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You must always see the bright side in any misfortune. Wiping official servers can be liberating people from the Ark addiction. Somehow, I've always had a strange bond with the Ark with what I collected on the official PVE. Now I'm faced with a choice... to continue my addiction or quit for good. Wildcard's risky approach.

This. Scummy as it is they're technically legally in the right as other features and modes work. Morally however I find it repugnant that they haven't at least put up an in game notice seeing as most of their players likely don't follow them on twitter or use StA to see these updates

Also what was the point in bringing out LDL servers when your just going to wipe everything?

I never thought I'd actually get to watch a dumpster fire quite like Studio Wildcard, I'm both quite entertained by the dramatic amount of backlash from the community that you people are fu**ing over, but also very sad and depressed over all that will be lost from my hard work over the years I been playing. And I'm sure next crunch will be just as much of a let down as these last 3, though for all we know, somebody may eventually pull their head out their rear end and actually listen to the feedback...

It really does suck doesn't it? Why are they leaving it to the players to do this for them? Is the few quick bucks really worth it? Worst part is I can totally see snail getting them to say "well we did tell people! You just had to look out our websites and social media that most of you never cared about!"

"Oh you are waiting for our answers to previous community crunches backlash? here is a bug. please forget what happen and give us your money" -Studio WIld Card

So no way you save a portion of official? Servers amount were never a problem since 2019 last partial legacy shutdown.. What about poor console players, will they able to download and play the official server saves? No other words about concerns regarding overwolf, multiplatform issues (Sony/Microsoft bits for undedicated)... all concerning unofficial? 😕 Nothing else... nothing? 😕 Any change to get code of ASE on github on Epic Unreal Engine like way?

Lmao, you don't get it: price is the last and minor issue. Getting paid for work is legit thing (if price is legit too!). The main issues are others. Official shutdown Total official shutdown is like forcing users to buy the game, despite ASE still selling good and getting new players activation daily. This also kills owners of old gen consoles that cannot even download and keep the server saves. You NEVER cared about server status: never a server review after 2019 with the partial shutdown of legacy. You opened always new servers even for unplayed maps. And now you are telling those resources are all needed for a game that still doesn't exists even on preorder and that will face 1-2 maps only at begin? This is a mockery. FIX: Keep Official alive until it is played. Do a server review, do it seriously, say what server have to close for being un-played, allowing people to move giving a decent amount of time. Do this review every 6-9-12 months until really those servers are all unpopulated and you decide to shutdown ASE. And please note that a lot of official players quitted now for your previous disastrous community crunch. Overwolf Overwolf is a piece of crapware slowing down system, eating resources. Paid mods will kill unofficial with players having to pay both slots and mods. Instead, mod.io initial choice was far better choice. FIX: Toss off overwolf and go back to mod.io. Multiplatform Multiplatform is just a sex toy for monkey streamers to get more viewers: it will only add tons of issues about cheating, account login issues, patch deployment issues (pc vs consoles certification process). This also put a dark shadows against unofficial and dedicated server runtimes: microsoft and sony don't like non-nda users dealing with their account and login platforms. You tried it with SOTF and didn't work (pad vs mouse&keyboard). FIX: Toss off multiplatform. It didn’t work with SOTF (mouse vs keyboard) and brings only deployment issues. Nobody really cares nor asked about this. Or if you really wanna do it, don't put it as default choice and on official servers. Your behaviour toward community You totally lack of any real sign of respect towards your community: lies, mocking, total silence hoping people will forget Now you say you changed again idea about your future econmical income? All these are proofs you aren't serious on your work and intentions. You are even able to sincerely ask sorry for those that will lose years of supporting your game. All this "we al learning" agile poop paradigm is just the iceberg peak of your total fail on this. ARK Survival Evolved is sold as an mmo, at least on Steam. In a mmo there are 2 really important aspect a developer must consider: servers review and community respect. For 7 years you clearly totally showed you do not care about these 2 things. FIX: Ask sorry. Really and sincerely. And stop using players as beta tester. Provide beta releases and servers for that.