Lost Ark surpasses 20 million players globally
The inexplicable success story that is Lost Ark continues as yet another massive milestone is shattered.
On Monday, Amazon Games and Smilegate announced that Lost Ark has seen more than 20 million global users. The monstrously successful western launch alone brought in an additional 4.7 million players in addition to the regions where action MMORPG was already live.
“Overall, the excitement surrounding Lost Ark from around the world is quickly gaining steam, as evidenced by the growing number of global players,” Christoph Hartmann, VP of Amazon Games, said in a press release. “Together with Smilegate, we are committed to supporting the growing community with a robust roadmap of updates in the years to come.”
With that success has come growing pains, though. Server congestion was so bad during release week that login queue memes were all over social media at the time. Amazon Games was quick about getting another slew of servers up for the European region, which seems to have mostly fixed the issues.
It’s always hard to tell when an MMORPG has legs on top of an initial player boom, but Lost Ark already has heaps of content coming from the original Korean version, which western fans will begin seeing soon.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.