is there anyway to have the game available in my steam? I have some steam friend living in Asia, saw them playing in my friendlist.

There is 2 method to play Lost Ark at the moment, confirmed : -

1. use VPN to create a new steam account on Western country , US/UE/AUS works. then initiate pre-load or buy a founder pack which will link the game in your library, you don't need VPN after that, even downloading the game are free from VPN.

2. (personally doing this) I requested my friend in AUS (you can if you have friend in any unblocked place in the world) to help my account to transfer region by giving him my login , i still have my steam guard which it will be safe , change password after.
He purchase the cheapest game in steam using his AUS credit card using my account , and wala , my account became AUS account, then he initiated Lost Ark preload on my account and logout.
From here i login , doesn't even need VPN, download the game and play. Proof on my stream , link at the signature below.
(For my case actually he help me the buy the bronze founder pack which is AUS19.99 [RM59.xx~] , i repay him by steam gift card.)

A little advise, you don't need to change your region back to Malaysia account anytime soon if you don't need to purchase any game ( it has a 90days cooldown) after you changed region, BUT still you can buy any games using AUS currency without changing your region.

Please DM me if you have any question regarding this

There is a lot of people actually complain in amazon forum, but it looks like if you have not completed a first purchase and lost ark not appear in your library , it will not preload.
I did "trick" steam into showing lost ark before, but when i relog into steam it will goes back to malaysia account and that will not work.

can ar, i am playing in malaysia. Just like what i have posted lor

yeah i heard about that already lol, but just duping the founder pack
New world GG already , all the exploits being used in war, i also quit already.

I heard from my friend , RUS and KR have pay2win aspect in cash store.
KR mmo is grindy one la , BDO same same.
leveling is pretty fast i would say , the main story will bring you to lv50 in no time.
max lv50 only what

did you open a new steam account or making purchase to change your region?

i am using mudfish too , same as yours in west US, but East US seems not able to get that low.