Also a very big patch called ‘Season 2’ which makes many changes to the endgame for the better. Impressions from international community covertly playing on Korean servers seems quite positive. Personal islands, bigger and badder raids and dungeons, a new continent ‘Papunika’, the Scouter and Reaper classes and more.
https://www_amazongames_com/en-us/news/articles/amazon-games-enters-publishing-agreement-with-smilegate-rpg
Above is the confirmation from Amazon Games itself. While Lost Ark is not mentioned specifically, there is no other game it can be. The only other ‘RPG’ Smilegate operates is ‘Epic Seven’ which is a mobile gacha game. The rest are FPS games, based off their successful ‘Crossfire’ IP.
https://imgur_com/a/1DK4mS0
Here are a few more images pulled up from their recruitment page on their corporate website. There have been confirmations prior to this that they’ve been actively working on an english version for a while.
https://www_mmobyte_tv/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/lostarkglobal2.jpg
There is no hard date for US/EU yet, but Japan recently had a closed beta test ~1 month before the date of this post, and will launch on the new patch at the end of next month (September).
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