[OSEN=고용준 기자] Users’ hot reactions were filled with chat instead of shouts. Although it was a non-face-to-face era, the users and Q&A were also impressive. In the non-face-to-face era,’Lost Arc’ presented a true method of communication with a full score of 100 points.
Smilegate RPG MMORPG’Lost Arc’ ended 2020 and’Roaon Festival’, an online user festival that presents a new blueprint for 2021, on the 20th.
This festival filled 4 hours with excitement and cheers, containing everything the users wanted. In the comment window of the live broadcast, the cheers of Lost Arc fans who sang the name of Director Geum Kang-seon did not end.
The festival was held on the 19th in the ONTACT method in which 100 users participated through video connection in the era of non-face-to-face. All the contents of the festival are broadcast in real time through the official website of Lost Ark, the official YouTube channel, and the official Twitch channel, so that any fan of Lost Ark can watch it. It was a long live broadcast stage of about 4 hours, but it was a meaningful place where I could sympathize with the new vision of Lost Arc and feel the warm atmosphere as if communicating in one space through smooth progress without any delay.
The composition of the festival was fully decorated with a focus on solving actual curiosities through Q&A, explaining the improvements of the game that users have been waiting for the most and future update plans. Director Geum Kang-seon, who oversees the development of Lost Arc, showed himself doing his best to communicate with users by conducting most of the corners.
The announcement of the ‘2021 Update Roadmap’, which was able to confirm the future blueprint of Lost Arc, was conducted in the order of first reviewing the year 2020 and releasing new contents to be released in 2021. In particular, the 2020 review drew attention by explaining in more detail what was lacking rather than what was good, and coming up with a concrete and feasible improvement direction. In addition, it added trust by revealing detailed indicators for each content.
According to the review, Lost Ark actually unveiled 31 of the 36 update items promised to users during the 1st anniversary appreciation festival in January this year. Excluding the two items that were announced as long-term updates at the time and the offline grooming support that was not implemented due to the aftermath of the corona, the actual implementation rate has exceeded 90%, proving that the promises with users are surely kept. Users’ reaction to the update was also hot. Since the Season 2 update in August, the number of daily users has increased by 122%, the number of new users has increased by a whopping 542% and the number of returning users has increased by 213%.
The detailed information and update schedule of the update roadmap to fill in 2021 was also disclosed. In the first half of 2021, Lost Arc is a new continent’Southern Bern’ where the highlight battles of the Lost Arc story, which have been held so far, will unfold. Introducing the’Gender Lock’ class. In addition, a new raid boss’Hanumatan’ and an avatar creation and dyeing system will be added in the first half of the year.
More diverse contents will be added after the first half. ▲ Lost Arc’s first new continent’Rowen’, where the entire continent will be a PVP battlefield, ▲ The 4th new class of the wizard’s job group, ▲ The new dungeon’Elgasia’, conceived by Director Geum Kang-seon 7 years ago, ▲ a new job consisting of 3 classes Military’Specialist’, ▲’Third Awakening’, which will add new skills and reinforcement effects to each class, has been revealed. In addition, it plans to operate a test server to receive sufficient feedback from users before a large-scale update, and focus on strengthening user communication by adding more developer commentaries to the patch notes.
At the end of the roadmap announcement, Director Kang-seon Geum recalled 9 years from development until now, saying, “We made it for 7 years before introducing Lost Arc to you, but after starting the service 2 years ago, we have made it together with users. It’s a game. The Lost Arc development team will continue to put all the passion and creativity they have in order to make a game-like game.” He revealed that he made it clear that he would continue to develop Lost Arc as a game-like game that competes with content fun.
In the second part, the Lost Arc Golden Bell event with On-Tact participants and a detailed user Q&A corner over an hour were held. In particular, in the Q&A corner, not only the questions received through the event page in advance, but also real-time questions from On-Tact participants. Regarding this, Director Geum Kang-seon brought out the sympathy of many users with a unique honest answer, and also provided a time to introduce the touching stories of the participants to show the truth as a real place of communication in the non-face-to-face era.
Smilegate RPG CEO Jiwon Ji-gil said, “I sincerely hope that this festival will give all of you Lost Arc fans who are having a more eventful year than ever before, a time to heal for a while. Even in 2021, Lost Arc is always by your side. We will be together.” / [email protected]
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