Lost Ark experienced a massive amount of success when it first launched in Europe and North America early last month, despite the game having a few teething problems early on. Now Lost Ark will receive an update that should fix one of the game’s more persistent problems.
After Lost Ark’s last weekly update, users that have spent less than five dollars on Steam will have their game accounts restricted. This means that they will no longer be able to initiate player-to-player trades, send in-game gifts, exchange Royal Crystals for gold, or even send in-game mail with attachments. Smilegate acknowledges that while this will likely not stop the game’s bot problem entirely, it should make a sizable difference.
Reducing the number of bots in the game will likely also solve another issue that it was experiencing. Smilegate noted last month that it would not increase Lost Ark’s European central server capacity This was a rather serious issue, as the game still does not have a way for players to transfer their progress to other servers, which means that they would have to start fresh on another server if their regular server is full.
Players still seem to be loving the title, as Lost Ark had over 500,000 players on Steam when its North American and European servers launched, and its player count has stayed relatively consistent ever since.
Lost Ark is available now on PC.
