Lost Ark News

Debate Club Episode 5

We’re back with your host Roxx and debaters Grenton, Bobajenny, Stoopzz, and DatModz with episode 5 of the Lost Ark Academy Debate Club. This episode’s warmup debate topic is: Who is better to dance with; Nia or Shana? For our 1v1 debate, Bobajenny and DatModz have the topic of: Which class spends the most time on floor?

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Head over to YouTube and let us know who you think is not a Mokoko in the comments. We’ll see you next week for Episode 6!

Lost Ark responds to controversial video, makes backlash worse

While Amazon has promised that Lost Ark will continue to thrive in 2023, a recent broadcast from the MMORPG's creators has fallen flat, accruing over 13k dislikes on YouTube. In response the developers have released a second "emergency" Lost Ark Online, discussing the features fans felt were missing from the first announcement - and it has been met with a similar response.

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2023 Summer Update Player Gift

Heroes of Arkesia,

To accompany the 2023 Summer Update and celebrate all the players of Lost Ark in our global community, our teams at Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG are excited to share the following gift!

Special Animal Skin Selection Chest
Bunny Skin Selection Chest
Beetle Mount Selection Chest
Ancient Platinum Coin x100
Collective Battle Item Chest x10
Menelik's Tome x5
A Special Legendary Card Selection Chest (that contains Kadan and Thaemine)
Magick Society Special Dye Chest x10
Lvl 5 Tripod Wishful Amulet
Lvl 4 Tripod Hope Amulet x5
Pheon x100

The gift will be available as a first-time log-in bonus after the weekly maintenance on 6/28. If you haven’t taken a look at the 2023 Summer Update, check it out for a more in-depth look at July and August. You’ll find an update on the progression updates intended to help all adventurers in Arkesia, especially those new to Lost Ark or returning after some time away.

Thank you for your continued support! We’ll see you in Arkesia.

Lost Ark says goodbye to separate server regions in Europe

Lost Ark has been globally available for a good while now, despite its initial release having been exclusive to South Korea. Smilegate's MMO has since come far in the West, with hundreds of thousands of players logging in each day to the mythical Arkesia. The western version of Lost Ark is split into five regions that host servers currently, but Smilegate has plans to change that. The developers have just announced their plan to merge the European servers into one which will make just four western regions.

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Region Merge Notice

Heroes of Arkesia,

Later this summer we plan to conduct a region merge to fold Europe West into Europe Central. We know players have been requesting region merges, and our teams at Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG are currently building the components to make this happen.

At this time, we don’t have any other region merges planned. While we have seen feedback that some players in South America would like us to consider a merge, merging South America into North America could create a suboptimal player experience due to increased latency. However, we will continue to monitor and look for ways to improve the player experience.

As we move toward the region merge our team is working to identify the full policy, similar to the plan we released during the last round of server merges. We’ll make sure to keep you updated and share the plan as soon as it’s finalized.

Similarly, we know that players on some lower population servers have been inquiring about server merges. After the August region merge, we will begin identifying servers in need of a merge. Stay tuned for information on region and server merges. In the meantime, we’ll see you in Arkesia.