It's Happening: Lost Ark Closed Beta Announced

After months of speculation it's finally happening. Lost Ark will be holding a closed beta on August 24th—hopefuls can sign-up starting August 3rd. The test will be limited to around 9000 users according to Steparu, and you have to be a South Korean resident to participate. But it's progress.

The beta doesn't come as too much of a surprise. The game is scheduled to be shown off at ChinaJoy and will likely make an appearence at G-Star 2016. Plus, the closed beta announcement arrives just after data sifters discovered an SLI profile for Lost Ark in an NVIDIA driver update.

For now the teaser site has a slick countdown timer so you can stare at the clock instead of browsing miscellaneous animals on r/aww.

I'm looking forward to hearing about player reactions to Lost Ark during the testing phase as there is supposedly no NDA (no confirmation yet). And no confirmation as to a Western release. Hopefully, after the initial beta hype we learn something about a Westward journey.