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1s | I'm the Aeromancer, here to give you the weather in Mokoko Village. |
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8s | Oh, looks like the Lost Ark creators are finally back in Arkesia after a few months away. |
14s | Datmodz has been dwelling in darkness, much to the surprise of no one, especially after only winning one debate. |
22s | He's been blown away by all the competition. |
25s | Well, but Bobajenny has a sunny disposition. |
28s | But in truth, only coldness radiates from her heart. |
32s | As expected, Stoopzz is as loud as a thunderstorm. |
35s | Let's just move away from that. |
38s | Oh, I think there's some beautiful sun over there. |
42s | No, no, it's just Grenton's big ******* forehead. |
46s | I'm Aeromancer with the turbulent weather forecast of Mokoko Village. |
54s | 12 weeks ago, the Amazon Games Community Team set off on a wild journey to try something new, something silly, something experimental. |
63s | Four Lost Ark creators joined us in Mokoko Village across 24 debates, all in the aim of determining who is and who is not a Mokoko. |
74s | Is a Mokoko. |
74s | Congratulations Bobajenny! |
79s | Hahaha. |
80s | None of that matters now. |
81s | It was all a rehearsal for today. |
84s | Who's it going to be? |
86s | Bobajenny. |
87s | I am having a ******* great time. |
90s | It's ******* rigged. |
91s | Grenton. |
92s | I'm humble. |
93s | I know my place. |
93s | You're talking a lot of smack behind that mushroom. |
97s | Stoopzz. |
98s | That's why I'm here baby, let's go! |
99s | Ah! |
99s | Datmodz. |
101s | Look no further. |
102s | Pull out your axe, Whack 'em in the back. |
104s | Let's find out. |
106s | Coming to you from the Amazon Games Community Team. |
108s | It's the live finale of the Lost Ark Academy Debate Club! |
116s | You seem pretty ready. |
117s | I'm losing control of my life. |
117s | You want horses? |
118s | We got horses. |
119s | CAW, CAW, CAW. |
120s | No, no, no, no. |
120s | It's like. |
124s | Lost in the mushroom forest. |
126s | Well we can't all be emotionally stable, Michael. |
131s | I keep winning, this **** easy as ****. |
136s | You know that's weird! |
140s | You're losing your sanity. |
145s | Why are you like this? |
147s | He's talking to me, I'm just standing here. |
148s | I think you're just scared to go back to the fun house. |
154s | And now, the moment you've all been waiting for. |
157s | It's your emcee Kanon. |
161s | Hi guys. |
161s | My name is Kanon, and welcome to the Lost Ark Academy Debate Club. |
166s | We've got a great show ready for you guys today. |
168s | And I do want to mention that we've got some drops, a couple of drops, exclusive drops, I believe. |
173s | But before we get started, I want to introduce you guys to a special guest. |
181s | Oh. |
182s | Hello there. |
183s | Good to see all of you. |
185s | My name is Balthorr, and I want to sing you a very special song. |
193s | It's a beautiful song. |
195s | Sing along, if you will. |
197s | Light the lights, see how they gleam. |
199s | Let the community see yus stream. |
201s | Lost Ark debates and stupid memes. |
203s | Get ready to vote for our last fever dream. |
208s | Ohoho. |
209s | Oh! |
210s | Will Datmodz win? |
211s | It's hard to say. |
212s | He's one of six. |
213s | And that's just okay. |
215s | Only Bobajenny's made time to play. |
217s | She won four debates. |
218s | It could be her day. |
223s | Oh! |
223s | Or Grenton might take the crown. |
227s | Tied with Jenny, but with a frown. |
230s | Don't doubt, fivehead, or you'll surely fail. |
233s | We will watch as Stoopzz becomes increasingly exasperated that he's a Mokoko. |
242s | He's a Mokoko! |
243s | The vote is up to you. |
247s | Haha, haha. |
247s | Oh, the vote is up to you. |
251s | Yes! |
253s | Oh, Roxx is back to host with a broken watch in her hands. |
258s | The passive aggressive Roxx is back again. |
263s | Roxx is back to host— Stop, stop, stop. |
268s | Okay, okay. |
269s | Can you stop? |
270s | That was really mean. |
272s | YUh, you threw off my groove. |
274s | What groove? |
275s | You just said I was passive aggressive. |
277s | You're very passive aggressive, and you're being a little passive aggressive right now. |
280s | I think I'm just being aggressive. |
284s | You know what? |
285s | Thank you, Bathorr, for whatever that was. |
289s | I appreciate the effort and not much else. |
293s | Anyway, welcome back to the Lost Ark Academy Debate Club. |
297s | I'm so excited to be here and bringing you all the live finale where you will finally, finally, finally have it proved to you that this is not rigged. |
306s | Kanon, why don't you come join me over here? |
308s | Let's tell the viewers what they can expect. |
312s | Yeah, um, I thought Datmodz was supposed to be Balthorr. |
315s | Who's that guy? |
316s | That's— that's Balthorr. |
320s | Datmodz is not Balthorr. |
320s | Yes. |
323s | Datmodz is not Balthorr, they just both have beards. |
324s | Okay. |
325s | All right. |
326s | Very attractive beards. |
328s | I mean, it's a nice beard. |
330s | It's a nice beard. |
331s | Yeah. |
331s | No, that's Datmodz. |
333s | No, that's not Datmodz. |
334s | That's definitely not Datmodz. |
335s | That's Balthorr! |
336s | Datmodz is coming later. |
336s | Dat Balthorr. |
336s | You're throwing me off my game already! |
339s | I apologize. |
339s | I apologize. |
340s | I'm here to help you, not to distract you. |
342s | Sorry. |
342s | It's okay. |
342s | Datmodz is important. |
344s | He'll be showing up a little bit later, but our viewers can expect kind of a similar format to what they saw all season. |
349s | We'll start with a warm up debate where everyone will be able to get it all out of their systems, figure out— we'll get you. |
356s | We'll make sure you know who Datmodz actually is, and then we'll have six 1v1 debates so everyone can kind of prove themselves one more time, go up against each other, make their final arguments, and try to convince the audience that you or they are not a Mokoko. |
371s | From there, viewers will actually vote on the winner of each debate and Kanon will talk a little bit more about how that will work later. |
379s | But before we get started, you know, I just wanted to take a minute to thank the community team that we've been working with here. |
384s | It's a team I'm part of, and honestly, the people behind the scenes are just some of the most professional individuals I've ever worked with. |
391s | They're so organized. |
392s | Whoa, whoa, whoa. |
393s | Stop, stop, stop! |
394s | Oh, no, no, That's embarrassing. |
399s | Oh. |
402s | Okay. |
402s | And you know what? |
403s | Anyway. |
404s | I think we should just move on. |
405s | Yeah. |
406s | I'm sure they'll be fine back there. |
408s | You know what? |
409s | Let's go ahead and bring out debaters. |
411s | I think it's about that time. |
413s | We have four debaters here today who you should all be very familiar with. |
417s | And they were all still playing Lost Ark when we contracted them. |
421s | So first up, we're going to bring out Grenton. |
425s | Sorry, there's only a couple of us to clap for you so far. |
430s | It's the entire Reaper population. |
431s | It's the entire— There are literally dozens of you. |
433s | Literally dozens of reapers. |
435s | That's true. |
436s | And you're one of those dozens. |
438s | You know, you've won quite a few debates throughout the season, but like Balthorr said earlier, you're feeling pretty, pretty down. |
446s | You frown a lot. |
447s | How are you feeling coming into today? |
449s | I'm not going to be toxic at all today. |
453s | Are you sure? |
455s | To you? |
455s | Maybe, but no one else. |
457s | Great. |
457s | Well, how are you feeling about your chances at the finale? |
462s | I mean, the show is rigged, so I already know who's going to win. |
465s | Twitch chat is literally voting for the winners I have— I don't think anyone has any control over Twitch chat. |
472s | So you think? |
474s | Well, I guess we'll find out. |
475s | Not a very compelling argument. |
477s | We'll see how they get swayed. |
479s | We're going to move right along and bring out our next contestant. |
482s | Next up, we have Bobajenny. |
486s | Hey, guys. |
488s | Hi, Bobajenny, welcome. |
490s | You have just as many wins from across the season as Grenton does. |
494s | How are you kind of feeling going into today? |
495s | Those are the two highest numbers of wins. |
498s | I mean, the whole time I wanted to be not Grenton, but somehow we're at the same spot. |
504s | I don't know how I feel about that, but let's do our best. |
508s | Very valid. |
509s | Grenton, I know you said you wouldn't be toxic today, but Bobajenny apparently is still going with those smear campaigns she did all season. |
516s | It clearly didn't work for her, we're still tied. |
517s | I guess we'll find out. |
519s | We'll find out after the audience votes today. |
522s | Thank you for coming out. |
523s | Next up, we're going to bring in Stoopzz. |
529s | Full speed. |
532s | Skrrrrt. |
532s | Gotta put me up to the line, man. |
534s | Yo! |
537s | Are you crazy, man? |
538s | Let's not drop our debaters. |
540s | Thank you for joining us, Stoopzz. |
541s | Welcome back. |
542s | You are sitting squarely in the middle of the pack based on your performance this season. |
547s | Are you making fun of me because I'm in the wheelchair? |
549s | No, I just— that's literally, like, how many debates you won. |
552s | What does that have to do with your...? |
553s | "You're sitting in the middle of the pack?" Oh. |
556s | Well, that's awkward. |
557s | No, I wasn't. |
558s | But I'm sorry I made you feel that way. |
560s | I'm sorry you feel that way. |
561s | I thought I did great on the show. |
563s | You know, you do have the highest number in the show of claims that it's rigged. |
567s | So you won at something. |
568s | But you do decide— you did decide who won. |
570s | Like that. |
571s | Did I? |
571s | You guys came over and told me every time. |
572s | We did like a rehearsal of the show twice yesterday, and Mr. |
575s | Modz won both times in the rehearsal. |
578s | He got of the stars. |
579s | I got zero. |
581s | But it wasn't real. |
583s | I'm saying it's rigged, though. |
584s | Even when the show is not live, it's rigged. |
587s | All right, anyway. |
588s | Hello, man. |
592s | Okay, we're going to keep moving on. |
593s | Finally, we're going to bring out Datmodz. |
595s | Datmodz, let's bring some positivity here. |
602s | Oh, surprise! |
604s | It's me! |
604s | I bet no one expected the shadowy hooded figure to be me, Datmodz. |
608s | Hello, Mr. |
609s | Stoopzz. |
609s | You were supposed to say, surprise, motha sucker. |
611s | That was what you were supposed to say. |
612s | Surprise mother licker. |
616s | Please don't fire me. |
618s | All right, Datmodz, welcome. |
619s | Thank you for bringing out Stoopzz. |
622s | You have only won one debate all season. |
625s | Just one. |
626s | So you're coming in as kind of an underdog. |
627s | How 'bout you chill for a second here. |
628s | Okay. |
629s | It's not about who is winning or losing. |
632s | What really matters is the fun and the memories you made along the way. |
636s | And, yeah, I might be the underdog. |
638s | I might have taken a lot of L's, but it's not over till it's over. |
642s | And everyone loves a good comeback story. |
644s | There you go! |
645s | Don't say that. |
645s | You ditched me last week. |
646s | We were supposed to do Akkan together and you ditched me. |
648s | What about memories and friends? |
650s | Yeah. |
650s | We have to talk about that later, I did cheat on you and Akkan with Zeals and Memo, which our raid did go quicker than yours. |
657s | No, it didn't. |
657s | We went faster. |
658s | I watched. |
659s | No. |
659s | I checked the VOD. |
660s | They're like a married couple. |
661s | They really are. |
662s | We're gonna have to have a fact check on this. |
664s | I love Mr. |
664s | Modz. |
665s | Well, we'll have somebody, maybe Tom back there, will fact check that. |
668s | But you know, Datmodz, thank you for joining us. |
672s | Try not to tear down the set. |
675s | Global warming. |
676s | There are— those plants are very important. |
679s | Now that we have all our debaters up. |
682s | You guys are already feeling a little bit feisty, so we're going to go ahead and move into our warm up debate. |
688s | So while Datmodz gets ready and gets sweaty, I'm gonna give you guys the warm up topic for you to think about. |
695s | So today's warm up topic is: Should wipe mechanics be removed from the raid entirely? |
700s | Remember, this is going to be your first 2v2 debate. |
703s | The only rule is that there are no rules. |
705s | Do what you want. |
706s | Try to be nice to each other. |
708s | Please. |
708s | Like at least a little bit. |
710s | But this is the last time you will be in teams together. |
712s | So we'll have Grenton and Bobajenny behind the rock, Datmodz and Stoopzz behind the bongo— Stoopzz, are you okay? |
719s | A little gassy. |
720s | You were making a weird face. |
725s | Those donuts earlier, Idunno. |
727s | I thought Balthorr was going to be the stinky one today. |
728s | Yeah. |
729s | As long as you don't smell as bad as Balthorr I think you're fine. |
732s | Oh, it's worse. |
733s | Oh, no, no. |
734s | That's saying a lot. |
735s | All right, well, think about your warm up debate topic again. |
739s | That will be: What would be— oh, no, it's not. |
741s | I lied. |
744s | "Should all of the wipe mechanics be removed from Lost Ark?" That is your warm up debate topic. |
750s | Think about it for a couple of minutes. |
751s | Talk amongst yourselves. |
752s | And while you do that, Kanon is going to tell the viewers at home how they'll be able to vote once the real debates get started. |
758s | Sure, sure. |
759s | Yeah. |
759s | So most of you guys are familiar with the Twitch interface. |
762s | Once they're done debating, check the top of chat. |
765s | You'll see a menu there. |
766s | You click that and then you'll select who you think had the best defense. |
771s | I want to, I want to mention this, but these debates and these takes that the content creators are giving, they're not necessarily reflective of their own personal opinions or Amazon or Smilegate for that matter. |
787s | They are assigned topics and takes that they have to defend. |
791s | So when you vote, be sure to vote on who you think defended or argued their give and take the best. |
798s | Totally. |
799s | Debate club, not be correct club. |
801s | Right. |
801s | Absolutely. |
802s | All right, debaters, are we feeling warmed up? |
805s | I hear a little bit of chatter, but how do we feel? |
809s | I feel ready to go. |
810s | Do you still feel gassy? |
812s | I let it out. |
814s | Oh, no. |
815s | I'm so happy I'm over her. |
816s | Yeah, me, too. |
818s | You're gonna have to come over here soon. |
820s | Hopefully it's gone by then. |
822s | As long as we're ready to do that warm up debate, I'm going to pull out my— Balthorr, this is very much not a broken watch. |
829s | It still works. |
830s | Well, it looks broken. |
831s | You probably can't see this far with your beady little eyes. |
835s | But I assure you, the watch still works. |
838s | So we're going to get right into it with our warm up debate. |
841s | Again, the only rule: there are no rules. |
843s | Let it all out of your system now, including that gas, and have the floor. |
849s | That's not an easy way to start the conversation. |
851s | They should be removed. |
852s | Okay, they suck. |
853s | No one really likes them. |
854s | It's a lot of artificial difficulty. |
856s | And in a game like Lost Ark where it's about re-clearing raids and going through them and a bunch of different characters, having... |
862s | when everyone knows how to do the raid, having like even in Vykas where you can wipe the entire raid at that point where you're like 100 ilvls over it. |
868s | I don't think it fits the mold of the game. |
870s | I think you can still have fun doing raids without having a mechanic that wipes everybody. |
876s | But having a wipe mechanic allows players to really know the raid, though, because they know. |
881s | Does it? |
881s | What do you mean? |
882s | Yeah, because you know when it's coming up. |
884s | What does that mean? |
885s | If you're a mech do-er— Explain what that means. |
887s | Listen, one second Akkan, for example. |
889s | Okay? |
890s | Okay. |
890s | Gate 3 does— Not have white mechanics. |
892s | It does, with the statue mech. |
893s | Which one? |
894s | But it happens very early in the flight, so I don't think it should be removed. |
896s | But I don't think you should get like 8 minutes into a fight and then the wipe mechanic happens because then you have to re-prog another 8 minutes. |
902s | But if it happens early, I think it's still good. |
903s | Why does Vykas have wipe mechanics? |
905s | We don't talk about Vykas. |
906s | I just want to talk about this for a second. |
908s | Valtan: one of the best raids in the entire game. |
910s | Yeah?Okay. |
911s | It's fun and engaging for new players. |
913s | People can make mistakes. |
915s | People aren't going to get gatekept too much because they're not going to be deterred from doing the raids, because if one gigachad is in the raid, they'll be able to clear everything for everybody. |
923s | Have you ever done the final phase and been the only person alive on the final platform? |
927s | Of course. |
927s | Yeah, because the player skill prevails. |
931s | And, the most important thing is— You have a really good view from that, usually, right? |
934s | Because you're dead. |
935s | Ooh. |
935s | Hey, all I remember is carrying you in hard mode. |
938s | Listen, all that matters. |
940s | You were dead for how long? |
942s | Games are about having fun, right? |
943s | And that's an anti fun mechanic. |
946s | You just want to go in there and enjoy your time. |
947s | And if you're re-clearing raids, I don't want one person to wipe away, and a lot more people would be more likely to bring in like, new players if I knew that new player couldn't wipe the entire raid. |
956s | You're right, because the game respects your time. |
957s | So yeah sure, there's no— I mean, if there is one mechanic, it's going to be hard to bus. |
962s | Yeah, but listen, you have fun, engaging mechanics, okay? |
967s | That don't punish everybody for one person's mistake. |
971s | But that's the challenge of it, though. |
972s | That's what makes Lost Ark different from other games. |
974s | So one person's cat sitting on their keyboard while they're raiding and doing a raid, wiping everybody... |
978s | You're not explaining why it's good, though. |
979s | You look at— Look at Akkan's wipe mechanic. |
983s | Why is it good? |
984s | Okay, maybe I'm biased because I solved that when we were doing it blind. |
988s | But like. |
988s | No, it's an easy mechanic, right? |
990s | You press G and spin the statue. |
992s | Explain to me why it's good. |
993s | What makes a wipe mechanic good? |
995s | It's because it's a, it's a hard cap. |
996s | If you can't get that you can't continue. |
999s | You just have to do the mech! |
999s | There's a lot of other mechs that can be a hard cap where it doesn't wipe the entire raid. |
1003s | Like what? |
1003s | Even in Valtan if you can't survive the ghost phase... |
1006s | Why are you talking about the first Legion Raid? |
1007s | They re-released it, but they re-released it and people like it. |
1010s | You're like, "back in my day". |
1012s | How many people don't do clown, got get gatekept at clown because there are so many wipe mechs? |
1016s | You just skip every mech now. |
1017s | Yeah, that's true. |
1018s | There's still people that don't go into clown because they can't get past Mario 1 and 2. |
1021s | They're scared. |
1023s | Then maybe they should just get good. |
1023s | You can still make fun raids— All right, that's gonna do it. |
1027s | Just don't be bad at the game and you'll be fine. |
1028s | All right. |
1029s | Well, then you get to, like, the ten people left in Punika. |
1031s | You want to have more people playing the game. |
1034s | Who stays in Punika? |
1034s | Not anymore. |
1036s | You are all really passionate about this. |
1037s | The HH's? |
1037s | I don't know. |
1037s | Lailai! |
1037s | I feel like everybody is warm. |
1039s | Don't worry. |
1040s | You'll be able to all argue with each other later, I assure you. |
1042s | All right. |
1043s | Grenton, I thought you said you weren't going to be toxic today. |
1045s | Yeah, I lasted a whole 5 minutes. |
1046s | I don't even think you made it 5 minutes. |
1049s | That warm up debate was not 5 minutes. |
1050s | And you came out swinging. |
1051s | That was a little bit longer than a minute? |
1053s | That was too long. |
1054s | There's no rules in the warm up debate. |
1056s | Yeah. |
1057s | Are you trying to make rules? |
1058s | No. |
1058s | I got you a flower. |
1060s | I'm sorry. |
1060s | I'll put it on your coffin when I bury you. |
1062s | Oh, my God. |
1063s | Jesus Christ. |
1064s | I thought. |
1065s | Okay, I know what I'm going to have to talk to, Grenton. |
1068s | We're going to take a quick break before we get into the first three official matches where there are rules. |
1074s | We'll talk about that in a minute. |
1076s | While we take that break, we're going to go ahead and cut to Balthorr at his live support center. |
1081s | Yes, Yes. |
1082s | Thank you, Roxx. |
1084s | I can hear you. |
1085s | We're coming at you live from our Twitch channel. |
1087s | And welcome to Balthorr's Live Support Center for Salty Players. |
1093s | Well, it looks like we got a lot of salty players in the Twitch chat here. |
1097s | Ooh, we've got Mike Spicy saying "Commercial break." Hey, baby. |
1102s | How you doing? |
1104s | Oh, oh, we've got. |
1106s | Oh, Jencrimson making a cringe face. |
1108s | I like that. |
1109s | You sound like a salty personality. |
1112s | Ooh. |
1113s | Ohoho, you want some fries for that salt? |
1120s | Ooh, we've got so many people. |
1121s | All the comments are coming in like, like a wild fire. |
1124s | Oh, Balthorr, be a chad and remove— Wait a second. |
1129s | We're not going to remove nothing, but I can be a chad. |
1132s | Anything for you. |
1134s | Oh, wait, wait, wait. |
1135s | Oh, we got some more people. |
1137s | I see you RecallYT. |
1139s | You are beautiful. |
1140s | Hold on. |
1141s | I'm going to— let me just. |
1145s | Yep. |
1145s | Yes, Hello? |
1147s | Yeah. |
1147s | Police. |
1148s | Yeah. |
1148s | There's a lot of salty people in the chat here, but it looks like we're going to need somebody to call the WAHmbulance for a lot of these people. |
1157s | Like Hopo0815. |
1160s | Recall what a noob. |
1164s | Haha, we have so many— Show my hammer! |
1170s | Something sad about my hammer. |
1172s | Long story short, my hammer has disappeared. |
1175s | But I have brought a different weapon. |
1179s | It is a smaller hammer. |
1183s | It's not the size of the boat. |
1185s | It's the motion of the ocean. |
1187s | Don't quote me. |
1189s | Back to the Twitch chat. |
1191s | Oh, so many angry people. |
1192s | Look at all that salt. |
1194s | Do we have any water? |
1196s | Droplet tears for all you salty players or maybe a salt shaker? |
1201s | Let's see all the salt shakers. |
1203s | Ohohoho. |
1203s | Aww, you gonna cry? |
1208s | Oh you can't, you can't win the raid? |
1210s | Oh, why don't you just go to, I don't know, drink some ale at a bar? |
1216s | You know, maybe you could meet me there. |
1218s | You know, we could have a jolly old time. |
1221s | Oh, look at all this salt. |
1223s | Ooh, smells like victory. |
1228s | Ah yes. |
1229s | You know, this reminds me of a beautiful song. |
1232s | I wrote it for this very moment, and it's going to be the most exciting song that you really love. |
1239s | Wait a second. |
1240s | Balthorr you look cute today? |
1242s | Okay. |
1243s | L, is for the way you look at— What was that? |
1248s | Oh we're, we're done. |
1249s | Okay? |
1250s | And that's all for Balthorr's Live Support Center. |
1252s | Back to you in the studio. |
1257s | Thank you Balthorr for reading that Twitch chat so the rest of us don't have to, and managing all those salty players. |
1265s | They're my salty babies. |
1268s | Okay, maybe keep that to yourself next time, but we appreciate you. |
1273s | Now that we're back from that quick break, we are going to get into our first 1v1 debate. |
1279s | We're going to have Stoopzz and Datmodz who are already in position. |
1281s | You'll be taking the first debate of the live finale. |
1284s | How are you feeling about that? |
1286s | He just called my editor a noob. |
1288s | Recall, dude, that's crazy. |
1290s | You got roasted by like the homeless Santa Claus. |
1292s | That's crazy, dude. |
1294s | Sometimes the truth is necessary, though. |
1296s | I know. |
1297s | Recall does suck though. |
1297s | I've never even seen him raid before. |
1299s | He's not that good. |
1300s | Yeah. |
1300s | I mean, I'm not great, but he's also not great. |
1302s | I'm not good either. |
1302s | But, you know, that's why you have strong friends. |
1307s | Damn Recall you got roasted. |
1307s | Okay, anyways. |
1308s | Well, hopefully you are more ready for the debate than you are for your raiding parties, apparently. |
1315s | Your topic for the first debate is going to be: What would be the best way to bring players back to the game? |
1321s | We'll give you kind of a minute to think. |
1323s | Not to each other. |
1324s | You're debating against each other, but, you know, with yourselves and then we'll get right to it. |
1328s | He already knows what I'm going to say anyway. |
1330s | Yeah, I already know what you're going to say. |
1331s | Yeah. |
1332s | We always talk about this. |
1332s | Take a minute to strategize anyway. |
1335s | So Kanon, this is a pretty important topic, I think. |
1338s | It is. |
1339s | Bringing new players back to the game, well not new players necessarily, but bringing players back to the game is always super important. |
1346s | Always going to be important. |
1348s | Yeah, it's arguably the most important thing about the game, really any MMORPG. |
1354s | The thing is, Stoopzz is pretty passionate about this subject, so I mean, he's going to probably say the same thing he always says on every single one of his streams. |
1361s | Give a very passionate, inspirational take on the matter. |
1367s | But the thing is, see, I don't know if you guys have been watching the other episodes from the Debate Club, but Datmodz, the man is a walking W. |
1376s | He's deliberately lost all of his debates. |
1378s | You said that live? |
1378s | Deliberately, deliberately, lost. |
1382s | And then he's just going, to he's just going to come out with some W takes. |
1385s | So it'll be very interesting. |
1387s | Alright. |
1389s | All that copium going on in there. |
1390s | Hey listen. |
1391s | Listen, you see the color of this? |
1393s | You see the color of yours? |
1395s | This means that when I speak, you have to... |
1399s | You gotta zip it, man. |
1400s | Feeling lightheaded? |
1401s | Listen, let. |
1402s | Let the professionals talk. |
1404s | She's behind the booth. |
1405s | You're just standing there awkwardly. |
1405s | No, I like this. |
1406s | Somebody's finally supporting me. |
1406s | What you gotta call me out on that man? |
1409s | She has a whole set up, and you're just standing there like a plus one. |
1412s | Yeah, but like, look. |
1414s | Okay, let's. |
1415s | Let's go on with this. |
1415s | All right. |
1416s | Well, I do appreciate your support. |
1417s | And it sounds like, you know, both of these players kind of had pretty strong opinions on it. |
1422s | So we'll see how they do during the debate. |
1424s | Are you both feeling ready? |
1426s | Yeah. |
1426s | We are ready. |
1427s | I'm ready to rumble. |
1428s | All right. |
1429s | Stoopzz is going to go first. |
1429s | I'm going first. |
1430s | Yeah, you're going first. |
1431s | Stoopzz is going first? |
1432s | Okay, sure. |
1432s | By all means, Stoopzz, your first minute starts now. |
1435s | I think it's a pretty hard topic to solve. |
1437s | You know, it's not easy to bring people back into a game after they— Look me in the eyes when you're talking to me. |
1441s | I'm nervous. |
1443s | You're bullying me. |
1443s | I'm in a wheelchair. |
1444s | Okay, let me do my thing. |
1445s | He's wasting— He's not allowed to interrupt me. |
1448s | Stop arguing, you're— Can we restart? |
1450s | Stoopzz, your one minute starts now. |
1451s | Don't talk over each other. |
1453s | Look in my beady eyes, bearded man. |
1455s | It's not easy. |
1456s | It's not an easy task to bring people back into the game. |
1458s | Right. |
1459s | I don't want look in your eyes makes you uncomfortable. |
1461s | It's not an easy task with people back in the game. |
1463s | People, when they've decided to stop playing a game. |
1466s | It's very unlikely to them to, like reinstall or try out the game. |
1468s | But the problem is in MMOs there is so much vertical progression that you can't just hop into the game and start playing. |
1474s | And so with Lost Ark specifically, there's so many systems, so many materials that you need, so much horizontal content that you need that, to like tell a new player to get into the game, like yo, come into the game a year later. |
1486s | They're not going to want to do that. |
1487s | So a lot of MMOs, what they offer are expansions where somebody can hop in. |
1490s | And there are so many people that played Lost Ark in the past and people that might be interested in playing today, but when they find out how much or how far they're behind, they're not going want to do it. |
1499s | So for me, the best way to do it is obviously continue to revamp a lot of the systems like the dailies, to make them stay longer when they get in the game, but also offer a reset of some sort like season three or Tier four. |
1511s | I think that would be the best way to get people back in the game. |
1513s | Alright, that was your first minute. |
1514s | Datmodz, your first minute to make your argument starts now. |
1518s | Okay. |
1519s | No, that is definitely one approach. |
1520s | I do agree with some of that, but I think there is another way to do it because you don't want to punish the long term player. |
1526s | MMOs are about the longevity, your experience, getting your achievements, right, doing all the raids, right, getting all your character progress, getting your gems and everything else like that. |
1534s | But the problem is new players, there is that vertical hurdle that they do have to overcome and you do want the game to be inviting to the new players. |
1542s | So what I think the correct approach would be is not remove the long term players grind that they worked so hard for. |
1549s | I think what they should do is just revamp some of the more punishing systems for new players, such as revamping the card system where instead of just giving straight up power to the players, maybe it's more of a utility system. |
1559s | So people aren't like, "Hey man, this guy wants to raid Brelshaza. |
1563s | Oh, but he doesn't got LOS30. |
1565s | We're not going to take him." And they just add a more utility side of that aspect. |
1569s | And then also just introducing more system to assist new players in with progressing the game like recently there was the 1540 powerpass, right? |
1577s | You're getting free level seven gems there! |
1579s | Or you get free 1540 too, so you can pretty much do almos every single raod all the way up to Kayangel and then you just have to do a little bit more honing to get up to 1580 to do the new raid. |
1587s | All right. |
1588s | That was your minute. |
1590s | Stoopzz. |
1590s | You have one minute to make a rebuttal. |
1592s | Yeah, it's a good point. |
1593s | But the reality is that you could give anybody all the gear, all the gems, whatever. |
1597s | But as soon as they see that you're roster level ten, or whatever you're at to show that you haven't been playing the game, you can't buy the knowledge, right? |
1604s | And so when you don't have the knowledge, it doesn't matter if someone's super juiced up like nobody in the chat is going to take somebody that's 1600 but has never done a raid. |
1612s | Because if they haven't done the raid, they're going to wipe you. |
1614s | And with the wipe mechanics, the raid wide wipe mechanics for one person to wipe the whole raid, you don't want to waste time with that person no matter how geared they are. |
1621s | Right. |
1621s | So the reality is you have to reset the knowledge. |
1624s | You have to get people to go into new raids and learn together. |
1627s | And yes, at some point, right. |
1628s | It's every MMO, there's always going to be gatekeeping, there's always going to be a knowledge gap, but you have to reset it frequently enough for then people to hop back in. |
1635s | Dude, every MMO is like this. |
1637s | You look at it like, Oh well, I'll wait till the expansion drop. |
1640s | I'll wait for the next season, I'll wait for the next tier. |
1641s | And Tier three has gone on too long. |
1644s | And so they need to look to implement Tier four for new people to come back into the game. |
1648s | And then, yeah, let's get rid of those systems. |
1650s | All right that is your one minute. |
1651s | All the extra horizontal but, a reset of knowledge is the most important thing. |
1654s | Perfect timing. |
1655s | All right. |
1656s | Datmodz, you have one final minute to make your last response. |
1660s | That is true. |
1660s | Roster level is definitely one of the pain points for new players. |
1663s | They see, hey, this guy has the item levels, he has some gems. |
1666s | He doesn't have cards and he doesn't have roster levels. |
1668s | That's something I think they definitely need to actively revamp to help the new players enter the game more easily. |
1674s | Another thing that they could do, because it's an MMO, it's about community, about playing with each other. |
1678s | They could add some mentor systems in the game. |
1680s | Well, maybe like, Hey, there's a new player. |
1682s | He hasn't done the raid. |
1684s | You know, you have the different buffs are ready for those new players to take less damage. |
1688s | They're going to have the cheat death mechanics. |
1690s | So like when they do die in the raid, they actually are resurrected. |
1693s | I think having like a mentor system where they could like scale up new players power level to the person leading a raid would kind of be helpful, and then it would help them introduce in the raid. |
1703s | And then you can also add some reward system for these mentor players. |
1706s | So these new players that want to learn the raids, you have an experienced guy leading them through there and maybe they get some extra gold or they get some cards to help them out. |
1714s | All right. |
1715s | That is your one minute as well. |
1716s | That was pretty succinct. |
1717s | Good job. |
1718s | All right. |
1719s | We are now turning it to the audience. |
1721s | Twitch audience. |
1723s | Be sure to look for that poll you are going to be voting on who is and who is not a Mokoko, or just more simply put, who won this first debate. |
1731s | So that was kind of a lot of ideas floating around there. |
1734s | What do you think, Kanon? |
1734s | Yeah, I'll be honest. |
1737s | I personally, if I if I may inject my own personal opinion, I think I'm actually in favor of Stoopzz's take there. |
1744s | But again, it's not about their beliefs. |
1747s | They're they're they're they're going. |
1749s | They are there defending a give and take. |
1752s | Right. |
1752s | So I would definitely agree with with Stoopzz's there. |
1756s | But I think that Datmodz did a pretty good job defending his point. |
1760s | All right. |
1760s | Fair enough. |
1761s | Yeah. |
1761s | These folks, remember, it's important to remember they're debating different things. |
1764s | Some they might not believe in, some they may. |
1767s | I help you both believe in bringing new players back to the game in general, though, that would be ideal. |
1772s | We've gotta bring Mr. |
1773s | Modz back to the game. |
1776s | I did Akkan. |
1777s | Without me! |
1778s | Yeah, I played with some better Korean players. |
1780s | Yeah. |
1781s | I see you were dead at the end. |
1783s | I would've restarted the raid for you if you didn't make it to the end. |
1785s | I was on the MVP system. |
1787s | I was on the family photo at the end. |
1788s | It shows how good your other teammates were. |
1789s | For what, stagger? |
1790s | For damage, Grenton, something you don't know about. |
1795s | Well. |
1796s | You can't turn into a bear in this game. |
1800s | All right, While those votes are trickling in, are there any other thoughts you kind of want to share? |
1805s | Kanon, how are you feeling so far? |
1807s | That was just our first debate. |
1808s | So it could be anyone's game. |
1810s | I think it's going to start getting a little heated, to be honest, because when we're going through this yesterday, this was. |
1817s | It was a very different culture. |
1819s | Let me just tell you that this was— they actually— I feel like there was a lot of effort put into that talk that they just had. |
1826s | It was actually a serious talk. |
1827s | I thought it was just going to be kind of a... |
1830s | I mean we get serious time when it's time for serious debates. |
1831s | It is. |
1832s | I mean, Grenton was very toxic yesterday, but you were doing, you were doing good today, even though you got a little spicy during the warm up debate. |
1839s | I'm never toxic. |
1841s | He said he was going to bury me. |
1842s | What do you mean? |
1843s | He still is toxic? |
1844s | I mean. |
1845s | He's doing better. |
1846s | And Kanon said Datmoz is a walking W seven times so far. |
1850s | He said that line like five times yesterday. |
1854s | Listen, it's not about being nontoxic instantly. |
1855s | It's about the progression. |
1856s | Okay. |
1857s | So what happens if you beat the walking W? |
1859s | I'm setting you up, man. |
1863s | Alright, so it looks like we're about ready to find out who is or has... |
1867s | I guess you can be a W, as Kanon's decided, the first W of the day. |
1871s | That's a W. |
1872s | It is! |
1877s | Datmodz. |
1879s | You are the first to Mokoko. |
1881s | Oh, my God. |
1883s | Stoopzz you won the debate. |
1883s | Oh, yeah. |
1884s | Oh, baby. |
1885s | Really? |
1886s | Kanon's going to come give you a gold star. |
1886s | Wait, I thought you were saying this is rigged. |
1888s | I think this is rigged, I agree with you now. |
1890s | This dink-donker, what you are talking about? |
1894s | This is the first time I've gotten one of these. |
1895s | We did this before. |
1896s | This is the first. |
1897s | I'm. |
1898s | I'm not. |
1898s | I'm serious. |
1898s | Doesn't it feel better that you beat a walking W? |
1901s | I got none yesterday. |
1904s | You got one yesterday. |
1904s | They're giving you pity votes. |
1906s | This is leftover, huh? |
1906s | No, I think Kanon's right, though. |
1908s | The way he's hyping up Datmodz, you've got to be like. |
1910s | Feeling like yeah, you did it. |
1912s | He's just getting pity votes. |
1913s | I can't control Twitch chat, and I would not like to try. |
1918s | All right. |
1919s | We're going to move right ahead. |
1920s | Congratulations on your first win to our second official debate. |
1925s | He's so happy. |
1925s | We're going to have Grenton and Bobajenny, who are already in place. |
1929s | Thank you very much. |
1930s | Oh! |
1930s | For our next official debate, your topic will be: Is too much of Lost Ark based on RNG? |
1938s | So I'll give you both a minute to kind of think about that. |
1941s | Think about your points. |
1942s | Yeah, look at that. |
1942s | They're thinking already and we'll go from there. |
1946s | You know what, Balthorr, actually, why don't you come over here? |
1949s | You're not really doing much over there. |
1950s | Over there? |
1951s | Yeah, to my mushrom. |
1951s | You want me? |
1952s | Over there? |
1953s | Yeah. |
1953s | Okay. |
1954s | All right. |
1955s | Just don't mind me. |
1957s | You look so different in person. |
1959s | Oh, thank you. |
1961s | In a good way. |
1961s | Hey, I like your beard, brother. |
1963s | Same to you there, sir. |
1964s | Hey, brother. |
1966s | Thank you. |
1966s | Keep it on, big man. |
1967s | I will. |
1968s | Don't worry about me, baby. |
1969s | Thank you. |
1970s | Thank you for joining us over here at our mushroom. |
1973s | You know, I just. |
1973s | I figured, you know, you might be a good person to talk a little bit about this. |
1977s | RNG, is that something you feel like has impacted your experience in Arkesia? |
1981s | Yeah, absolutely not. |
1984s | When it comes to Balthorr there is nothing random, everything's precisely calculated. |
1990s | I like that confidence. |
1992s | I wish some of our debaters had that kind of confidence instead of just being toxic. |
1996s | That's called confidence. |
1997s | I didn't even say you. |
1999s | Why are you responding? |
2000s | You were staring into my eyes. |
2001s | You don't know that. |
2003s | Yeah, I was looking at Bobajenny. |
2005s | She's looking great. |
2006s | She was looking at Bobajenny, Crouton. |
2006s | So don't worry about it. |
2009s | All right. |
2010s | Sorry about that. |
2011s | Little bit of a sidebar, but are you both feeling ready for your first debate? |
2015s | I got a weird whiff of something when he walked by, but. |
2017s | It's probably the booze. |
2018s | It's definitely me. |
2019s | I assume it's the ale. |
2021s | Alcohol. |
2022s | I think Kanon picked him up off the bar floor last night. |
2022s | Oh, the rotten alcohol. |
2024s | You know, it was a late night. |
2026s | It just comes through my skin. |
2026s | Hmm. |
2027s | Late night. |
2029s | He gets it. |
2029s | I got to drink with Balthorr. |
2032s | He was actually wearing that. |
2033s | Uh-huh. |
2035s | Anyway, how are you guys feeling ready for your first debate of the finale? |
2039s | Sure. |
2039s | Yeah, sure. |
2040s | Sure. |
2041s | Sure. |
2041s | Yeah, sure. |
2043s | Please stop saying that. |
2044s | Bobajenny looks very excited. |
2046s | Sure. |
2046s | So you know what? |
2047s | I'm going to give you the floor first. |
2050s | Remember, the topic is: Is too much of Lost Ark based on RNG? |
2054s | Bobajenny, your minute to start starts now. |
2058s | So I'm arguing for no, it is not too much RNG. |
2063s | I know some of you guys in chat right now think that I don't really have a say in this, but let me tell you. |
2069s | Why do games make you feel special? |
2072s | If you play every single MMO and everyone has the same things? |
2075s | It doesn't really feel that special. |
2077s | But when you have that one thing where no one else, no one else has, then you feel a little bit better about yourself. |
2084s | And when it comes to honing and stuff like that, people say it's RNG, but there's also a pity system going on. |
2090s | So I don't think it's that bad. |
2092s | At the end of the day, if you have a mount that no one else has, that's why people go back to certain games just to get that mount. |
2100s | It makes your gameplay so much more. |
2102s | It just makes that item so much more worth it versus everyone else having the same thing over and over again. |
2111s | And that's why I think there's not too much like, what is too much anyway? |
2114s | What's too much? |
2116s | All right, Grenton, your minute is about to start, so we'll see your first argument now. |
2121s | Thank you for literally helping my argument a little bit. |
2123s | So RNG is great, but there is too much, right? |
2126s | So you're never going to get gatekept for item level because you need to be a certain item level to do the raid. |
2130s | You will get gatekept for not having, or if someone else applies who has a9 /7 stone and you don't. |
2135s | They'll take them. |
2135s | There's no pity system for stones. |
2137s | Someone applies with a hundred quality weapon. |
2138s | You don't have a hundred quality weapon. |
2140s | You know all about hundred quality weapons, right? |
2142s | No wonder you love RNG, because you got a 9/7 stone. |
2146s | You have a hundred quality weapon, so you didn't experience the rough of spending millions of gold trying to get a weapon. |
2152s | Ask Stoopzz. |
2153s | This guy's perma blue quality. |
2155s | He has trouble getting that RNG factor into the game. |
2158s | So RNGs great... |
2160s | in small amounts. |
2162s | A rare amount, Sure. |
2163s | That shows prestige. |
2164s | You know, maybe, you know, a 9/7 stone OR quality, but too much RNG is bad and there's too much in Lost Ark that's based on RNG. |
2172s | The only thing that isn't is honing and your set levels, which at the end of the day don't really matter because you need the level to get to the raid anyways. |
2180s | All right, Bobajenny, your one minute to have a rebuttal starts now. |
2185s | Okay. |
2186s | I get what you mean. |
2187s | You're saying that people with 9/7s are automatically getting into raids. |
2191s | But I don't think that's the only thing that people look at when they try to get someone in their raid. |
2195s | And second of all, did you not tell me yesterday that you ran all of your Yorn card runs to get all of your LOS stuff? |
2205s | You got a full set? |
2206s | Yeah, you got a full set, but then you worked for it though. |
2210s | So I feel like there is some sort of RNG to it. |
2214s | But if a game does not have RNG it does not have the same effect. |
2216s | It does not light up the parts of your brain that is like, Hell yeah, I want to keep going. |
2221s | So I do think RNG is relatively healthy for a game. |
2225s | So like I said, what is too much? |
2228s | Are the people saying that it's too much the ones that just aren't playing enough to even have the RNG? |
2234s | Right? |
2234s | If they're not playing enough and they're not really trying it out. |
2238s | A lot of people that I know that play a lot of Lost Ark, like they all have LOS 30 without spending on card packs, etc. |
2245s | So dopamine rush. |
2247s | Good. |
2248s | All right, Jenny. |
2250s | Grenton, you now have one final minute to make your last argument. |
2254s | You play a lot of Lost Ark, right? |
2256s | Yeah. |
2256s | You don't have a LOS 30. |
2258s | I don't. |
2258s | You're the only one here without LOS 30. |
2260s | But— No, my turn to talk. |
2261s | Okay. |
2262s | Okay. |
2262s | I'm just setting you up. |
2263s | Okay. |
2264s | You have a high quality weapon. |
2265s | You have a 9/7 stone. |
2266s | You got hand-me-down level ten gems. |
2268s | You just don't have LOS 30. |
2269s | See what I mean? |
2270s | There's too much RNG. |
2271s | You're almost a perfect player, but there's just too much RNG. |
2274s | Like I did six card runs for, like, eight months and I never missed a week and I got LOS 30 like December of last year. |
2282s | It sucked. |
2283s | I had two 9/7 stones. |
2284s | I'm RNG blessed and I still think there's too much RNG in the game. |
2290s | There has to be a certain balance of. |
2292s | if it's going to be cards, it's cards. |
2293s | If it's going to be weapon quality, it's weapon quality. |
2295s | If it's going to be a stone, it's a stone. |
2296s | But having all these different system in the game. |
2298s | Not only that, like Datmodz said, that has a lot of player power attached to the RNG that you have no control over and no pity for. |
2304s | It's just bad for the health of the game. |
2306s | And that's why I think that there is too much RNG in Lost Ark. |
2309s | But I like a little bit of RNG. |
2311s | You need that dopamine rush. |
2313s | Alright, Grenton that is just about your minute. |
2316s | Twitch chat is now going to take some time to vote on who they think is the winner. |
2321s | You know, guys, I think that was kind of interesting, too. |
2324s | Grenton, both called Bobajenny the perfect player and then said, I like "RNG" to close out his argument. |
2330s | "Almost the perfect player." You just don't listen. |
2333s | No, I heard the important parts. |
2336s | "No I heard the important parts." Excuse you? |
2338s | I'm noticing this guy's kind of a bully. |
2342s | I got bullied all season. |
2344s | I got bullied all season. |
2345s | This guy's calling her out on light of salvation 30. |
2347s | She called me a fivehead and made fun of my hairline. |
2349s | I didn't do that. |
2350s | That was AGS. |
2351s | Did you not see the intro, brother? |
2355s | You started it. |
2356s | That was definitely Aeromancer. |
2357s | Bathorr actually called me a fivehead. |
2358s | Huh? |
2359s | Yes. |
2359s | Five. |
2360s | I would say six, actually. |
2362s | Oh. |
2363s | You know, after all this, I think we can all agree, I mean, all of the topics that we've been talking about, a pineapple, it certainly should never be on pizza. |
2372s | What? |
2372s | Wait what were we talking about? |
2374s | Is he even paying attention? |
2374s | Uh, Grenton's fivehead, specifically. 956 00:39:37,985 --> 00:39:37,710 Oh, yes. |
2378s | I think he's a little drunk, actually. |
2380s | Sixhead! |
2381s | Balthorr or me? |
2381s | All the time. |
2382s | I love pineapple pizza. |
2384s | That's my favorite, Balthorr It's so good! |
2385s | I agree. |
2386s | I agree. |
2386s | I have some problems. |
2388s | What is going on? |
2389s | Listen, I like you because of your beard. |
2391s | I'm going to take your mead rations. |
2392s | What? |
2393s | Yes. |
2394s | Fighting words, Boo. |
2396s | You know what? |
2396s | I'm pretty sure Bathorr's a little drunk right now, but he also has enough hair to go around for your hairline. |
2402s | I don't want that sweaty mug on me. |
2405s | You can borrow it. |
2406s | I'd rather go bald. |
2407s | Okay. |
2408s | Won't be long. |
2408s | All right. |
2409s | I think I've created some tension. |
2410s | Balthorr, why don't you go ahead and head back to your call center? |
2414s | Back to my center? |
2415s | I'm sure there's plenty of salty players. |
2417s | Yeah. |
2417s | Okay. |
2418s | All right, let's get a little fist bump. |
2420s | Wait. |
2420s | Let me check my hair in your head. |
2422s | Oh! |
2423s | Oh, my God. |
2426s | Good hustle Balthorr! |
2428s | Yeah, see what I mean? |
2429s | I just get bullied all season. |
2430s | Oh, my God. |
2432s | Oh, I'm both the bully and getting bullied. |
2435s | I don't understand how this works. |
2437s | You crazy, man. |
2438s | How does this even work? |
2438s | Wow. |
2439s | You know what? |
2439s | I guess we'll find out if you are truly being bullied or not. |
2444s | Or if Bobajenny is truly the perfect player. |
2447s | Almost the perfect player. |
2450s | If Bobajenny is the perfect player because the results are in. |
2455s | Grenton. |
2459s | We're going to do this again? |
2459s | We are going to do this again, Grenton. |
2461s | Roxx. |
2461s | Grenton. |
2462s | Kanon. |
2463s | Grooten. |
2465s | Balthorr. |
2471s | Anyway, Grenton. |
2471s | Roxx. |
2471s | You are not a Mokoko, you got a gold star. |
2474s | I thought you guys had my back, what is this? |
2477s | I'm sorry Bobajenny. |
2478s | I got flowers for your coffin too, don't worry. |
2480s | I don't want your flowers. |
2480s | You are almost perfect. |
2483s | Thanks, Kanon. |
2484s | You're welcome. |
2485s | Good luck. |
2486s | Same here. |
2487s | I need more than one star. |
2488s | Stoopzz already had that, like, 20 minutes ago. |
2490s | Oh. |
2491s | That is true. |
2492s | Yeah, but your walking W is starless. |
2496s | I, uh, I felt bad for, like, bullying you the whole season. |
2500s | Like maybe I was a little mean. |
2501s | But you guys are unhinged today, what is going on? |
2504s | Yeah you did roast the sh— poop out of me. |
2506s | Say it out man. |
2509s | You say ish? |
2509s | In my contract. |
2510s | I can't swear, I swore too much during the season. |
2512s | Is it? |
2513s | Yeah. |
2514s | No, it's not. |
2515s | But anyway. |
2516s | How do you know? |
2518s | Tom knows. |
2519s | You don't know. |
2521s | You doing okay back there, Tom? |
2523s | I don't know why you're getting bullied now. |
2524s | I got wave from production. |
2526s | Leave my production team alone. |
2528s | They're working hard back there, man. |
2529s | You're right. |
2531s | That's the one team I'm not going to pick on. |
2532s | They're so nice. |
2533s | They deserve the world. |
2535s | And I really hope they got that Mokoko out of there. |
2537s | Anyway, we're going to move right into our — Aw, there they are, beautiful. |
2541s | They're so cute. |
2542s | Oh, look at them. |
2542s | Thank you, guys. |
2544s | All right. |
2544s | We're going to move right ahead into our third debate. |
2548s | That'll be halfway through our live finale debates. |
2552s | Yeah, we're going to do a little switcheroo up here and Datmodz is going to join Grooten— Grenton. |
2558s | What is happening? |
2561s | Grenton. |
2561s | Is it Grooten or Grenton? |
2562s | Grooten! |
2562s | Can I just get it one time? |
2565s | Stoopzz, thank you for not bullying me. |
2565s | It's actually Crouton. |
2568s | Balthorr, what's his name? |
2569s | Crouton. |
2570s | Is that like Dwarvish for Grenton? |
2572s | No, he just looks like a crouton. |
2576s | Oh my god. |
2576s | You know what? |
2577s | Crouton and Damtmodz. |
2578s | I want to go back to Canada. |
2580s | This is what happens when you're in the middle of every conversation. |
2584s | It goes with the territory man. |
2586s | I'm just simultaneously the villain and the person who's getting picked on. |
2588s | It's kind of impressive. |
2590s | Wild. |
2590s | But you know what? |
2591s | You have a gold star for your efforts. |
2594s | So remember that. |
2595s | Yeah. |
2597s | Datmodz and Grenton. |
2599s | Thank you. |
2599s | You're welcome. |
2600s | Your topic is not going to make you feel any better. |
2604s | Okay. |
2604s | Do pheons add value to the Lost Ark? |
2609s | Datmodz is looking confident, Grenton's looking kinda sad. |
2612s | Listen, we coin flipped. |
2615s | They did coin flip. |
2616s | Bobajenny flipped it, I witnessed it. |
2617s | I lost eight out of nine coin flips. |
2620s | It is 100% true. |
2623s | How does that happen? |
2623s | RNG. |
2623s | It's called destiny. |
2623s | Too much RNG, see? |
2623s | Because you're not winning! |
2625s | But you won that one. |
2626s | So despite the coin flip, despite, you know, the sides you're arguing for, take a minute to think about it. |
2632s | You know I'm doomed no matter what. |
2634s | So, Kanon. |
2635s | Congratulations on the win. |
2636s | This is obviously a topic that, you know, we assume people will feel very strongly in one direction. |
2643s | But what do you think? |
2644s | Do you think it's going to be an overwhelming vote, do you think Twitch chat might surprise us just because they do that? |
2649s | How are you feeling? |
2650s | Yeah, I think they're just going to side with... |
2652s | I do think that they're going to side with the opinion that is in line with their thoughts. |
2656s | But I do want to say one more time that even if you disagree with one person, if they have a very, if they defend that point pretty well, then that's what you're voting on, not necessarily the actual take. |
2669s | So with that said, yeah, Datmodz definitely I think is going to take this one. |
2673s | I was proud of you for how neutral you were being, but. |
2676s | You almost got there. |
2677s | Yeah, you did a good job. |
2679s | Had me in the first half. |
2680s | Yeah, you did. |
2681s | Grenton and Datmodz. |
2682s | He's getting pulverized. |
2685s | Are y'all both feeling? |
2687s | We're ready. |
2689s | Ready to take this L. |
2691s | Ready to take the L? |
2692s | You know what, Grenton? |
2693s | I respect that. |
2694s | So I'll give you the floor first. |
2696s | Grenton. |
2696s | Your minute to debate starts now. |
2698s | And I got shafted. |
2699s | I'm gonna get creative with it. |
2700s | Okay. |
2701s | Question is not are pheons good. |
2703s | But if pheons add value to Lost Ark. |
2705s | And they do add value to Lost Ark. |
2707s | Now is that good value? |
2708s | Probably not. |
2709s | But. |
2710s | But if we didn't have pheons right, there would be less of a reason for whales to circulate their money into the economy and there'd be less of a reason for people to interact with the blue crystal market. |
2722s | Not only that, we have the gold from raids coming down right, with gold nerfs, but if we didn't have pheons, the price of accessories and everything would be going up. |
2731s | So not only would it be harder for the blue crystal market to work, but it'd be also harder for new players, which you care deeply about, and so does the rest of the panel here, it would be harder for them to actually finish their builds and to get into raids. |
2743s | Gatekeeping is a big problem. |
2744s | You need 5x3, you need 5x3+1 maybe now. |
2747s | And if we had no pheons, accessory prices would go up, stones would go up. |
2751s | And there's too much RNG there. |
2753s | So people would have a really hard time getting into the raid. |
2756s | So pheons provide that sort of level of... |
2759s | All right. |
2760s | Something. |
2760s | That was your first minute. |
2762s | This is hard man. |
2762s | You did good. |
2763s | Datmodz, your minutes starts now. |
2765s | Yeah. |
2765s | I'm not going to lie. |
2766s | I just. |
2767s | I'm totally disregarding everything you just said. |
2769s | You know, I'm very passionate about this, this topic. |
2771s | I think we should just remove pheons. |
2773s | It doesn't matter who you are, if you're a little free to play Andy grinding six characters every single week, maybe 18 characters doing all your raids, getting lucky on drops. |
2781s | You're a little minnow, you're a dolphin, you're a whale, you're the freakin' sea, you're swiping a bunch, whenever you go to purchase some stones, okay. |
2790s | Whenever you go to get some items, there is that flat tax on everything, right? |
2794s | It deters people from experimenting. |
2796s | Hey, I want to try and offmeta build. |
2798s | Oh, look, there's an accessory that costs 200 gold. |
2801s | Oh, wait. |
2801s | I got to spend 3000 gold on the pheon tax. |
2805s | Right. |
2805s | And that reduces one of the main things and fun parts of MMOs. |
2809s | Not trying different builds, experimenting with different engravings. |
2814s | And yeah, we do have Trixion to do that, but sometimes you want to try it out in a real life scenario. |
2818s | You want to go try to solo Valtan with a weird build. |
2821s | You want to go try to do some Vykas carries with the weird build. |
2825s | Alright, that was your one minute. |
2827s | Grenton, you have one minute to make a response. |
2830s | You're right. |
2830s | Trying different builds is really fun. |
2833s | There's great ways to do that. |
2834s | The new Hyper Express events lets you try both engravings for free. |
2838s | No pheons, no accessories, nothing. |
2840s | You have Inferno. |
2843s | Inferno mode which lets you try any build you want, any engravings at zero cost. |
2847s | You just got to bring your consumables. |
2849s | So there are ways to do exactly what you said without having to interact with pheons. |
2853s | But not only that, you were talking about people playing six characters, 18 characters. |
2856s | Listen, the vast majority of the playerbase, they're not playing 18 characters. |
2860s | You know, it's just you, because you sit at home all day, you know, your little Cheeto beard playing 18 characters. |
2866s | But the vast majority of the players, they just want to make sure the economy is stable to a point where they can afford to even build their meta 5, let alone even try other builds. |
2875s | But if prices of accessories and stones are going to go up, I saw Stoopzz try to cut like 80 stones for a 7/7? |
2882s | Yeah, he sucks at stone cutting though. |
2883s | Imagine, Imagine if that had no pheons and stones were 4x the price, his community would go broke trying to fund his stone cutting addiction. |
2891s | It'd be insane. |
2892s | Alright Grenton. |
2892s | That is your time. |
2894s | Datmodz, your final minute starts now. |
2897s | I don't get how you can argue for this topic, pheons. |
2900s | I have to! |
2900s | Yeah I know. |
2906s | That's everything that you need to know. |
2907s | You HAVE to argue for this topic. |
2910s | It adds value. |
2912s | It adds value. |
2912s | Datmodz, this isn't even an argument. |
2912s | Okay. |
2913s | Yeah. |
2915s | What? |
2918s | Well. |
2919s | I don't know about this added value, but when... |
2922s | I never said it was good value. |
2923s | Yeah. |
2924s | Whenever you go to buy something, you have to pay a tax on it. |
2928s | Some of the items aren't even tradable. |
2929s | They're also trade restrictions for items. |
2932s | So one of your main points is A, it helps new players get items and stuff, but you know what also helps with that is the trade restrictions. |
2940s | You have an accessory, you can only trade at a certain amount of times. |
2942s | So why does there have to be that pheon tax? |
2944s | And what's one of the biggest pain points for new players? |
2947s | They're doing a really good job giving new players the new passes and stuff, getting them up to 1540 item. |
2952s | But what do they not have yet? |
2953s | They don't have a well-established roster that's generating a lot of gold and they don't have a lot of characters that are able to run Chaos Dungeons. |
2959s | And the only one Guardian Raid now per day. |
2963s | That is your minute. |
2963s | It allows them to get lucky and give them extra money— REMOVE PHEONS! |
2965s | VOTE FOR ME DATMODZ! |
2968s | I feel like this is just, I don't know. |
2971s | He didn't ven argue anything.He just yelled at me. |
2972s | It was one minute, but it was only about 30 seconds of a debate. |
2977s | Twitch chat is unhinged, so they're gonna begin voting now. |
2980s | Vote for me. |
2980s | We'll really see how that that turns out. |
2983s | Datmodz walking W. |
2985s | Jenny looks like she's already a little bit biased over there. |
2987s | I'll give everyone 100 pheons if you vote for me. |
2989s | Datmodz. |
2989s | W. |
2989s | What is this? |
2989s | Modz! |
2992s | Yeah that's a lot better. |
2993s | And then W. |
2994s | Yeah this is a W. |
2995s | I've got a pocket watch in my hand. |
2997s | Pocket watch walking W. |
2998s | Yeah. |
2998s | Grenton, you did have a very difficult topic. |
3000s | I think I debated— The question was do they add value to Lost Ark? |
3004s | I didn't say good value, bad value. |
3007s | Just remember that. |
3008s | Do they add value to Lost Ark. |
3010s | Grenton, you look like you're trying to beat the system here. |
3013s | I have to win on a technicality. |
3014s | It's the only way. |
3015s | Man. |
3016s | I'll give you this. |
3016s | You made, you made a pretty good point. |
3019s | Stoopzz. |
3019s | What are you thinking? |
3020s | My legs look so goddamn skinny on this thing man, holy. |
3026s | This is messed up man, I look crazy, man. |
3027s | Oh. |
3028s | Bro. |
3029s | Why? |
3030s | Why am I always get roasted on the side too. |
3032s | This is crazy.You call him a walking W and he's roasting me every 5 seconds. |
3034s | Datmodz is like, running for office. |
3036s | Datmodz you were actually in the debate, do you have anything you'd like to share? |
3038s | Oh, Stoopzz, you have skinny legs. |
3040s | But they're nice and they're athletic. |
3042s | Thanks, man. |
3043s | Yeah. |
3043s | They have muscle. |
3044s | Good muscle tone. |
3045s | OMOMOMOM. |
3049s | What? |
3049s | Sure. |
3049s | The OM emote, he's too old to get that one. |
3051s | Hey, don't call me out man! |
3053s | He's too old. |
3054s | I've never seen you from this POV before man, I usually stare at the top of your head. |
3058s | I'm this tall. |
3058s | This is. |
3058s | Guys, guys. |
3059s | They gave me, the first thing that I heard when these guys saw me minus Datmodz because he's like 9 foot 12. |
3065s | Everyone's like, Wow, you're really tall. |
3067s | I mean, you are taller than Balthorr, so. |
3069s | I am. |
3070s | I am in many ways. |
3073s | Okay, relax, chill. |
3076s | Wow. |
3077s | Wow. |
3078s | I got your back Balthorr. |
3079s | Even though you make fun of me. |
3081s | And I won't stop making fun of you. |
3085s | Thought we're going to have a moment, but. |
3086s | Give him another one. |
3087s | Don't stop. |
3087s | I can tell you one thing about that debate. |
3089s | If I was a cheeto, I would want to be stuck in that beard. |
3094s | You know what? |
3095s | Fair enough. |
3096s | And now it's finally time to see which decision Twitch chat made. |
3102s | Surprising. |
3104s | I'm shocked. |
3105s | I'm kind of shocked. |
3106s | GRENTON. |
3106s | Yeah, Yeah. |
3108s | Datmodz, here's your gold star. |
3111s | All right, if you don't want it. |
3112s | Nah, I'm just kidding. |
3113s | Datmodz, you are not the Mokoko. |
3116s | I don't need to hype that one up. |
3117s | I think we were pretty, pretty certain. |
3120s | Give me that participation star. |
3121s | Thank you very much, sir. |
3123s | Grenton, you did do a great job arguing for something that was very challenging. |
3125s | I'm complimenting you. |
3127s | Why are you sassing me? |
3128s | Because there's sarcasm in the compliment. |
3130s | My mom's watching this and she's going to be disappointed in you. |
3133s | This guy is part of every conversation. |
3135s | She is talking to me! |
3136s | Every time we talk. |
3137s | Like, it's just Grenton. |
3138s | What do you mean? |
3139s | We should have had Stoopzz like over here. |
3142s | Like, you would've been... |
3143s | You just want a barrier. |
3144s | You want to use him as a physical barrier? |
3145s | He's just too active in this. |
3147s | Production team. |
3148s | Let's, uh... |
3149s | Oh, my goodness. |
3150s | I mean that is probably true, Michael... |
3151s | It's all good, Grenton, you are doing quite all right. |
3153s | We're going to take another quick break and hand over to Balthorr's support Center again while we get ready for our second round of three more debates. |
3163s | Mhm. |
3163s | Hm. |
3164s | No. |
3164s | Yeah, baby, it's okay. |
3166s | No, you could call me here anytime. |
3167s | Oh, yeah. |
3168s | No. |
3168s | And then I said, No, no, no, no, no. |
3170s | That's not my wife. |
3171s | That's my hammer. |
3174s | Oh! |
3174s | Uh. |
3177s | Welcome back to Balthorr's Live Support Center for the Salty Twitch Players. |
3184s | We have so many wonderful people. |
3186s | Ah I see L373 saying, I love you Balthorr. |
3189s | I know. |
3190s | I look better in HD or widescreen. |
3195s | You know, you got those little bars on the top of your screen and you could see more. |
3199s | There's so much real estate. |
3201s | You could see me drunk passed out on the ground and it's like, whoa oh, oh, oh, yes, I see. |
3207s | Oh, Ratpatrols "Fix the game Stare". |
3210s | Oh, you know what I could stare at is your tears all the way from over here. |
3215s | I could see you cry, and cry me a river. |
3217s | You know, it's like a giant river that we can all just float in. |
3221s | We could drink mai tais and float down the way. |
3223s | And we could have a great time, you and I, you know, while you cry and give us more of that stuff. |
3228s | Yes, that's right. |
3230s | Oh, yes. |
3231s | You know what? |
3231s | Wreckedess. |
3233s | I see you there. |
3234s | Yes. |
3234s | Do my knees hurt? |
3236s | More like does my back hurt from carrying all you noobs? |
3240s | Ha! |
3241s | Oh, you know, if I could be serious for a moment, there's something that I want to talk to you all about that I think would really help all you salty crybabies. |
3251s | I think if you buy this new ale of mine, you know, it's. |
3256s | It's definitely delicious ale. |
3258s | You could sell it to all your friends. |
3259s | And it's most certainly not a multilevel marketing scheme. |
3264s | I promise you, it's the best thing ever. |
3266s | You just sell it to your friends, especially if they're salty. |
3270s | If they're salty, little pancakes just floating over there. |
3272s | And you're like, here's some ale, you noob. |
3275s | Why don't you take this— What was that? |
3277s | Why don't you take this ale, and it'll be delicious and you will stop being such a noob at raids. |
3284s | Oh, and can I talk to you salty players about another thing? |
3288s | Is it peons or is it pheons? |
3292s | I don't get it. |
3293s | I don't get it. |
3293s | You know, it really it grinds my gears. |
3297s | So AmyYasu says just swipe more. |
3301s | Yes, I'm always fan of the whales. |
3304s | You know, we like to swim in that big open sea and it is the most wonderful time. |
3310s | I'm just floating like the freedom flag of justice just going on there. |
3314s | I could float on my hammer all day. |
3316s | Oh, yes. |
3316s | Let's see here. |
3318s | We got Barban97. |
3321s | Shift G. |
3321s | More like alt F4 you, noob. |
3323s | Get out of my game. |
3325s | RecallYT again. |
3327s | Balthorr, What do you think? |
3329s | Listen, why don't you just go back to modding Stoopzz chat? |
3332s | You know he needs some support right now. |
3334s | He really does. |
3335s | He can't stand. |
3336s | Literally. |
3338s | Let's see it. |
3339s | Oh, and we got a special. |
3343s | Oh, oh, oh! |
3345s | Ugh. |
3346s | I'm fragile. |
3349s | Oh, oh. |
3350s | Yes, back to my noobs. |
3352s | I hope you been thinking about me multilevel marketing scheme. |
3356s | It's one of the best in town. |
3357s | I tell you right now. |
3358s | It's— wait! |
3359s | Not multilevel marketing scheme. |
3361s | My bad. |
3362s | Oh, Lovebug says LMA—Ooh! |
3365s | Yeah. |
3366s | La la la. |
3367s | I see what you're doin' in there. |
3368s | It feels really good. |
3370s | Ooh, I see so many people. |
3371s | DLoe that say hi to Datmodz. |
3375s | That's his Baby mama. |
3376s | Oh, hello, Datmodz. |
3378s | Good to see ya. |
3380s | He's got the Cheetos for reals. |
3382s | Hey, why don't you come over here Datmodz? |
3384s | Oh. |
3385s | Hello, family. |
3386s | You're looking good. |
3387s | Balthorr. |
3388s | I really like your beard. |
3389s | Now, this is a majestic thing. |
3391s | That's. |
3391s | Yes. |
3391s | Yes. |
3392s | What do you, what products to use in that? |
3394s | You got anything to sell me? |
3395s | It's pure oil from the bottom of the barrel of the ale. |
3399s | Mm hmm. |
3400s | That sounds good. |
3401s | Yes. |
3401s | And. |
3402s | And the tears of my enemy. |
3404s | Yeah. |
3405s | All these nobs. |
3406s | Look at all of them. |
3406s | They're just floating away. |
3407s | Say hi to Datmodz Beard. |
3409s | Hello, Datmodz Beard. |
3410s | I see. |
3411s | Oh, it's nothing compared to yours at all Balthorr. |
3414s | Ah, yes thank you. |
3415s | I try my best. |
3417s | You're talking about whales. |
3418s | I see a bunch of them in chat right now. |
3420s | Yes. |
3421s | Yes, they are. |
3422s | They are just swooning all the way from their little whale stoop. |
3427s | I can hear you guys. |
3428s | You sound like. |
3429s | You sound like you need your back scratched because you're just here. |
3432s | You can't reach them with your little hands. |
3435s | Hey. |
3437s | Now, what was that? |
3439s | More multilevel marketing scheme? |
3441s | No. |
3442s | Okay. |
3443s | Back to you in the studio, Roxx. |
3447s | Thanks, Balthorr. |
3448s | You know, you're not supposed to, like, advertise your sales on like, company time. |
3455s | Like, have you ever... |
3457s | Who hired you? |
3458s | You did. |
3459s | I believe you did. |
3461s | Uh, I definitely didn't. |
3463s | But I do know you said you had customer support experience, and I'm no longer sure if that's true. |
3470s | No, I absolutely lied. |
3472s | Uh, okay. |
3474s | Good to know. |
3475s | You know what, I don't trust you over there. |
3476s | Why don't you. |
3476s | Why don't you come over here? |
3478s | Go over there? |
3480s | Yeah. |
3481s | Before we get our next debate started. |
3481s | Here, let me get my mallet. |
3483s | What is that face Stoopzz? |
3484s | Huh? |
3485s | Why? |
3485s | What is that face? |
3488s | Do you need this mallet to fix it? |
3489s | What is he doing? |
3490s | We're good. |
3491s | I already regret this. |
3493s | Good hustle, Balthorr. |
3494s | Thank you, Daddy. |
3496s | Son, is that you? |
3497s | Papa!? |
3501s | Oh, wow. |
3502s | Your son grew up quick. |
3502s | What a man you've become. |
3504s | What a mighty hammer. |
3505s | Thank you. |
3506s | Well, you may have been on to something at the beginning of his show. |
3509s | Apparently, we're finding out a little bit too much about Datmodz and Balthorr. |
3514s | But you know what? |
3515s | We're going to move on from whatever that is and get ready for our next debate with Stoopzz and Bonaenny. |
3522s | So this is going to be our fourth debate. |
3524s | It's still anyone's game so far. |
3526s | Lots of stars spread out. |
3527s | We'll see if Bobajenny earns her first start here. |
3531s | So, you two, your topic is going to be: Should Lost Ark offer more solo progression opportunities for players? |
3539s | We'll give you kind of a minute to think through what you want your arguments to be and we'll go from there. |
3545s | Yeah, Balthorr, also what you said when you— I don't want to know. |
3549s | It sounded like you were taking a personal call. |
3552s | Oh, you heard that? |
3553s | Yeah, we all did. |
3554s | Yes. |
3555s | Well, I was talking to my agent. |
3558s | Yes, my agent. |
3560s | About, you know. |
3561s | About your hammer? |
3562s | Yeah, that's it. |
3563s | Tell me more about this... |
3565s | Don't... |
3565s | don't tell us more. |
3565s | About my mallet? |
3567s | No, no not that hammer. |
3568s | Oh, my hammer. |
3569s | Oh, yes. |
3570s | It's the best in the world. |
3571s | Oh I bet. |
3572s | Everybody loves it. |
3573s | They talk about it for miles. |
3574s | In fact, speaking of this topic, I mean, I pretty much solo the entire game. |
3580s | You could basically just hang out with me the whole time. |
3583s | Yeah, fair enough. |
3585s | Except some people here don't have my card. |
3589s | No more multilevel marketing, that's enough from you, no more sales. |
3595s | But it sounds like Balthorr might be a fan of solo progression opportunities. |
3599s | So we'll see what our two debaters are going to argue for. |
3602s | Are you both feeling ready? |
3604s | Datmodz, is... |
3605s | I don't know why I said Datmodz. |
3607s | This is crazy, man. |
3609s | Datmodz is over there and not debating. |
3611s | It's the beard. |
3612s | Stoopzz and Bobajenny. |
3613s | It's because I'm in this wheelchair. |
3614s | You don't remember my name. |
3614s | Yesterday you called me Grenton and now you call me Datmodz. |
3617s | This is messed up man. |
3621s | I never called you Grenton, I called Grenton Grooten. |
3622s | She did one time. |
3623s | He kind of look like you a little bit. |
3625s | You almost are twins. |
3626s | Who the hell looks like Grenton? |
3627s | I'm still getting bullied. |
3629s | What do you mean, Groupon? |
3630s | Groupon? |
3631s | Oh, is that what you're talking about? |
3633s | Are you talking about Grooten? |
3635s | Grooten? |
3636s | I like it. |
3637s | What is this guy saying, man. |
3639s | Stoopzz, again, thank you for not bulling me. |
3641s | Sounds like our debaters are ready for that debate. |
3644s | Stoopzz, who I very much know, and Bobajenny, are you both ready? |
3648s | Yeah, I'm ready. |
3649s | All right. |
3650s | Stoopzz, I feel bad, so I will give you the floor first. |
3652s | Your minute starts now. |
3654s | I think this is a kind of an easy topic. |
3656s | And it's like, of course, Lost Ark needs more solo progression. |
3659s | Okay? |
3659s | Because right now the game is a very raid-based heavy game. |
3663s | And so you get your character all juiced up. |
3664s | A lot of you guys come to the game, check out Hyper Express, you're waiting to play Aeromancer. |
3669s | You want to pump, do big damage— well that class doesn't do a lot of damage. |
3672s | You want to do big damage, right? |
3674s | You want to play in the raid or support your friends. |
3676s | So you hone, you enhance, you go through the little triangle dance of the screen as you enhance it all the way up. |
3680s | You get there and then you don't get invited into the group. |
3683s | And that is one of the hardest things about MMORPGs is that you do all the work to do a raid and then you sit in the party finder it for hours and it's super frustrating if you don't have friends. |
3692s | And so we have to go out of the way to help people get into groups. |
3695s | But if you offer more solo content and ways to progress your character via solo content, then you can at least play on your own time, whether it be 1 in the morning, 12 in the afternoon, whenever you want to play, you can play. |
3706s | Not saying group content isn't important in an MMORPG, but giving people ways to progress on their own I think is super important. |
3712s | Do I have more time to go? |
3713s | All right. |
3714s | That was like, exactly your minute. |
3715s | So that wass pretty good for you to ask. |
3717s | Bobajenny, your minute starts now. |
3720s | I get it. |
3721s | You know, sometimes you would be like, Hey, it'd be a lot faster if I just do the whole Valtan by myself. |
3727s | And I totally understand that. |
3729s | At the same time, like, don't you want to have a community where you can count on or are you just like, Hey, I wanted to Valtan. |
3735s | Is anyone up to do Valtan with me? |
3738s | And then they hop right in. |
3739s | Because at the end of the day, there is vertical content that is very, very co-op. |
3745s | But people usually forget about the horizontal. |
3747s | Nothing about horizontal is co-op. |
3751s | It's all solo. |
3752s | So we have solo horizontal and then solo vertical. |
3757s | I feel like that's going to throw off the balance a little bit. |
3760s | You know, people are going to just play solo and I feel like what makes Lost Ark a bit different from other MMO is that there's so many opportunities for you to play co-op, and I think that is what makes it fun. |
3773s | All right. |
3774s | You have a little bit more time. |
3776s | Do you want to? |
3777s | This is very difficult, guys. |
3782s | All right, Stoopzz. |
3784s | Your minute, your final minute for your final argument starts now. |
3787s | I agree with you Bobajenny, playing with your friends is important. |
3789s | Like when Mr. |
3790s | Modz ditched me last week I was hurt. |
3791s | I like playing with my friends, man, it's very, very important. |
3794s | But I think that giving people an option is always better than sitting in the party finder. |
3798s | And I think Lost Ark has really great combat and no one can deny that. |
3802s | And so I think that with fights like Prokel, which are super fun, if you gave solo boss encounters, so we have legion raids, then we can work on solo bosses and maybe you get three for your gold earners, and you can either do one or the other. |
3813s | Maybe raids give you more gold. |
3815s | You can get gear sets from solo bosses, you can earn some gold on the side. |
3818s | So if you don't have time to get into a raid group or you can't, you still have the avenue of doing some solo boss encounters and you can work on your skills and get better. |
3825s | For a new player getting to the game, how are you going to develop your skills? |
3828s | And you can't really get into the groups, right? |
3830s | So offer a solo fight. |
3831s | Solo Boss like a solo Vykas man. |
3833s | A solo clown. |
3834s | That'd be really cool, man. |
3835s | Some of the same patterns help you learn a little bit, right? |
3838s | Get your skills on, make some gold, progression. |
3840s | Solo encounters is the future. |
3843s | All right, that was your minute. |
3846s | Damn. |
3846s | Bobajenny, you can do it. |
3847s | Pay me. |
3847s | You have one more minute. |
3849s | Objection! |
3850s | No, no, objection. |
3852s | We're still in the middle of a debate. |
3853s | You can't object a debate. |
3855s | Object! |
3855s | I want to point out Mr. |
3856s | Stoopzz did not even invite me to the raid. |
3858s | I only got invited by Zeals. |
3860s | And you forgot about me, I did no. |
3863s | leave you. |
3864s | You forgot about me. |
3864s | I just want no lies and slander. |
3867s | I don't even know what game he's been playing. |
3869s | My invite got lost in the mail. |
3871s | This guy said Xavier won the argument. |
3873s | That's messed up, man. |
3879s | All right, Bobajenny still has one minute for her last debate, so we're going to give her that. |
3884s | Bobajenny, you feeling ready? |
3885s | I know we kind of got us off base there. |
3887s | All right. |
3888s | Your final minute starts now. |
3890s | Mr. |
3890s | Man. |
3891s | I understand. |
3891s | We're still going? |
3893s | It's my turn! |
3895s | Mr. |
3895s | Man. |
3895s | Look, I understand he ditched you. |
3898s | You know what? |
3899s | I wasn't invited either. |
3901s | But this could be the moment where we can all make up and just play together. |
3906s | And at the end of the day, it's just so much more fun when you play with everyone. |
3912s | So do you really, truly want solo prog all the time, though? |
3916s | Like, although I'll say this, to have co-op and have the option for solo, but I feel like that kind of gameplay would be completely different because everyone has solo in mind thinking I'm juiced, I'm just going to go in and I'm just going to one shot the boss. |
3931s | But at the end of the day, there is mechs. |
3932s | There's mechs to do. |
3934s | And we talked about wipe mechanics and stuff like that. |
3936s | So I think that that could be a different play mode. |
3939s | But the game overall is mainly based on co-op. |
3943s | And I would definitely invite you. |
3945s | I'll play with you. |
3945s | Screw this guy, I don't want to play with this bish. |
3948s | Alright, that was Bobajenny's final minute. |
3950s | Twitch chat now has the opportunity to vote on who they think the winner is. |
3955s | You guys, this got weirdly like emotional and about friendship. |
3958s | I'm glad you guys are here with me at my mushroom. |
3960s | Yeah. |
3960s | I got to tell you, something Stoopzz said really resonated with me about having friends, and I realized I don't have any. |
3970s | But everyone calls you to protect them, though. |
3972s | Yeah, that's true. |
3973s | But Iike. |
3973s | They just use you. |
3974s | You know, it's just using me. |
3976s | That's why I drink myself. |
3977s | You know, I got to drink my body weight to make up for the pain and the sadness. |
3982s | Are you okay? |
3983s | I'll be fine. |
3984s | Just looking for a friend. |
3985s | I'm your friend. |
3987s | Oh, wow. |
3991s | You're moving rather fast there Kanon. |
3995s | I mean shoot, man. |
3996s | I said shoot. |
3998s | I definitely said. |
4000s | I said shoot. |
4002s | You got to watch out, man. |
4003s | I'll give you my contact. |
4004s | We'll. |
4005s | You know. |
4006s | Oh I got it. |
4006s | I got yesterday. |
4007s | I got it. |
4008s | Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. |
4010s | Yeah. |
4010s | Heheheh. |
4011s | All right. |
4012s | Well, it looks like we have the beginnings of another beautiful friendship over here. |
4015s | This is weirdly heartwarming. |
4017s | Despite you all yelling all over each other during that debate a minute ago. |
4020s | So, you know what? |
4021s | I will take it. |
4022s | I will take it. |
4023s | This is like an opposite. |
4024s | It's like there's nothing but love here. |
4026s | But then over there, it's like my boy. |
4029s | My boy Stoopzz is really jaded about something. |
4032s | Datmodz, what did you. |
4033s | What did you do? |
4034s | I feel bad. |
4034s | I think. |
4035s | I think I pushed him to be a solo cell phone player. |
4037s | Now, we used to have so much fun in raids together, and he told me that group content was the favorite content. |
4042s | Oh no. |
4043s | We missed one raid together. |
4044s | And I think all your fault, it really had an everlasting effect on him. |
4048s | That's like Story of the Joker. |
4049s | Yeah, I think we're gonna have to do some raids together and make up for it. |
4051s | He created the villain. |
4054s | The Stoopzz villain arc. |
4057s | How come he has the orange thing? |
4058s | What is the... |
4059s | why does he get the orange? |
4061s | 'Cause he's my Emcee. |
4061s | I'm like, yeah, I'm at a higher level. |
4063s | He's above us. |
4063s | Is that like a retired Mokoko or? |
4067s | Is that like an aged Mokoko? |
4068s | He's just definitely the more attractive Mokoko. |
4071s | Listen here Xavier. |
4076s | Are you crazy, man? |
4078s | That's a pretty savage comment. |
4079s | There's a picture of me in Discord as, Professor X with, like, my head shaved. |
4084s | All right, well, I guess we'll find out who won that debate. |
4088s | It looks like the votes are in. |
4092s | Oh, man. |
4093s | I just needed to take a deep breath. |
4095s | Yeah. |
4095s | No, no. |
4096s | Yeah. |
4097s | It was dramatic. |
4097s | It was really good. |
4098s | Thank you. |
4099s | I try to be dramatic. |
4101s | Can I ask one question? |
4103s | Because we got the results in, and I don't think my boy Stoopzz. |
4106s | You know, because yesterday he was. |
4108s | He was complaining about how he was always losing in the rehearsal. |
4111s | He's been doing that for like three months. |
4112s | Hey Stoopzz. |
4112s | How do you feel about this? |
4114s | Do you feel like you won this one or what do you think? |
4117s | Yeah, I think so. |
4118s | I think she had a hard topic. |
4119s | Okay. |
4120s | Fair. |
4120s | Well, Bobajenny, how are you feeling though? |
4122s | I got the hard topics. |
4124s | Yeah. |
4125s | All right, Well, then I guess it's time for me announce that— Time for me announce? |
4129s | Time for me to announce that Bobajenny. |
4134s | Unfortunately Stoopzz is not the Mokoko. |
4137s | Nooo. |
4138s | Sheeeeeesh. |
4138s | He'll get his second gold star. |
4139s | I mean look at that. |
4140s | But the stars aren't everything. |
4142s | Don't worry too much yet. |
4144s | Wow. |
4145s | They seem like everything. |
4146s | Look at that. |
4147s | They are pretty important. |
4148s | Look at that. |
4149s | Look at that. |
4150s | Balthorr now that you've made a friend, thanks for joining us as well. |
4152s | I'm going to send you back to man the support center. |
4155s | Oh no! |
4156s | I see chat was getting pretty spicy. |
4156s | I don't know who Xavier is, but like. |
4160s | It's alright, I'll head back. |
4160s | Call me later. |
4162s | I'll get you on my multilevel marketing scheme. |
4165s | Sounds great, just make sure you bring that other hammer. |
4166s | Oh, the other one. |
4167s | That's right. |
4168s | Okay. |
4168s | What are you guys talking about? |
4169s | Like I said, what? |
4172s | You're really struggling there about Balthorr, huh? |
4174s | You know it, Papa. |
4177s | What is going on with this guy? |
4179s | I don't know. |
4181s | Are you making fun of how slow he walks? |
4183s | He's got short legs. |
4185s | This guy's crazy. |
4186s | I just showed up yesterday. |
4187s | I saw him for the first time. |
4188s | He's crazy. |
4189s | He's drunk. |
4190s | Leave him alone. |
4191s | I think he's getting progressively more drunk throughout the show. |
4193s | He's getting unhinged. |
4193s | Have you met Balthorr? |
4194s | That's kind of what he does. |
4196s | Asughs... |
4199s | Look in his eyes right now. |
4202s | Balthorr are you okay over there? |
4203s | I got a new Papa and his name is Datmodz. |
4209s | Let's leave him in his support center for a while. |
4212s | Stoopzz may be on to something. |
4214s | We're going to go ahead and move into our next 1v1 debate. |
4218s | Bobajenny and Datmodz, why don't we do a little, do a little shuffle? |
4224s | Thank you. |
4224s | Thank you. |
4225s | A shuffle. |
4226s | Oh. |
4226s | Oh! |
4227s | You're stepping on my leaves. |
4228s | Oh. |
4229s | Oh, flower. |
4229s | Get everyone into place. |
4232s | Bobajenny and Datmodz. |
4233s | Bobajenny, you still have another chance to earn a gold star. |
4236s | I'm the only one without a star. |
4237s | This is your chance. |
4238s | You can earn it here. |
4240s | Your topic for this debate is: Should there be options for how players can earn gold in their raid? |
4246s | Is it something that they should have control over? |
4249s | Okay. |
4250s | So I'll give you both a minute to kind of think about that before we get started. |
4255s | Can someone check on Balthorr, please? |
4257s | Yeah, I miss him already. |
4260s | I'm fine. |
4261s | I'm fine. |
4265s | Oh, okay. |
4267s | You know, let's not check on Blathorr. |
4268s | Or someone turn off Balthorr's camera and figure out who hired him. |
4273s | Bobajenny, Datmodz. |
4275s | Are you feeling, feeling ready? |
4276s | I think we are ready. |
4278s | Ready? |
4278s | Oooh! |
4279s | Ready. |
4279s | Ready. |
4280s | Ready. |
4280s | Oh. |
4282s | They're squaring up. |
4283s | They're very ready over there. |
4285s | Okay. |
4286s | You know what, Bobajenny got that first hit in, so I will give you the floor first. |
4290s | Your one minute to make your first argument. |
4293s | And the debate starts now. |
4295s | So should there be customization options for how players can earn gold? |
4299s | Wait, wait, wait. |
4301s | You know what they say. |
4302s | What? |
4302s | Ladies first. |
4303s | That means I'm going first. |
4304s | Hahaha alright, fine. |
4306s | Okay. |
4307s | I firmly believe that players should have more customization options for the content they consume weekly. |
4313s | There's certain raid that you really enjoy. |
4314s | You might really like Vykas, her feet— What? |
4317s | The scene where you're doing the typing test. |
4319s | Okay. |
4320s | Maybe you like doing the Brelshaza square places. |
4322s | Maybe you just really like Akkan. |
4323s | Maybe Kayangel, your favorite fight. |
4325s | You want to get the wings. |
4326s | I think players should be able to select what raids they do every week. |
4330s | Maybe you don't, you shouldn't be forced to do something you don't want to do just for a reward. |
4334s | Once you get your sets leveled up, once you get your items required, once you get your horns, once you get your pet, you should just be able to do three Kayangels per week on your character. |
4342s | Okay. |
4343s | You don't even like playing your old set anymore. |
4345s | They're retired. |
4347s | There are the new things. |
4347s | The new hotness. |
4349s | Souleater came out. |
4350s | You want to know what? |
4351s | You should be able to transfer all your raids to the new character and just play that character all week long. |
4354s | Do as many chaos dungeons on it. |
4356s | Do all the guardian raids you want to do it. |
4359s | Do Vykas as much as you want to do it. |
4362s | It also will help getting, uh, assisting in getting your sets quicker and your bonuses quicker so you're not forced to run things that you don't want to run. |
4369s | All right. |
4369s | That was your minute, I guess, since you decided. |
4374s | Bobajenny, your one minute starts now, officiallu. |
4377s | It felt like you were selling me a slap chop or something. |
4379s | But, I was gonna say the question is, should there be customization options? |
4387s | I think no... |
4390s | because... |
4393s | you know what? |
4393s | You're right. |
4394s | But! |
4395s | Hold up. |
4396s | Because listen, listen. |
4398s | People want to progress their character. |
4400s | Every single time a new raid comes out, that's when you get the new materials to craft your new gear. |
4405s | If everyone is just doing the new stuff over and over again, who's going to help out the Mokokos with the other stuff? |
4411s | And I feel like in general, Lost Ark is an alt kind of playing game. |
4417s | So again, this kind of ties in with the solo progression where you probably just want to stick with one character and solo progress. |
4422s | But I think overall, like there's also like group synergies and stuff like that. |
4426s | This is very, very difficult, guys. |
4429s | But I do think that it would throw off the balance a little bit and no one's going to be doing Brelshaza anymore because it takes ten years. |
4436s | So I feel like a little bit of customization is fine, but full customization where you can do multiple raids, I don't think that would be healthy. |
4445s | All right, Datmodz, you have one minute to make a final response. |
4449s | Now, you did make a really good point. |
4450s | There is certain raids that people don't necessarily like the most and that might cause and force players not to run it anymore. |
4456s | So new players might not be able to find groups. |
4458s | However, there is one big problem with Lost Ark, that's burnout. |
4461s | What leads to burnout? |
4462s | It's doing things that you don't actually want to do, it's things that you feel forced to do. |
4467s | And I think that's problematic. |
4468s | That's why you should be able to select the raids that you want to do. |
4471s | And also for new players, because that's obviously a concern, you always want to have the new players having a good experience. |
4476s | That's why you need to add more systems in the game to allow other players to mentor them. |
4480s | You have a better group finder, have a better matchmaking game. |
4483s | So there is players that want to learn a trade and there should be some type of incentive for older players, veteran players, bored players to go in there and help them out. |
4492s | Maybe instead of running a bus or something, because that's what a lot of people do for extra gold, you have a system in place in the matchmaker where you want to be a mentor and you basically get the equivalent of the bus gold for helping the new players, and then they also get their sets. |
4504s | But then if you don't want to do that, you could just run your favorite raid three times per week and make that gold. |
4509s | Cash Money! |
4509s | Alright, Bobajenny, you have your final minute to argue against President Datmodz. |
4516s | I'm literally against the walking W. |
4518s | You guys don't understand how hard this is. |
4521s | Okay. |
4521s | But I do feel like some customization is good. |
4525s | But if it's, if it really, really comes down to a gold, you know, the gold thing, is it really about the customization or should they just keep the gold, you know, higher so people wouldn't have to think about gold, wouldn't have to think about, you know, doing Valtan every week. |
4540s | Mmhmm. |
4541s | Because at the end of the day, like these earlier raids are there to prep you for the future raids. |
4548s | And if you keep going back, that would get boring as well, don't you think? |
4553s | Like I said, guys, this is very difficult. |
4556s | I wouldn't get bored. |
4557s | But that is a good point, though. |
4559s | Certain raids do introduce mechanics that help you learn new raid mechanics because they reintroduce them at certain points. |
4564s | So not reinforcing those raid mechanics might make it harder for other people learn their stuff... |
4568s | and I'm fighting against myself. |
4571s | Why'd I do that? |
4572s | Don't listen to what I'm saying! |
4572s | That was Bobajenny's minute. |
4574s | Don't listen! |
4575s | Honestly Bobajenny made her argument, but I kind of liked the support you were giving her, so I let it happen. |
4581s | Let's go! |
4581s | You know what, we had Bobajenny versus Datmodz. |
4584s | Actually, it was Bobajenny and Datmodz versus Datmodz. |
4587s | So we'll see how the community decides to vote on that. |
4592s | Yeah, that was very interesting, while they're voting, that you decided to take her side at the end there. |
4597s | That is an interesting debate strategy for sure. |
4600s | I didn't take her side. |
4601s | I just recognized she made some fair, good points. |
4604s | And MMOs are about community, so you should respect your community members point of views and perspectives, and you shouldn't just automatically dismiss them. |
4611s | Back to you Roxx and Kanon. |
4613s | Kanon look at this guy, do you see this? |
4613s | He's like walking himself back now. |
4615s | He's trying to make himself look good. |
4616s | Yeah, it's, I think it's part of his campaign technique. |
4619s | I think he's guilty. |
4620s | I mean, I don't know what he actually said, but I'm kind of mesmerized at how he said it. |
4624s | I mean, this guy looks like he's... |
4626s | Are you okay? |
4627s | I mean, he's the only one out here that looks like he's, that sounds and looks like he's running for president of the United States. |
4634s | I mean. |
4635s | Arkesia. |
4636s | Arkesia. |
4637s | Arkesia. |
4638s | That's right. |
4638s | That's what I said. |
4639s | Yeah. |
4639s | Yeah. |
4640s | I heard that. |
4640s | I don't know man, what is that? |
4642s | What? |
4644s | Stooppz, what are you looking at? |
4644s | What's going on? |
4645s | Why in the hell are you panning to me when I'm staring off into the void? |
4647s | Man I was out there zoning and I look up and the camera's on me. |
4650s | I'm not even... |
4650s | You are, Stoopzz, are you aware that you are on a livestream? |
4655s | You are on a livestream. |
4656s | But he controls the camera. |
4657s | You're always on camera. |
4659s | I know, but it just randomly panned to me. |
4660s | You're the main character. |
4662s | Like Grenton, you're always on camera. |
4662s | You're saying it's, I'm always interjecting myself in the conversation? |
4664s | Like Balthorr, he's always camera ready. |
4667s | What's going on? |
4668s | It doesn't matter. |
4669s | Ughh... |
4669s | It's so bright in here. |
4671s | Do we need to call a medic? |
4671s | I can't see anything. |
4672s | What do you mean? |
4673s | It's too much, you guys yelling, it's hurting my ears. |
4676s | Why are your goggles so wet? |
4677s | And because I sweat. |
4679s | Aughhh. |
4681s | Balthorr is sweating from his eyes and he is still more camera ready than you, Stoopzz. |
4686s | It's just so much. |
4688s | They're foggy, you see that? |
4689s | Yeah, dew. |
4690s | It's very moist. |
4691s | Hey, I don't need to see anything to still carry your salty butt through a raid. |
4697s | Oh, my God. |
4699s | Does he even play the game or no? |
4701s | He's in the game. |
4702s | Balthorr is in the game. |
4703s | He's in the game. |
4705s | I am the game, baby. |
4707s | O-okay. |
4708s | Hehehe. |
4709s | You know what? |
4709s | Your guys' toxicity seems to be rubbing off on our Sidereal here. |
4714s | I don't know how that's going to play out next time y'all have to face the Legion Commanders. |
4723s | We're getting some comms in right now, guys. |
4725s | Hahaha, sorry, I'm laughing. |
4727s | We can hear it so. |
4728s | So what you all can't see. |
4729s | Michael, why don't you let them see you really quick? |
4733s | Show our production team. |
4734s | They're talking into my ear, and they just told me a super secret. |
4737s | That was my real shocked face, so. |
4743s | All right. |
4744s | All right. |
4745s | I don't know if you can lip read from that angle, but by one vote, confirmed by the people counting back there, the votes Twitch chat. |
4755s | A single vote. |
4758s | Datmodz. |
4760s | Bobajenny is the winner. |
4763s | Woooo! |
4764s | Let's go! |
4764s | Down with Modz. |
4768s | Your first gold star. |
4768s | I don't know who that one vote was, but they got you a gold star. |
4771s | It was, it was the Play Lost Ark channel. |
4774s | It was the Play Lost Ark channel, hahaha. |
4774s | I don't think we can vote in our own polls. |
4776s | Wow. |
4776s | Let's goooo! |
4777s | That is, that is amazing. |
4778s | It is a tight race. |
4780s | This show's rigged, I told you. |
4781s | Oh, my God. |
4782s | Grenton, are you kidding me? |
4782s | Are you still saying the show is rigged? |
4785s | How do we all conveniently have one star? |
4787s | You don't! |
4788s | Stoopzz has two! |
4788s | Chat decided. |
4790s | Oh, does he? |
4790s | Yeah he has two. |
4791s | Yeah. |
4791s | It's a pity, star. |
4792s | It's— what you mean it's a pity star? |
4795s | It's because you've been bullying him. |
4795s | You called him Xavier. |
4797s | Uh, me? |
4798s | Yeah. |
4799s | That's true though, that's crazy man. |
4801s | I can't believe you called me that. |
4802s | All right. |
4803s | Well, we'll, keep his name to Stoopzz for now. |
4806s | But it looks like we have one more debate. |
4810s | Look at all the stars on everyone. |
4812s | I'm— I'm really happy. |
4813s | Everyone has at least one gold star. |
4815s | Yeah, less complaints. |
4816s | You know what, good job. |
4817s | Everyone gets the participation trophy. |
4819s | Joke's on you. |
4820s | These maybe don't matter, but we'll get to that later. |
4824s | But you know what? |
4824s | I'm proud of all of you. |
4825s | You all did good enough to get a gold star from the wrangled Twitch chat. |
4831s | Like I said, though, it is still anyone's game. |
4833s | Anyon'se season. |
4834s | Anyone can be a Mokoko. |
4836s | We have one more debate to do between Grenton and Stoopzz. |
4841s | So y'all are both set up. |
4843s | Grenton. |
4843s | you got to give it your all, or he's going to have three stars. |
4846s | He's going to have won all his debates. |
4848s | That's the one person I'm not going to be toxic to. |
4850s | Wow. |
4850s | Wow. |
4850s | Why did you decide that? |
4852s | Because all show he was talking over me for 12 episodes, but all show, he's been nothing but nice to me. |
4858s | Your hands are freezing. |
4859s | That's not what you said yesterday, man. |
4860s | Well, yesterday we were all tired and then he was just mean. |
4862s | But like, today, he's nice. |
4863s | Don't let him fool you Twitch chat. |
4864s | I wasn't mean yesterday, man. |
4866s | I don't know, you were kind of mean yesterday. |
4867s | I was not. |
4867s | Okay, you're right. |
4868s | What? |
4868s | I'm not gonna— he's right all the time. |
4871s | I will. |
4871s | I want to correct something, though. |
4872s | So the last episode we had to debate which gate was the coolest. |
4877s | Yeah. |
4878s | And I had to do, I didn't do Akkan yet, right? |
4880s | So I had Brel gate six, Akkan gate three is definitely the coolest gate in Lost Ark. |
4884s | Yeah. |
4885s | So I'm gonna give you that W. |
4886s | Yeah, I just said Akkan gate three is the best gate. |
4888s | Yeah, I would do. |
4889s | Akkan for like... |
4890s | Can you fix that on the show? |
4890s | Like, can we go back? |
4891s | No, we can't retcon the show. |
4892s | No you can on YouTube, Michael you can add text, like. |
4895s | Sure. |
4896s | Okay. |
4896s | Thank you. |
4897s | You're pissing off Michael. |
4898s | No you can. |
4898s | I know but he said sure but he's not going to do it. |
4900s | You can't retcon canon. |
4902s | Have you ever seen Star Wa—? |
4904s | Anyway. |
4905s | Roxx got fired. |
4906s | Anyway. |
4907s | Whoa, whoa, whoa. |
4907s | Chat don't let— this is part of his strategy. |
4908s | Anyway. |
4909s | We still have one more debate to get through. |
4911s | I haven't even told y'all your topic and you're all, already all ready. |
4916s | True true true. |
4916s | Your debate topic is actually an important one. |
4919s | So I'm glad you hugged it out. |
4920s | OM OM OM. |
4920s | OM OM OM. |
4921s | How do we create a better and healthier community for newer... |
4925s | newer players or players that are still progressing? |
4929s | So, you know, hug it out. |
4930s | Think about how you can help those noobs keep those warm fuzzies inside and you'll all have a minute to strategize. |
4938s | I think it's an interesting strategy that Grenton's taken here. |
4941s | This is all part of his his strategy. |
4943s | You think maybe he's just playing the long con? |
4943s | Oh 100%. |
4944s | I mean, all of a sudden he's a nice guy. |
4946s | Are you kidding me? |
4948s | Grooten? |
4948s | I mean, come on. |
4948s | No, no, I'm not buying it. |
4950s | I don't buy it chat. |
4951s | So you think he's trying to be the wholesome in order to sway votes about the, you know, the new players and the community? |
4956s | 100%. |
4956s | 100%/ That's interesting. |
4958s | That's a very interesting take from our Emcee here. |
4961s | Why do you call him Grooten? |
4963s | I don't understand. |
4963s | What is that supposed to— I don't understand. |
4964s | See this is why I like him. |
4966s | But I just don't actually understand. |
4967s | What is it? |
4967s | Is that not his name? |
4968s | You said that so many times. |
4969s | You guys were saying it yesterday too. |
4970s | What is Grooten? |
4970s | I have no idea what you're talking about. |
4972s | What do you mean? |
4973s | You guys said it, like, ten times yesterday. |
4975s | I was sitting right here. |
4976s | That's his name? |
4977s | Yeah, Grenton. |
4977s | What does Grooten mean? |
4979s | I don't know. |
4979s | What does Stoopzz mean? |
4980s | Why are you arguing with us? |
4981s | This isn't a debate between us. |
4981s | I could talk to you about the lore. |
4985s | True, you do have lore. |
4985s | Wait I want the Stoopzz lore. |
4986s | I can't because I'm not allowed to say like, stuff on. |
4988s | Oh. |
4989s | Yeah. |
4990s | Yeah, yeah. |
4990s | A TV show. |
4991s | Well, I don't know what these guys are talking about, but are you both ready for your final debate? |
4995s | It's the final debate of the season. |
4997s | Yeah, I'm ready to go. |
4998s | I'm ready. |
4999s | I have to go to the bathroom so bad, so someone has to wheel me out of here right after this is done. |
5003s | This is crazy. |
5004s | I need some help. |
5004s | Alright. |
5004s | Well, I really don't want to see that on camera. |
5007s | So we're going to go ahead and get things started. |
5010s | Stoopzz, you know what, you have the floor first. |
5012s | Your first minute— what? |
5013s | Do you not want it? |
5014s | No, no, no, it's fine. |
5016s | Let's go. |
5016s | Okay. |
5016s | I'm ready, full speed. |
5016s | Your minute to debate starts now. |
5016s | Full speed. |
5019s | Okay, so. |
5021s | Lost Ark. |
5021s | Listen, everyone always talks about Lost Ark, right? |
5023s | And we all know that, you know, if you get into the game, everyone's experience, it's hard to get into groups orand stuff like that. |
5027s | People can be a little bit more hurried for time, rushed, and it can create an environment that's maybe not as welcoming to new players cause you have stuff to do, right? |
5035s | And so we've done a lot, you know, shout out to my mods and the Discord, TinyDam, Kim, Connor, all you guys. |
5041s | I seen you in the chat. |
5042s | You look cute today. |
5043s | Thanks guys for being here. |
5044s | Shout out to you guys for moderating that Discord for new players and getting them in there. |
5049s | But the reality is, I think that you need to create more opportunities like that in game. |
5053s | It doesn't have to be specifically in game like a mentor system but I think just whatever, have opportunities for people that like that, like Connor, Kim and etc to shine because not everybody is built for helping other people. |
5064s | You have to do it out of the goodness of your heart, right? |
5067s | You have to do because you want to, not for some stinkin reward or like a skin, you're gonna get the best results when you generally want to do something. |
5074s | Am I good? |
5074s | Do I got time for more? |
5075s | You have more time. |
5076s | Send it baby. |
5077s | So yeah, that's what I would focus on there is giving those people more of an opportunity to play with other players and also not so much of the focus on raids. |
5084s | Now you do not have more time. |
5085s | That was your minute. |
5087s | You made the most of it though. |
5088s | Grenton, your first minute to make a debate starts now. |
5092s | Yeah. |
5093s | So everything you said makes sense. |
5095s | But there's a underlying issue is that no matter how many nice people you have, you were saying like TinyDam, Connor, all these people, you're still going to have the biggest issue, which is gatekeeping. |
5104s | And you gatekeep for a lot of reasons. |
5105s | I play Reaper. |
5106s | I was super excited to show Stoopzz's my 5x3+2. |
5110s | His whole chat? |
5111s | "Wasted nine seven on Reaper KEKW." So no matter what it is, at the end of the day, it has to be balance in the game that allows you to play the class you want, play to the build you want so you can get into these raids. |
5124s | So the best way to bring new and returning players back to the game and create a healthier community is to make it so there's less of a discrepancy between the absolute top like predator slayer and the absolute bottom like, you know, machinist and kind of compress that gap so people aren't getting gatekept based on what they find fun. |
5144s | All right, Stoopzz, you have one minute to make your final argument. |
5148s | Yeah, that was kind of hard to come up with that on the spot huh? |
5150s | Yeah, that was all improv. |
5152s | I think ultimately an important topic, regardless of whatever, like this whole thing. |
5156s | I think that the game ultimately should offer more avenues for people to interact and let players that are willing to help other players shine a bit more. |
5164s | And I think taking away the focus from raids is also important, right? |
5167s | Because Lost Ark is a game where it is a raiding game and in any game or MMO you ask people do they raid? |
5173s | They might say no, but in Lost Ark, if you ask them, if you ask somebody if they raid, they're going to say yes 100% because that's the game, it's raiding. |
5179s | With raiding, you're going to have people that aren't willing to sit there and teach other players. |
5183s | So it creates this experience as a new player where you're trying to get into the end game content of raids and people aren't always going to be willing to teach you these things. |
5189s | So I think by all— One, giving people an opportunity to help other players, I don't know what that solution actually is, but creating those and then Two, not putting so much of the focus on raids in an environment where it's a little more lax, chill and, you can kind of interact and hang out. |
5203s | I think those are what make an MMO more welcoming to other players and new players specifically. |
5209s | Right? |
5209s | You have the diversity of content, but you also have to make sure that you can let veteran players teach other players— is that time? |
5215s | All right, it's time. |
5216s | I let you finish your sentence! |
5218s | Grenton your final minute is now. |
5220s | Yep. |
5221s | And at the end of the day, it all comes down to, like you said, the content and what's in the game. |
5224s | People, MMO communities have been like notoriously cutthroat. |
5228s | That's the word I'll use, not toxic, where if you're not at their level, you're bad. |
5232s | And if you're suddenly over their level, you're RMT-ing, like that's the sort of the community that MMOs fosters. |
5237s | So you kind of gotta figure out a way to bridge that gap. |
5240s | And I think what you were saying makes a lot of sense. |
5242s | Less of a focus on raids. |
5243s | We were talking about it earlier with more solo content, ways to express your skill, right? |
5247s | To show that, hey, even though you play a class that isn't the top of the DPS, you have a way to show that, hey, I'm still a good player. |
5254s | That in itself will alleviate a lot of the community sort of bias that other regions have imposed on our region. |
5261s | But not only that, like you said, having people who are willing to help newer players is very important. |
5266s | But I think even if you have thousands of people who are willing to help but the systems in the game and the discrepancies between classes is where it is now, then you can have the nicest people in the world and you're still going to have toxicity in the game. |
5277s | All right. |
5277s | That was your minute. |
5279s | Twitch chat will now vote on what they think. |
5283s | That was hard. |
5283s | It got really friendly all of the sudden. |
5285s | Jenny, we got the hard topics. |
5286s | What is happening? |
5288s | It is friendly. |
5289s | Actually Bobajenny and Grenton are... |
5291s | Yeah. |
5292s | What are you? |
5292s | What's goin' on here? |
5293s | No we were just saying we got hard topics. |
5294s | Oh, okay. |
5295s | Yeah. |
5295s | Well you know what you guys did a great job. |
5297s | That was our last debate of the season as well. |
5300s | Wow. |
5300s | So we've done, you know, 12 episodes, six debates today in the live show. |
5304s | And, you know, there were, like Kanon said earlier, some topics that are more challenging just to take an angle, take a stance. |
5311s | But I think everybody... |
5312s | I feel good. |
5313s | Y'all did a good job debating. |
5314s | You, uh, arguing, being argumentative, too, which you know, I think is more natural for some folks here. |
5322s | But all in all, I feel like you guys did a really good job. |
5324s | How are you all feeling? |
5326s | Feeling pretty confident going in this last one that Stoopzz hopefully doesn't win another star because honestly, he's just gotten all the really easy topics today. |
5335s | He's been saying this competition has been rigged from the beginning and he was right. |
5340s | He was right! |
5340s | For whatever reason everyone else has to debate the hard stuff. |
5346s | That. |
5347s | It's almost like he pitied. |
5348s | Stoopzz looks confused. |
5349s | What do you have to say? |
5350s | I mean. |
5351s | You had a really easy one. |
5352s | Where like, the pheons. |
5354s | The pheon one, but also like the gold and splitting it up. |
5356s | And you're like, doing this like campaign and like running for president and you still lost to Bobajenny. |
5360s | Damn! |
5360s | Oh. |
5362s | Smear campaign! |
5362s | Look how awesome Bobajenny is though. |
5365s | I would vote for her too. |
5365s | I'm just saying! |
5365s | I'm just saying. |
5365s | Imagine voting for a giant bearded man or Bobajenny? |
5370s | I don't know, am I wrong? |
5371s | I'd vote for Bobajenny every time. |
5372s | I mean, we have to figure out who won this debate. |
5375s | And actually it will not be over until it is over. |
5379s | Surprisingly, that's something Datmodz said, I wasn't trying to pick up on that. |
5383s | But this is not, you know, this may not be for all the Mokoko seeds quite yet. |
5387s | We want to see who won this last debate. |
5389s | And this is important, but, you know, the audience will still have an important decision to make. |
5393s | More on that later. |
5395s | You know, we didn't actually ask Balthorr who he thought was the winner. |
5399s | Uh huh. |
5399s | Yeah. |
5400s | Yeah. |
5400s | I hear you loud and clear. |
5402s | The fact is, Roxx, I am not drunk anymore. |
5406s | I soaked up all the Cheetos from Datmodz's beard. |
5410s | And I can also say without any competition, that we can all agree that I should be in the game more often. |
5417s | Can we make that happen? |
5419s | Anyone? |
5420s | Hello? |
5421s | Well, we'll see about that later. |
5423s | After, maybe after this Debate Club finale. |
5426s | And if you stop drinking on the job. |
5430s | But before we do that, it looks like we have our final winner of the debates, but not our final winner of the show. |
5438s | Grenton. |
5439s | Hmm. |
5440s | You're so unenthusiastic. |
5442s | I main Reaper. |
5445s | I cannot argue with that. |
5447s | And that is why Stoopzz is not a Mokoko. |
5449s | Wait, that is why he's not a Mokoko? |
5450s | No, that's not really why. |
5451s | Are you saying that Roxx's official view is that she hates Reapers? |
5454s | It actually has to do with the whole debate you just did? |
5455s | Yeah. |
5456s | That's why he's not a Mokoko. |
5458s | Put it on this. |
5459s | I'm making a Reddit post about you. |
5461s | You wouldn't be the first. |
5461s | Bling bling man, you got stars. |
5463s | Put it on your forehead. |
5465s | Oh, my God. |
5468s | Give him that star. |
5468s | Stoopzz is putting on his third gold star. |
5474s | Sheeeeeeesh. |
5474s | Let's let him stick that on. |
5474s | Look at that. |
5474s | Look at that. |
5475s | Look at how happy he is. |
5476s | Yeah. |
5477s | Kanon actually, Stoopzz's cape is almost as shiny as yours now. |
5480s | It almost is. |
5481s | Hey production team. |
5482s | Can we get a, can we get a, can we get a zoom in on Stoopzz right now? |
5486s | I haven't seen that man smile this much since. |
5490s | Yeah. |
5490s | Oh, nooo. |
5491s | Ohkay! |
5494s | Kanon knows too much, apparently. |
5496s | We still have to tally all the votes. |
5498s | And, you know, I know you can kind of see we just talked about, but we're going to count the votes, just to be sure. |
5504s | And there will be another vote coming up soon. |
5507s | So stick around to figure out who the winner will finally be and for those very important Twitch Drops. |
5513s | But, you know, when we do that, we're going to head back to Balthorr at his support center one last time. |
5518s | Yeah. |
5519s | Uh huh. |
5519s | Uh huh, yeah. |
5520s | Thanks. |
5521s | Thanks again. |
5522s | Yeah. |
5523s | Okay. |
5523s | No, no. |
5524s | You can still call me Papa. |
5526s | Thank you for coming back to the Balthorr Live Support Center for you salty, salty players. |
5534s | I am definitely not tipsy anymore, and I can read the comments like, we've got so many people here. |
5540s | We got people saying "Go Stoopzz, go," so many people saying, "Huh, I'm confused." Wow, it sounds like you inside the raid. |
5547s | Listen, I literally tell you what to do in those dungeons and you just can't do it. |
5553s | Like, what's the point? |
5554s | You know? |
5554s | You know, why do I even try? |
5557s | Kylin says "Balthorr card when?" you're speaking my language, brother, I tell you right now, I've been trying to figure that out my whole entire life. |
5568s | Lets see, KaraSky says, "Ooh, you crazy hot." Oh, yeah, that's right. |
5574s | Maybe like hot Cheetos. |
5576s | Datmodz's! |
5576s | Hot Cheetos next stream. |
5578s | That's right. |
5579s | Throw some over. |
5580s | Heheh. |
5581s | Digital bro said "I want my Balthorr card" You know, this is starting to look like the right chat. |
5587s | In fact, I should change the name from Balthorr's Live Support Center for Salty Players to Balthorr to Live Support Center for Balthorr stans. |
5597s | Yeah. |
5597s | Look at all the people. |
5598s | Everybody's going for Balthorr. |
5600s | You know what? |
5600s | I would shipBalthorr with Balthorr. |
5603s | Yeah, I'd be in for that. |
5605s | That'd be crazy, Tyrell says. |
5608s | "Balthorr, are you single?" Well, who? |
5611s | Maybe... |
5612s | we're going... |
5612s | No! |
5613s | Not anymore. |
5614s | Have you met Kanon? |
5616s | Heheh. |
5618s | Oh, let's see who's there, Georby says "Balthorr by far worst Sidreal. |
5624s | Get Azena or Innana on the screen." I see what you're saying there, but like I said, maybe we could get you some. |
5630s | I don't know, some some some nachos or some French fries or all that salt you're dealing with or maybe Stoopzz over here can wheel in. |
5640s | This mothasucka said barrage enhancement Stoopzz. |
5643s | Man F-you, man, you crazy, man? |
5644s | He's upset. |
5645s | He's upset. |
5646s | Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first. |
5648s | Stoopzz is angry. |
5649s | He's wheeling all the way back to his spot at the speed of a snail. |
5654s | He's so mad. |
5655s | Don't put yourself near that Stoopzz because he's a snail and he will literally melt and die. |
5660s | So don't do that. |
5661s | Let's see who else we got here. |
5662s | Oh, RandomOak99. |
5665s | You are laughing your face off and I love you for it, baby. |
5669s | Listen, this is a really good time. |
5671s | I mean, I was talking to my friend Kanon over there for a moment, and he said maybe we could be friends, but maybe all of us can be friends. |
5680s | You know, we could form like a community. |
5683s | We, we could do a synchronized dance. |
5686s | Oh, we could all dance at the same time. |
5689s | Or maybe cry tears of sadness because we're all alone in drinking. |
5695s | Hey, can we get some more ale, Roxx? |
5697s | Maybe? |
5698s | Maybe uh, maybe later. |
5699s | Let's see who else we got going on over here. |
5701s | Waspuee says, "Can we be friends?" You know it, I already said so. |
5709s | Korusami says, "Can you sing for us?" I can sing you a song! |
5715s | And it's not very long. |
5717s | That's about it. |
5717s | That's all I got for you. |
5719s | We've got so many wonderful people. |
5720s | People are very angry. |
5721s | "Do the dance for us?" Listen, I was wasted when I did that dance. |
5725s | Not going to lie. |
5726s | Don't remember a step. |
5727s | In fact, if you say that I dance, I don't believe you. |
5730s | You're going to have to go back and watch it again later. |
5733s | "Expose your hammer size?" Well, let's see here. |
5737s | Yeah. |
5738s | Heh? |
5739s | I mean, you know, knocking on the boats of freedom! |
5743s | Heheh. |
5745s | I got to tell you right now, like I said, this is my favorite hammer. |
5748s | I do have a little axe, but nobody uses those these days, You know what I'm saying? |
5752s | Hey, "We love you," Big Nate. |
5754s | Well, we love you. |
5756s | In fact, I love all of you. |
5758s | And you can all be a part of my multilevel... |
5760s | oh, uh. |
5762s | We'll talk later, babe. |
5763s | We got to get back to the studio. |
5765s | Back to you. |
5765s | Roxx. |
5768s | Woo! |
5768s | Thank you, Balthorr, for keeping them... |
5770s | I. |
5771s | I don't know how you made them feel, but thank you for doing that. |
5775s | So we're going to— actually, I was so distracted by Balthorr, I forgot to tally the votes. |
5778s | He's good! |
5781s | Bobajenny, can you like, lean foward? |
5783s | One, three, three. |
5786s | I have five. |
5787s | I don't think. |
5788s | Is that a star? |
5789s | Do you count too? |
5790s | I'm having a hard time seeing. |
5791s | Yeah, I'm from. |
5793s | Yeah. |
5794s | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
5796s | Oh, there we go. |
5797s | Oh god, now they're confusing me. |
5797s | Thanks man. |
5798s | That's a pity. |
5798s | That's a pity star. |
5799s | Why would they do that? |
5800s | Oh, you know what? |
5801s | You know, none of the gold stars matter. |
5804s | And you know what? |
5805s | I lied all season! |
5807s | All season did matter because it is up to the community to decide who is and who is not a Mokoko. |
5814s | I know we said all season the aired debates didn't matter and only the final mattered. |
5820s | But I changed my mind. |
5822s | It's up to you to decide. |
5824s | Put together, you know, your brains, collective Twitch chat hive mind. |
5828s | That sounds scary, actually. |
5829s | Maybe don't do that. |
5830s | You know, think about what you saw today, what you saw during the season, the debates today. |
5835s | You can think about the gold stars because they're pretty and shiny and we like pretty and shiny things. |
5840s | But, you know, really think about all season, the debaters you saw and we want you, Twitch chat, to decide once and for all who is not a Mokoko. |
5850s | While Twitch chat votes, you know what? |
5852s | Why doesn't everybody give their final kind of campaign? |
5855s | We'll go down the line and start with Datmodz. |
5857s | Oh, a campaign speech! |
5859s | Here we go. |
5859s | Wow, right on the spot. |
5860s | Okay. |
5861s | Well, first off, I just want to thank all of you guys for watching. |
5863s | And if you vote for me, you're just going to get one taps from this point forward. |
5866s | I can't actually ensure this, but it is a possibility. |
5869s | And I just want to give a big shout out to the production crew and Balthorr for the amazing performance. |
5873s | Mr. |
5874s | Stoopzz. |
5875s | I love you, buddy. |
5875s | And. |
5877s | You're looking wonderful. |
5878s | And then also just sharing this set with this entire crew is an absolute privilege. |
5883s | Anyway, hopefully you guys found an entertaining. |
5885s | Also, my son, not to guilt trip you guys, 18 months old. |
5888s | He just wants to see his father be winner. |
5893s | Wait, what is going on? 2543 01:38:13,822 --> 01:38:13,600 Please vote for me! |
5894s | Please! |
5897s | Alright Bobajenny, why don't you let chat know how you're feeling. |
5903s | Uhm... |
5903s | I never left the game. |
5905s | I never left the game. |
5907s | Damn. |
5907s | I stuck through Lost Ark through thick and thin. |
5911s | Still playing to this day. |
5913s | When you're stuck on the floor, you can't get up. |
5915s | Nah man. |
5915s | No no no no, my Summoner is reformed. |
5919s | Okay. |
5920s | Reformed? |
5920s | Reformed! |
5921s | I've been reformed. |
5922s | I'm no longer the helper of Azkaban. |
5924s | This is a reform. |
5927s | I stuck to the game through thick and thin. |
5930s | All right. |
5931s | Why? |
5932s | Why do you have extensions on your forehead? |
5935s | Listen. |
5936s | I am the underdog here. |
5938s | I'm the one who plays Reaper. |
5940s | I've been bullied the entire season except by Stoopzz, he bullied me the entire season, but not now. |
5943s | So that's nice of him. |
5945s | If I win, I'll shave my head. |
5947s | I will embrace. |
5949s | I will embrace the bald memes. |
5951s | That's not a big difference. |
5952s | I know. |
5952s | I know. |
5953s | But it's a difference. |
5955s | You crazy, Bobajenny, how are you going to say that? |
5958s | All right. |
5958s | Grenton will shave his head. |
5960s | Stoopzz, is there anything you'd like to tell Twitch chat? |
5964s | Yeah. |
5964s | All memes aside, guys, thank you guys so much for watching. |
5966s | I really, really appreciate it. |
5968s | All the staff here. |
5970s | Michael in the back, Tom, everybody, even drunk Balthorr. |
5974s | It's really, really cool. |
5975s | And I think honestly, I got so happy just reading all the people in the chat and like, just seeing all of us here. |
5980s | It's kind of crazy that I met all these people through a video game. |
5982s | And I'm just thankful that I'm here and yeah, just super cool that Lost Ark has brought so many people together. |
5988s | I love all you guys and appreciate everybody. |
5991s | So wholesome! |
5992s | Don't wave too much yet because we're not going anywhere. |
5995s | Those votes are coming in. |
5998s | I think we have our winner. |
6001s | We'll give them a couple more minutes to tally. |
6003s | I just want to make sure. |
6005s | Looks like we're good. |
6006s | Balthorr any last words before we announce our winner? |
6009s | Yes, I can absolutely say without a doubt that I have no idea where I am. |
6018s | Alright. |
6019s | Well, leave him there in his corner, then, where he can do the least amount of property damage and finally announce our winner. |
6028s | Are you ready for this, Kanon? |
6029s | I am. |
6029s | But before we do, I just want to say something really quick. |
6033s | First of all, big shout outs to AGS for putting this together. |
6037s | Michael in the back. |
6038s | Tom and Chuck, you guys have been fantastic, but all of you guys in Twitch chat should know the situation Mr. |
6045s | Stoopzz has been through and he's a really good friend of mine. |
6048s | I'm glad to have you out here now. |
6051s | I thought Balthorr was a really good friend. |
6052s | He is. |
6053s | He is, but. |
6053s | He's just my boo. |
6055s | All right, well, it's finally time to announce our winner. |
6058s | Datmodz is already making eye contact with me. |
6062s | It's like he knows something. |
6065s | You know what I know? |
6065s | What happened? |
6067s | You are a Mokoko. |
6068s | Awww. |
6069s | So there's still three left. |
6070s | Grenton. |
6072s | Three stars on your forehead. |
6074s | There's four. |
6075s | I don't know how to count. |
6077s | That's definitely four. |
6078s | Sorry. |
6078s | I'm not surprised you could fit that many on there man. |
6079s | I was getting blinded, this gold star and forehead sheen is very blinding. |
6081s | I'm just leaning into it now. |
6085s | You are also. |
6086s | A Mokoko. |
6087s | I don't know why I paused after I said also. |
6089s | Yeah, I figured. |
6089s | That made it. |
6090s | Yeah. |
6091s | That means we're down to two, Bobajenny and Stoopzz. |
6096s | Mhm. |
6097s | Twitch Chat already knows, but you guys don't. |
6099s | So I have all the power right now. |
6100s | I love it. |
6101s | I know. |
6102s | You cheated. |
6103s | I saw it over there. |
6104s | Why are you reading Twitch chat? |
6107s | I can see the screen. |
6108s | Why did you cheat? |
6108s | Why did you take all my power? |
6110s | I don't know. |
6112s | Unreal. |
6113s | Well, Stoopzz, you are not a Mokoko. |
6119s | You are the winner of our Lost Ark Academy Debate Club finale and season. |
6121s | Crown me Balthorr. |
6122s | Look at that. |
6123s | Oh, my god! |
6124s | Oh, wow. |
6127s | The lovely Balthorr has crowned you. |
6129s | This is my pity crown, huh? |
6130s | You won! |
6131s | What do you mean it's a pity crown? |
6132s | You look real good. |
6133s | All right. |
6133s | Balthorr, why don't you come join us over here? |
6135s | And I know we kind of just did our campaign speeches, but I wanted to give everyone a minute to kind of share their parting thoughts. |
6140s | Mr. |
6140s | Balthorr! |
6143s | You know, you've been here all season. |
6144s | We did a lot of filming. |
6145s | We did 12 weeks of episodes, and we've just well, not quite yet, but we're just wrapping up the live finale. |
6153s | Datmodz, are there any parting thoughts you'd like to share with Chat, with the Lost Ark Community? |
6157s | No, just thank you guys for watching. |
6158s | And you guys are all peepocute. |
6160s | And I hope you guys have a wonderful day and hopefully you get all the items that you want. |
6164s | Aw, kind till the end. |
6167s | Bobajenny, anything you'd like to share with the audience before we sign off? |
6171s | I think Lost Ark has been very transformative in our lives in different ways. |
6176s | I'm really happy to be a part of this and really see the game come to life. |
6182s | And yeah, I just really enjoy my time here and everyone here is really awesome. |
6186s | Awesome. |
6187s | Thank you. |
6188s | Grenton, the floor is yours with that shiny forehead. |
6191s | Yeah, I'm just adding stars to my head now. |
6193s | I think I'm allergic to these. |
6194s | I'm crying. |
6196s | Or you're just really emotional. |
6198s | Yeah. |
6198s | Stoopzz has a wreath, and I have a crown of stars. |
6201s | But no, for real. |
6201s | Thank you, everyone, for watching. |
6202s | It was super fun. |
6203s | It was awesome to meet all of you and Stoopzz, and meeting Kanon for the first time was cool, even though Balthorr makes fun of me. |
6209s | Still a big fan, so. |
6211s | It was really awesome. |
6212s | Thank you again to everyone in production and everyone at Amazon Games for putting this together, because I can't think of any other company who would actively self roast themselves week after week and uh, take it on the chin. |
6224s | So thank you everyone. |
6224s | It was super fun and congratulations Stoopzz. |
6227s | I don't think it was a pretty win. |
6228s | I think you deserve to win. |
6230s | Awwwww. |
6230s | All right. |
6230s | Stoopzz, our winner. |
6231s | Do you have any parting thoughts? |
6233s | Yeah, I kinda already said it all, but thank you guys so much for watching. |
6236s | And thanks for voting for me. |
6237s | Hi, Mom. |
6238s | If you're watching, you might be watching at home. |
6240s | And big shout out to just everybody in the chat, the community and stuff like that. |
6244s | Like I know sometimes we're mad, you know, especially like the cubes. |
6246s | Fix the damn cubes, Roxx. |
6248s | I don't know what's going on with that thing, but. |
6249s | I'm here! |
6250s | I need more gems! |
6251s | But overall, you know, like, I really, really do think it's super cool, especially on Twitch, like all the people that you get to see them in chat, you know their name, you know what I mean? |
6259s | It's like it's like a cool experience, a very, like small knit community. |
6262s | And also everybody here at Amazon, like, they work really, really hard you guys. |
6266s | I've been around this office a few times now and they're working super, super hard trying to do cool stuff for you guys, the best they can. |
6271s | So overall, I think big shouts at them, shouts to you guys, I love you and thanks for having me. |
6276s | Awesome. |
6276s | Thank you so much, everybody. |
6278s | Wow, I'm like, I just wanted to give you guys the floor for a minute. |
6280s | I had a point of realization. |
6282s | Datmodz has had a realization. |
6283s | A new development? |
6284s | Let's hear it Datmodz. |
6285s | I just want to get one more thing off my head. |
6287s | I just realized at this point, we all became friends because of this game. |
6290s | And that's really what MMOs are about. |
6292s | Talking about nurturing friendships without Lost Ark, I would've never met Stoopzz. |
6297s | I would never raided with Grenton, and I never would've been— You ditched me last week, man, I can't believe it. |
6303s | Let's keep it heartwarming. |
6304s | We know. |
6304s | We know, you can cry about it later. |
6305s | I'm not letting that go! |
6306s | You buy me a beer after this for sure. |
6307s | As many as you want. |
6309s | As many beers as you want. |
6311s | I'm not freakin' Balthorr. |
6313s | I'll wheel you around. |
6315s | He's here, he's in for sure. |
6317s | I'm always in for ale. |
6318s | Are you going to finally invite me to a raid now. |
6319s | Of course! |
6321s | You're always welcome, just ask me. |
6322s | Okay man. |
6322s | All right. |
6323s | Well, I feel like I'd be amiss to not ask Balthorr. |
6327s | Any parting thoughts for the community as you know, a hero of Arkesia? |
6330s | Yes. |
6331s | I just have to say, after all our fun today, I want to be serious and say I love all my salty little babies. |
6340s | All right. |
6341s | Thank you all so much for joining us all season. |
6344s | And with this finale, I just wanted to take a minute as well to say, you know, the community team has worked really hard on this. |
6350s | I'm very grateful to be a part of it. |
6352s | And it's been just really great to see the reaction to the show. |
6355s | I know we did something totally weird, totally unexpected, like very clearly a little bit crazy, and it's not like something we've ever done before, but we've had a lot of fun making this content for you, you know, reading reactions. |
6368s | We've learned a ton, and you know, I think you've probably seen we have some other videos that have come out recently, and it's just been really great to connect with the community on that level. |
6376s | So we're still here. |
6378s | The show may be ending, but we're already coming up with whatever we're going to do next and we'll still be around to see you. |
6383s | And also, just on a personal note, thank you for letting me host the show and having me be a part of the Lost Ark community. |
6390s | And this is by far the weirdest thing I've ever been paid to do. |
6393s | So I'm very appreciative of that. |
6395s | Yay for weird pay. |
6396s | We love doing weird stuff, apparently. |
6399s | All right, Kanon, why don't you close us out one last time? |
6403s | Yes, ma'am. |
6404s | Thank you guys so much for joining us here today. |
6406s | I hope you guys enjoyed the show. |
6408s | Before we close this out, I want to see you guys send as many hearts as you can. |
6412s | I can't see the chat, so I'm going to trust that you guys do. |
6414s | I want to see Dink Donks or Hearts in the chat for my good friend Stoopzz and everyone else here, especially Stoopzz. |
6420s | It was very difficult for him to come. |
6421s | I cannot imagine how difficult it was. |
6424s | Are you bettering me up? |
6425s | This is crazy man. |
6428s | Of course man, of course. |
6429s | You're my boy. |
6430s | There's a lot of hearts. |
6431s | There is? |
6432s | Thank you, guys. |
6432s | I appreciate that. |
6433s | We're gonna go out to dinner tonight and he's still going to be wearing that thing if you keep hyping him up. |
6437s | I mean let's go. |
6437s | He's not taking that thing off. |
6438s | Wheel me back, let's go I'm ready. |
6439s | Thank you, guys. |
6440s | I'm ready. |
6441s | All right. |
6441s | Thank you, guys. |
6442s | Thank you all. |
6443s | And we'll see you next time. |
6446s | Bye. |
6447s | Thanks. |
6448s | Oh, yeah the jazz hands. |
6448s | The jazz hands! |