Lost Ark servers in Europe Central region won’t be expanded despite queues

European gamers of the hit massively multiplayer recreation Misplaced Ark have confronted lengthy login queues because the recreation’s launch — and now developer Smilegate RPG and Western writer Amazon Video games have admitted that there isn’t a lot they’ll do to enhance the scenario, because of the inflexibility of the sport’s structure. In a weblog publish, Smilegate and Amazon stated that they can not broaden capability for the Europe Central area additional.

As promised final week, a brand new Europe West server area has been added. However with no character transfers attainable and no cross-region play, this does little to assist gamers who’ve invested time on the Europe Central servers.

“We all know that gamers are nonetheless experiencing lengthy queues in Europe,” the event crew stated within the publish. “The Europe Central area is at capability and sadly there isn’t a method to enhance the variety of gamers per world in Europe Central. Including extra servers is just not attainable primarily based on the complexity of all of the programs that must work collectively.”

The crew famous that the Europe West area “is an interesting possibility for brand spanking new gamers or for gamers who haven’t considerably progressed on Europe Central.” Gamers who bought Founders Packs for the free-to-play recreation have been awarded a second variation of the packs, to make it attainable to change servers with out leaving the goodies they’d already claimed behind.

The publish famous that server switch performance has, in actual fact, simply been rolled out in Korea, the place Misplaced Ark has been obtainable since 2019. However it’s a handbook, weekly batch course of and doesn’t assist cross-region transfers, so it might not assist Europe Central gamers of their present plight.

“We is not going to relaxation till we’ve exhausted all choices,” the builders stated.

The Misplaced Ark crew stated they have been actively engaged on quite a lot of different fixes, notably to enhance matchmaking, scale back gold-seller spam, and enhance the steadiness of Crystalline Aura, an in-game subscription system that gives varied advantages to your character on a rolling foundation.