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Lost Ark has broken i million concurrent players on Steam, becoming but the fifth game to hit the milestone on Valve's PC gaming platform. Considering the game has only just become gratis-to-play as of belatedly February 11, 2022, it'due south an incredibly impressive feat for the Smilegate developed and Amazon Games published Online RPG.

Benji-Sales took to Twitter to break the news of the game'south ludicrous concurrent players meridian breaking ane million. As Benji says, it's "un-freakin-conceivable." People really were waiting up until the last minute to download and play the game every bit before long as it became free-to-play.

What'due south more, Lost Ark has already shifted 1.5 million Founder'southward Packs. The game is doing mad numbers, even with some launching issues and the game declining to download for some players. Ane million concurrent players might not be the summit, either, Lost Ark could continue its up trajectory given its popularity upon its delayed complimentary-to-play launch.

Any new players heading in could crusade some server problems with overload and create some moments of reanimation. The official Lost Ark Twitter account is your best of finding out when and for how long said server downtime volition be. Time will tell just how enduring the popularity of Lost Ark will be, but for now, information technology is a major success for Amazon Games and Smilegate.