Lost Ark(opens in new Tab) gamers Lost Ark Gold who are from Australia as well as New Zealand are flocking to the official forums for the game for a chance to ask Amazon for region-specific servers, citing latency issues and lengthy queues for servers.

Inquiries for the Oceania server started in November 2021, a few months before Lost Ark's global launch. In a post titled "Please reconsider Oceania Servers"(opens in new tab) user ooglydit wrote "While I'm very grateful for the efforts that AGS have done to get the region-lock lifted for Australia and New Zealand, having a dedicated server to our region would go in leaps and bounds in making playing more exciting for us." The reason for this request was concerns over high speeds when connecting to distant servers. "As as of now when our only options are EU/NA, we're thinking of either -250 to NA or -300 ping for EU."

It appears that Ooglydit's concerns were well-founded. In the moment the article, the demand of Oceania servers is the most popular message on the Lost Ark forums, with over 3,000 players responding to the call for a specific server for each region, and the number is growing.As players are concerned, the high rate of ping from connecting to servers that are far away is affecting the experience. "I notice that I'm not enjoying the joy of my talents by the delay that occurs between the animation and the impact/result places the brakes on the whole experience," writes user Poppleop. Rigeth, on the other hand, points out that high ping can put Oceania players at a disadvantage during PvP. "It's also more common for most Lost Ark Gold for sale Australians to stay around 203ms and so when we go into PVP against those with 18ms or better we will usually lose 1v1" The team points out.