It’s been a good three weeks since Lost Ark was released and the successful MMO is still struggling with old and new problems. What works well, on the other hand, is communication with the fans. Amazon Games has now made another big statement in which they explain how they want to fix these construction sites.
You can read here how the planned adjustments to the endgame recently caused an uproar:
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The endgame will be nerfed, although many players don’t want that at all
In addition to these well-known endgame nerfs, which will find their way into the game after today’s maintenance work and the associated patch, it’s about bots, gold sellers, matchmaking and queues, among other things. We summarize Amazon’s statements for you in this article.
#1: Queues
There are still queues at peak times on some servers in the Central Europe region, especially on the unofficial Europe server Asta. Although these have become a bit shorter, they still prevent many players from simply having a quick look into the game in the evening.
However, Amazon does not have a concrete solution for this: The developers continue to recommend a change to the EU West servers, since no further places or servers can be added due to the complex structures. The possibility of being able to take your Twitch Drops with you is also mentioned as an incentive to switch.
#2: Matchmaking
Even matchmaking still falters at peak times. However, Amazon promises that the problems here will soon be a thing of the past: They have identified a long-term solution and are currently testing it. If everything works out, she should as quickly as possible
to be published.
What we have published in the meantime are numerous guides to Lost Ark, which should make your adventures much easier:
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Guides: All MMO tips and tricks at a glance
#3: Crystalline Aura
The problem that the Crystalline Aura sometimes just disappears was already fixed last week. Only after the weekly maintenance is it supposed to happen that the bonuses of this premium service are not available for a few minutes after logging in – but that fixes itself.
However, the duration of your Crystalline Aura may be reduced by a few days: With a trick, which the colleagues from MeinMMO, among others, have describedit was possible to secure a period of up to 352 days free of charge by logging into the Western European servers.
Amazon already exchanged the login reward a few days ago, now a further step follows: For reasons of fairness, all players who receive this unintended scenario
have benefited from this, withdrawn the Premium time gained in this way. However, there is no need to fear further consequences for exploiting this loophole.
In this video, we analyzed for you how Lost Ark was able to achieve such a remarkable launch in terms of numbers and what the downside of this successful debut is:
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Lost Ark – The Price and Reasons for the Incredible Steam Record
#4: Gold sellers and bots
Every Lost Ark player should have seen the annoying spammers who advertise their shady gold selling websites in the chat. As a first measure, the in-game area chat was blocked for all characters below level 30 a few days ago:
According to Amazon, most spammers are blocked within ten minutes of sending their first spam message. In order to speed up this process even more, Amazon continues to tweak the chat filters so that players should ideally not be bothered in the first place.
By the way, we have summarized what else is waiting for you in March in this handy article:
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New story and raid coming in March
In order to be able to get at the at least as annoying bots that plow through the quest areas in hordes, the anti-cheat tools are also to be revised and improved. Until then, the developers continue to rely on you to diligently report the culprits by selecting them with Ctrl + left click and then submitting a report.
How has your gaming experience in Lost Ark been so far? Are you also struggling with queues, bots and spammers or are you enjoying the Free2Play title to the full? Feel free to tell us in the comments!
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