Update 22/02/22: Amazon Games has responded to player disappointment with the capacity of the Lost Ark server.
A statement sent to Eurogamer confirmed that the capacity of the Europe Central server did not increase, but the newly created Europe West server has reduced congestion. Below is the complete statement:
“Lost Ark was more popular than expected and expanded to 800,000 in 17 minutes and 1.3m in 24 hours. This is a balance of bringing great games to new territory. Also a new surge in demand. Unexpected challenges. Given the complexity of the systems that need to work together, it is not possible to add capacity to the “Europe Central” data center. Instead, Smilegate and Amazon Games have partnered to introduce a new data center for European players with just five. Japan-“Western Europe”-To meet regional demand. For further clarification, the terms “Central Europe” and “Western Europe” are the names of specific data centers and do not refer to the geographical regions of Central Europe. ..
“Since it opened four days ago, the new’Western Europe’data center now houses just under 20% of European players and is growing day by day. Cue time is very frustrating for players and it is advisable to check this. In the new data center, peak queues have already been reduced by 48%. We are closely monitoring this number while we are continuously working to further improve the queue time. “
Original story 21/02/22: Lost Ark will not increase the capacity of your European Central server any further.
European players of the new MMO ARPG have experienced a long cue time since its launch.
and New blog postThe game development team acknowledged the problem, but confirmed that there was nothing they could do.
“In Europe, we know that players are still experiencing long queues,” the blog post explained. “The Europe Central region has reached capacity and unfortunately there is no way to increase the number of players per world in Europe Central. Due to the complexity of all the systems we need to work with, we can’t add more servers.”
The EuropeWest server created To explain the popularity of the game. However, there is currently no server forwarding feature. So this new server is just an option for new players or players who are willing to lose their progress.
“We’ve definitely heard the request for server forwarding, and we’ve scrutinized our options,” read the blog post. “This instant feature doesn’t currently exist in Lost Ark. This service has just been deployed in South Korea and is a weekly batch process that requires maintenance to run. It also doesn’t support cross-region features. So, unfortunately, it’s not a viable option. At the moment, it’s the Western version, but I’m not resting until I’ve run out of all the options. “
Further improvements are underway.
Maintenance of the European Central Server took place over the weekend to improve matchmaking, an important feature that many are having problems with.
Today, we are performing maintenance on the Central European Server at UTC 11 PM / 00AM CET and expect the maintenance to last approximately 2 hours.
Thank you for your understanding.
— Lost Ark (@playlostark) February 20, 2022
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Gold sellers who spam chat are banned as the team is working to improve in-game moderation tools. Changes have also been made to prevent fraudulent purchases, such as a system to track the legitimacy of player accounts and daily purchase restrictions per account.
Finally, continuous fixing of matchmaking errors and store stability issues is a top priority.
“Thank you for your understanding while working on these launch window issues. Feedback and problem reports are extremely helpful and grateful as we continue to work together to make Lost Ark the best. doing.”
Smilegate’s free-to-play MMO, Lost Ark, brought west by Amazon games, was incredibly popular in the first few weeks. Second highest peak on Steam..
