Lost Ark, the brilliant action MMORPG that took the industry by storm earlier this month reaching upwards of a million concurrent players on Steam is showing no sign of losing momentum as time goes on. While this is obviously great news for the player base as a whole, those playing on EU servers are still suffering through substantial server issues almost two weeks since launch.
This issue has been addressed on multiple occasions by the developers at Smilegate. Through server maintenance updates packing stability fixes, alongside the opening of a brand new EU West server region, attempts to lessen the strain of the EU Central servers have been numerous.
However, while these efforts have surely helped contain the growing pains as new adventures start piling into the game day after day, they’ve done little to drain the EU Central server of its bloated population problems. The blame can be placed primarily on a sort of sunk cost fallacy on the part of the players here, and it’s hard to blame them…