No servers but Nitrado for 7 years?

[contingency7]

https://mailwizz.survivalservers.com/index.php/campaigns/jh601zrdlx460/web-version/kb024o43zg045

A letter to our ARK fans:

Let's talk about the dinosaur in the room: the ARK: Survival Ascended server hosting monopoly.

A few months ago, we received word from within the ARK community about a deal made between Marbis (the company who owns Nitrado) and Wildcard/Snail Games on a fully closed loop exclusivity for all multiplayer servers for a period of 7 years - that includes ARK: Survival Ascended launch as well as ARK 2. When we found out about this news, we immediately contacted our connections within ARK as we felt betrayed and blindsighted by the lack of communication prior. Up until then, we had been hosting ARK in official and unofficial capacity without any "strings attached" agreements for official ARK tournaments, Playstation servers, and our unofficial PC servers. Our pleas were met with stonewalling even with an offer to group together countless small businesss game server providers to match the funds needed to pay for the exorbanant server hosting debt to Nitrado that Wildcard/Snail Games was responsible for.

We've always preached the golden rule for multiplayer sandbox games: a full release of dedicated server files available to the community without any back door deals or exclusivity agreements. Please read below a recent example of how G Portal targeted and manipulated the developers of a game called Frozen Flame into full exclusivity.



It's extremely saddening the impact these decisions have on the community as a whole and the 100s of small businesses who have made ARK their business - selling and helping 100,000s of ARK server owners launch and maintain their servers. The private market has many options, server hosting locations, and price points in a healthy competitive environment for the large majority of eager players to create their own private world for their friends and family to plan on. These types of deals rip that away and much worse, stifle innovation, discourage people to play these games, and can kill games at launch. We've seen these deals go south on countless titles that have had rough/poor launches - Conan Exiles (with a partnership with Ping Perfect and later G-Portal), SCUM (with an exclusivity with G Portal), Last Oasis (completely botched launch), and many more. These games and their communities have all been negatively impacted by behind door deals.

We don't stand for this and encourage Wildcard/Snail Games to make the right decision and force Nitrado to open up the server files for ARK: Survival Ascended without limitation immediately. Sign the petition!

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blindsighted

blindside
verb
past tense: blindsided;
past participle: blindsided
- to hit or attack (someone) on the blind side.
- to catch (someone) unprepared; attack from an unexpected position.