Amazon Replies for Lost Ark Rush Queues, and Server Problems

The European launch of the highly anticipated online role-playing game Lost Ark brings “New World” flashbacks to players. Amazon is struggling to counter the attack. Hour-long queues, server problems, and maintenance work don’t seem to dampen the hype. Amazon is proud to announce that within 24 hours, more than 1.3 million people – sometimes even in parallel – stormed the servers of the free-to-play title Lost Ark and made the “most successful appearance of all time” on Twitch.

However, it is not known how many players have actually been able to take their first steps in the game world. He probably spends much of his time not in the game, but in the queues. On Sunday afternoon alone, newcomers had to wait up to eight hours before they could visit the popular, unofficial German server “Asta”.

Those who have overcome the queues have faced new problems in recent days. The sometimes important in-game shop was unavailable for a long time and the group search system also collapsed under the influx of players. Even before the free-to-play start on Friday, Amazon tried to contain the problems with lengthy maintenance work (duration approx. 11 hours), the creation of new servers, and the short-term shutdown of entire servers – so far with rather moderate success. . Entering Lost Ark can be an ordeal, especially for gamers after work. Creating new servers rather than increasing the capacity of existing servers was Amazon’s approach to launching New World.

Now the publisher is going a step further and, in addition to new servers, is even announcing the introduction of an entirely new European region in addition to the one for Central Europe. The problem: if you choose the new region, which will probably be empty at first, you won’t be able to play with your friends on the current “Central Europe” servers. In times of extensible cloud servers, the know-how of Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the Lost Ark divided into many “channels”, players are disappointed with this move. The positive: The game rarely crashes, unlike the latest Amazon MMO New World.