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Nothing is hard locked behind a paywall, even if some things smooth down some of the rough edges (a “Crystaline Aura” purchase that lasts a month and makes fast travel free and speeds up build times). There is of course a microtransaction store full of boosts and bonuses and cosmetics, but it does not feel obtrusive, and there are easily hundreds, if not thousands of hours of gameplay to access without paying anything at all. Unlike Diablo 3, which demanded an up-front cost, or Final Fantasy XIV, which has a monthly subscription, Lost Ark is free.

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There are guilds, there’s PvP, there’s a home base builder, you can even upgrade and manage a fleet of ships. You can farm Chaos Dungeons like Diablo rifts, or you can get teams together to take on extremely complex, extremely difficult raids. Lost Ark also puts the “Massive” in MMO with a sprawling world filled with multiple continents, and an endgame that can be as casual or as ultra hardcore as you want. Lost Ark very much scratches that itch.īut it’s much, much more than that. It looks and plays like top-down Diablo 3, but that game was released in 2012, and players have been clamoring for a replacement ever since.

It’s a sprawling game that has something for everyone, mainly split between Diablo-like combat with various classes (15 in all) and spamable skills and ultimate abilities. As for what Lost Ark actually is, that’s the other part of the puzzle.