You can still start playing the game right now
This means that, although Lost Ark is playable in South Korea and other regions for quite some time but those in the West who purchased a pre-order one of the Lost Ark Founder's Pack on Steam were also able to Lost Ark Boosting play the game today (February 8). You can still start playing the game right now in the event you choose to purchase an Founder's Pack for the MMO through Steam (each of which comes with a variety of rewards in the game as well being early access to the title).
What happens if you do not want to spend money on an Lost Ark Founder's Pack and would rather just dive right into the game once it's out of Early Access and becomes a publically available free-to-play title? The good news will be that soon you'll get an opportunity to do that.
Lost Ark is set to be released to the public via Steam as a free-to-play title on the 11th of February. You can download the game using Steam as of now (its download size is estimated around 70 GB) However, unless you're ready to purchase a Founder's Pack between now and the time of release, you'll need wait for the game to be fully free before being in a position to launch it.
For the launch time...well it's tricky. The ideal is that the version that is free to play Lost Ark will be available for download on February 11. Lost Ark will launch via Steam on February 11 at the following times:
9 AM PST
12 11:59 PM EST
5 PM GMT
6 PM CET
The reason why I'm saying "ideally" with regards to the release date for Lost Ark's free-to play is because we've already seen players struggling to join Lost Ark in time for its exact Early Access debut. With congested servers as well as a few technical issues, many fans found themselves waiting at least a little longer for the game to start. MMO. Because the game will be getting opened to a larger player base on Friday, it's possible that you'll have to buy Lost Ark Gold deal with similar issues on servers during the same time.