The MMORPG expert and Twitch streamer Asmongold has addressed the problems of the current MMORPG New World and why he believes that in 2022 the MMORPG Lost Ark could surpass Amazon’s game.
This is the situation:
- For years, WoW was the dominant MMORPG on Twitch – hardly any other MMORPG played a role on the streaming platform. However, this changed in 2021 with the rise of Final Fantasy XIV, the major problems at Blizzard, and the emergence of new MMORPGs like New World.
- Just at the release in October 2021, New World was a strong game on Twitch, but then quickly lost popularity.
- The biggest MMORPG streamer on Twitch, Asmongold, now explains the problems of New World and why he is excited about Lost Ark.
“New World is boring and repetitive”
These are the problems with New World, according to Asmongold: In an interview with the site dexerto, the streamer criticizes many aspects of New World as time-consuming:
The game is simply boring, and everything repeats itself – it’s just that simple. There are a lot of features in New World that are designed to waste your time. It takes forever to farm something in the game. When you die, your equipment loses durability. These are just things that are meant to prolong the time you stay in the game. And there are definitely people who find it boring to do the same thing over and over.
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Asmongold criticizes the high time investment required by New World:
- You have to mindlessly kill the same NPCs for hundreds of hours to maybe find an upgrade
- For crafting, you have to craft something 2,000 times
- The time it takes to get from A to B is “pure downtime” in New World
Because of all this, New World has already lost a lot of players.
That’s why he is excited about Lost Ark: In the new MMORPG Lost Ark, Asmongold sees a lot of potential:
Lost Ark has a success story in South Korea and Russia. If you look at how the game has developed, it’s only positive, you rarely see that in MMORPGs, especially nowadays.
Asmongold believes that Lost Ark as an “ISO-MMORPG” will initially scare away many people, but if players overcome this aversion and find enjoyment in Lost Ark’s endgame elements, the MMORPG has a real chance.
However, he sees a danger that Lost Ark could become a “Pay2Win” game in the West:
If the game offers anything that requires paying money multiple times to gain an advantage in the game, it probably won’t last long.
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Lost Ark is booming in South Korea lately
Is Lost Ark really that successful in Korea? Yes, indeed. Lost Ark is, as Asmongold says, one of the few MMORPGs that has experienced a strong evolution after launch.
Especially in 2021, Lost Ark enjoyed a significant boost in South Korea. This is partly due to the fact that the extremely popular but old MMORPG “Maple Story” fell out of favor among South Korean players after a scandal in March 2021. Many apparently switched to Lost Ark after it was revealed that certain mechanics in Maple Story didn’t work as intended. Many players felt this was cheating.
But Lost Ark also seems to be growing stronger in South Korea on its own. According to a report from the Polish site MMORPG.org.pl, the number of new users has quintupled in recent weeks. Now, there are even queues in the game.
This is due to the announcement of the new continent “Rowen” with large realm vs realm battles, and in January 2022 a new class “Painter” is also expected, which uses brushes and drawing paper to fight.
Regarding Lost Ark, it is said that they plan to consistently release new content:
The newest class in Lost Ark is a little girl with a huge brush
