Dear Lost Ark Team,
before coming here to post about my own take on things I red through to some of the topics considering the new EU Region and I’d like to give my own take on things.
First and foremost I want to outline that passion/commitment for a game and the need to share a new game experience with your friends should never be contradicting interestests and I’d like to invite you guys to view this as statement as one which is rooted in the passion for the game and the will to be able to unite with friends without losing any progress/money.
New servers are good and nice but they do not solve any Issue for those “stuck” without their friends on a Founder’s only server who have been locked prior to the games release.
I understand the necessity of locking servers to maintain playability, but we need an open backdoor to further decrease server overload on said servers (to also relief queues/unlock them) and enable players who have already invested 100 hours into the game to be able to join their friends on “f2p servers” without losing their progress in the process.
Therefore compensations etc. are not good enough since they do not give you back your playtime nor allow you to make up for the attachment to the character you first journeyed through Arkesia with.
Character Transfer will solve both problems at once:
Aside from improving playability on locked servers by enabling character transfers you will also reunite Founders who suffer from their friendbase being fragmented/divided amongst servers.
It is such a pain and given the chance, I’d instantly server transfer alongside my other Founder friends to the rest of our group who are f2p on another server.
We wouldn’t even bother to migrate on an entirely new realm if that’s what’s needed.
This will also help evenly distribute the population amongst servers.
As mentioned earlier the passion for a game and the urge to enjoy it with your friends should never be contradicting interests - especially when caused by paying money to support the game caused you to end up in this messed up situation.
Currently every Founder is forced into a situation where they are punished in an either or scenario just for being a paying supporter of the game.
We Founders shouldn’t be forced to decide between our money and progress OR our friends nor should we be forced to play on a 20k queue server.
The only fix I can think of is the possbility to character transfer.
On a personal note: I cannot fathom how the fragmented “f2p” and “Founder” situation has not been adressed at all yet, considering this is an MMO and as such should serve/incetivice friendships and not rip them apart.
I mean, no one would’ve advertised Founder’s packs like:
“Buy Founder’s pack now for 15-100€ and experience Arkesia without any of your friends who are to cheap to buy it.”
So please forum mods, give us insight if these concerns are pushed towards the team/devs and if they are planning to do something about it or are even aware of it.
Transparency is key.
Respectfully, Zeliya