New MMO hit claws impressive record

Amazon Games is really taking off: After New World had already blown a breath of fresh air in the MMO genre, the game publisher followed suit with another representative. Lost Ark snaps up one major achievement after another and is now ready to hit an impressive milestone on Steam.

Number 2 on Steam

While the action RPG Lost Ark was able to occupy the top sellers of the Steam gaming platform weeks before its official release – even though it is an F2P title – it is now doing so with one overwhelming number of players aware of oneself.

among the Top positions of the most played games mostly the same perennial favorites like CS:GO, PUBG and Dota. But there is currently a surprising change on the podium. At the current time there are over 566,000 players in the MMO from Amazon at the same time (source: SteamDB).

This puts it in second place behind CS:GO. But that’s not the actual milestone of Steam’s success: Lost Ark was able to achieve an all-time high on February 12th 1,325,305 million players set. With that, it drives long-time placeholders like Dota and CS:GO behind. Only PUBG is ahead of the MMO with over 3.2 million (source: SteamDB).

Lost Ark has a hype wave

Things seem to be going really well for Lost Ark at the moment as the register is ringing. The great popularity is certainly also due to the immense advertising on Twitch to have come about. A number of streamers play the action RPG up and down and also achieve considerable success there in terms of viewership:

But also them Criticism increases in the last few days since release on February 11th. Because the great rush on the servers seems to bring them to their knees. Players report on Steam about the queue simulator 2022. And especially the current and paid one Additional pack Vanquisher should cause problems (source: Steam, Steam)

The players criticize that the content offered for just under 65 euros is only character and not account-bound. In addition, many did not even receive their pack. Publisher Amazon Games and developer Smilegate still have to make some improvements.

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