Lost Ark News

Amazon Game Studios and Smilegate have released a statement in response to Lost Ark players’ concerns that they’re rushing the release of endgame content. These concerns arose following the release of the Hunt for the Guardian Slayer update last week which featured the new Argos Abyss Raid that apparently only a handful of players could beat. “We never wanted players [...]

Amazon Game Studios and Smilegate rolled out a small hotfix last night to address several issues with tornado spawns, potion trading, controller supports, and localization. The team also fixed the event timers that were thrown off because of the recent adjustment to Daylight Savings Time. Players are advised to have DST enabled on their machines for the time to appear [...]

Amazon Game Studios has updated the list of known issues in Lost Ark following the release of the big Hunt for the Guardian Slayer update earlier this week. On top of the list is the issue of botting which the team has been working to address over the past few weeks. Last week, saw the banning of over a million [...]

Lost Ark’s big March update, which was announced last week, is now live with a whole host of new endgame content for the recently-released fantasy MMORPG. Dubbed Hunt for the Guardian Slayer, the update comes with a new storyline, two new islands to explore, new quests to complete, and a challenging new raid for players to take on. “Experience a [...]

One complaint that western players generally have towards Asian-made MMORPG is gender-locked class and Lost Ark is no different. Fortunately, Smilegate has come up with a compromise with the addition of advanced classes, which gives players the option to switch to a different gender further down the road. The Gunner, for example, starts out as male but can then advance [...]

Since its global launch on February 11, 2022, Lost Ark has surpassed 20 million users globally and peaked at 1.32 million concurrent players. While the concurrent numbers are down from its peak, the game averaged 680,000 or so players online on Steam, which regularly makes it one of the most played games on the platform. “Overall, the excitement surrounding Lost [...]

Botting has been a thorn on developers’ sides since time immemorial. Unfortunately, some players never learn that the practice will not be tolerated, especially in newly-released MMOs like Lost Ark. Amazon Games Studios reports that they’ve banned over a million accounts that have been found to be engaging in the illicit activity as of Friday. “Maintaining a fair and fun [...]

Lost Ark is due for a massive update this month as part of Amazon Game Studio’s plans to bring the western version of the Korean fantasy MMORPG up to par or as close as they can to existing versions in other regions. The update will introduce the new Kadan storyline which will include the new Isteri and Illusion Bamboo islands, [...]

For those who missed it, Amazon Game Studios is bringing back Lost Ark Twitch drops for the entire weekend starting at 9:00 am PST today. “In an effort to end Legends of Lost Ark on a triumphant note and do right by the viewers, we are bringing back Tiers 1 through 4 of the Twitch Drops. Starting with Tier 1 [...]

Amazon Game Studios continues to struggle with overpopulation in Lost Ark’s Central European region even with the addition of a new EU West data center last week. The game’s feedback thread continues to be flooded with reports of overly-long queues as well as login and matchmaking problems. There’s also a megathread on Reddit where players continue to voice their frustrations. [...]