The new free-to-play ARPG MMO from Smilegate and Amazon Lost Ark was slated for release today at 12pm but faced a delay citing “deployment issues.”
Lost Ark is an extremely popular action-based isometric RPG MMO that originally launched in East Asia that is now in early head start in North America and Europe that looks similar to Diablo. When it first launched into head start, it garnered over half a million players on Steam and suffered a few growing pains.
Yesterday, the dev team announced that character creation on overloaded servers has capped character creation in order to deal with congestion, but some players might want to hop servers soon to the 15 new that are being added.
Starting today, one new US West server is being added, six in US East, six in Central Europe, and two in South America.
As of this morning, a mere fifteen minutes before the official launch was supposed to happen the team announced that another delay had happened, however, and players would have to wait a little bit longer to get in.
Once servers open, the extra server capacity should help take some of the weight off the initial rush that will come from the masses coming to check out the game. Especially after over 500,000 players bought their way into early access.
After going live (which happened fairly quickly after the delay) the launch went extremely smoothly for an MMO launch and the game has been going extremely well.
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