RIP Ark. It's been fun 8 years, but I don't think I will have the strenght, energy and time to start all over on your official servers.
I still think it would have been more sensible to launch ASA and have it run paralel with ASE for a bit, so people get used to it and could migrate to a more polished version as at launch it will be a mess, before shutting ASE down...
anyways farewell, survivors. and good luck