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Since there's no way to communicate with you guys I'll put this here. Your Discord capped at 250k users long time ago. So please stop posting information there!!! Hundreds of thousands of us cannot see your updates. Please post all updates on X or post.news

This format, being inside of a book with that text, is this something given during these contests? Or are player artists just doing this on their own? Is it required for contest submissions?

I'm asking for an ART ONLY thread. So that we may chip in concept art for the dev team.

Please provide a link the the art forum. More specifically, please provide a link for the Ark 2 and Ark Ascended ideas forum. I would love to contribute. I put my post exactly where it belonged.

Leave it open. I'm an artist and you may draw some inspiration from both my work and that of the community. Please just open an "Art" thread for Ark and Ark 2. I'm busy and never see your short little windows to submit art.

99% of my gameplay is on Gen2. I'm not paying $60 bucks to play it for a short amount of time before Ark 2 launches. I hate the idea of Overwolf, but I understand it. You need it for cross platform. I get it. But I refuse to buy Ark 2 if there are paid mods. That will destroy the game and seriously cripple the community. Imagine private servers running all paid mods. Someone would have to buy them all just to play on that server. Nope. Not happening! Oh and update that god awful Dev Kit. It's terrible!

What concerns me is that anyone could, right now, hire an attorney and create a company called "Studio Wildcard". Additionally, they could trademark the game called "Ark 2" and "Ark Survival Ascended". The way the law works on patents, trademarks and copyrights is that you can "improve" or "add to" any of them and get trademark/copyright approval in the United States. It's first to file. It's pretty obvious to me that Wildcard (if that's its real DBA name) is giving itself an out and back door in case this new Ark 2 fails. Oh, by the way, the CEO and one of the founders of Wildcard, Doug Kennedy, recently quit and went to a new gaming company called VoxPop Games. He is their new Executive Chairman.

It's extremely unusual that a company announces a game and doesn't even file a trademark or copyright for it. Hmm. And there is no "Studio Wildcard" or "Wildcard Studio" or "Wildcard Studios" registered in the United States.

With the changes to Ascended --- > Overwolf, does that mean we're getting a new Dev Kit that is compatible with UE5? If so, when? Will it have better performance than our existing Dev Kit? Will it share the same UI or is that being upgraded too?

Awesome change. I request two more... 1. Add SS Super Structures as a perm addition to official Ark. It's by far the best mod in this game. 2. Add roll rats, rock drakes (or make them crystal drakes) and normal wyverns to Crystal Isles. Please.