For those who couldn’t get a spot on the popular and well-visited server Europe Central at the start of Lost Ark, they switched to the Europe West region and regretted it quite quickly. Now AGS wants to save the dead servers, but will it work? We evaluate the situation for you.
What’s the problem? At release, the MMORPG Lost Ark was quite overcrowded. The publisher Amazon had indeed provided extra servers, but even those were fully utilized in no time.
Since it seemed technically impossible to assign more servers to the Europe region, a new region was quickly opened, Europe West. This region was primarily intended for new players, as transferring characters was not possible. By the way, you cannot play together between regions.
Now the great rush to Lost Ark is over, and the Europe West region has a crucial problem. They simply have hardly any players left. On some servers in the West region, you can hardly engage in world bosses or even Chaos portals because nobody shows up.
Many activities in the endgame of Lost Ark are done together with others:
Amazon is working on a solution
What’s the current status? The servers of Europe West are still partly empty, and it’s getting worse since currently some fans are leaving the game, as can be seen from the player numbers on Steam.
However, community manager Roxx has offered a bit of hope in the forum and confirmed that Amazon is working on a solution and reviewing possible plans. The publisher is not ready to disclose more at this time.
This naturally leaves a lot of room for speculation and frustration, which quickly becomes evident in the reactions of the affected players.
What do the affected parties say? They are initially upset. In a reddit thread created in response to the forum post, users write that they hardly believe in a solution. Some do not believe that a solution can be found.
Others, on the other hand, believe that there might be a solution, but it is so far away that it’s not worth waiting for. The mood among players stranded on the empty servers is obviously not the best, which distorts the general picture of good spirits in the Lost Ark community in this thread.
Will the plan save the servers?
What could work? Since AGS is still very vague about what these plans may look like, everything is speculation for now. However, it is no secret that Amazon is considering merging the existing servers.
A major point will be whether Amazon can find a technical and sensible solution to merge the Central and West regions. Merging different servers within the same region hardly addresses most of the problems.
The matchmaking and global trading runs distributed across the region and is accessible to all servers, but there are also problems in Europe West. A true solution would therefore only be the merge of the two European regions.
Problems cause delays
What problems could this bring? First and foremost, AGS is likely facing some technical issues here. During the launch, the publishers already stated that they cannot open more servers on the same region and are technically restricted at this point.
To come to the same number of servers, one would not only have to merge all Europe West servers, but also fuse them with the already existing and partly filled Europe Central servers.
It will also be problematic with prices in the market. While some materials on the West servers are still rare and valuable, they are abundant on Central. A raw merger of the two servers could suddenly make wealthy West players very poor, or vice versa.
Amazon must proceed with utmost caution at this point, and this will take some time, especially considering how vague the current statements from the publisher still are.
However, if they can find a technical solution and logically solve the gold problem of server merging, it is quite possible that this merger will not only save the dead servers.
It could also bring back people to the game who can finally play with their friends without having to start all over again.
My entire circle of friends loves Lost Ark, but no one plays it – Why actually?
It could also bring back people to the game who can finally play with their friends without having to start all over again.
My entire circle of friends loves Lost Ark, but no one plays it – Why actually?
