Lost Ark was released in Europe about a month ago and is still very popular. Which may sometimes be due to the fact that there is no lack of content in online role-playing games. On the contrary: only recently, with the March update, there were even replenishments on the endgame front:
Lost Ark
It’s in the new update
But that doesn’t mean that Lost Ark is completely flawless. While the scope is hardly criticized, there is definitely some catching up to do on the technical side. Key word: Queues that not only left Peter angry. in one extensive statement in the game forum Amazon commented on the biggest problem areas of the MMO.
Fewer queues in Central Europe
If you wanted to play Lost Ark on the EU central servers at the beginning, you had to have a lot of patience: especially at peak times, it was quite normal to sometimes spend several hours in the queue. In the meantime, there are only rarely queues, which according to Amazon is partly due to technical adjustments:
As a number of players have noticed, particularly over the past weekend, we are pleased to report that wait times in Europe have now reduced. This is the result of a number of adjustments we made behind the scenes, including (but not limited to) improved game stability.
What certainly also counts: the number of players. They have visibly decreased since release. At the beginning, when there were still more than a million players on the move at the same time, there are now only
an average of over 650,000. This is natural not an unusual phenomenon and with the current numbers, Lost Ark continues to sit comfortably in the top 5 on Steam.
The SteamDB weekly chart shows it: Lost Ark’s player numbers are lower than before, but stable – as long as no update is pending.
The slump is not only due to players jumping off, but also to the loss of bots. Just recently, Amazon shut down over a million bot accounts:
Lost Ark
Heavy hit against bots succeeded
According to the developers, this was only the first step in the fight against bots. In the future you will regularly impose additional bans to remove even more bots from the game
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Language filter for chat and matchmaking
In addition to the queue reduction, the Amazon team also worked on one Improvement for matchmaking, which also regularly collapsed under the load of the release. This is no longer the case and even at peak times, players can use the match search almost without any problems.
Speaking of matchmaking, communication is an important factor in some activities in Lost Ark. The problem? There are no region restrictions on the European servers, which is why there is often a veritable jumble of languages in the chat.
That’s why there is one from now on optional language filter for local chat from Lost Ark. To activate this, you only have to consider the following:
To use language filtering, click the “+” button in the chat window to create a new tab and choose which languages (and other types of chat) to include in the filter.
Weekly updates are to be continued
In order to create more problems from the world of Lost Ark, Amazon wants to keep the weekly updates until further notice. Although the team will resort to hotfixes for very critical problems, they should definitely not get out of hand.
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However, Amazon does not comment on further content updates in the statement. In this regard, it will probably only get hot again in April, when the next major update is potentially due. It remains to be seen whether a new class will be included.
Now it’s your turn: Are you still playing Lost Ark? If so, what about queues and matchmaking for you? Are you still having troubles or has Amazon finally gotten the issues under control? Write it to us in the comments!
