news tip Lost Ark: be careful what name you book, you may well regret your choice!
Name reservation is a well-known practice in the MMORPG world, and while it works for most games, it doesn’t seem to be the case for Lost Ark. We explain why, and we offer you a solution.
An MMO that makes you want
Lost Ark, the very popular MMORPG in Korea, finally arrives in Europe on February 11th. The game signed Tripod Studio immerses you in the world of Archésia, 500 years after The Great War which opposed the seven sidereals of King Luteran to Kazéros and his demons. You begin the adventure as a new war is brewing: the volcano in which Kazéros is imprisoned threatens to erupt. In Lost Ark, you will have the choice between 5 classes : Assassin, Warrior, Mage, Martialist, and Sniper. Each class has different fighting styles for maximum customization according to your style of play.
While the Korean version of the game has no less than 22 subclasses, the Western version will only be entitled to 15 of them at launch. You can find the details of these on our page dedicated to the classes and archetypes of Lost Ark. However, the developers suggest that the rest of the classes might be added over time, which is both good and bad news, because there is a catch: If you were going to create a boat character to reserve a name and delete it once the desired class was added to the game, you may run into a problem.
To book or not to book, that is the question
If you’ve ever played an MMORPG, you probably know that some players reserve names when creating characters that they later delete once the expected class is added to the game. This allows them to release the name and use it during a new character creation. For example, the Summoner subclass was announced as available in the European version of Lost Ark, but it will ultimately not be part of the launch roster. Players who were counting on this class therefore thought of saving names for future Summoners, but it seems that this is not possible in Lost Ark.
The developers explained that this technique will not be valid for Lost Ark, simply because names are not released automatically after characters are deleted. The system is such that it is necessary to engage a manual reset to unblock names, and the frequency of these operations is not yet publicly known. So there’s no need to rely on name reservations for future classes in Lost Ark, and the best names will likely go to the fastest players.
A way around this problem would be to create a character of the desired archetype without selecting its subclass, but this solution is not without drawbacks: you won’t be able to change your character’s appearance or voice once the desired class is available. Right now, it’s up to you whether you’d rather sacrifice the name or your character customization.
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Through moonera, Writing jeuxvideo.com
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