is packed with new content, such as raids and new difficulty levels for existing challenges. There are also other things like better housing options for fortresses and a summer festival.
One thing that stands out is the exclusive skins that will only be available in the Western version of Lost Ark. The way they were announced is somewhat curious: “We did some research and found that a considerable number of our players really like anime.”
In short: Lost Ark will bring skins inspired by classic anime from the 80s and 90s, and according to the description, they could be from the anime Sailor Moon. On Reddit, the announcement was met with a sarcastic: “Whoa, no way, really?”
But what concerns players the most are the many PvE contents.
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Players feel rushed by the roadmap
Why do players feel rushed? In many games, players are excited about new content – not so in Lost Ark. Since the Korean version is still ahead of the Western version of the MMORPG, the developers deliver many contents at once. Just on April 20, 2024, the raid Thaemine Boss was released, which has players busy so far.
Already in May, things are supposed to continue, even though many players aren’t finished with the contents of the last update yet. New challenges will follow, the epilogue surrounding Thaemine, and the next story, which will lead to new raids in June, is already waiting.
For the players, it is too fast. To defeat the difficult bosses and to improve their equipment and characters, they actually need more time, but they hardly have it since new content is already waiting for them.
What do players say about the roadmap? Players find the roadmap really silly. This is not even about the new contents themselves, but rather the fact that there are so many of them that players are expecting in the coming months.
On Steam, a user named steammohannedlostark writes: “Who says that we long for a roadmap or new contents? Thaemine has just been released. Give us time to breathe instead of rushing our contents just to catch up.”
Steam user omnichronos goes even further: “Good job killing this game. One of the most charming MMORPGs I’ve ever played. At least at the start.”
To progress in the story, the current boss, Thaemine, must be defeated. Arhitria writes on Reddit: “Funny how they said that Thaemine HM [Hard-Mode] would be very difficult, that it would be an honor to have completed it and that not everyone would be able to do it, and they made it a REQUIREMENT for a STORY quest xD I mean, bravo!”
The issue of players feeling rushed and overwhelmed in Lost Ark is nothing new. The developers themselves actually wanted to address this: Lost Ark: Fighting against Overwhelm and Bots – Player Feedback Guides the Direction
