Team Update - Bringing Balance Updates to the West
November 24, 2023
| Updates
When bringing updates to Arkesia’s western shores from Smilegate RPG, there’s a lot that factors into our decisions and process. With the highly sought-after balance changes that recently released in Korea, we wanted to let players know we hear their feedback and give a look into our process.
Team Update - Bringing Balance Updates to the West
November 24, 2023
| Updates
When bringing updates to Arkesia’s western shores from Smilegate RPG, there’s a lot that factors into our decisions and process. With the highly sought-after balance changes that recently released in Korea, we wanted to let players know we hear their feedback and give a look into our process.
Team Update - Recent Ban Waves
March 25, 2025
| General
We wanted to take a moment to discuss recent ban waves, publicly share some updated plans related to one of the core tenets of the Amazon Games Code of Conduct— Play Fair. Specifically, we want to discuss the ban waves, and provide a few policy reminders related to RMT and botting behavior.
Team Update - Recent Ban Waves
March 25, 2025
| General
We wanted to take a moment to discuss recent ban waves, publicly share some updated plans related to one of the core tenets of the Amazon Games Code of Conduct— Play Fair. Specifically, we want to discuss the ban waves, and provide a few policy reminders related to RMT and botting behavior.
Team Update: Combating RMT
February 16, 2024
| Updates
Combating bots and player-to-player real money transactions (RMT) is a key focus of our team. While we can’t share all of the measures that our team is taking, we wanted to reiterate our policies.
Team Update: Combating RMT
February 16, 2024
| Updates
Combating bots and player-to-player real money transactions (RMT) is a key focus of our team. While we can’t share all of the measures that our team is taking, we wanted to reiterate our policies.
Team Update & June - July Roadmap
June 1, 2022
| Updates
Members of our team joined Smilegate RPG in South Korea last week to look at the roadmap, improve tools and processes, fight the war on bots together, and more as we continue our collaboration. Coming out of those meetings, we have a few topics we’d like to discuss before sharing a sneak peek at the June and July roadmap.
Team Update & June - July Roadmap
June 1, 2022
| Updates
Members of our team joined Smilegate RPG in South Korea last week to look at the roadmap, improve tools and processes, fight the war on bots together, and more as we continue our collaboration. Coming out of those meetings, we have a few topics we’d like to discuss before sharing a sneak peek at the June and July roadmap.
Lost Ark September Team Update
September 7, 2021
| Updates
We know that players are eagerly awaiting Beta and launch—and we’re excited to embark on those adventures alongside you. In the meantime, we wanted to share some insight on what it takes to publish a game with the scale of Lost Ark in new regions. Though things may feel a bit quiet, they certainly aren’t behind the scenes. Here’s a look at some of the things we’ve been up to.
Lost Ark September Team Update
September 7, 2021
| Updates
We know that players are eagerly awaiting Beta and launch—and we’re excited to embark on those adventures alongside you. In the meantime, we wanted to share some insight on what it takes to publish a game with the scale of Lost Ark in new regions. Though things may feel a bit quiet, they certainly aren’t behind the scenes. Here’s a look at some of the things we’ve been up to.
November Team Update: New Countries Added
November 1, 2021
| Updates
To ensure that this beloved game can be enjoyed by more players, we’ve collaborated with Smilegate RPG to add Estonia, Latin America, and Oceania (for a total of 34 new countries) to the list of regions that will have access to Closed Beta and at launch in early 2022.
November Team Update: New Countries Added
November 1, 2021
| Updates
To ensure that this beloved game can be enjoyed by more players, we’ve collaborated with Smilegate RPG to add Estonia, Latin America, and Oceania (for a total of 34 new countries) to the list of regions that will have access to Closed Beta and at launch in early 2022.
Team Update - Upcoming Events & Policies
February 17, 2025
| Updates
We have seen a lot of community discussion over the past few months and wanted to take a moment to clarify our stance on bussing related topics and some policy adjustments.
Team Update - Upcoming Events & Policies
February 17, 2025
| Updates
We have seen a lot of community discussion over the past few months and wanted to take a moment to clarify our stance on bussing related topics and some policy adjustments.
Team Update - 2024 Summer Roadmap Changes
June 12, 2024
| Updates
We’re excited to share a roadmap update with new content arriving in July, September, and later this year in 2024, with new raids, activities, adventures, and Tier 4, the next evolution of Lost Ark’s endgame.
Team Update - 2024 Summer Roadmap Changes
June 12, 2024
| Updates
We’re excited to share a roadmap update with new content arriving in July, September, and later this year in 2024, with new raids, activities, adventures, and Tier 4, the next evolution of Lost Ark’s endgame.
Team Update: Founder's Packs & Server Status
February 10, 2022
| Updates
During the Head Start period for Lost Ark, a massive number of heroes arrived in Arkesia. While we are thrilled to have so many players joining us, we also recognize that this has brought about large queues on our more popular servers. Learn about the steps we're taking ahead of the full launch here, including granting additional Founder's pack sets and new servers.
Team Update: Founder's Packs & Server Status
February 10, 2022
| Updates
During the Head Start period for Lost Ark, a massive number of heroes arrived in Arkesia. While we are thrilled to have so many players joining us, we also recognize that this has brought about large queues on our more popular servers. Learn about the steps we're taking ahead of the full launch here, including granting additional Founder's pack sets and new servers.