Lost Ark - A Review :: XPhyro's Blog

This game has an abundance of deal-breakers:

Queue times are so large that the game sometimes does not even let you get in queue. When it lets you, expect 6 hours or more.
Booting up takes minutes.
Opening most UI elements in-game freezes the game for a few seconds.
Time-gated end-game: limited chaos dungeons, scheduled raids, timed stronghold upgrades and more.
Uninspired, unchallenging and boring progression until the beginning of the end-game (level 50-ish). Yet another time gate.
Gambling based end-game progression.
Gender-locked classes. Catch up to 2022 before making a game.
Greedy monetisation: Has pay-to-win and pay-to-skip mechanics (plays well with the time gates), cosmetic “micro"transactions and non-required but essential rented privileges.
Exploitative design: MMO players are shown to have addictive tendencies. This game tries to make you form a habit of making it a core part of your life by offering you daily rewards and time-gating the content you can progress per session.
Previously shown-to-be incompetent publisher.

And there are all sorts of other minor but annoying issues:

Equipping accessories always equips the item to the first slot even though the game recognises that that particular item is better than the one in the second slot. This means right clicking to equip is dysfunctional for accessories.
Manual movement does not cancel “auto move”.
No sound in background even when the option is ticked.
Locked movement, basic attack, interaction and zoom key bindings.
Cutscenes often become glitched to have (only) the dialogue audio removed.
And many more.

In short, I would recommend against playing this game. You deserve better than being exploited.