As of October 2025, our Lost Ark platform will be shutting down. At this moment in time, we are doing a complete technical overhaul to some of the older portions of our platform. Unfortunately, we can no longer justify performing that overhaul for Lost Ark as the game’s Western playerbase has significantly declined. On top of that, we no longer have active players on our team to keep the quality standard we would like (which is something you may have noticed in the last year).
Lost Ark will always hold a special place in our history as the first non-Riot Games title that Mobalytics expanded into. I personally spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours, fighting Valtan, Vykas, Kakul, and Brel on multiple characters. As a WOW veteran raider, my first experience with the Valtan Hard Mode raid made me say, "This is the best boss encounter ever designed”, something I stand by many years later.
Although it was a pain in the ass playing music to all those NPCS, I will always have fond memories of my time in Arkesia.
As an ARPG MMO hybrid, it helped us learn many lessons that we applied to our later expansions, such as the Builds and Tier Lists of Destiny 2, Diablo 4, and Path of Exile 2, along with the Boss guides of Monster Hunter Wilds, Elden Ring Nightreign, and Hades 2.
We can’t thank you enough for your feedback and support throughout our years in Arkesia. I hope those of you that still play are enjoying yourself, and thank you to Smilegate and Gol D. River for the amazing experience.
Sincerely,
Uthgar
P.S., throughout our time in Lost Ark, we made a ton of content we're proud of. You can find them here:
- Infographics
- Videos (Mobalytics + ATK)