The Business: To No One's Surprise, Gamers Don't Like Skinsuit Products

Yet more testimony that Lost Ark is a skinsuit cash extractor pretending to be a MMORPG, presented by America's smarted neckbeard gamer.

While Asmongold enjoyed the game, he knows a screwjob when he sees one and once he overcomes his emotional investment in a thing he can--and does--act on his analysis of a situation, and to no one's surprise he doesn't like it when a game's business model relies on screwing common players over to favor obscenely rich players that can literally afford to buy their way to victory.

While this sort of thing works with cultures where vulgar displays of wealth are socially acceptable, this is not the culture of Western gamers and it is no surprise that once the Pay To Win reality hits people with the subtlty of a brick to the face then those people decide they're being screwed and quit playing a rigged game- especially when the real money cost would materially damage their ability to pay their money living expenses.

Pay To Win games are not real games, because the field is not level and neither raw effort nor meritorious skill or acumen are the primarily or sole deteriminant in victory- your bank account is.

Compare this to Elden Ring, which is all about that and is enjoying popular acclaim as well as commercial success because it is exactly what gamers want. Lost Ark is not worth your time because it doesn't respect your time, and only--like a gold-digging whore--out for your hard-earned cash and it doesn't care once it sucks your accounts dry. It will cast you aside as if you were the dessicated corpse of a vampire's victim.

Pay To Win is a cancer and it need to be cut out or it will kill the host.