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Everything about Ark: survival evolved will still continue to work, except the official servers.
They're just shutting down the free servers that people have enjoyed for _eight_ years. And no one is losing anything. The files will be made available for people to host them themselves. Out of their own wallet.
and that's why everyone is screaming. They bought a video game, never paid any kind of subscription fee for those servers, and yet somehow feel they are entitled to have free servers foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Another thing, there are more unofficial servers than officials, and ppl have to pay for those, its not hard to imagine that this money could be used on official servers network.
And if they didn t want officials to last to, lets say, until no one play ARK 1, why only pvp servers get wiped before? They could make season servers and call it a day.
For years now ppl have been saying that they could monetise the game with stuff like skins, dino colors (there s even a item that does that) weapon skins etc. And as stated before other games have servers online for years with no p2w monetisation, Wild Card could have done that if they worked on it.
People have been saying for years all they needed to do is add a Chibi with a premium currency for skins that works just like HNLA. They have just been missing out on boat loads of cash.
1. You're under no obligation to purchase the Ascended iteration of the game. None. You are only being forcibly evicted from the Ark 1 official servers in August and thus see point 2....
2. You can opt to play (like the majority of the player base) the current 80,000+ unofficial servers, make your own, and or single player once the 1800ish official servers are archived to make way for the Ascended ones.
You may not like any of that and that's up to you but you do have choices to either adapt and play unofficials/single player or yes, you can choose to pony up 90US(50 base 40 for 2 dlc bundles) and play the officials on Ascended.
Given mod makers are going to be able to charge for mods in Ascended and 50% of the revenue goes to Wildcard, you'll very likely see that and more in various capacities.
People bought a one time product. Either the base game, or expansion DLC's (which I could argue were sequels in actuality).
There was no monthly subscription fees included anywhere. If you buy a car, does that mean you get to have free gasoline to drive it around with forever? No.
Wildcard ran the official servers to help support the sales of their own game. That was a business decision they made. I don't think the promise of free servers are mentioned anywhere in the license, or terms of service.
And they will _continue_ to run them... just for the new versions. That's also another business decision. The money needs to get spent on the newer upcoming versions of the game.
There was no promise made that they would run forever. And they have already shut down servers in the past. The so called legacy servers. What is about to happen, has happened in the past, and probably will happen again in the future.
I think people have basically missed the fact that Ark survival evolved is now done. Complete. Finished. It still exists as a game to play, but it's basically end of life/end of support for it.
It's VERY hard to imagine the money being used on official servers network. Since the money isn't wildcard's.
The money that people pay for keeping their own unofficial servers running isn't being paid to wildcard. It's none of wildcard's business. People either host those from their own homes (where it's part of their electric/internet bill), or pay monthly to rent a server from a provider.
Wildcard has no ability to take other people's money from them.
And once again, we have another concrete example of the lack of understanding about the official servers. It's like getting upset because the kid who lives next door has more candy then you (because his mom buys more junkfood then your mom does). One thing has nothing to do with the other.
Until something breaks that will not be addressed, be it in UE4, OS's , drivers, any of 1000 things to run the game
Given that up to this point, arguably the modding community has been the bread and butter of the game, there's nothing stopping then someone creating patches to help in those cases.
Not the first time that's occurred with a game. Just look at the years of patches and updates almost exclusively from one person for Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines for many many years, City of Heroes Homecoming servers (and the other 3 server groups) and many more in these regards. And th
Thus it just comes down to a question of will and effort.
Ark is marketed as an MMO, in which world do you play an mmo without a server?
If ark pocket was hurting by them paying their (low end pc) who partnered with them host their servers then they will just shut it down, no one is forcing them to host, but alas its an MMO, which stand for Massively multiplayer online game, incase that you obviously didn't know that.
I can imagine people in WoW be happy when their server get shutdown and they have to host their own lan party
1. Ark is marketed as single player coop and mmo.
2. Only the official 1800ish servers are being removed and made archived files for players. Single player, coop(ie non dedicated) and player the 80,000+ unofficial servers are not being shut down as those are player controlled. So the moniker of mmo isn't in question/contention.
until wildecard sees that nobody is excited to spend 200+ on the new game plus expansion and they force private servers to shutdown to force players to buy the new version.
1. You say that as if it counters his point. It does not. It is marketed as an MMO... without official servers. How are you not seeing the issue here?
2. This means absolutely nothing to all the official players. The players on the ''1800ish'' servers as you said got no place to go other than buy the whole game again for graphic upgrades they did not want and won't even see given how many players downgrade their graphics for various reasons.
3. Fact is, there are people on official server who are given the finger by Wildcard. You can keep saying that singleplayer and unofficial is available but that will continue to mean nothing to all those that clearly did not enjoy single or unofficial and therefore chose offical with no idea that this was ever going to happen in such a short timespan.
Would you think differently if your private server was also no longer playable due to the update?
His point was mmo. My point to better clarify was that it was mmo(both for unofficial and official), singleplayer and coop. That was all. Officials are just one fourth, if you will, of that. As I also said in my point 2 the specific moniker of mmo isn't in question/contention unto itself.
You assume that all official server players take the stance that they're bereft of choices. They're being evicted and Im not disputing that what so ever but the point was to say that they have other options and its not an all or nothing framing as you're implying.
and...
Let's keep in mind back in August 2017, the 900ish official servers during EA had close to a third of them immediately archived, and the rest were turned into legacy servers with a current set of official servers put in place. Over time those legacy servers saw all pvp ones later removed and archived and many others done similarly.
Thus this set the precedent on how Wildcard regards official servers on one hand. On another hand they also encouraged people to play unofficials from almost the start as well as they've said many times that players can play as they wish to play.
So saying there was no idea something like this could happen is a bit silly. And assuming it wont happen again in the future with Ascended or Ark 2 is also probably an unwise view to take either.
People then who pedestal'd official servers, ignored the history and warning for years about the official server situation and chose to not join the majority of the player base on unofficial servers has led to the situation that they're now encountering. So the majority of the player base may offer condolences on the terminal state of said officials that is coming, they do not have much sympathy for their choice.
Also to say one would think differently if one's private server was no longer playable due to an update is also a false equivalency. Unofficial server players and owners deal with this, especially with modded content servers more often over 8 years but then find ways to work around it or make different choices. We're familiar with this expectation of change and thus arguably more prepared for it, but ironically there are (and soon will be) unofficial servers who have lasted longer than even some legacy servers and certainly the upcoming lost current officials too....
Again players have choices currently and for the foreseeable future. However everyone will be at least a bit wiser for the wear.