Misplaced Ark says goodbye to separate server areas in Europe

Misplaced Ark has been globally obtainable for a superb whereas now, regardless of its preliminary launch having been unique to South Korea. Smilegate’s MMO has since come far within the West, with a whole bunch of hundreds of gamers logging in every day to the legendary Arkesia. The western model of Misplaced Ark is cut up into 5 areas that host servers at the moment, however Smilegate has plans to vary that. The builders have simply introduced their plan to merge the European servers into one which can make simply 4 western areas.

The merge is ready to happen “later this summer time” with no specified date except for August simply but. Europe West might be folded into Europe Central, as Smilegate wrote “gamers have been requesting area merges, and our groups at Amazon Video games and Smilegate RPG are at the moment constructing the elements to make this occur.” The devs acknowledged the wrestle gamers on servers with low populations face, writing, “After the August area merge, we’ll start figuring out servers in want of a merge.”

Smilegate did specify that they “don’t have some other area merges deliberate” simply but, although, as they need to take attainable penalties into consideration. The devs wrote, “Whereas we’ve seen suggestions that some gamers in South America would really like us to think about a merge, merging South America into North America might create a suboptimal participant expertise on account of elevated latency.”

Despite the fact that the studio has no plans to merge different servers simply but, devs acknowledged that they “will proceed to observe and search for methods to enhance the participant expertise.” You possibly can learn the official discover right here for Smilegate’s full particulars on the merge, the place devs additionally specified, “As we transfer towards the area merge our staff is working to establish the complete coverage, much like the plan we launched over the last spherical of server merges.”

If you wish to learn extra concerning the sport, you’ll want to try Misplaced Ark’s latest class or take a look at different new MMOs to play if you’re a fan of the net expertise it gives. It’s also possible to flick thru a few of our favourite PC video games if you wish to step exterior of the MMO style for some time.