Amazon Games and Smilegate Take the Gaming World By Storm With Lost Ark – Hey Poor Player

Following on from the massive success of New World, Amazon Games has struck gold again, it seems, with Action MMORPG Lost Ark, developed by South Korean studio Smilegate. Following a successful early access period which ran from February 8-11 for those who had purchased a founder’s pack, Lost Ark launched fully on February 11 and since then, has been nothing short of a phenomenon, not only dominating the Steam charts but also raking in crazy amounts of views on Twitch. If you don’t want to take my word for it, check out the numbers below: In less than 24 hours since its full launch on February 11, Lost Ark reached a peak of 1.35 million concurrent players worldwide, which earned it the accolade of being the second highest-played game of all time in terms of concurrent players. Over on Twitch, a huge 1.2 million concurrent viewers tuned in to watch over 112,000 total streams. This resulted in an astounding total of almost 60 million hours of Lost Ark content being viewed on the streaming behemoth. As if all that wasn’t impressive enough, Amazon Games has confirmed that over 4.7 million players in the west have registered with and played Lost Ark. Impressive stuff then, and it seems…
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