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    Today, ARK: Survival Evolved has made its transition from an Early Access title to a full Digital and Retail release. As a studio, we are incredibly excited about reaching this milestone. It has been a challenging and emotional experience for everyone a part of the ARK world; we're overjoyed about finally being able to hold the complete ARK disc, and want to thank each one of you for joining us on this journey.

    ARK started out as a very ambitious project, in terms of scope of content, features, and the story. It was no secret that we were in for an adventure with what we were hoping to achieve alongside the community. It started out as a basic open-world survival game, with one ARK, one boss, about 30 creatures, and approximately a bazillion bugs give or take. It was hard to say where the game would lead us, regarding its story, and its development. Those of you who were with us for the Early Access launch had many questions about how the world came to be, why you were here, and where we were going. Today, you can begin to discover the answer to those questions.

    Over the past 26 months, the game has undergone massive improvements thanks to feedback from the community. We now launch with four ARKs - including the Norse & Scottish Highland-Inspired "Ragnarok" -, five bosses, over one hundred creatures to tame and encounter, the inclusion of the Primitive+ alternate game mode & Procedural ARKs, hundreds of mods, total User Interface overhauls, general performance enhancements, bug fixes, quality of life improvements, countless additional gameplay plus story elements, and... a toilet.

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    With the “1.0” release version, you can experience the full story of ARK: Survival Evolved! Can you make it to the heart of the ARK and discover the shocking secret that lies buried within? While it may seem strange for a survival game to have a “single player” mode with an “ending”, we’re happy that surviving the ARK provides a measure of closure should you seek it, while also pointing the way to what comes next.

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    Rest assured this complete version of the game will still be receiving regular updates, and this is not the end of the ARK saga, but only the beginning of the next phase, for great adventures and awe-inspiring new experiences are just around the corner…

    It won't be long before we add two new members to our ever growing family of critters (with the Otter joining us today on PC, with the Phoenix and additional Tek Gear coming later this week!), as well as items, additional gameplay elements and more. ARK has only just scratched the surface, and there is a long future ahead, survivors everywhere will get to experience something out of this world.

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    Early Access hasn't been an easy or straightforward process; there is no established guidebook or instructions on how to take a game from early access, and into the full digital and physical retail release. You could say that we now understand why so few have done it. ;)

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    Having the community by our side, through thick and thin has been a key component to achieving this milestone. Sometimes we've made mistakes, and have had different opinions, but we truly appreciate each and every one of you. Your feedback, ideas, support, and passion through our Early Access journey have been vital to the development of the game and will continue to be invaluable to us. The community has undoubtedly influenced ARK for the better and contributed to its success and the landmark of reaching full digital and retail release.

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    We encourage everyone who has ever wanted to ride a T-Rex, soar across the skies on the back of a Pteranodon, fish from their boat as the evening sun fades over the horizon, or explore the deepest caverns to encounter terrifying extinct predators, to join us in the living, dynamic world that is ARK: Survival Evolved. Whether online or off, solo or in a large tribe, we think that everyone will find something special to discover on the ARK and make it their home.

    Stay tuned for updates on the relaunch of our Official Server Network on our social media channels (@survivetheark), and watch this space over the course of this week for lots more exciting ARK news, hint hint!

    See you there! :Jerblove:

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    1 minute ago, ArianaGaming said:

    Hello all,

    I was thinking that it might be hard to get back to the Ragnarok map we played on yesterday. But it was not. 6 open spaces.

    So I think reading all these post about people not able to play. Wanting more and more servers. Have you even tried to play?

    We admit that first hours of gameplay one friend waited 47 minutes to get on. I would not expect something else on launch day.

    Moving forward we continue to support and report issues.

    We all agree that the transformation the game had in 60 days is amazing. No matter how hateful people feel.

    Thanks, Ariana and Marcus and Sara and Ida

    Show me 1 EU-PVE-SE server

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    i would like to know why is there no pve EU servers for Ragnarok?

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    12 minutes ago, ArianaGaming said:

    Hello all,

    I was thinking that it might be hard to get back to the Ragnarok map we played on yesterday. But it was not. 6 open spaces.

    So I think reading all these post about people not able to play. Wanting more and more servers. Have you even tried to play?

    We admit that first hours of gameplay one friend waited 47 minutes to get on. I would not expect something else on launch day.

    Moving forward we continue to support and report issues.

    We all agree that the transformation the game had in 60 days is amazing. No matter how hateful people feel.

    Thanks, Ariana and Marcus and Sara and Ida

    I waited 7 HOURS to get into a game and by that time I was already tired and came off after 3 hours.

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    Hey everyone how do i get radios to work on ps4? On anymap?

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    Pethetic wildcard 42 rag servers its no surprise we all saw this coming.

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    can some one tell me why is it so hard for them to update their patch notes? Like come on is it that tedious to copy and paste and hit submit??? OH wait i guess it is since there is a patch rolling out every 2 hours. But still jokes aside update your poop....

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    Is SE not only used by alphas. I guess the small tribes need to build before advanced players come online. A bit of breading space. Call it what you want. I can not look now but I think I saw SE somewhere.

    One thing is for sure legacy has no players.

    If you waited 7 hours for one server. I guess something else is wrong. Or you just picked the worst server out there. IN the list it states 70/70 but in game it states 72/70 meaning 2 people wait. So if you waited 7 hours for two people to logout, clear and present super bad luck.

    Console have chat, so we never use in-game radio. But I also have free mobile calls to my friends and family so that is why no one use the in-game RADIO.

    The Ragnarok server we play on now have 8 free spaces. If you are worried everything is taken already. Never so  on this map. I guess the last build space will be the area called "murder murder snow".

    Clearly WC do what  they do best and clearly that is not NewYorkTimes.

    regards, Ariana

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    1 hour ago, bysaRD said:

    Show me 1 EU-PVE-SE server

     

    1 hour ago, Foz said:

    I waited 7 HOURS to get into a game and by that time I was already tired and came off after 3 hours.

    Ignore them. They're raptoring morons. I mean, look at their poor sentence structure and poop grammar and nonsensical rambling. They're obviously still at primary school reading levels. They have zero knowledge about anything but think they know everything. It's just 4 idiots sharing a single account. I guarantee that they're all sharing the same copy (or maybe they splurged and bought 2 copies) of the game and playing on the same screen, too.

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    PS4 Rag servers not working. New servers still nearly at double over player limit (I thought we were supposed to get some more added to the list? I don't see any more than yesterday.) And the Legacy servers aren't even allowing anyone in. The screen just sits there saying "Waiting To Join" and nothing happens for several minutes until finally popping up an error box saying the server is unjoinable. Nice job, WC. *golf clap*

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    2 legacy xbox maps and guess what FULL 

    I dont think i have the patient's anymore my gf is thinking of quitting too

    If we do we're lookong for Xbox pve players in same.boat to war with until every last thing is dead ... keep.look out for a thread :)

     

     

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    Can anyone tell me if Rag will be coming to CrossArkClusters? 1 pvp rag server is not enough for the whole of europe, but surely you guys know that... Me and my friends have been waiting months to check out Rag from our cluster. Just want to know if we should give up hope?

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    @theonetruegodME, If you hate the new server network and want to play with your duped items, 2 maps is more than enough. Quit now before you change your minds.

    Hint play GTA

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    Ya.  I really hate to be this guy but dang do we need more ragnarok servers than this.  This is not enough for all original players and many new players.  I'm talking xbox by the way. Be waiting for it for awhile and can't even get in.  I'm not waiting for a slot to be opened after everyone is done taking all the land they can.  That's just dumb.  So please many more servers.

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    15 minutes ago, ArianaGaming said:

    @theonetruegodME, If you hate the new server network and want to play with your duped items, 2 maps is more than enough. Quit now before you change your minds.

    Hint play GTA

    You are a bit of a bell end aren't you seriously because i have worked my ASS off over 2 years im a duper.. You are really part pf everything that is wrong with ark community 

    NOT  single thing I have is dupped i breed raised an traded an tamed everything i own along with my partner so little troll run along and save your rubbish base terrible tames an petty comments for people that do dupe.

    Leave the REAL players an traders out of your bitchy comments 


    @darrkprince388 same issues all over lol xbox seems to be lacking a LOT atm it is all PS based 

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    Why did you release the game yet? I still can not play, I try all day long about 20 times a day to get into one server but can not. Just tell us when xbox will have more servers. I will have to get my money back if I go on to a server and there are big bases with turrets and tribes with wyverns already. I signed up to play the game at the opening not to be bullied by mega tribes that dup like on legacy. 

    Your game release has been nothing to celebrate about, take all of your celebrating down and start explaining, quit tweeting and start caring.

    Not to mention I had a 17 man tribe trying to start up on a server on release but since then half have refunded their games. 

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    Would you guys consider the idea about adding a rope bridge for the tree platforms or for other reasons also can the sink come back to primitive Plus?

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    Question?

    My tribe is on legacy server, from what i seen wildcard could delete the legacy server in any moment, can I move from legacy to the new server n how  I do it

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    2 minutes ago, NOXCUSEE said:

    Question?

    My tribe is on legacy server, from what i seen wildcard could delete the legacy server in any moment, can I move from legacy to the new server n how  I do it

    No legacy is legacy only and got ignored by devs completely there is 0 transfer out of legacy amd also legacy gets 0 wc support

     

    Its either start fresh or hope for the best but its wc so expect the worst 

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    On 29/08/2017 at 2:09 PM, Mistuhhpalmer said:

    Congrats you guys currently downloading ps4 update

    Yeah we got no servers

     

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    45 minutes ago, NOXCUSEE said:

    Question?

    My tribe is on legacy server, from what i seen wildcard could delete the legacy server in any moment, can I move from legacy to the new server n how  I do it

    Your best bet is too wait it out and see, but eventually you will want too make the move to a new server, after some of the first day Bugs get worked out, im stuck on SE, they eventually want to delete all of the legacy servers anyway.

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    If they realy hope that the high Profesional wc crew don't delete the lagecy server. It's bad enough to se what's going on there at the moment. And when they delete the servers it will be a hard kick between the legs for all old player they spend so dead many time on it. So wildcard PLs Don't delete the lagacy servers

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