In just three days, Lost Ark from becoming Steam's fourth-biggest game just one day after its launch.

In the summer of 2021, it was officially announced that the Korean action-oriented MMORPG would be coming to both North America and Europe later in the year. Lost Ark's western expansion ended up being pushed back to February 11, 2022,  but that did not stop Amazon Games' latest title from reaching immense levels of success right out of the gate. It has already broken player count records set by the likes of Counter-Strike: GO and DOTA and now more stunning figures from the first few days of play have been revealed.

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This massive surge for Lost Ark is comparable to the success of Amazon Games' New World as both currently have the honor of being in the top-five highest-played Steam games of all time, something the developers have acknowledged.

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The immense success of Lost Ark's western launch does have some notable drawbacks. Due to the massive increase in player volume, queue times have lengthened considerably and frustrated a large portion of the game's community. There have also been lingering queue errors that have managed to persist even after the developers implemented some server maintenance to do away with the errors. As a result, many in the community have chosen to express their displeasure with the current circumstances by review bombing Lost Ark. Coincidentally New World was also a target of this tactic to express concerns.

While Amazon Games' was certainly hoping for a successful launch, it is clear that the developer was not anticipating player numbers on this scale. Given that the count has only gone up in light of the early stage hiccups, that is a good sign that there is a substantial player base to be found and maintained in the west. With the likes of New World and Lost Ark on its resume, Amazon Games appears to be positioning itself as one of the top developers working today. It will be interesting to see if the studio's next project will follow the trend of its predecessors.

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Lost Ark is available now on PC.

Source: GameSpot