In the MMORPG Lost Ark there are login rewards, but only 25 per month. If you are online every day, you will end up empty-handed for a few days at the end of the month. Some players now feel punished for playing daily. We at MeinMMO summarize.
What are users upset about? A discussion has flared up in recent days both on reddit and in the Lost Ark forum. Players feel punished by Amazon and Smilegate for playing their favorite MMORPG daily. The background of this assumption is the daily login rewards, which are not quite as daily.
The reason for the uproar is actually quite quickly explained:
- The daily login bonuses in Lost Ark work in events. For each event period, you can collect a total of 28 rewards over 25 days.
- The current event runs until April 14. However, players who are online daily have already collected all rewards since April 4.
- Since Lost Ark has only started its 3rd month of gameplay, players are now complaining about 10 days without rewards, while there were only 5 days in the previous month, claims the creator of the thread in the forum.
- He and some other players feel actively punished by Amazon for their daily play and receive mixed feedback about their frustration.
The post of the angry user quickly gained traction in the Lost Ark forum. It currently has 723 likes and 316 replies. While some fans are outraged with him, others cannot understand the fuss at all. Amazon itself has also commented on the situation.
The community reacts with support and mockery
What do the fans say? The issue caused a lot of stir in the community over the weekend. Some fans agree with the creator and complain about the update strategy that Amazon is employing here. Some players even accuse the publisher of secretly delaying the release of new content in this way.
Others do not go that far, but agree insofar as it is frustrating to log in without these rewards once you have gotten used to them. They demand that players receive daily rewards for logging in and that these should not be time-bound to events.
At least as many players agree that these accusations are overall rather exaggerated. They say it is spoiled and arrogant to complain about not receiving even more gifts than already being handed out.
The user cremefreshx receives some support in the forum for his comment: “It is not a punishment that you don’t get a reward for a few days. It has nothing to do with punishment at all.”
Amazon itself also comments: The post has now also been commented on by community manager Roxx herself. She is part of the Amazon team and is responsible for Lost Ark. She also seems to find the situation rather amusing, writing:
So.. that you don’t get any extra gifts anymore because you have already received all available extra gifts is considered active punishment? I just want to be clear about this.
Roxx is celebrated by some fans for the comment. It even receives 70 likes and is thus the highest-rated response under the original complaint. This response gets so much hype that it appears as a separate post on reddit and reignites the discussion.
“He deserves to be laughed at”
How do fans react on reddit? The reddit thread with the screenshot of Roxx’ response has been liked over 8,300 times and commented on 845 times in the last 2 days. However, the reddit users seem to be much more united in their opinions than the fans in the forum.
Most commenters find it rather funny that one would even complain about not receiving gifts. One even compares the thread creator to a child who received only 4 out of the 5 gifts it wished for at Christmas.
What do the users say? Although most people on reddit agree on this issue, we do not want to withhold a few comments from the reddit thread:
- IUSUZYSANA receives a lot of support for the comment: “Finally, a community manager who fights against all the nonsense, thank God.”
- TheSpaceAlpaca writes a comment with 1,700 upvotes: “He deserves to be laughed at. Reddit has already seen some people who complain for no reason, but the forum reaches a whole different level.”
- Fapple writes: “Man, I love Roxx for this. She carries the entire forum on her back. She is the real MVP.”
- Renverseur can only shake his head: “How can one be upset that a free-to-play game doesn’t give me anything? I don’t understand.”
What do you think of the whole uproar surrounding the issue of daily rewards? Do you find the concerns justified, and are 12 days without login rewards simply too long? Or are you more on the side of the reddit users and cannot comprehend the outrage at all? What do you think of Roxx’s reaction? Feel free to let us know in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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