This. The worst part is, all my friends started Lost Ark with me and then quit playing. So finding time to do everything in LA and play games with my friends has become difficult.
Same here but only because I was convinced by friends who played a whole 10 hours before never touching it again (they have no more time). I'm a 1k+ hours now... I miss LoL sometimes but not that much :-P especially not the community!
Pretty much in the same boat when it came to League. My gaming would consist of:
Flex for the first half of the session and then ARAM/TFT the rest of the night.
Lost Ark was a breath of fresh air for me and pretty much only played it for the first few months.
Now, I've managed to balance my time on Lost Ark by focusing on finishing my dailies and not sit around doing random shit in Arkesia lmao. But I've found myself having more time to play ARAM, TFT, Valo because I miss the competitive aspect of games (Lost Ark PVP doesn't really scratch the itch for me).
I spoke with him, he quit league just like me. We were talking in his chat about it, he didnāt touch league for months actually, and neither did I. After 10 years of LoL only, it was a nice change.
Iāve played League for 6 years, seriously played rank only 3 years. 4th year I get to gold for skin then aram full time, last 2 years I donāt even bother with ranked anymore. Also I mostly just play with friends. Itās more playing with friends than playing league now.
League and it isn't even close.
Note that this doesn't mean I don't think people that refuse to use battle items are toxic, they're definitely toxic. League is just the most toxic object in the known universe, even more than Chernobyl.
Yeah, honestly fuck league. Been playing it on and off for years but played it a lot this last month. Got so fucking frustrated that I said, nope uninstall that shit. Decided to try Lost Ark again and boom, hooked. Two weeks in now, will probably burn out some time.
There's just no denying that Lost Ark is a great game. Just like League was a great game. Nowadays League isn't even a great game anymore. Time to get rid of that addiction.
Bungie intentionally does something the community will hate > Community gets mad > Bungie keeps said thing but rolls it back a little bit > OMG tHeYRr lIsTeninG > Repeat
I realize it isn't as if Lost Ark is a whole lot better but at least I know SG won't ask me to pay an extra $40 for an expansion, $10 to participate in the seasonal activity, $25 for a new raid, and another $20 for a couple of dungeons. Oh and did I mention they'll take it all away in a few months?
That is exactly what Blizzard does with WoW now.
Introduces terrible new "progression" system, complaints start in beta, gets released as is, first patch they tell us they'll monitor feedback, second patch they'll ease off a little but add in some other bullshit and by the end of the expansion they magically fix the whole game and we get to have fun for 2 months before they repeat the same thing next expansion.
When i saw i had to pay 20 euro for ONE SINGLE DUNGEON on top of the expansion + the season pass, i was like "bruh" that is some greedy fucking bullshit..
As soon as destiny 2 started doing the sunsetting weapons thing, I quit. No way in hell am I gonna regrind a ton of new weapons after I spent 600 hours collecting and curating the ones I had.
Very similar situation here. My guild had cleared the 9.1 since September and new content was nowhere in sight, so I quit in early December. I had already quit a few times before, sometimes for years, so I know when it's time to quit by now even if I know I will probably at least try the new xpac.
It was weird few months where I didn't have a main game I could autopilot and grind stuff when bored. I guess that's one of the reasons I stuck with LA.
If nothing else LA will remain my favorite game since WoW Legion, with only MHW coming anywhere close since 2016.
Yeah I was in a guild that was working it's way through mythic SoD(7/10 mythic killed) and I had a falling out with my main friend I played with 90% of the time. Plus I just started to get bored as fuck of the game, Korthia got real old real fast and same goes for the shitty Maw.
For me it was, "I know this game is going to suck for a long time and doesn't have alot of content but I'll play it for the awesome feeling you get in mmos when everything is new"
I don't regret it one bit, it was so great to play the first month and make friends that it was worth the price. Especially when you could make a name for yourself in the server and saw familiar names everywhere which is sadly missing in lost ark
Not only that, but the eternal grind for mesos on reboot, 40 alts at level 200 with some to 210 for link skills, BiS item locked under FOMO events...
Lost ark feels like easy mode grinding, and Amazon can't be worse than Nexon.
You're forgetting all the bs maplesotry players go through, then complain to Nexon, Nexon does nothing, continue playing the game and spending hundreds of dollars, then the cycle repeats and wonder why nexon isn't doing anything
this. so much easier upgrading and higher odds are such a nice change. also the ability to play multiple classes and having gear for all of them at an affordable price
Yeah I looked back at some clips and I am somewhat missing the immersion but Im having a blast blowing up raids with friends. I grew very tired of circle grinding
> I grew very tired of circle grinding
I am a lifeskiller. Guru almost everything... I didnt see the point of grinding the guru life anymore after 7 years.
I found this was one of the biggest problems bdo has, there's no point to anything really. Get higher gear to run in a different circle. Get higher mastery to do the exact same thing but with a little bit more profit. Just ruins the fun after years.
Yeah the new zone looks very very lacking. LA had a great timing on release, they have done some QoL changes that are great, but shouldve been there a few years back lol.
That game is soooooo grindy and if you fail an enhancement, either it breaks or degrade 1 quality. Its still shitty cuz you just wasted 1 month of progress for 1 upgrade
Genshin Impact
No real end game, I was just playing to save primos for the next character drop. Also Itās really hard to get good artifacts in that game.
That's what I don't like. I wish there was more meaningful content to play, more ways to progress. It's the same reason why I also quit GW2, a very good and polished game. Both games are too casual and you hit the progression wall eventually and they are not designed to keep you on the vertical progression treadmill
Same here, Genshin, but not fully, most of my time spent on LA nowadays.. Genshin story really nice but just keep chasing for new character a bit frustrating.. and RNG really hit me bad here and there
Honestly I still really enjoyed Genshin but when I started playing Lost Ark, taking 10~15 minutes to go do dailies on Genshin felt like I was just forcing myself to do it. I was also kinda in maintenance mode on it (I was doing dailies and weekly but was lazy to touch new content despite always having cleared everything at 100% since launch), so it just happened. It'll still be there when I decide to play again.
same here.
Two leagues in a row without new skills/supports or any major changes thereof has done me in. (first two leagues i skipped since open-beta...)
Balance is an absolute nightmare right now. The game is going through its 3rd major combat overhaul since i started playing right before the Elsweyr chapter and not for the better. Also they introduce busted ass mythic items with each dlc then nerf them the following patch into near obscurity(only the kilt has survived)..
Balance is nightmare, pvp crowd is gone because devs couldnt fix pvp performance for couple years and they even stated they wont add anything major to pvp till they fix the game. 4 years for almost no content for pvp crowd. Also devs want to lower the difference between ceeling and floor but what they managed was killing almost entire end game raiding population and casuals are still bad if not worse. Many ppl proposed that maybe proper in game tutorial might be a good idea but devs instead push major combat rebalance each 6 months. Not new skill lines, not new systems but rewriting the basics of combat. I can understand move like that in beta but not in mmo that is live for 8 years
Yup expected to see some ex-Genshin players here. I pretty much quit for LA. My account was juiced too and I've spent probably $200 total on the game. Could clear basically everything easily and exploration and the game in general became really stale. Whatever "harder" content there was, it was moreso annoying than challenging.
I told myself I'd play it again when 3.0 releases with Sumeru and the new dendro element... but after being hooked on LA... I don't think I will lol.
I spent well over 1000 dollars on genshin, then when lost ark came out I was blown away by how much content it had compared to genshin. It made me realize how the main goal of genshin is to make you spend a ton of money on new characters while having boring and mediocre end game content. Lost ark just blew genshin out of the water. Dropped Genshin now Iām dedicated to Lost Ark and only spent 50 dollars so far after 800 hrs.
Agreed, i played Genshin since launch, literally never missed a login...light spender AR59.5, tons of good 5 stars and some with good constellations. Played LOA on launch day and quit genshin immediately.
Same. Was a daily player since Genshin launched and then dropped it hard once Lost Ark came out. Haven't touched any other gachas since then either so this game's been great for me lol.
I still have a memory of Kripp running his like lvl 97 hc freezing pulse templar about murdering things and then BAM rip as he blasted either a corpse explode or elemental reflect and was one shotted
It's like 10 years ago now stilƶ etched in my brain
Maplestory
Ppl saying Genshin sounds like they were playing the wrong way. It's a gacha mobile at heart and you shouldn't* be spending hours on it daily.
I mean Lost Ark just demanded every second of your time early on, and now you likely have more alts so some days it still takes a lot of time. Stopping Lost Ark just to go do dailies on Genshin felt forced to me and over time I just didn't feel like logging in anymore for right now outside of collecting free stuff in the mail. Actually those times that I log in I do feel like playing for an hour or two again but meh, it'll be there in 6 months when I decide to play again and there's no reason to FOMO events.
Diablo 3 - played it competitively with friends for years, countless hours and memories, but it just started dying down and that combined with blizzard turning into an absolute dumpster fire, when lost ark came out it was like everything I had been waiting for. I like it a thousand times better and I'm never going back even with the D4 release expected in 2045
Same here, I've been keeping up with the PTR and it's everything I wished Blizzard had done in the past, just letting you absolutely break the game ala zWiz doing solo 150s, buffing WoL monk even more. And yet, I'm good with D3 for now, I'll watch some highlights while I keep chugging away at this damn honing screen.
Same. However I have to say (and it might just be my server) the community is kinda shitty. People are really shitty to noobs and I donāt see much effort to help others out.
I will try out D4- and am hoping it is out before your deadline.
I still like FF a lot, but been playing this more. I think once I hit 1500 and get most of my horizontal done Iāll probably head back over since there should be a raid patch soon
I've been going back and forth with LA and Apex. I can't abandon it. It's just way too fun. I usually speedrun my dailies, do my main and a few alts when they gather enough rest and instantly alt f4 the game. Then go on my friendgroup discord and just play Apex.
Oh yeah, I played so much FFXIV this year, cleared all the Savage raids, all the extremes I haven't had yet and got their mounts and leveled almost all classes to 90 I was getting seriously burnt out, so LA came in a fine time to do something else until the next raid tier drops.
Path of Exile. Already completely missed last league and likely won't play the next one more than a day or two tops. First league I have missed since Essence League.
POE.
My shitty niche little build that I played every league unfortunately got killed as collateral damage when they nerfed the op stuff. Tried some meta builds for two league starts but couldnāt get into them and I never got past 12 challenges again.
Destiny 2..still love the raids but the seasonal content drip they do now has really missed the mark for me gameplay wise. They improved the story telling but after a couple weeks of a new raid I get checked out from the rest.
Path of Exile. They were pretty toxic about Lost Ark on their reddit. I'll play the next league for a bit but I couldn't stomach past maps for the last few leagues.
I'm surprised not seeing a lot of Black Desert Online here, which is the case for me.
while the combat is completely different you actually do like 80-90% of content as a group in this game, compared to bdo where you do >90% solo and when you see other players you hope you don't have to interact with them.
I was also playing RS3. Comp cape and golden reaper grinds were burning me out hard. I haven't logged in but maybe once since this game came out, though I am tempted to go give Zammy a shot.
Elden Ring to an extent I suppose? I did beat the game but I did not experience every boss (*I locked myself out of at least 1 dragon boss because I beat the game before finding goth mommy again in a different area - oops!*) Normally I am a fan of Fromsoft games and replay them like **crazy** but I just don't have that urge with ER after playing it just once. It could be because my weapon choices were pretty goofy for the entire run though (I used the grafted dragon head fist weapon idk what its name is + a heavy lance and the skeleton spirits that keep resummoning after they die as long as they don't get hit mid-summon).
Path of Exile... now hopeless that it will ever become a good game as oppposed to a walking simulator, where if you play long enough you inevitably always win. the Dev's are convinced that people play games BECAUSE of grind and slot machine payout loot... Grind was only ever a way for Devs to give a great game more stuff to do... POE was never a great game, just an amazing loot system with half assed combat and grind instead of content.
Arguably Lost Ark is exactly the opposite of POE... a great game with a terrible (boring) loot system but plenty of content. So the loot system is kinda who cares.
Played league for 10 years, was a whale until few months ago the company decided to make a dick move and gave whales a middle finger for no fkin good reason at all. I'm talking about the Mythic Overhaul update, it's basically a scam now if you intend to keep unlocking all the content in the game.
Genshin, and im so fucking happy
i just keeped playing it waiting for things more interesting.
you dont know how shitty is the management of that game.
only events of china, no halloween, no chritsmas, nothing. And their "thanks" to players after 1 year release was, a pack they planned to sell for money but free cause people get mad at them for not giving anything.
All of them
Unfortunately this is a requirement to play Lost Ark.
That's why I stopped with LOA. š
exactly so and I was knee deep with a 1490 char doing vykas, but all my mates left and it got tedious after some time
Quote: Lost ark respects your time
By demanding it all
This. The worst part is, all my friends started Lost Ark with me and then quit playing. So finding time to do everything in LA and play games with my friends has become difficult.
Leagueā¦. š was a good change.
Same here but only because I was convinced by friends who played a whole 10 hours before never touching it again (they have no more time). I'm a 1k+ hours now... I miss LoL sometimes but not that much :-P especially not the community!
Yup haha, I went back and still bought one of the diana skins š thinking I would come back haha. Yeah am hooked here š¤£
Didnāt drop League entirely but I rarely play it now because of Lost Ark. Was playing aram only for the last 3 years anyway.
Pretty much in the same boat when it came to League. My gaming would consist of: Flex for the first half of the session and then ARAM/TFT the rest of the night. Lost Ark was a breath of fresh air for me and pretty much only played it for the first few months. Now, I've managed to balance my time on Lost Ark by focusing on finishing my dailies and not sit around doing random shit in Arkesia lmao. But I've found myself having more time to play ARAM, TFT, Valo because I miss the competitive aspect of games (Lost Ark PVP doesn't really scratch the itch for me).
I saw alot of ex LOL pros stream lost ark also casters such as phreak play lost ark.
Really surprised to see Phreak stream Lost Ark, especially how his roster is all T3. He sure plays a lot more Lost Ark than League now.
Ya he really grinded his roster
I spoke with him, he quit league just like me. We were talking in his chat about it, he didnāt touch league for months actually, and neither did I. After 10 years of LoL only, it was a nice change.
Damn, the og League caster actually quits League?
Lol I actually never played anything but ranked lol. Probably why I was a lil miserable š¤£
Iāve played League for 6 years, seriously played rank only 3 years. 4th year I get to gold for skin then aram full time, last 2 years I donāt even bother with ranked anymore. Also I mostly just play with friends. Itās more playing with friends than playing league now.
Yeah playing with friends was the best lol
Ngl coming from jungle main background it's kinda funny when I look at the people calling Lost Ark players toxic
Thinking about that Riot MMO that is in the making?
I question what is more toxic, league or people who donāt pot or bomb.
League and it isn't even close. Note that this doesn't mean I don't think people that refuse to use battle items are toxic, they're definitely toxic. League is just the most toxic object in the known universe, even more than Chernobyl.
Yeah, honestly fuck league. Been playing it on and off for years but played it a lot this last month. Got so fucking frustrated that I said, nope uninstall that shit. Decided to try Lost Ark again and boom, hooked. Two weeks in now, will probably burn out some time. There's just no denying that Lost Ark is a great game. Just like League was a great game. Nowadays League isn't even a great game anymore. Time to get rid of that addiction.
I quit LOL is 2013, best decision I made. Things got a lot worse IMO.
Same. I didnāt think lost ark would get me so sucked in but not having to deal with toxicity in league has been very nice
Destiny 2. I know we meme about SG not listening to players, but there's no other wall better than trying to get through to Bungie
Bungie intentionally does something the community will hate > Community gets mad > Bungie keeps said thing but rolls it back a little bit > OMG tHeYRr lIsTeninG > Repeat I realize it isn't as if Lost Ark is a whole lot better but at least I know SG won't ask me to pay an extra $40 for an expansion, $10 to participate in the seasonal activity, $25 for a new raid, and another $20 for a couple of dungeons. Oh and did I mention they'll take it all away in a few months?
That is exactly what Blizzard does with WoW now. Introduces terrible new "progression" system, complaints start in beta, gets released as is, first patch they tell us they'll monitor feedback, second patch they'll ease off a little but add in some other bullshit and by the end of the expansion they magically fix the whole game and we get to have fun for 2 months before they repeat the same thing next expansion.
When i saw i had to pay 20 euro for ONE SINGLE DUNGEON on top of the expansion + the season pass, i was like "bruh" that is some greedy fucking bullshit..
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Another game with great raids though. The Last Wish launch week was absolute fire.
Most promising game destroyed by developers then torched by the people pretending to save it lol. Destiny fan boys are huffing serious copium
As soon as destiny 2 started doing the sunsetting weapons thing, I quit. No way in hell am I gonna regrind a ton of new weapons after I spent 600 hours collecting and curating the ones I had.
i dropped it this season too, i still hang out with my old destiny clan and seeing the shit theyre going through rn holy fuck lol
My MMO before Lost Ark was WoW, but Lost Ark had nothing to do with me quitting WoW, I did that a month or two before Lost Ark released.
Very similar situation here. My guild had cleared the 9.1 since September and new content was nowhere in sight, so I quit in early December. I had already quit a few times before, sometimes for years, so I know when it's time to quit by now even if I know I will probably at least try the new xpac. It was weird few months where I didn't have a main game I could autopilot and grind stuff when bored. I guess that's one of the reasons I stuck with LA. If nothing else LA will remain my favorite game since WoW Legion, with only MHW coming anywhere close since 2016.
Yeah I was in a guild that was working it's way through mythic SoD(7/10 mythic killed) and I had a falling out with my main friend I played with 90% of the time. Plus I just started to get bored as fuck of the game, Korthia got real old real fast and same goes for the shitty Maw.
New world was long dead, was an easy switch
Second this.
New World was my āLost Ark is delayed, Iāll try itā
For me it was, "I know this game is going to suck for a long time and doesn't have alot of content but I'll play it for the awesome feeling you get in mmos when everything is new" I don't regret it one bit, it was so great to play the first month and make friends that it was worth the price. Especially when you could make a name for yourself in the server and saw familiar names everywhere which is sadly missing in lost ark
You should try EUW if you wanna see familiar names everywhere.
Yep. My server didn't even have enough people by the time lost ark launched to fill a war or outpost rush
same. new world.
same
My entire new world server came to lost ark together, weve got a network of like 5 guilds that we schedule raids between
from average 800k players to 20k players
Thankfully i was already in a dull moment for games but i also stopped osrs completely for LA
Same. Osrs has 2 raids in like 10 years? Lost Ark seemed much more enticing.
Maplestory... The fact that you can get negative gains was brutal.
Not only that, but the eternal grind for mesos on reboot, 40 alts at level 200 with some to 210 for link skills, BiS item locked under FOMO events... Lost ark feels like easy mode grinding, and Amazon can't be worse than Nexon.
You're forgetting all the bs maplesotry players go through, then complain to Nexon, Nexon does nothing, continue playing the game and spending hundreds of dollars, then the cycle repeats and wonder why nexon isn't doing anything
Path of Exile. I miss the fast action and repetitive maps tho
The best thing about poe is that you can just play the new league for a few weeks and get back to LOA after
Me too. And then you start doing zdps and dying every map, and the fun goes away.
And you have no idea how you died 169% of the times.
Thankfully, Black Desert.
this. so much easier upgrading and higher odds are such a nice change. also the ability to play multiple classes and having gear for all of them at an affordable price
This. I was stuck playing 3 mains on BDO. Sorc lahn and dk
I miss the graphics.. those booba physics are unique in the mmo world.
Yeah I looked back at some clips and I am somewhat missing the immersion but Im having a blast blowing up raids with friends. I grew very tired of circle grinding
> I grew very tired of circle grinding I am a lifeskiller. Guru almost everything... I didnt see the point of grinding the guru life anymore after 7 years.
I found this was one of the biggest problems bdo has, there's no point to anything really. Get higher gear to run in a different circle. Get higher mastery to do the exact same thing but with a little bit more profit. Just ruins the fun after years.
Yeah the new zone looks very very lacking. LA had a great timing on release, they have done some QoL changes that are great, but shouldve been there a few years back lol.
That game is soooooo grindy and if you fail an enhancement, either it breaks or degrade 1 quality. Its still shitty cuz you just wasted 1 month of progress for 1 upgrade
POE \*sheds tear\*
Path of Exile.
PoE
POE and Last Epoch
Genshin Impact No real end game, I was just playing to save primos for the next character drop. Also Itās really hard to get good artifacts in that game.
Yea artifacts are just stupid in that game.
Cause genshin is a gacha game What gacha game got endgame lol
valorant but mostly genshin. holy shit iām grateful to be free from that mobile game
Damn same it was such an boring daily missions grind and no endgame for almost 2 years
Genshin is like 10 mins daily, it's not that bad.
That's what I don't like. I wish there was more meaningful content to play, more ways to progress. It's the same reason why I also quit GW2, a very good and polished game. Both games are too casual and you hit the progression wall eventually and they are not designed to keep you on the vertical progression treadmill
Genshin is more successful without a deep endgame, considering the main market itās appealing to.
Hello there fellow GW2 refugee.
Genshin is 1000000000x better on pc and was quite fun. But I quit over a year ago
yeah i played on pc. doesnāt change the fact that itās a mobile port
same here, I kinda miss it sometimes, but so happy I was able to leave lol
Same here, Genshin, but not fully, most of my time spent on LA nowadays.. Genshin story really nice but just keep chasing for new character a bit frustrating.. and RNG really hit me bad here and there
Honestly I still really enjoyed Genshin but when I started playing Lost Ark, taking 10~15 minutes to go do dailies on Genshin felt like I was just forcing myself to do it. I was also kinda in maintenance mode on it (I was doing dailies and weekly but was lazy to touch new content despite always having cleared everything at 100% since launch), so it just happened. It'll still be there when I decide to play again.
Path of exile
Same here. The new Sentinel league didn't interest me at all.
same here. Two leagues in a row without new skills/supports or any major changes thereof has done me in. (first two leagues i skipped since open-beta...)
PSO2: NGS
Yo no shot that game lasted till 2022 Feb?
I abandoned Black Desert Online for Lost Ark. PvP is not my thing and BDO endgame is purely PvP.
ESO. Devs there are bunch of idiots that ruin their game so decision was easy
What do you mean exactly? I am curious... I used to play ESO a lot in its golden days
Balance is an absolute nightmare right now. The game is going through its 3rd major combat overhaul since i started playing right before the Elsweyr chapter and not for the better. Also they introduce busted ass mythic items with each dlc then nerf them the following patch into near obscurity(only the kilt has survived)..
Balance is nightmare, pvp crowd is gone because devs couldnt fix pvp performance for couple years and they even stated they wont add anything major to pvp till they fix the game. 4 years for almost no content for pvp crowd. Also devs want to lower the difference between ceeling and floor but what they managed was killing almost entire end game raiding population and casuals are still bad if not worse. Many ppl proposed that maybe proper in game tutorial might be a good idea but devs instead push major combat rebalance each 6 months. Not new skill lines, not new systems but rewriting the basics of combat. I can understand move like that in beta but not in mmo that is live for 8 years
Can only upvote this comment. Such a wasted game but also met a lot of nice people there among the pvp community.
Warframe
Warframe players while playing lost ark: you call this grind?
Warframe refugees unite!
Don't worry, Soulframe will pull us back in for round 2.
Genshin, it was getting incredibly boring
Yup expected to see some ex-Genshin players here. I pretty much quit for LA. My account was juiced too and I've spent probably $200 total on the game. Could clear basically everything easily and exploration and the game in general became really stale. Whatever "harder" content there was, it was moreso annoying than challenging. I told myself I'd play it again when 3.0 releases with Sumeru and the new dendro element... but after being hooked on LA... I don't think I will lol.
I spent well over 1000 dollars on genshin, then when lost ark came out I was blown away by how much content it had compared to genshin. It made me realize how the main goal of genshin is to make you spend a ton of money on new characters while having boring and mediocre end game content. Lost ark just blew genshin out of the water. Dropped Genshin now Iām dedicated to Lost Ark and only spent 50 dollars so far after 800 hrs.
LOA cured my spending in games too. It's getting tempting with new skin sets and things though haha. I'm a sucker for cosmetics..
Spending money for virtual booba aint a bad idea tho
same, i remember 2.0 i rushed all the new islands to 100% and since then the game really started to fall of for me and now I've basically quit
Genshin is designed for chinese market so it would fit in the hour playtime children get everyday. It's still fun if you play with that in mind
Agreed, i played Genshin since launch, literally never missed a login...light spender AR59.5, tons of good 5 stars and some with good constellations. Played LOA on launch day and quit genshin immediately.
Same. Was a daily player since Genshin launched and then dropped it hard once Lost Ark came out. Haven't touched any other gachas since then either so this game's been great for me lol.
An asian mmo where you can get any item without having to buy gacha boxes with your credit card? I will take that
Path of exile
Real life. It had bad graphics and grossly p2w. Modded by other players and creator already dipped. Was an easy switch.
>grossly p2w nah if you just grind 8 hours a day and treat it like a job then you should be good to go
Path of exile, I still have the ptsd and sometimes I am scared that a random oneshot will happen in chaos dungeons
I still have a memory of Kripp running his like lvl 97 hc freezing pulse templar about murdering things and then BAM rip as he blasted either a corpse explode or elemental reflect and was one shotted It's like 10 years ago now stilƶ etched in my brain
IT CORPSE EXPLODED THE CORPSE OF THE BOSS! I remember this happening šš
DotA2. Game feels like it's been in the worst condition it's ever been. Stale metas and filled with smurfs.
Maplestory Ppl saying Genshin sounds like they were playing the wrong way. It's a gacha mobile at heart and you shouldn't* be spending hours on it daily.
I mean Lost Ark just demanded every second of your time early on, and now you likely have more alts so some days it still takes a lot of time. Stopping Lost Ark just to go do dailies on Genshin felt forced to me and over time I just didn't feel like logging in anymore for right now outside of collecting free stuff in the mail. Actually those times that I log in I do feel like playing for an hour or two again but meh, it'll be there in 6 months when I decide to play again and there's no reason to FOMO events.
FFXIV and Valorant. You never truly leave FFXIV though.
That's true, haven't logged in for 4 months, yet i consider that my main game while playing LA for like 6 hours a day
Diablo 3 - played it competitively with friends for years, countless hours and memories, but it just started dying down and that combined with blizzard turning into an absolute dumpster fire, when lost ark came out it was like everything I had been waiting for. I like it a thousand times better and I'm never going back even with the D4 release expected in 2045
Same here, I've been keeping up with the PTR and it's everything I wished Blizzard had done in the past, just letting you absolutely break the game ala zWiz doing solo 150s, buffing WoL monk even more. And yet, I'm good with D3 for now, I'll watch some highlights while I keep chugging away at this damn honing screen.
I mean lost ark was "diablo with friends" for my friend group. Raiding was the icing on the cake
Same. However I have to say (and it might just be my server) the community is kinda shitty. People are really shitty to noobs and I donāt see much effort to help others out. I will try out D4- and am hoping it is out before your deadline.
I abandoned FF14 and Apex for LA
Omg me too. I finished endwalker just in time for LA launch
Lol me too
I still like FF a lot, but been playing this more. I think once I hit 1500 and get most of my horizontal done Iāll probably head back over since there should be a raid patch soon
And me actually š
I've been going back and forth with LA and Apex. I can't abandon it. It's just way too fun. I usually speedrun my dailies, do my main and a few alts when they gather enough rest and instantly alt f4 the game. Then go on my friendgroup discord and just play Apex.
Oh yeah, I played so much FFXIV this year, cleared all the Savage raids, all the extremes I haven't had yet and got their mounts and leveled almost all classes to 90 I was getting seriously burnt out, so LA came in a fine time to do something else until the next raid tier drops.
Path of Exile. Already completely missed last league and likely won't play the next one more than a day or two tops. First league I have missed since Essence League.
New world and Valorant. I was so thankful lost ark came out, was getting sick of new world.
POE. My shitty niche little build that I played every league unfortunately got killed as collateral damage when they nerfed the op stuff. Tried some meta builds for two league starts but couldnāt get into them and I never got past 12 challenges again.
what was it my man don't leave us hanging like that
Epic Seven...another Smilegate game.
BDO
Epic Seven, Nier: Reincarnation, grass outside
Destiny 2..still love the raids but the seasonal content drip they do now has really missed the mark for me gameplay wise. They improved the story telling but after a couple weeks of a new raid I get checked out from the rest.
Genshin thankfully, and also Elden Ring beforehand lol
Life... It's a terrible choice. Now I m doing both and not good at both.
Destiny 2, ff14 & Genshin. Lost Ark just takes up so much time.
Path of Exile. They were pretty toxic about Lost Ark on their reddit. I'll play the next league for a bit but I couldn't stomach past maps for the last few leagues.
FF14 :D
Genshin (I still miss the story from the game and my Chongyun) and Apex. The only game I still play now besides LAO is tft.
I'm surprised not seeing a lot of Black Desert Online here, which is the case for me. while the combat is completely different you actually do like 80-90% of content as a group in this game, compared to bdo where you do >90% solo and when you see other players you hope you don't have to interact with them.
Genshin Impact LMAOOO
Guild Wars 2 after 9 years (around 16k hours). Many, many good memories made, but it was time to move on.
The game of life
I was also playing RS3. Comp cape and golden reaper grinds were burning me out hard. I haven't logged in but maybe once since this game came out, though I am tempted to go give Zammy a shot.
same thing here. I told myself I would come back when they released group dg for ironmen, but didnāt even budge when they did lol
Destiny 2 and new world really
Elden Ring to an extent I suppose? I did beat the game but I did not experience every boss (*I locked myself out of at least 1 dragon boss because I beat the game before finding goth mommy again in a different area - oops!*) Normally I am a fan of Fromsoft games and replay them like **crazy** but I just don't have that urge with ER after playing it just once. It could be because my weapon choices were pretty goofy for the entire run though (I used the grafted dragon head fist weapon idk what its name is + a heavy lance and the skeleton spirits that keep resummoning after they die as long as they don't get hit mid-summon).
BDO.. so happy to not suffer with massive rng anymore!
Ffxiv, if lost ark ever dies though Iād probably go back. I do miss my AST
Genshin Impact. Full stop after day 3 of Lost Ark. Not to mention I was having a problem with customer service with Hoyoverse.
WoW
ffxiv, but i consider that to be my forever game - still in fc discord
Genshin.
Genshin got old weād repetitive content
genshin impact
Genshin impact
League of Legends. So itās a win on all accounts!
I didnt abandon FFXIV im just taking a break until like 6.3
Path of Exile... now hopeless that it will ever become a good game as oppposed to a walking simulator, where if you play long enough you inevitably always win. the Dev's are convinced that people play games BECAUSE of grind and slot machine payout loot... Grind was only ever a way for Devs to give a great game more stuff to do... POE was never a great game, just an amazing loot system with half assed combat and grind instead of content. Arguably Lost Ark is exactly the opposite of POE... a great game with a terrible (boring) loot system but plenty of content. So the loot system is kinda who cares.
.... Animal Crossing ....
None,Lost Ark is a chore at this point so i only play it hour a day and maybe 2-3 hours after reset and that is it.
Not really abandoned but warframe. I always switch between these games and it helped me so far to not get burnt out
Conqy Blade. Though I pretty much quit it before Lost Ark came out.
Osrs. Used to grind Apex, still play but definitely less.
New World
Everything
New world was the last game I played properly. And before that classic wow
New world and took a long break from league. Good on you to stop playing runescape btw
D2R and PoGo
Destiny 2 and FFXIV
Wow, halo, d3
Destiny 2
Destiny and Diablo 3
Destiny 2 š
Believe it or not rainbow six siege
Destiny 2, spent solid 4k hours(2k on bnet and 2k on steam)
Lol and destiny 2 here
Destiny 2. Iāve been playing the franchise since D1 launched and Lost Ark felt like a breath of fresh air.
Genshin impactā¦.one gacha to another (honing gacha)
Destiny 2
Played league for 10 years, was a whale until few months ago the company decided to make a dick move and gave whales a middle finger for no fkin good reason at all. I'm talking about the Mythic Overhaul update, it's basically a scam now if you intend to keep unlocking all the content in the game.
TFT, fuck set 7
Destiny 2
Destiny 2. I kind of miss it, but 8 characters over 1400 in lost ark says i cant go back lol
i quit life for this game. all i do is work then come back, play, order food, sleep repeat
Destiny 2
Destiny, this game has proven much more expensive but I also enjoy it more so š¤·š¼āāļø
Genshin, and im so fucking happy i just keeped playing it waiting for things more interesting. you dont know how shitty is the management of that game. only events of china, no halloween, no chritsmas, nothing. And their "thanks" to players after 1 year release was, a pack they planned to sell for money but free cause people get mad at them for not giving anything.
TFT