Lost Ark players who were excited to jump into the game after a long day of work were faced with disappointment this week, with a huge queue keeping players from connecting to their server. Players are reporting on Reddit and the official forums of queues lasting up to two hours, making it increasingly difficult to play the actual game.
As of this writing, the only post directly addressing the queue times blamed the issues on a mixture of bots and the reduced server capacity. Community Manager Roxx stated these issues will likely be addressed in the next maintenance (Likely regarding the weekly maintenance held on Thursday, despite issues cropping up much earlier.)