Lost Ark Breaks a Million Players, Becomes Today's Top Steam Game by Concurrents

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Lost Ark breaks a million players.

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Players peaked at 1,325,305.

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Their game went down for maintenance before its f2p launch.

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They finally had its full western release after delaying server deployment for six hours.

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Many players had been preloading.

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The game hit a peak of 984,111 concurrent players.

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That made it number one on Steam’s top 100 for a day.

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It beats CS:GO and Dota 2 for highest player peak.

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PUBG peaked at 3,257,248 back in 2018.

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Cyberpunk 2077 boasted 1,003,264 concurrent players at its height.

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The Exodus from World of Warcraft to other MMOs plays a part to attract so many players to Lost Ark.

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