The post, which has been shared on the official Lost Ark website, provides a very clear round-up on what is in the works for the game, detailing certain key changes. The majority of the post focuses on the game’s progression and future updates, where they detail that even though players have been pacing through the tier 1 and 2 content, this has had an unfortunate side effect. The March update, which saw the release of the Abyss Raid Argos, required an item level that only those with a lot of spare time, energy, and money could reach, affecting the health of the game and leading to the scarcity of tier 3 honing materials.

Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG note that they have been actively monitoring and gathering data on play patterns in the western version, and that in the future, they will inform their players about future content roadmaps in a better way.

Additionally, they also admitted that even though the community wants new cosmetics skins and advanced classes very enthusiastically, bringing that stuff in is a tad bit tricky. However, they have been releasing them at a quicker pace compared to Korea, and are keeping an eye on feedback. For new classes, the team assured that they will be added at a faster pace, with new options coming soon.

Furthermore, to fix the shortages of tier three materials in the game, which is made worse by bots inflating the prices and increasing barriers to the endgame content, the team is adding additional sources of materials through pre-existing sources, new events, and a new event guardian raid, which is meant to be a more relaxed experience.

Finally, as a thank you to all the players who have stuck with the game since its launch, the developers are dropping in some free items for players who log in during the week of March 21, in the form of a care package that will include the following

LOST ARK, MARCH 21 CARE PACKAGE GOODIES

• New Animal Skin Selection Chest
• Mokokon Pet Selection Chest
• Moko-board Mount Selection Chest
• Lost Ark United Structure
• Appearance Change Ticket
• Pheons x132
• Menelik’s Tome x5
• Legendary Card Pack Selection Chest x2
• Jukebox songs will be provided when Jukebox content is released in the future.

It is refreshing to see a developer admitting to their game’s shortcomings post-launch, and committing to addressing those issues and being transparent about it. Of course, they now have to put their money where their mouth is, so here’s hoping we see that soon.

Of that total, more than 10 million are from North America, Europe, South America and Australia. Over 4.7 million new players were reported in the first three days, which certainly explains the initially intense server load. How things are now would depend on your server region of choice.

As for what’s coming next, the developer revealed on Twitter that it was making adjustments to its upcoming roadmap based on progression data from players. It apologized for the delay and said it would share the updated roadmap after the March update. So stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks.

Please be aware we are currently making adjustments to our upcoming content roadmap based on player progression data. We will be sharing an updated roadmap following our March update.

We apologize for the delay and appreciate your patience.

— Lost Ark (@playlostark) March 7, 2022

Set in Arkesia, Lost Ark starts out with the fantasy realm enjoying several hundreds of years of peace after a war against Kazeros’ forces of Chaos. However, the latter hasn’t been vanquished and is currently imprisoned inside of a volcano which is set to erupt. The player thus embarks on their journey to stop Chaos from overtaking the world.

Though it’s an MMO through and through with raids and player housing, Lost Ark features top-down hack and slash combat reminiscent of Diablo. It’s currently available only for PC with Amazon Game Studios handling the worldwide release. Time will tell if it becomes even more popular so stay tuned.