Is Ark an MMO game?

[Broken War Horse]

Is Ark an MMO game or is it like Fallout 76 an MMO game and some what a single player game?

[Zekiran]

Why not *read the store page* and do research on it online?

It is a multiplayer game with singleplayer options, and yes it does count as an mmo, and I would hazard a guess that there's probably 10 to 20 times more people on it at any given moment, than there ever were on FO76.

Hell right now I bet there's more people in NO MANS SKY than 76 >_>

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/ARK_Survival_Evolved/

Game info to the right, also use youtube for reviews.

[necaradan666]

I would say neither are really true MMO's. They are similar in basic game design, but they play somewhat differently.

Ark is more of a straight multiplayer open world survival game, tribes of players working together or aqainst each other to survive, gather resources, build bases and tame dinos with the option to go it solo if you want to. Also has an offline single player mode. There a fairly interesting story but it's not one you really follow, just notes you can find scattered through the worlds that if you pay attention to them give you the basics of where you are and what happened before you arrived. It can be grindy, but only for resources you need in order to survive and thrive in a hostile world. The grind can also be totally controlled by player and server settings unlike Fallout 76, also unlike Fallout 76's locked instance maps if you want to run a private server you are actually running it, either from a hosting service or your own machine and it's freely moddable.

Fallout 76 is more a single player rpg/survival lite game, that you play online in an open world with potential team members running around in the world, less emphasis on needing resources or needing to build a base. What you really do is play through a story with a main quest, side quests and a few multiplayer events you can kick off when you come across them, the dialogue is also mostly given to you through found notes, but the story has a defined mission structure and an end after which there's little to do other than grind for a new pieces of gear.
There's also a micro-transaction store and a number of ingame mmo mechanics like grinding endlessly for small chance of a legendary weapon drop suited your character build which Ark doesn't really feature. In Ark you can increase some character stats as you level but there's no real 'charater builds' like you find in other mmos

[Captain Bigfoot]

its basically a survival game like rust in an MMO setting with server hopping and PVP raids and what not. only the most tolerant garbage eaters play ark singleplayer. its also 1000% not worth playing without a decent group in multiplayer.

[Aurjay]

It's a Multiplayer game, but it does NOT meet the requirements to be a MMO That's when the game has a Hundreds of players on the same server at the same time, making it Massive. But...almost all Online games with Multiplayer has been labeled MMO for the past 10 or so years regardless.

[jballar]

I have played over 200 hours on singleplayer. If you like to explore build and tame & kill dinos, then it is for you.

[Roachy]

I would call it more of an MMOB. Massive Mess Of Bugs.

We still love it anyway

[Broken War Horse]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Why not *read the store page* and do research on it online?

It is a multiplayer game with singleplayer options, and yes it does count as an mmo, and I would hazard a guess that there's probably 10 to 20 times more people on it at any given moment, than there ever were on FO76.

Hell right now I bet there's more people in NO MANS SKY than 76 >_>

Because I have researched it and it was not clear what type of style it was.