Like come on Amazon how can you screw this part up? Did you think you were running an MMO for 10 People? How did you not know you were going to double dip on people for every character they made?
People would of survived or even been happy if you at least let them have their skins, etc account wide, but instead it’s backwards to the point that Character transfer would be the answer but in 2022 we don’t have the technology for it!
No is the answer to your questions. It sucks hard.
If the main goal was to play with friends and you’ve already made too much progress/spent too much money, then just tell your friends to not play this game.
There is some matchmaking but most of the community gameplay like guilds, open world, pvp queues are now inaccessible because you paid money.
Nice text 
But well… Amazon can clone half a datacentre in a day… but transfer no gaming server contents
Better idea: Tell your friends you paid money to avoid playing with them!
Amazon is a relatively new cloud provider. Give them time to mature. As for the game service, they should support this feature and why they don’t is beyond me. Almost seems like a money grab or something… screw the customer
This is a joke, cant be real. I paid and cant join my friends server. And the best joke is that steam cant let us refund…
If it was a money grab, they’d add this feature. it’s quite stupid to not allow it, because transfers is a good stream of source of revenue for basically doing nothing but goodwill to players.
It sounds as if you won’t be able to transfer your current character/s to a new server where your friends are… BUT they are offering a compensation package based on whichever Founders Pack you own, with the skins and mounts (if platinum) and you can use that on a new character on the new server.
Fun fact none of us asked them to close servers… I play at random time so i m not affected by queues anyway and even my friends are like: “if there’s 1h queue it’s fine, it’s only for the first few weeks anyway”
Definitely last game where amazone does something i play… New World as devs they fucked up hard and now as publisher they start to fuck up in the same way… i really thought they would manage to come back with New World but how can you start to fuck up with Lost Ark man… ton of content, a success for many years now… just HOW lol
One single job: open enough servers, rework cash shop for Western players, try to split servers by language (hard to put EN ES DE FR in front of random servers name), make packs account wide and no server lock (or even character lock for few things) AND THATS IT lets players wait in 15 hours queue they’ll eventually switch servers on their own losing nothing except a bit of time.
Definitely not hard at all man… but amazone they are new on the market and without any funds, man some small companies manage their games better than them with not even 1/10 of their budget…