MOD SUPPORT is coming to the Epic Games Store version of ARK!   August 30th, 2019 Epic's Trello Development Board: https://trello.com/c/xqnzVcZz/27-mod-support-for-games     May 18th, 2020 Epic Newsletter: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/development-update-self-refund-keyless-partner-integration-and-changes-to-ownership-authorization (The existence of this newsletter is significant.  It's written by PR people, and is based on timelines the dev