Lost Ark News

Lost Ark will be getting new faction-based PvP content later this month that will pit players against each other in realm vs. realm battles. “Sylmael Crystals once made Rowen a prosperous continent. Now, that same precious resource only brings pandemonium. The war-torn land is divided into two conflicting Factions — Preigelli and Liebertane. The machine-loving mercenaries of Preigelli fight for [...]

Amazon Game Studio is implementing additional measures to combat botting, real-money trading, and scams with tomorrow’s update. As part of the new anti-bot measures, players who have yet to reach Item Level 1375 on at least one character in their account will no longer be able to sell trade skill materials in the market. The new trading restrictions should not [...]

“Rubber ducky you’re the one, you make Lost Ark lots of fun,” would probably be a great theme song for the fantasy MMORPG’s first anniversary event. The event goes live today featuring a mini-game that sends players to the Hot Springs to collect rubber duckies by bopping other players on the head with giant ducky hammers. “In the competition, two [...]

Amazon Game Studios has updated its Lost Ark 2023 development roadmap and dropped some good news for players waiting for a new class to arrive. The Artist class and her massive brush will be making her in-game debut in March instead of April as development finishes ahead of schedule and will be arriving alongside the new powerpass and progression event. [...]

Amazon and Smilegate is getting the hype train rolling for Lost Ark’s first birthday with a goofy, new live action trailer, as most live action trailers tend to be. The Korean MMORPG won’t be celebrating its birthday for a few weeks yet but its always good to get the ball rolling early. The trailer in question revolves around a group [...]

Last week, Amazon Game Studios banned hundreds of thousands of Lost Ark accounts for botting in what might be the biggest banwave since the game’s global launch last year. Around two-thirds of the game’s population ended up with permanent bans, which unfortunately also included legitimate but inactive accounts. Amazon was quick to acknowledge the false bans and immediately started working [...]

Last week, Amazon Game Studios dropped the banhammer on Lost Ark botters which hit two-thirds of the MMORPG’s population. Apparently, there were a lot of collateral damages as the studio began receiving a flood of complaints from legitimate players who were inadvertently hit by the massive banwave. “We’re getting a ton of posts from people that have not played the [...]

Amazon Game Studios’ continues its never-ending crusade against botters in Lost Ark with another massive banwave that wiped out more than two-thirds of the MMORPG’s population. According to the studio, the sudden drop in player numbers is the direct result of new and highly effective measures that it’s deployed to target and remove bots from the game. “Players should expect [...]

If you’ve been eagerly waiting on the Lost Ark x The Witcher crossover event, you’ll only have to wait a week longer until you’ll be able to pay Geralt and the rest of the crew a visit. This is going to happen by way of an interdimensional vortex that will transport players to a mysterious new island where you’ll get [...]

To celebrate the holidays, Amazon Game Studios and Smilegate gave out special gift bundles to Lost Ark players which contained various in-game goodies. Unfortunately, one of the items in the bundle didn’t quite meet the community’s expectations which prompted the devs to dole out more freebies. Apparently, players haven’t heard of the expression to never look a gift horse in [...]