Users can brute-force the system to meet the Argos Abyss raid's 1370-level requirements and only if they happen to be extremely lucky in their upgrade attempts and resource drops or choose to spend real money to speed the process by a bit.On March 14th Buy Lost Ark Gold, Twitch streamer Asmongold criticised the Lost Ark developers for using this strategy. Asmongold stated that the game's upgrade system, which was more or less optional prior to the raid, had changed into a manipulative game of luck.

According to Asmongold's view, many players will be tempted to spend real-world money on upgrades just so they can be part of the raid. In addition, Asmongold is of the opinion that potential teammates will not be interested in players with unupgraded gear in favor of those who have the best equipment so players may will be strongly encouraged (if not mandated) to spend money just to keep up.

Asmongold reiterated his concerns in the recent live stream in which his prediction of a depressing pay-to-win future for games:"I think pay to win games will be the norm in the near future. I believe they're in the future, and I believe that the more games will become pay to win. That's exactly what's going to take place. I think that this is exactly what's going to occur. Will there ever be games such as Elden Ring Yes, but it's like entropy, right it will be fewer and less frequent."

Asmongold also predicted that the mindset concerning pay-to-win would undergo a 180. As he said, people will be "looked down upon" and "considered as socially inferior" when they do not participate in the pay-to win system, because it is due to in-game "social expectations buy gold lost ark." However his imaginings of the future could be closer to reality than he believes.