Lost Ark now has over 20 million players globally
Give or take a million bots, of course.

Lost Ark was a hit when it launched in Korea, and has since been made available in Russia and Japan, but apparently this year's western release has doubled its numbers. English-language publisher Amazon Games announced that Lost Ark now has over 20 million global s, and "currently more than 10 million of Lost Ark's [players] come from North America, Europe, South America, and Australia."
The day after Lost Ark arrived on Steam it banning over a million s for running bots earlier this month, but they can still be seen in hub areas like Luterra Castle and Prideholme.
Lost Ark's western version doesn't yet contain everything the current Korean version has, with more additions due to be rolled out in the coming months. For starters, we're getting more of the advanced classes are coming. That seems to have been delayed, however: a recent tweet on the official Lost Ark says, "we are currently making adjustments to our content roap based on player progression data. We will be sharing an updated roap following our March update."
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