We definitely hear and understand the requests for a server transfer feature, and agree it is extremely important. However, as the feature does not currently permanently exist in any version of Lost Ark, this is not something we have the ability to implement immediately and will have to work through possibilities for with Smilegate RPG.
I definitely understand that it is not ideal to not be able to join a friend’s server. We have more details to share on our plan to deal with queues that will be available later today, that we hope will help folks further.
It is important to keep in mind that servers are experiencing queues 6 - 8 hours during our paid launch – when the game goes free-to-play tomorrow, allowing players to continue to create characters on these servers would only create substantially larger queues on highly populated servers, which will prevent many, many more players from being able to get in game and effectively locking even more players out of the server (including those who have already been playing on it).
There are literally over 1.5 million of you and Founder’s Packs aren’t off sale yet, so also potentially a problem…
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