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Lost Ark has broken one million concurrent players on Steam, condign only the fifth game to hit the milestone on Valve'due south PC gaming platform. Considering the game has simply simply go costless-to-play every bit of late February xi, 2022, information technology's an incredibly impressive feat for the Smilegate developed and Amazon Games published Online RPG.

Benji-Sales took to Twitter to suspension the news of the game's ludicrous concurrent players peak breaking one million. As Benji says, it'due south "un-freakin-believable." People really were waiting up until the last minute to download and play the game as soon as it became free-to-play.

What's more than, Lost Ark has already shifted 1.5 million Founder's Packs. The game is doing mad numbers, even with some launching bug and the game failing to download for some players. One 1000000 concurrent players might not be the peak, either, Lost Ark could continue its upward trajectory given its popularity upon its delayed free-to-play launch.

Any new players heading in could cause some server issues with overload and create some moments of downtime. The official Lost Ark Twitter account is your all-time of finding out when and for how long said server downtime will be. Time will tell just how enduring the popularity of Lost Ark will exist, but for at present, it is a major success for Amazon Games and Smilegate.