Lost Ark players on the European Central server were in for some rough news a couple of hours ago. Smilegate announced that they would no longer expand their servers in the region anymore.Since its release in the West, MMORPG has been plagued with some of the worst queue times. The game is incredibly popular, and players often wait behind thousands to get in. At times, many had to wait for over an hour until they were allowed entry.Lost Ark@playlostarkWe will be performing maintenance on the Europe Central Servers today at UTC 11 PM/00AM CET and expect the maintenance to last approximately 2 hours.Thank you very much for your patience.2:31 AM · Feb 21, 20223026117We will be performing maintenance on the Europe Central Servers today at UTC 11 PM/00AM CET and expect the maintenance to last approximately 2 hours.Thank you very much for your patience.European servers, especially EU Central, are the most populated, with the biggest queue time. The developers have announced that they will not be expanding the servers in the region. It is pretty frustrating for players who will have to go through an immeasurably long wait time or shift to a completely different server. Thus, leaving behind their already levelled-up characters.Lost Ark EU Central players are not happyNYKO@NYKO7_@playlostark 500k Silver and trash bonus login rewards wont convince people to leave their already leveled up characters and go to West EU region. If you cant give us char transfers from one region to other then atleast give people unique mount, skin or 30 days aura so more people will switch2:56 AM · Feb 21, 2022182@playlostark 500k Silver and trash bonus login rewards wont convince people to leave their already leveled up characters and go to West EU region. If you cant give us char transfers from one region to other then atleast give people unique mount, skin or 30 days aura so more people will switchIn a blog post regarding the decision, Smilegate stated,"We know that players are still experiencing long queues in Europe. The Europe Central region is at capacity and unfortunately, there is no way to increase the number of players per world in Europe Central. Adding more servers is not possible based on the complexity of all the systems that need to work together."They added,"We definitely hear the request for server transfer functionality and have thoroughly investigated our options. This instant functionality does not currently exist in Lost Ark. This service just rolled out in Korea and is a weekly batch process that requires maintenance to run. It also does not support cross-region functionality. Therefore, unfortunately, it is not a viable option at this point for the western version - but we will not rest until we've exhausted all options."While Smilegate is reasonably justified as to why they will not look to expand on the EU Central server, the players who boot up the game in that region aren’t too happy about it.Noah@bpmnoahnoire@NYKO7_ @playlostark You get the founders Pack. Also rewards and 500k didnt convince me to change, actually being able to play the game and working dungeons did. Played the whole week without any Q or Problems, now coming to Twitter and yeah EUC is a different World.4:11 AM · Feb 21, 2022@NYKO7_ @playlostark You get the founders Pack. Also rewards and 500k didnt convince me to change, actually being able to play the game and working dungeons did. 😂 Played the whole week without any Q or Problems, now coming to Twitter and yeah EUC is a different World.Lazoğlu 6️⃣1️⃣❤️💙 🇹🇷 🇦🇿@altancelep@jeburak_ @playlostark We come home from work, we say let's hang out for an hour after it's late. We can't enter the server is full. give my money back. You attempted a job you couldn't do3:16 AM · Feb 21, 20228@jeburak_ @playlostark We come home from work, we say let's hang out for an hour after it's late. We can't enter the server is full. give my money back. You attempted a job you couldn't do https://t.co/cJzCs9lENMSoloQuestAndy@QuestAndy@playlostark EU Central queues are just as bad as they have always been. The EU West region has done nothing to address this2:32 AM · Feb 21, 202255@playlostark EU Central queues are just as bad as they have always been. The EU West region has done nothing to address thisMoon boy 🌕@weakest_link_@playlostark I've been waiting on queue for 6 hours and you're gonna kick me now?3:51 AM · Feb 21, 20224@playlostark I've been waiting on queue for 6 hours and you're gonna kick me now?EDX@OfficialEDX@playlostark Bro, really? 12k queue still waiting at 1k and you do this?2:32 AM · Feb 21, 20221031@playlostark Bro, really? 12k queue still waiting at 1k and you do this?Jilien@Jilien91@playlostark Yep, amazing… so by the time I could actually get in, the servers will be down. This queue started at 15k btw. EU-Kadan GGs @playlostark @amazongames2:47 AM · Feb 21, 20225@playlostark Yep, amazing… so by the time I could actually get in, the servers will be down. This queue started at 15k btw. EU-Kadan GGs @playlostark @amazongames https://t.co/IBXbJ19NC6While the developers are looking to fix the server queue issue as much as possible, the community feels that their current efforts aren’t exactly bearing much fruit. Moving on to a less populated server is not the solution.