Doesn’t take a math wizard to figure out why this is the likely culprit.
Only major code difference between JP/RU/KR and the West is EAC
EAC has caused the game to chug while loading compared to every other client
EAC Offline disconnects have been an issues since release so minor code conflicts always existed
The problem hasn’t been fixed for weeks what is the one thing they’d be afraid to disable to solve the disconnect issues? The anti-cheat software
The solution to the issue is taking forever because the only fast solution is disable EAC integration with Lost Ark and that’s not happening. So we suffer while they try to solve it because the option they aren’t going to take is to not use the Free Ware Anti-Cheat EAC.
the issue is there is none tbh
most games have their own anticheat systems that are somewhat okay
every public one is garbanzo, it just so happens that eac is popular here
nprotect isnt any better and that one was the other popular public one
If you’re masochistic enough to still be playing this game daily I highly doubt that disconnecting from the occational raid/dungeon is going to drive you away
EAC is a Commercial Off the Shelf product. AGS pays them to use it. It isn’t developed specifically for them, and most likely not able to be adjusted to be more compatible. AGS has to code their system to fit EAC, and that isn’t always easy for a product that wasn’t built specifically for your code.
They can request for EAC to update the product, but unless they paid for their own version of EAC, which most companies try to avoid bc of the crazy amount of baselines they’d end up maintaining, this could be a slow process. That’s if EAC is even open to the idea.
AGS should prob implement their own anti-cheat. It’s pricey and means their team would be on the hook for patching and securing it. However, with the problems that EAC has caused over the last few months, it might be worth it.
I think it’d be foolish to say people visiting forums or watching streams are quitting in droves. Random guy X who only plays 3-5 hours a week and just wants to get their raid on once a week and can’t for weeks…now that’s a different person and those people won’t tolerate not being able to enjoy their 3-5 hours for very long.
Now that’d all be fine if the game didn’t rely on all those extra even casual people for the way the gearing system etc work. Lost ark like most player run economy / gearing games (where you have to buy your gear from an in game market you can’t get it as a drop) needs a certain number of players do the things you need are available.
We are already seeing some classes have a tough time building their toon due to a lack of availability losing some of those more casual people due to constant disconnects isn’t going to help.
ags could if they bought the game license, else they cant touch anything kinda without asking papa for permission
they only have publishing righs afaik
Yup, this is very true. I play gears 5 on PC and they also use EAC. A lot of players DC during a match. Some take forever to get back in because they’re using consoles. A lot of packet loss too. Some shots don’t even register. The game start to lag hard after 10 pm EST. It’s very unplayable.
We are playing with outdated Easy Anti cheat version. It is obviously causing multiple issues. The new version does NOT recognize the #580 certificate of a 2 year old game client that has been MODIFIED now BY the DEVELOPER to add the new features. Including new Map UI, Tripod system and so on.
Secondly - EAC sucks and is lacking bandwidth to their servers during peak hours. Nothing new there.
Third… BOTS are doing everything possible now to find ways to cheat the game including DOS attacks.
They could also contract it out to an external Dev team and pay them to update the software for security vulnerabilities as needed and functionality uodates a specific number of times per year.
