Wading into another dungeon, complete with its mobs of enemies and mini-bosses just 20 minutes before its scheduled maintenance at 3 a.m. Eastern time was probably ill-advised, but that’s the thing about “Lost Ark”: It’s good, and it’s hard to put down once you’re in the game.
Over a million people, like me, are playing “Lost Ark” at the time of writing, according to Steam Charts. The game broke records upon its February launch across North America and several other regions, becoming the game with the most concurrent players of all time on the PC games store/platform Steam after “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.” Some servers for the game are still often so busy, they’re hard to join.
It’s hard not to be hooked. In the first few minutes of the game, you can try out several skills that look and feel incredibly powerful, and take down impressive-looking bosses…
