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Lost Ark Twitter & Reddit Video Went Viral, How To Preload Lost Ark? Details Explained!: On Monday, Steam was under heavy preload for Lost Ark, a free-to-play Korean action-RPG MMO now available in the Americas and Europe. Potential players have complained about taking too long to download, and Lost Ark has acknowledged the issue and said Valve is investigating the issue. Things started going well last night, but with the Lost Ark servers opening up to players with early access, Steam’s bandwidth seems to be peaking again.
As we saw with the launch of Halo Infinite and New World, Steam reported a huge spike in download traffic as players scrambled to hit that green “Preload Game” button. Halo Infinite recorded a peak bandwidth of 23.5 Tbps on its free multiplayer surprise launch day. During the pre-release of Lost Ark yesterday, the meter hit 30 Tbps.
“We are now seeing improvements in players being able to download and decrypt the game, and have confirmed this with the team at Valve,” the developer said afterwards.
Lost Ark originally launched in South Korea in 2019, and now Amazon has just released it in other regions. Jody tried it back in November, calling it “a bizarre action RPG combined with a traditional MMO.”
The pre-launch rush seems to indicate that players are still very, very hungry for new MMOs, especially free-to-play games. As previously announced, today is the first day of Early Access for players who purchased Founders Packs.
The Steam Download Bandwidth Tracker shows peaks of 30,000 GB/sec and 40,000 GB/sec on February 7, 2022, and February 8, 2022, respectively.
Steam download traffic peaked again today, this time over 40 Tbps. SteamDB indicates that there are currently over 532,000 players running the game. The Lost Ark has warned players about server queues: “Please note that if you want to enter Arkesia faster, you can join servers in each region with no or no queue time!”
For all those planning to play for free, Lost Ark servers will open on Friday, February 11th at 9AM PT. If the pattern from the past 24 hours has continued until then, you may want to go ahead and start preloading now.
