Lost Ark – 2 Months Later
Playing relatively casually (there are days I miss doing dailies and dungeons for example), I finally hit the start of the Tier 3 grind on my main just a few…
[Op-Ed] I Think I Need To Find a New Hobby
There was a time back before the commercial internet when you purchased games on a disk, and played it (bugs, warts, etc) with the specific intent of having fun (i.e.…
Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG Respond to Player Concerns
Feeling the heat (and probably seeing actual numbers on their end of steeper than expected drops in engagement (concurrency, login time, etc), AGS and Smilegate RPG put out an pre-emptive…
Lost Ark – March Update Live
The first major content update was launched today by Amazon Games for Lost Ark with the Tier 3 Abyss Raid (Argos), along with a new story line (Kadan Story Episode)…
LOST ARK – First Two Week Thoughts
It's coming up to the second week since the official launch (not counting the 72-hour head start) of Lost Ark in the west. The game broke the one million concurrent…
LOST ARK – Finally Got To 50 To Start The Endgame Grind
Took the semi-casual route to get to 50 (mixed in some side quests whenever they rewarded a larger amount of XP or the few that offered gold early on). Just…
LOST ARK – Day 4 CCU Breaches 1 Million Mark
As expected (given the strong head start peak), Lost Ark breached the million concurrent player mark early mid-morning, Pacific time. This easily surpasses the rather modest expectations set forth by…
LOST ARK – Day 3 CCU 45 minutes After Official Launch
Hitting a million concurrent logins should be a piece of cake this weekend (if not by tonight). This is impressive even to me (since I expected maybe half-a-million at most…