Just one day after release, Smilegate’s MMOARPG Lost Ark reached over 1,300,000 players on Steam, overtaking CSGO as the second most popular game of all time on the platform in terms of concurrent players.
Lost Ark’s highly anticipated early access period kicked off on February 7, and the game has since become the second most-watched video game launch of all time on Twitch. With an impressive 23.11 million hours of viewing.
With streamers like Asmongold breaking records and reaching picks of 430,000 concurrent viewers thanks to the immense popularity of the new game, it’s safe to say that a lot of eyes are on the new MMO right now.
The big Lost Ark rush continues.
Viewership aside, Lost Ark has reached over 1,300,000 concurrent players on Steam as of this writing. Even beating CSGO and Dota 2, and becoming the second most popular title in the history of the platform.
After the early access period ended, marking the game’s official launch on February 11, Lost Ark rose to the top of Steam.
In just one day, the new MMO reached over 1.3M players on February 12, 2022, according to SteamCharts, making it the most played game on the platform currently, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in second place with a peak of 991,000 players. As for the all-time high, it is in second place, beating CSGO’s peak of 1,308,963 with 1,325,305.
Lost Ark surpasses even the phenomenal success of New World in its early days.
As this is a new release of the game, the player count is, of course, very high, which means that it might drop sooner or later when the launch craze starts to die down.