Popular MMO Lost Ark, which has now launched in the West courtesy of Amazon, has announced a plan to alleviate its struggling servers.
Lost Ark has shot to the top of Steam’s most-played charts and now holds the service’s second-largest concurrent player peak, of 1.23 million players.
But this popularity has also brought problems – meaning, server queues – and developer Smilegate has announced a somewhat unexpected solution.
Rather than simply adding more servers, Smilegate now plans to add an “entirely new region of servers in Europe”, which it says is necessary “due to the game’s architecture”.
“This is the only way to accommodate more players in Europe,” the developer wrote in a blog post last night, “so it’s a joint effort between Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG. Rest assured we are working 24/7 until it’s live.