Just for the record, the publisher are allowed to change a bit, but mostly for the RNG elements. In Taiwan, there is a mobo MMO called Lineage M. It was developed in S. Korea as well. Few months ago, there was a streamer actually testing the RNG elements on stream (by spending around 36k USD, it is pay-to-win, afterall). And the publisher appearantly set the success rates LOWER than the actual rates disclosed by their Korean counterpart.

The reason why most Korean MMOs remove story elements is that their way of telling stories becomes so scatterbrained, that it takes them 10 years to remember they've trailed off the beaten path and thus have to trim the fat/bloat from the story to keep it focused again.

Xeno: "there's some people that don't even have time to cap Final Fantasy" Me at work listening in on the video: "Reset was a couple days ago and I'm still at 0/450. I mighta got a couple tomes last week"

Thank you for your Reaction. I am Amazed how you understand more, than people who actually playing the game.

That guy’s scene transitions were legendary.

I liked that he brought up DFO since that game started on the wrong foot in Global (EXP was a lot harder to get, quest items weren't guaranteed so you had to repeat the same quest multiple times, enemies had horrible scaling and were incredibly hard to kill at times) which ruined whatever momentum the game had at the time, Global DFO patched out a lot of that away and have made it significantly less stupid to level up and grind late game but the damage is done :( Also that's only concurrent players playing DFO on the Steam Launcher, game has it's own launcher on their website which doesn't show active users, same as FFXIV.

37:05 Seriously! The game is fun but the P2W mechanics are so obvious. So many people in copium expecting Amazon to completely change the game lmao

34:10 -> He left out resource cost 6 -> Distilled human suffering for going through an upgrade system that depends on rng.

Xeno mentions Manastones and +15 in Aion Me: *PTSD Flashbacks to Miragents Crafting and Set*

"Date first, Vaccine never" Bruh 😂😂😂😂😂

Would be better if xeno had a horn instead of a bell. Like your videos xenos!

I don't think people played enough f2p korean mmo to understand that the first couple months is fun, but then when new contents start rolling in that's when the real p2w start. It's always like this. And as stated in the video new contents also make previous contents obsolete so if you start Lost Ark late, you either pay tons of money to catch up or you'll just forever be behind and can never find people to do old contents with. Basically you save more money with a monthly subscription with a game like FF14 more than the F2P korean mmo.

For people who are confuse why the maximum visa is an instant straight upward progression it's because you are +25-ing a lower raid gear, which provides insane stats as compared to a +10/15 of a slightly higher tier gear. But the game is designed to be near impossible to +25 unless you swipe. You basically can just skip all the boss 2,3,4 gears with a max out 1 boss gear straight to 5 Dual wielding credit cards win

The Fandaniel impression is on point 😂

In the EU we (mostly) grow up with day/month/year. I got sooo confused in the past before I found out I should double-check... Imagine me asking my teacher in first grade what is the 26th month of the year xDDDD

Many years ago a super whale Korean player said that the game is p2w and will not survive in the west, so nothing new for me and my region is blocked anyway.

me from SEA seeing mmoarpg is like seeing ants, its everywhere and most of them dont last long , thats what happen when almost all the game looks and character customization look the same but just diffrent names, not hating but i always wonders why it all use the same engine

when he said on lunch, Xenos brain took a few seconds to process that.

Calling a Korean game a weeb version of a Japanese game... Guess he was trying to have a hip zoomer moment. 😂

System's undeniably garbage but glad I don't give a shit about BIS tryharding. Just playing the game casually like a single player game and will get out once the grind hits, don't think the P2W is worth completely avoiding it. There's some fun to have.

i'm surprised that Xenos known about valkyrie profile

Korean BBQ transition has to do with "Mukbangs" which is a stream where people watch people eat on camera. It's super popular in Korean and a bajillion dollar industry there but not widely accepted everywhere else. It's to illustrate his point that just because something is popular in korea it doesn't mean it's popular everywhere else.

Why play a game with p2w upgrading system in the first place?

New Concept: Spouse of Duty. Be the person holding the person holding the gun. Spouse of Duty bringing new meaning to "indirect fire".

are all these numbers based on the western version? i heard they changed some aspects of the game

This video just made me want to try Dungeon Fighter Online again

I love Xenos react videos like this smile smile SMILE :)

08:38 That my boy is the plot. The warm soft, jiggly, supple brea- I mean PLOT!

@Xenosys Vex Naw Tera was +12, Alkahest was for enchanting along with another piece of gear that went into the same slot, master engimatic scrolls were for rerolling and masterworking the gear (non-masterwork gear can only go to +9) and spellbind was for locking the stats. Later on in the game's life some gear could be awakened and it would go to +15 but it was really cringe.

The only reason I subscribed to this channel is that bloody bell

Ahhh I feel back at home in my KMMO’s terrible for the player, but optimized for maximum marketability and milking!

Great video especially when starting trash talking the peeps that think BIS Is like some kind of mandatory thing. Fuck them. Great Video Xenosys! SKILL > GEAR Never watched any of your videos before but I liked your approach.

22:35 is all i needed to see to take a step back and start chilling if there is a catchup event LMAO ill just sell mats for gold here and there rather then full tryhard EZ GOLD

I'm just here to see him react to ding dong

Is that a cameo? FROM XEEMS?

No one plays DFO on team though, it has a proper launcher

BDO is hella pay to win but still has a solid Western playerbase. Lost Ark will likely stay around that tier. MMOs don't really need 20 million players to be successful

the blessing thing its the crystalline aura the 30 day subs

The amount of copium ark players are on is insane lol.

Must agree on the language localisation. Read all quests and there are so many spelling errors, bad translation and some times even parts of a sentence missing. Not quite at par with the rest of the production value. Just my 2 cents 🙂

Crossfire was later release after cod with special forces. It was a hit before last 2k's, specially here in the Philippines. I think it's normal u never heard of it xeno hehe. We mmorpg fans afterall haha

more react content, its what i live for MADGE

dingdong question time!

Im glad I Uninstall this shit, I rather have fun playing a videogame and not having a second work, lmoa, typical Korean MMO BS.

Buying the gear with an extra step lmao

There is a cap +20 in NA, but that just gate keeps content. Its pay to skip just like FF14. There is benefit to raiding and pvp is equalized

you're a bystander, so off to the moon you go XD legendary

i wouldnt mind more grind content in FFXIV, you basicly just login once per week finish your raid then log out

well firstable you cant max out it to 25+ with lengendary. and also people who usually do this is their alt. specially when new class comes out. they save up for new class that is coming out. gold and mats everything. and send everything to it when it comes out. then sure you could do abrelshud in 1 day. although If you have other people who are willing to take you without tier set

Nah, even before this video i thought about skip LostArk, but after seeing those typical Korean “Upgrade mechanics”(Swiping bank card mechanics) im certain in my decision. I don’t need second/third work. Some people make argument that’s “It’s generally p2w but fun is free” guess don’t interested in minmaxing and completionslism, having big monetisation influence for project without subscription is one thing, but being not able max out your character for current content without swiping your card is completely another shit. And like, it’s Korean game, you need to donate fuckton of money if you want it. Strictly speaking, imho , such projects are manipulative shit that need to be thrown in dumpster.

The most surprising thing is finding out that he played MGS4 Did he ever play revengeance?

Lost Ark is paid to win, the reason Koreans like it relative to other Korean games is because the game developers are more willing to communicate with the users. But as a person who has played in the Korean servers, I think that you will need at least a week to get to the final end of the game.

6:15 to be fair to steam: the company actively bans people for no reason if they make a steam account

What even the point playing the game anymore if you can just pay the hell out to the end, why even you playing....

The problem with Lost Ark is that its SO REPETIVE on every damn map. Same crap over and over again . The you have to PAY real money to "upgrade armor/weapons" which is P2W ! Gold is by paying real money or selling some things online. Like Guild Wars 2 The loot you find is total sh!t. You only get max 2 different swords or staffs. BS... Nothing like "Dungeon Siege 1/2" which is massive amount of armor/weapons to chose from.

Those numbers are never acceptable. That’s specifically for that gear that if the game updates healthily, will be replaced with next content patch which you’ll then have to start all over. That is specifically why games like those never find success. Its dishonest behavior attempting to entrap your attention for all the wrong reasons.

Oh damn, crossfire that brings back memories. Wasnt that good, but for a f2p fps it was fine. (still mainly played WarRock at the time tho)

30:51 LOL

This video is bonkers!! 🤣🤣🤣 DF for president!

As funny as this video is, he gets a lot wrong.

OMEGALUL on those diamond costs. Can't be me, I ain't gonna be playing LostArk.

Yea people always mention the cap on the gear but they forget you can straight up buy consumables and if you spend enough moneez you can just keep using the best and highest grade shit to make things easier for you without a care in the world, no need to try and spend time farming for them with all the restrictions and bullshit they put on farming and crafting.

@4:12 Just for the people that don't understand why some people DONT think Lost Ark is Pay to Win, it is because it's games like Corssfire why the term "Pay to Win" even exists. Way before Lost Ark or even Warframe was a thing, games like Crossfire, Combat Arms, and even the early days of World of Tanks gave players the ability to purchase premium items that gave players a power advantage in a PVP game. Key word there is PVP. It's an entirely more dangerous thing than someone rushing progression with real money. You could buy golden ammo in World of tanks to straight up have bonus damage against players and games like Combat Arms/Crossfire had premium shops where the best gear and weapons in the game could only be obtained with real money. THAT is the definition of LITERALLY paying to win. And it's these games that made the video game community create the term P2W back in the day. The issue is that games like Lost ark and Warframe are different. You are technically paying to progress (which obviously comes with its own issues, there's no denying that) but someone paying for items in Lost Ark is not causing harm to someone else's experience. But in Crossfire, you sure as hell are hurting everyone else by decking yourself out in exclusive OP gear that free players have to just deal with. These games have always been called Pay to Win and still will always be. But we really need to educate ourselves on the difference between a game like Lost Ark and Crossfire. Very different games when it comes to the advantages you get for paying. And when a bunch of gamers say "Lost Ark is Pay to Win," please understand why people disagree with you. Because that term already existed for games like Crossfire, and it is absolutely not as cancerous as Lost Ark. That's why I will always continue to call Warframe and Lost Ark Pay to Progress. And if you've seen CohhCarnage's infamous "thoughts on Lost Ark" video, hopefully you understand why he calls these games Pay to Progress as well. There's a huge key difference between games like Crossfire and games like Lost Ark. And that's why people feel there needs to be 2 different definitions.

It's doomed to decline for the simple reason that greedy ass game binds skins to a single character in a single server, and mounts to a single server roster of characters. It cannot be carried over! No account bound!

I played for 15 minutes and I got MU online war flashbacks. Haven't played that shit in 15 years and won't be any time soon

lol why not write the year first?

02/06/22 is WRONG also. The international date format is the only logical choice. The universally accepted time format is HOURS:MINUTES:SECONDS. So why isnt YYYY/MM/DD? They both conform to the rule of most significant to least significant, allowing people to read left to right which most of us are already conditioned to do, and eliminating potential misunderstandings due to different date formats.

It's true, no good MMORPGs exist anymore.

Ah, kMMOs... RO was my first journey in the genre around 2002ish... getting 10% exp per hour on a Vit Swordsman at level 50ish in Mjolnir 1 trying to grind out those last job levels to class change to Knight was a terror I went through at least 3 times... .... then the REAL grind started.

Yes you are so right look at it failing already ... Oh wait it's crushing it and PvP is balanced gears

Nah DFO is insane, but it's grindy as fuck, that's why it's not popular here. Also Specific launcher

been telling my friends im not playin lost ark bc i just dont want to invest my time into a p2w game model and they actin like im crazy. just wana invest my time in a game that i can enjoy without hitting that wall :/

Military and universal standard is Day, month, year.

people are misinforming you in your chat sooooo badly. I feel you cultivate a group of hater who will shit on games you look at. Feel sorry for you dude hope you get a better viewer base. This game is very well done and no other game goes into the depth and detail and actual fun content in a F2P MMO, countless end game streamer are F2P and have no issue the game is not a rush its a marathon and you just take it day by day and you can do anything others can

Oh boy this video 😂

Bruh. dunno about other countries but in Commonwealth countries (England/Aus/NZ), it's day/month/year for date formats lol

Playing LA to Test of Your Brain Reflexes!!

Does everyone miss that this is the game in other regions lol

What is quite bad is fact that most of these island quests are super boring. For example there is island where you teach some bird to fly... in the end you must run around island in circle like 10 times... most of "game experience" is talk with NPC (spam button G) only so he send you to next NPC (more spam of button G), eventually it will send you to next island where you repeat same g button spamming... in the end of such "quest" you come back to NPC who give you as reward some chest with material... Right now there are people who want skip boring quests (game content) so they just pay money and buy material from cash shop. So in the end 90% of gameplay is boring af.

The games not bad overall. I don't get why everyone wants to be able to finish content in a week. Who cares if it takes a year to i max stats and all that crap? I mean gives you more play time in the game instead of hitting and beatting everything in a week and then spending 6 months looking for a new game to rush and "win".. They're MMO its not supposed to be quick.

I want to be called a comrade as well

Hes skipping on the part where you can buy the mats with gold which you can farm hefty amounts of but yeah if you swipe you win faster if skipping the game and runnibg out of things to do is winning lol

Gamers in the old 'terms' are not even in the double digits in population today, 'Gamers' as defined by businesses and corporations, involving anyone who plays 'any' games for 'any' period of times, are everywhere. You might see 250,000 players in one game on Steam, but that's tiny versus millions in a country, and billions in the world? Population of USA alone is 330 millions give or take some numbers... So 'gamers' (or no-lifers in this case) are a scarce commodity that these publishers don't give a damn about.

People taking the term "pay 2 win" literally is funny. We get it, Lost Ark doesn't need it to be maxed out to clear the content. You don't have to pay money to achieve enough to play the game. That's not the problem. The problem is the game artificially slows progress in order to push their pay system. Example: quest requires you to make 3 potions with your stronghold. However, you need to upgrade your workshop to lvl 2 to make that potion. It takes 12hrs to upgrade the workshop. That's the problem. A trivial quest takes 12hrs to complete.

Wish I didn't go to the loophole of all these videos I am honestly enjoying the game alot. But I will say it's P2w tho and your videos are always amusing.

So you can pay and NOT play the entire game, seems good.

Best Xenos is 1:17 Xenos

I cried hearing the DnF music

Xeems! XenoPeepo

Been saying this

37:40 is my exact thought on the gearing system in this game!!!

if u are like 1520 item level on your main and yes there are ppls on eu that has already that item level and you make an alt your alt start over from 302 item level and yes u need a certain item level to clear content so uhm yeah good luck saying uh it easy just make more alt uhm not really

I still don't understand, or maybe my experience with MMO's is vastly different from everyone else. I paid for a founder's pack and I don't regret doing it. I have never bought anything from Mari's shop, still have ALL my yellow crystals, never lacked any gold and never lacked any blue crystals either for slot expansions, ship skin, skin set for virtues, a cool mount and a nice pet. I don't give a shit if people throw money at the game to gear themselves faster and unlock new content faster than anyone else. I'll play the game at my own pace. I'm ok with trying to beat sea of indolence 50 times before I actually succeed. I was ok in dieing against tytalos 30 times before actually killing it. I am ok with completing tomes. There's no fucking shot I'll ever even succeed in the completing the hard raids because I'm not gonna sweat myself into memorizing 30 different attacks and 4 wipe mechanics, all the while having to deal with stagger and weak point damage checks. Just let people throw money at it, the impact they have on YOUR gameplay is minimum at best since they all raid in their elitistic guilds, with boosted discords and ranks like it's the fucking military. Boohoo, someone paid and completed a raid before we did. The disgrace. The chaos. The end of the fucking world!

Call of Duty is the only shooter franchise that releases yearly and even they are seeing the repercussions of that now. You can't compare Counter-Strike to that. Counter-Strike is one game that is updated ad infinitum. Games like Halo and doom release once every like 5 years if even

Rest assured xeno it will fail like all p2w trash korean games (Tera, Aion, etc)

The korean game devs have full control over all game mechanics. The publisher can do very little beside game master services. They can make suggestions to korea to change stuff but not do anything them self. Played blade and soul for a good two years and this is very similar.

I honestly dont remember a single thing the russian guy said in the entire video

aight, that's a hard pass for me. I don't like having my time wasted so wont even bother downloading.

"Kind of looks like weeb Valkyrie Profile"....so just Valkyrie Profile lmao

Bro to me its just another arpg. im gonna lvl up solo self found it and dip when I get bored. just like diablo just like POE...