While the official release of Lost Ask is on Feb 11, the game actually came out back in 2018 and was limited to South Korea. Lost Ark is a highly anticipated game, especially for fans of the MMORPG genre. The game became available for players to play yesterday in early access if you purchased any of the Founders Pack. But, after downloading the game and attempting to play, a lot of players have reported the Lost Ark connection timed out error. If you have run into an error, there may be a simple solution that can help you, keep reading to know.
Lost Ark Connection Timed Out Error Fix
The error occurs specifically when you attempt to download the game, unlike other games that should start downloading, you get the Lost Ark Connection Timed out Error when trying to download the game.
Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do on your end to fix the error. The error is widespread and all players are facing the problem, even content creators themselves cannot download the game, so basically, the game is offline until the critical bug is fixed. Here is the Tweet from the devs.
About an hour after the Tweet the devs have stated that they are seeing improvement in the situation and that some players are able to download the game. If you are still unable to download, here is what you need to do.
- Reboot Steam and try to download the game again.
- If you took part in the Lost Ark Technical Beta, remove all files from the beta. Here is what you should do.
- Uninstall the beta version of the game
- Reboot the Steam client and attempt to download the game.
With the above fix the Lost Ark connection timed out error should be resolved. If you are still facing the issue, let us know in the comments, or if you have a fix, put it in the comments for the community.