How do you feel about the for $ sales.

[MAC10's MAC 10]

how do you feel about the thousands of for profit sellers on third party sites selling like , items, tames, boss fights, and base locations. I think it makes people cheat more on pvp and spam more pillars etc on pve since there is a cash incentive.

[CrazedTrucker]

Originally posted by 𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲:

Originally posted by CrazedTrucker:

why the hell would anyone pvp in this game anyway , it's cancer.

I mean, it's more engaging than PvE. Ark PvP before Tek and rampant cheating/exploitation/meshing on the Island will forever be peak Ark. Glad some of the old, massive raid videos still exist.

Just saying is all. Back on ase we had a chinese tribe come onto the server with cross server transfer and the 5 big tribes we had were able to fend them off, then about 2 weeks later a russian tribe did the same thing, they managed to basically wipe the server in about a half hour. So like 200 people lost thousands of hours of work in almost no time. I'm talking major blood lines of several animals gone that the tribes were working on for boss fights and such.

Even being a pvp server we were all basically friendly , some smaller tribes would get on and have some pvp fun with us but yeah those 2 cross server ones that warped in were only there to grief . after that a bunch of us said F it and went to pve , others just flat out stopped playing because of it.

[Darksaint]

Originally posted by Captain Pansy:

you are ok buying a tame from the devs (pyromane) but not from other players?

This is actually illegal. Profitting off someone elses IP is theft.

[KornKron]

I only play single player, so I don't care about any dlc, I don't buy it, I don't need to worry about it.

[YosemiteBear]

Originally posted by 𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲:

Originally posted by CrazedTrucker:

why the hell would anyone pvp in this game anyway , it's cancer.

I mean, it's more engaging than PvE. Ark PvP before Tek and rampant cheating/exploitation/meshing on the Island will forever be peak Ark. Glad some of the old, massive raid videos still exist.

what are you on about XD cheating exploiting meshing was always a thing in ase since DAY 1 on the island.

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by CrazedTrucker:

why the hell would anyone pvp in this game anyway , it's cancer.

That caught my attention as well. I'm all on board with the game mechanics themselves, they're great and there's a LOT of variety in tactics etc. But the implementation is SO bad. It's like if all the serious fps players suddenly decided to play a NES title with 4 fps and clipping and sprites disappearing and etc. Generation 1.0 Xbox Live was LITERALLY better, in terms of latency and stability and consistency. Crazy. Don't care either way, I don't even pvp, but it was unexpected.

[Ferchi]

Ironically, I just received congratulations for the most liked comment of June, along with the points I got deducted for helping about this big problem, next to my comment deleted

https://i.ibb.co/SxFqkCd/dsssssssssssssss.png

all on this game is a joke lol

[ϻ✧𝖗𝖌𝖆𝖓]

Originally posted by 💀:

I reported users selling for real money on Marketplace and Discord to support, but it only remained "under investigation." I also suggested on their official page to add a new reporting system because it's useless to report "human" "123" or "survivor," and besides, the reporting system is flawed without talk about the bots selling dailly. However, an admin deducted points from me and deleted my comment, so rn i can't say that making money is bad

It's likely related to when the admins have been caught spawning items on Official Servers for real world money, multiple members of the Kibble Alliance in ASE have showed me videos of this behavior with solid proof that it is an admin account doing it.
Something I should add is that it is unknown if the accounts themselves were compromised, if there was somehow a leaked or hijacked admin password that I have not heard of.

Just based on what I've seen in the past I believe they are likely involved in some way, why else would they seemingly do nothing about it while it ruins the game-play for everyone else?

Feel free to correct me if I am mistaken or wrong on this matter, I see many shops that are openly advertising and not being punished at all.

Edit: They really need to block users with 123 or "unacceptable names" from connecting. Show Steam ID numbers next to "name" or some other form to more actively identify bad actors.
Accounts named Human, 123, or Survivor all seem like Ban evasion tactics to me and should be punishable after a 1 time "change your name" request to be "fair" to the people who currently have such names.

[Ferchi]

Originally posted by ϻ✧𝖗𝖌𝖆𝖓:

Originally posted by 💀:

I reported users selling for real money on Marketplace and Discord to support, but it only remained "under investigation." I also suggested on their official page to add a new reporting system because it's useless to report "human" "123" or "survivor," and besides, the reporting system is flawed without talk about the bots selling dailly. However, an admin deducted points from me and deleted my comment, so rn i can't say that making money is bad

It's likely related to when the admins have been caught spawning items on Official Servers for real world money, multiple members of the Kibble Alliance in ASE have showed me videos of this behavior with solid proof that it is an admin account doing it.
Something I should add is that it is unknown if the accounts themselves were compromised, if there was somehow a leaked or hijacked admin password that I have not heard of.

Just based on what I've seen in the past I believe they are likely involved in some way, why else would they seemingly do nothing about it while it ruins the game-play for everyone else?

Feel free to correct me if I am mistaken or wrong on this matter, I see many shops that are openly advertising and not being punished at all.

Edit: They really need to block users with 123 or "unacceptable names" from connecting. Show Steam ID numbers next to "name" or some other form to more actively identify bad actors.
Accounts named Human, 123, or Survivor all seem like Ban evasion tactics to me and should be punishable after a 1 time "change your name" request to be "fair" to the people who currently have such names.

You're correct, for many years corrupt administrators have been demonstrated, along with tribes related to these administrators, such as the "TEA tribe", which was (or still is under another name) one of the largest tribes in ARK and is related to SNAIL GAMES.

https://www.reddit.com/r/playark/comments/8gsg31/can_somebody_explain_what_the_hell_tea_is/

Even some YouTubers who have raided their bases have been banned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X5Hg0_cils

And it hasn't happened just once, nor are these YouTubers with few followers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBoteAGOXXQ

There are many cases where this significant problem repeats itself,.

Additionally, during the launch days of the new ARK ASA, there was a critical security error because they chose passwords like "4321" or "admin." At first, everyone thought they were hackers, then that someone had leaked the admin passwords, but it turned out that the password was awful and very basic, and any user could be admin on official servers. That's why there were bosses walking on the beaches or bases full tek the first hours:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/17greaj/official_servers_admin_enabled/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/17grrwd/ark_releases_players_5sec_later/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/17grgue/after_the_devs_realized_admin_commands_exploit/

There are even videos of this, which is funny and really sad at the same time, because there are people with GCM emptying turrets, flying, flying gigas, bosses walking on the beaches, people with the WildCard icon insulting and pretending to be admins, and many other things that seem like memes.

Regarding names, that's another critical error that needs to be resolved. Even BattleMetrics.com, which was the way you could have real information about a player, now states that the new ARK does not have this feature:
"ARK: Survival Ascended does not support player lists. If player list support is added, we will start tracking player data."
Reporting someone named "123" or "human" is almost impossible, and your report is most likely to remain under "investigation"...

and also the worst part is the "new support" in ASA, now they reduce the support in bugs, crash or lost data, actually they act only with stuff rellated to homophobic, racism or things like this, but if you lost your base, character, dinos, there is no support

There are more critical problems that seem to benefit somehow from the abuse of power, such as Discord moderators and forum moderators, but I've already talked too much, and I wouldn't like to be given a ban, as they always look for an excuse to silence

In conclusion, Ark needs to seriously educate its administrators and moderators. Some are involved in illegal activities, and others don't know what "security" or "help" means