Suffering from success is becoming one of Lost Ark’s specialties, as is evident by the myriad of login queue issues players are still dealing with more than a week after launch. Many were hoping Amazon would allow proper server transfer options for characters, but that functionality probably will not come anytime soon.
“We definitely hear the request for server transfer functionality and have thoroughly investigated our options,” Amazon said on Lost Ark’s forum. “This instant functionality does not currently exist in Lost Ark. This service just rolled out in Korea and is a weekly batch process that requires maintenance to run. It also does not support cross-region functionality. Therefore, unfortunately, it is not a viable option at this point for the western version— but we will not rest until we’ve exhausted all options.”
We are aware of multiple issues continuing to be reported over the weekend and are working day and night with Smilegate RPG to get them addressed.
Update on the current top issues here.https://t.co/IStTye56q0
— Lost Ark (@playlostark) February 20, 2022
The problem for most fans is that moving to a new server means starting fresh and abandoning whatever characters they made before. You could redeem Founders Pack and Starter Pack rewards on another server for a bit, but that’s not a proper solution to the problems.
As the post notes, the Korean version recently implemented server transfers for Lost Ark, but who knows if that option will make it over to the west.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
