Lost Ark Launched And Instantly Defeated CSGO
The release of Lost Ark turned out to be a great success. Yesterday the game was played by almost a million concurrent players on Steam. However, there were problems with overcrowded servers, which forced the devs to introduce restrictions on character creation.
Last night seen the release of Lost Ark, an F2P online action RPG with MMO elements. We already know that launch was a great success and Steam users went crazy about this game.
Almost one million people played Lost Ark on Steam.
Yesterday, at the hottest moment of the day, Lost Ark was played on Steam by 984,111 concurrent users. Thus, the game surpassed the result of New World (913,634) and became the biggest launch on Steam since the debut of Cyberpunk 2077.
Of course, one must take into account that the latter two titles were paid, while Lost Ark is a F2P game. Even so, it's still a huge success, especially since free-to-play games not created by Valve rarely achieve similar successes on Steam. What's more, yesterday this MMORPG was more popular than Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Friday's activity record of CSGO was 933,423 players.
Taking into account yesterday's results, there is a good chance that either today or tomorrow Lost Ark will cross the threshold of one million concurrent players.
Good reception on Steam
The game not only achieves insanely impressive activity results on Steam, but also enjoys a warm reception. At the time of writing Lost Ark has almost 11 thousand user ratings, 78% of which praise the game, which is categorized as a "mostly positive" reception.
The game is also very popular on Twitch
The scale of interest in Lost Ark is also well illustrated by the fact that at the hottest moment of yesterday, broadcasts from the game on Twitch were watched by over 1 million viewers at the same time..
The debut was not without problems, the developers introduced a limit on character creation
The results of activity and player ratings are all the more impressive that the debut of the game was not without some problems. Lost Ark's launch had to be delayed by a few hours due to technical problems.
The delay was not big, but now players often have to wait in queues, because the servers are overcrowded. Because of that the developers have introduced limits on character creation. This applies only to selected servers, suffering from the biggest problems with queues.
People who already have characters on a given server will be able to continue playing and create additional ones. However, new players will not be able to join the game - they will have to look for another server.
Amazon will compensate players for gameplay issues by giving away Crystalline Aura
To compensate players for the problems with Lost Ark Amazon is going to give away three days of so-called Crystalline Aura to anyone who logs in at least once by 9 am PT tomorrow
Crystalline Aura is an optional subscription that provides numerous bonuses and gameplay enhancements.
