Steam and Epic games: Play together?

[Saphironsama]

Maybe its a stupid question, but can i play with a friend, who got ARK on epic games? Can he join my server (with mods)?

[Amplii]

Idk, I've been experimenting, I'll let you know if I find anything out

[Cataclisto]

Yes and no. You can play with your friend on a server but that server cannot have any mods installed. I'll include the link that gives info on how to do this, scroll down until you see the epic logo where it talks about crossplay

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/community-crunch-225-crystal-isles-anniversary-event-epic-games-store-and-more-r1569/

[Eil]

for all i know, no, only vanilla dedicated servers with the crossplay option turned on

[Saphironsama]

Originally posted by Cataclisto:

Yes and no. You can play with your friend on a server but that server cannot have any mods installed. I'll include the link that gives info on how to do this, scroll down until you see the epic logo where it talks about crossplay

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/community-crunch-225-crystal-isles-anniversary-event-epic-games-store-and-more-r1569/

Thanks, i just hope Epic games will quickly allow the mod support like in steam,

[Thutmose III]

Originally posted by Saphironsama:

Originally posted by Cataclisto:

Yes and no. You can play with your friend on a server but that server cannot have any mods installed. I'll include the link that gives info on how to do this, scroll down until you see the epic logo where it talks about crossplay

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/community-crunch-225-crystal-isles-anniversary-event-epic-games-store-and-more-r1569/

Thanks, i just hope Epic games will quickly allow the mod support like in steam,

It is on "Up Next" on their road map: https://trello.com/b/GXLc34hk/epic-games-store-roadmap

[Witski]

if those mods are on nexus and updated should work..
(i don't know if nexus have mods for ark to begin with,but i suppose they have)

[Dragitsune]

Originally posted by William T Sherman:

Originally posted by Saphironsama:

Thanks, i just hope Epic games will quickly allow the mod support like in steam,

It is on "Up Next" on their road map: https://trello.com/b/GXLc34hk/epic-games-store-roadmap

There has been many things on epics roadmap from the beginning, don't expect it to ever come out

[Thutmose III]

Originally posted by Dragitsune:

Originally posted by William T Sherman:

It is on "Up Next" on their road map: https://trello.com/b/GXLc34hk/epic-games-store-roadmap

There has been many things on epics roadmap from the beginning, don't expect it to ever come out

Do you know how long Valve took to put the Steam Workshop up after initially saying they would, it was over ten years. I'm not sure why so many Valve/Steam fans are so critical of Epic timelines when Valve with it's "Valve Time" take some the most ridiculous periods to do anything. Now that their monopoly is actually gone, Origin was only for EA games unlike Epic, Valve will need to rethink "Valve Time" or in a few years be left behind by Epic and possibly others.

[Caz]

Originally posted by William T Sherman:

Originally posted by Dragitsune:

There has been many things on epics roadmap from the beginning, don't expect it to ever come out

Do you know how long Valve took to put the Steam Workshop up after initially saying they would, it was over ten years. I'm not sure why so many Valve/Steam fans are so critical of Epic timelines when Valve with it's "Valve Time" take some the most ridiculous periods to do anything. Now that their monopoly is actually gone, Origin was only for EA games unlike Epic, Valve will need to rethink "Valve Time" or in a few years be left behind by Epic and possibly others.

Steam Workshop is essentially official mod support for a game. That's not a simple, nor small, feature to add. It's not surprising it took a long time.
Being able to play with friends who bought the game on another platform, by comparison to the Workshop, is extremely simple.
You're comparing apples and zebras.

By the way, EGS still doesn't have basic features that Steam launched with and Steam was essentially the pioneer of this format of buying/offering games. Defending EGS really is not a good look.

[Thutmose III]

Originally posted by Caz:

Steam Workshop is essentially official mod support for a game.

No it isn't that's DLC, this is Community (non-official) Additional content, i.e. Modding.

Originally posted by Caz:

That's not a simple, nor small, feature to add. It's not surprising it took a long time.

All the Steam Workshop is a cloud to upload and download mods, nothing more, nothing less.

Originally posted by Caz:

Being able to play with friends who bought the game on another platform, by comparison to the Workshop, is extremely simple.
You're comparing apples and zebras.

That is the reason for why it is happening

Originally posted by Caz:

Defending EGS really is not a good look.

Trying to keep a monopoly for some irrational reason is completely ludicrous to say the least. If you think monopolies are good for us consumers than you have zero clue about any of this.

[RobbEJay]

Originally posted by Caz:

Steam Workshop is essentially official mod support for a game. That's not a simple, nor small, feature to add. It's not surprising it took a long time.
Being able to play with friends who bought the game on another platform, by comparison to the Workshop, is extremely simple.
You're comparing apples and zebras.

By the way, EGS still doesn't have basic features that Steam launched with and Steam was essentially the pioneer of this format of buying/offering games. Defending EGS really is not a good look.

Steam wasn't so much a "pioneer" as DRM that evolved into a retail platform. People weren't too keen on Steam either, it was just that thing you needed to play Half-Life. In the end they won game companies over with anti-piracy protection and consumers with sales. Steam is essentially to PC gaming what Sony was to consoles, which would pretty much make Epic Games Microsoft.

The big difference here is that Valve knows how to manipulate consumer friendliness to their advantage. Where other companies would talk about things like how they ensure a premium customer experience Valve touts things as "community driven".

Heck, the backbone of their store relies on the customers to curate products for them. Part of the reason games like this constantly have broken updates is because Valve don't hold them to any sort of standard or do anything to deter it, sure we get them first but compared to console we're pretty much beta testing them.

[BONECO JOSIAS]

Originally posted by William T Sherman:

Originally posted by Caz:

Steam Workshop is essentially official mod support for a game.

No it isn't that's DLC, this is Community (non-official) Additional content, i.e. Modding.

Originally posted by Caz:

That's not a simple, nor small, feature to add. It's not surprising it took a long time.

All the Steam Workshop is a cloud to upload and download mods, nothing more, nothing less.

Originally posted by Caz:

Being able to play with friends who bought the game on another platform, by comparison to the Workshop, is extremely simple.
You're comparing apples and zebras.

That is the reason for why it is happening

Originally posted by Caz:

Defending EGS really is not a good look.

Trying to keep a monopoly for some irrational reason is completely ludicrous to say the least. If you think monopolies are good for us consumers than you have zero clue about any of this.

i see you in every epic thread saying the same thing about mods on egs, just buy ark bro...

[Thutmose III]

Originally posted by Vitor:

i see you in every epic thread saying the same thing about mods on egs, just buy ark bro...

Why is Wildcard giving away their game, for free on Epic, such a thorn in your side?

[Wampa_Stompa]

when i couldn't add mods i was very disappointed considering the massive improvements mods have added to the game since release. i uninstalled and will reinstall when epic adds support.

[Sgt.Morrigahngaming]

I own ARK on steam, Microsoft (win10/xbox edition) and on EGS.
Steam on is the one that I made mods for, and have played the most,
Win10 edition is to be able to play with my brother in-law and some friends that only play on xbox, and now I grabbed the free version from EGS. I don't know where that one fit in yet, but I reckon it's a barebone version, that can play/talk with win10/xbox ... and later on, when EGS make mod support, maybe then Steam? ( as in Unnofficial w/mods .. )