Lost Ark players from Australia and New Zealand are begging Amazon for Oceania servers
Lost Ark players from Australia and New Zealand are flocking to the game's official forums to ask Amazon for region-specific servers, citing latency issues and long server queues.
Requests for an Oceania server region began back in November 2021, several months before Lost Ark's global launch. In a thread title «Please Reconsider Oceania Servers» user ooglydit wrote «While I'm very thankful for the work that AGS have put into having the region-lock removed for Australia & New Zealand, having a dedicated server for our region would go leaps and bounds toward making the game more enjoyable for us.» The main reason behind the request was concerns over high ping when connecting to more distant servers. «As it stands, if our only options are NA/EU, we're looking at either -250 ping to NA or -300 ping to EU.»
It appears that ooglydit's concerns were well-founded. As of writing, the request for Oceania servers is the top post on the Lost Ark forums, with over 3,000 respondents adding to the call for a region-specific server, and that number is growing.
As players feared, high ping caused by connecting to distant servers is impacting the experience. «I can tell I'm missing out on the satisfaction of my abilities: as the delay between animation and impact/result puts a dampen [sic] on the whole thing,» writes user Poppleop. Meanwhile, Rigeth notes that high ping puts Oceania players at a disadvantage during PvP. «It's also more common for most Australians to sit around 203ms, so when we enter PVP and are up against someone with 18ms or even better we will usually lose 1v1», they point out.
Latency issues aren't the only reason players are calling out for Oceania servers. Without local servers, players are having to join the
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