DeNordain

Expect ARK II to be delayed atleast a year or two.... along with bugs that will take another 10 years for them to fix if they follow the same development as they've done this far.

I strongly feel that Wildcard need to adress their server and connection problems. Running a Extra Life event like they've done is so extremely bad for alot of players who find themselves either unable to connect at all or finding their server crash and not get up again within a reasonable period of time. Dont get me wrong, I absolutely love the game and can live with most bugs inside the game but these increased connection and server problems are just killing the joy of playing ARK completely. What really erks me is the absolute ignorance from Wildcard on this matter, we get lame excuses that its DDos attacks but people that I know working for goverment with networks, suspects that its all about extremely poor server hosting behind most of the issues. Sure, Ddos attacks happends but how ARK can be singled out to be attacked 24/7 is unlikely. Wildcard get your head out of your arse, be open and honest about these problems instead of staying silent or muting/banning people who raise these issues. You have Community Managers who seem to be more concerned about their own presentation than actually COMMUNICATE with the players, after all, its us players who bought the game and DLCs who allows you to have a job, right? Looking at the Extra Life stream was fun, it always is but its for me, depressing to listen and hear that the upcomming Genesis 2 will be a huge map, that tells me that there will be lots of players, lots of dinos, lots of bugs, lots of lag and lots of problems and with the currect state of the servers and connection problems, I can not look forward to what is to come. Making ARK server outage reports feels pointless, usually takes 3-6 hrs or more before someone manages to restart a down server, if that is due to lots of problems, well then, FIX IT. I've already lost one character to a server crash but now I know to everyday take a screenshot of my survivors implant info, something that atleast I didnt know I had to keep until this happend. Please Wildcard fix the connection and server problems BEFORE MARCH 2021 so we can enjoy this wonderful game with friends on official servers, cause I still LOVE ARK but absolutely HATE these increasing problems.

Crashed more than 3 hrs ago, still no life signs or respons at all from server team. Should be a better way to rely information, this isnt working. I have eggs out and dont really like to sit and wait for HOURS on something that can be fixed soon (tm) or in a few weeks time, no info on even an estimate. Really frustating this.

EU Valguero 512 is down (Crashed) as well and has been down close to 3 hrs by the time I post this. It has had problems since over a year ago, just getting worse and worse sadly.

Adding with the same but other server, Valguero 512 EU has gone from bad to worse with every patched released since Genesis 1 DLC (truth to be told it was bad before but I'll be nice). Currently we get disconnected at random times, not so fun if you are out flying or down swimming. The save lag has increased and takes longer times and now we got a problem that some people just cant connect to the server at all, we've getting "connection timed out". Do I feel hyped about the Fear event, no, not really, do I feel hyped about the TLC, not, will most likely just add more buggs and problems (its how its been since I started to play this game, with each DLC and patch, more problems are added or showing up). The Extra Life event, on the same day as the TLC and these added connection problems... wow, I get a feeling that you Wild Card are doing all you can to make people leave this game and never EVER buy anything your studio releases again. Your community managers are not doing their job in my opinion, to me, they are from my experience, the worst I've encountered since I started with online gaming, back when Star Wars Galaxies was new. The question is if its their lack of knowledge or if they are under orders not to respond to the problems that EVERYONE is aware is going on. Sadly, the only way to get a stable and somewhat good experience of ARK is by single player/local hosting or renting a private server. The official servers is as far as I can tell from my experience 2,700 hrs in, totally crap. I love the game, dont get me wrong but these server and connection problems are just killing it for me I am sorry to say. I hope that stuff get fixed but sadly, my exerience this far of WC is that it most likely will not get much better than it is now.

I think its funny how for each patch Wildcare deploys, the more problems occur with the servers, atleast those I play on. Valguero 512 has crashed pretty much a couple or more times per day since Eggcellent started, a few times less per day before that deployment. GenOne649 has some hiddeous rubber banding and latency problems that its pretty much unplayable most hours of the day. I dont think WC doesnt care about the playerbase, however, its seems like the problems are way over their heads as (as I've been told) there are bugs and problems still in the game that was reported back in beta. I think its sad that a game with such potential are, as it seems now, going down the drain. What I am however most disappointed with is the absolute lack of COMMUNICATION from Wildcard. What is creating these new extreme latency issues, the repeated crashes of servers, etc. Keep us, the players in the loop instead of keeping us in the dark cause it gives atleast me, the feeling that you are covering poop up or blatantly ignoring the current problems. My condolances to the staff on Wildcard that lost relatives and best wishes to everyone else, but PLEASE, keep us players in the loop of whats going on, you win more trust that way.