Lost Ark servers are currently down for maintenance, and here's when they will go up again.
The release day of Lost Ark has finally arrived, at least the official one, when everyone will be able to join the game for free.
For those who have purchased one of the Founder's Pack editions, the game has already been available for well over three days, and already almost 600,000 gamers have played the game.
But today, on launch day, everyone will have to be patient a bit, as Lost Ark servers will go down for maintenance in order to prepare everything for the big free-to-play launch.
This, unfortunately, means that even those players who have already grabbed their place on the servers will now need to wait again in excruciatingly long queues which will have even longer times now when the game officially goes F2P.
If you want to know when the servers will go back up again, here's all the important info.
Lost Ark server maintenance times
Lost Ark server maintenance at launch - when does downtime end?
Lost Ark server maintenance downtime will last for around 4 hours. (Picture: Smilegate)
Lost Ark is launching on 11th February but to make everything ready for the release, the developer, Smilegate, needed to bring Lost Ark servers down in order to patch the game and prepare servers for the big influx of new players.
Aside from the crucial hotfix update, the maintenance will also increase servers' capacities and make them more stable so that they can withstand the expected enormous wave of players rushing to play Lost Ark.
The Lost Ark servers went down at 5 am PT / 8 am ET / 1 pm GMT / 2 pm CET.
According to the developers, the Lost Ark server maintenance will last for approximately 4 hours, and this means that we can expect them to go back up again at these hours:
Los Angeles: 9 am PST
New York: 12 pm ET
London: 5 pm GMT
Paris: 6 pm CET
If everything goes smoothly and without major hiccups, we can expect Lost Ark servers to go live again even earlier, but the official release will still be at the aforementioned time. Still, this will potentially give an opportunity for the Founder's Pack owners to secure their place on the servers prior to the avalanche of new free-to-play players.
The Lost Ark servers will go down at 5 AM PT on February 11th. The maintenance will last for 4 hours. The servers will be down as the devs plan to smooth some aspects of the game including the performance of the servers. The servers should be back up at 9 AM PST / 6 PM CET / 12 PM EST / 5 PM UTC if things go as planned.
OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGED
While working to resolve these issues, we will add 3 days of Crystalline Aura to all players who log in to the game between launch and 9 AM PT [5 PM UTC] on 2/13 as a small thank you.
Keep checking for more updates!