The new MMORPG Lost Ark had issues with full servers at the beginning. This has led to many people still being unable to play with their friends on the same server. But what content can you still experience together?
What is the significance of server selection? When you start the new MMORPG for the first time, you are confronted with the choice of a region and a server. While the region you choose should be central Europe, it’s not as simple with the server.
Unofficially, Asta has been chosen by several German communities as the “German” server. However, this and many other European servers struggled with queues and were often so full that new users could not start there at all.
However, if you did not want to wait that long, you started on another server, even though your friends might still be playing on Asta. But to what extent does this affect your gameplay together?
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These activities are cross-server content: Various things in Lost Ark can also be played cross-server, so together with friends, even though they are not playing on your world.
- Raids
- Dungeons
- Platinum Fields
- Using the Auction House
- Boss Rush
- PvP Arenas
- Friend Lists and Friends
- Private Island and Housing
- Character Names
At the same time, the following contents are server-specific and can only be experienced together if you play on the same server:
- Guilds
- Islands and the open world
- Life Skills
Soon you will also be able to dress up as Geralt and Ciri with your friends:
How can you still play together?
How to play Cross-Server: For some time now, you can simply add friends from the friends list and easily invite them to a normal group.
Then you can start your content as usual and dive into dungeons and raids together or open the party finder and also search for players across other servers.
Where does the cross-server gameplay interfere? Currently, most users are disturbed that the names are blocked for an entire region. Just before Amazon announced the changes in the naming system, this was one of the biggest points of criticism.
Nevertheless, many players still have problems finding free names. Whether Amazon will change something about the policy regarding names and also releases character names over level 11 faster is currently uncertain.
Since the open world is not shared across servers, you cannot share traveling merchants and world bosses with each other or help one another against the immense opponents.
What do you think of the server system in Lost Ark? Do you have friends on other servers and if so, how do you manage this? Do you wait for the desired server to be free again or do you start on another one despite the restrictions? Feel free to let us know in the comments here on MeinMMO.
By the way, Lost Ark is now the largest MMORPG available on Steam. It broke 1.3 million players simultaneously.
