No official servers showing

[Sleazy]

Looking for official servers and get no choice but unofficial. Hopefully there is a thread somewhere. I just cant find one.

[Mathius]

Official servers were closed at the start of the month to make you buy ASA.

[DreadCthulhu]

The official servers were closed on Sept 30th; the devs announced the closure back in April, IIRC. Their is going to be a remastered version releasing at the end of the month you can buy that will have official servers, or you can play on a myriad of unofficial servers.

[Windon09]

WAIT WHAT I GOT THE GAME AT THE 1ST OF OCTOBER AND CLOSES THE DAY I GET THE GAME NOOOOOOOOOO

[zerassar]

Originally posted by Windon09:

WAIT WHAT I GOT THE GAME AT THE 1ST OF OCTOBER AND CLOSES THE DAY I GET THE GAME NOOOOOOOOOO

Yeah thats pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and it should be disclosed on the store page. Submit a refund request to Steam.

A side note though... The Official servers were always free to use so it was bound to happen sooner or later.

[cleio81]

it's really sad that the official servers are gone. But It is still possible to host your own server. you can do it for free but it's finicky to set up.
Alternatively you can pay a hosting service. We use Host Havoc for $15 a month for up to 30 players. AND WE CAN MOD!!!
Honestly it's been more fun than the official servers ever were.

[. ݁˖ Yeti . ݁˖ . ݁𓅰]

Originally posted by Windon09:

WAIT WHAT I GOT THE GAME AT THE 1ST OF OCTOBER AND CLOSES THE DAY I GET THE GAME NOOOOOOOOOO

Geez that is bad. If you can't get a refund give the unofficial servers a try... they are fun.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Windon09:

WAIT WHAT I GOT THE GAME AT THE 1ST OF OCTOBER AND CLOSES THE DAY I GET THE GAME NOOOOOOOOOO

You've only lost 1800ish official servers that the majority of the player base didnt play on over the course of these last 8 years.

In stead you have over 70,000 unofficial servers to choose to play on(was 60,000 range before officials shut down just to give you perspective).

All in all, their shutting down(both to most players and to the devs) was not that big of a deal.

[Mathius]

Originally posted by retsam1:

All in all, their shutting down(both to most players and to the devs) was not that big of a deal.

Your continual submissions in every one of these threads that unofficial is somehow superior is cute. 🙄🙄🙄

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Mathius:

Originally posted by retsam1:

All in all, their shutting down(both to most players and to the devs) was not that big of a deal.

Your continual submissions in every one of these threads that unofficial is somehow superior is cute. 🙄🙄🙄

Sorry can you cite where I said they're superior? The majority of players play/played unofficials is just how its been for the last 8 years and for a host of reasons be it issues folks found with officials or just simply because they preferred to play with modded content and custom settings and many other reasons.. Even devs have encouraged players to play unofficials.

Windon just made indications that they had no viable alternatives and others didnt explain that very much either outside of saying to rent their own, really)..... when there are literally over 30 times as many options potentially.

[[OCG]Succy]

Originally posted by Windon09:

WAIT WHAT I GOT THE GAME AT THE 1ST OF OCTOBER AND CLOSES THE DAY I GET THE GAME NOOOOOOOOOO

Everyone looking for Official please note that all the official communities created copy cat servers on Unofficial as a F U to snail. so search for them all on unofficial instead.

[ZeroTsu02]

Unofficial, private hosted servers are way better than official ones will ever be anyway. mods ftw

[Mathius]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Sorry can you cite where I said they're superior? The majority of players play/played unofficials is just how its been for the last 8 years and for a host of reasons be it issues folks found with officials or just simply because they preferred to play with modded content and custom settings and many other reasons.. Even devs have encouraged players to play unofficials.

The idea that something is more popular makes it better has been something people have been railing against since the dawn of man probably.

[Mathius]

Originally posted by ZeroTsu02:

Unofficial, private hosted servers are way better than official ones will ever be anyway. mods ftw

And I would submit that this is a survival game and your cute little candyland building set with your instant tame/instant birth rates or your little nanny to watch your dinos and your little taming pens, with maybe 4 people for competition (yes, even in PVE you can compete for resources, space, tames) is far more inferior a survival challenge.

That's always been the problem with Ark, and something I couldn't quite verbalize properly in my review.

The only thing the devs saw as a challenge was insane time sinks for everything and once you remove that, the game becomes very weak.

[🦊 Hermit]

Different people find different game styles entertaining. Some think of the grind as the game's challenge. Others find that boring and find more fulfilment in building nice looking bases and mutating creatures to very high stats. Others like the combat and survival elements but don't have the time to sink hours into a game every day, so play with quicker rates but much reduced damage resistance and increased levels to make the game more challenging survival-wise rather than just a grind fest.

No game mode is 'better' or 'worse' than the other, and we all love the game for the way we play it. We have that in common. And we gotta give some credit to WildCard for recognising that people have such varied tastes and opening up so many customisation options to us players, so we could set up the game just how we like it. They catered for all different playstyles too.

[Vorshin]

Originally posted by Windon09:

WAIT WHAT I GOT THE GAME AT THE 1ST OF OCTOBER AND CLOSES THE DAY I GET THE GAME NOOOOOOOOOO

if you can i would refund and wait, then buy Ark survival Asc ended (updated game version) since everyone else who has evolved+ expansions will have to rebuy it as well (like hell i am) doubtful i will get Ark2 either.