{"id":505315,"date":"2025-11-17T08:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-steam-review-rating-slip-long-queues"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:41:40","slug":"lost-arks-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-review-rating-drops-to-mixed-because-of-long-server-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/lost-arks-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-review-rating-drops-to-mixed-because-of-long-server-queues\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Ark&#8217;s Overwhelmingly Positive Steam review rating drops to Mixed because of long server queues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lost-arks-overwhelmingly-positive-steam-review-rating-drops-to-mixed-because-of-long-server-queues.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a story as old as time itself: a popular game starts out with great user reviews on Steam, before things turn sour as players voice their dissatisfaction with one problem or another. <strong>Lost Ark<\/strong> is the latest example; showing an almost real-time reflection of Steam users&#8217; feelings on the MMO RPG.<\/p>\n<p>Lost Ark&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-steam-massive-concurrent-500-thousand-players-arpg-mmo\">early access launch<\/a> last week, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-devs-closely-monitoring-server-populations-and-queue-times-as-over-1-million-pour-into-the-game\">massive debut on Friday<\/a> and the subsequent weekend introduced millions of players to the game. Many of them were very satisfied with the wealth of content available, varied class selection, strong action gameplay, and multitude of activities beyond simple mob combat. This helped Lost Ark earn the coveted Overwhelmingly Positive review rating on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as the weekend went on and server queues became longer and longer &#8211; particularly in Europe &#8211; sentiment turned, and more negative reviews started appearing. Most players referenced the unnaturally long queue times, while others voiced their displeasure with the fact premium items included in the game&#8217;s starter packs are not account-wide, and instead get locked to the character where they got activated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-steam-review-rating-slip-long-queues\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/lost-ark-steam-review-rating-slip-long-queues\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a story as old as time itself: a popular game starts out with great user reviews on Steam, before things turn sour as players voice their dissatisfaction with one problem or another. Lost Ark is the latest example; showing an almost real-time reflection of Steam users&#8217; feelings on the MMO RPG. Lost Ark&#8217;s early access launch last week, its massive debut on Friday and the subsequent weekend introduced millions of players to the game. Many of them were very satisfied with the wealth of content available, varied class selection, strong action gameplay, and multitude of activities beyond simple mob combat. This helped Lost Ark earn the coveted Overwhelmingly Positive review rating on Steam. 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