Make the founders pack benefits account-wide, not server-wide, and open up new servers.
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Server transfers are not currently a regular feature in any version of the Lost Ark game client, so this is a bit trickier because of thatā¦ would definitely be great if possible, but at this time it may not be plausible
Thank you.
The thinking is that itās easier to do an early merge of half populated servers and push them to cap (as it is a F2P service ultimately, if not at this time) then to have overflowing servers.
Ok that changes everything, I must say that would mean the difference between a smooth headstart + launch vs what we are all foreseeing 
Anyway the queues and wait time are all expected I just canāt imagine the queues on Fridayā¦ it will be impossible to play in the most populated servers atm.
Any idea if servers are going to be locked on Friday? I mean Zinner is full, can it be blocked from new char creations?
Then itās of utmost importance that you guys lock the ābigā servers right now (Zinnervale, Kadan + Asta) to prevent further congestion. And open new servers on friday
i donāt know what you can do or not. but refund founders pack (just the contents not the money) for the people that arenāt being able to play so we can actually go to other serversā¦
Ye, I expected some waiting time, not 3 hours waiting time, but here we are, we can cry or we can offer suggestions.
Speaking of suggestions, @Roxx - there is no feature, but this is kind of a house on fire situation, can this be done through Admin portals manually? If so (while improbable for many reasons I Wonāt go into), it means that a website could be created. Example - amazons domain, but steam log in, choose existing server, choose a new server and the code copies the contents of the account to a new server. This has many reasons why it is improbable and i wonāt list them all even if i have time xD
Edit to not spam Roxx. Changing the founders packs to account wide instead of server bound is probably the easiest solution as there is no real easy solution.
are there plans to lock the highest pop servers, at least temporarily?
everyone knows that with the spreadsheets making the rounds (that you shared as well) people are going to flock to the largest servers.
Are you going to do something with people who stay afk crashing into a wall so as not to disconnect? Because that makes the tail almost not move in the end
That does not solve the problem of players not being able to play with friends and guildies that are yet to come, etc.
The only real option is double/triple the servers + allow some kind of transfers, as ultimately everyone wants to play with friends, if we all stay on Zinnervale and it is locked, it will not solve a problem for many
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yes this. in my guild thereās still people that want to join that didnāt buy early access. So yeah locking the servers will just cause more problems.
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There are 20-30k queues in multiple servers. You should have added more servers the moment you had the data from preorders.
How could you not be ready after having the math right in your database? You had the EXACT number of players and from the spreadsheet that was circulated you could ruffly estimate the number of players per server and act prior launch.
I know that opening servers or making the infrastructure isnāt one click job BUT you are amazon for gods sake. You own one of the biggest server provider and you failed twice now ( see New World).
We paid upfront for a head start and we have to wait 4-5 hours in queue to play. That is just not acceptable.
FIX THIS YESTERDAY.
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Another day, another many hours of queue waiting for ~1 hour of play because, well, weāre not all available to play 24/7.
So we basically payed for a wait screen, missing content and censorship 
How is this even happening on AWS? I meanā¦ Come onā¦ You had the sales numbersā¦ you had the betasā¦
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I donāt understand why modern games donāt just go with a single sharded server. SWTORās did this ages ago after the same launch problems, yet nobody ever learns from it. You already instance the areas and names are locked region wide, so this would be fine.
Amazon sell AWS boasting about how it scales to the needs of your user, so you never pay for more resources than you need at any given time. So why not use this for Lost Ark? (Even more baffling why New World, their own game did not use it, but that is not for this forum).
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I hope we can transfer our pack to an another server. I donāt want to be locked in a German speaking server, when I donāt even understand the language. I just want to change server without losing my money.
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I bet there are some technical limitations game-side. Having amazing servers and infrastructure is one, and game being able to use it is another.
Limiting server registration could fix this. Just lock the server for a few days so that you force people to register in less populated ones.
Easy fix. Free of charge advice for them 
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They have already said that they do not plan to put the migrations, possibly in the future they will do it but come on I do not think it is something in the short term
So true. That is why also i am not moving to low pop server now since it will be impossible to play on it from friday alsoā¦