On Thursday, December 9th at 8:25pm EST, it was announced that the official release date for the NA/EU version of Lost Ark at The Game Awards.
Players have been speculating for a while now when the actual date would be. Previously, the date was set for the first Quarter of 2022. The cut off for that would be March 31, 2022. With people who pre-purchased the game having a 3-day Head Start early access, starting at March 28th.
When can you play the North America and Europe version of Lost Ark?
Official Lost Ark NA/EU Release date: February 11th, 2022
and the start date for purchasers of a Founders Pack will be:
3-day early Head Start: February 8th, 2022
Lost Ark is a Free to Play Action MMORPG by Smilegate and being brought to the West by Amazon Games Studios. The game was initially released in Korea on November 12, 2018. It was later brought to Russia on October 27, 2019 and Japan on June 25, 2020. Seeing the popularity in other regions is inspiring much hope for huge success for the NA/EU release.
Certainly having over 3 years of developing and improving upon the game will be a reassurance to gamers turned off by some recent New games in other Worlds.
Players have been raving about Lost Ark since the Closed Beta Test in November of 2021. Indeed many fans stopped playing the Beta they paid to get into because they were enjoying it so much and didn’t want to spoil it. The game peaked at 88,075 concurrent players. And it reached 3rd for top categories with a concurrent viewer count of 269,904. You can also watch the first gameplay trailer released at Game Awards 2021.
If you want to get a feel for the game before the official launch date check out a few of our guides: