MrWrath

If you are on Windows 10 you may have the same issue I had. Found some forum with a suggestion and by god I stopped crashing every 15. If it is the issue I was having it is not an Ark issue, but a Windows issue. Find the shootergame.exe file. Right click it and go to properties. Under the compatibility tab make sure "Disable fullscreen optimizations" is checked. For me the shootergame.exe file was in steamlibrary>steamapps>common>ark>shootergame>binaries>win64 Apparently Windows has some built in nonsense that is automatically enabled on install that creates crashes every 15 minutes or so.

I feel there is a lack of clarity with the topic of legacy-accessible ragnorok servers. In the past WC said they would have support for the legacy servers in terms of new content and dlc. But now they are saying no support for legacy and I am curious if this also includes the new content and dlc. They have changed their minds on things before so I Could see it happening. The dupers have ruined Ark so I am actually in support of forcing everyone to start over if they want to play the new content. Either that or someone delete every duped item in the game. If Legacy has access to ragnarok then all we are going to get is new content ruined by old problems. No one needs a ragnarok server packed with duped gigas and wyverns and unraidable bases packed with millions of rounds of duped ammo. Leave it in legacy, i say!

Gotta add my two cents. This will likely become a nightmare. The reason has been stated multiple times so I won't say it all again, but the bottom line is that the Chinese/Brazilian tribes need to be regulated and restricted, not freed and given more ways to exploit the mechanics of the game. But, to all of you that are pissed and/or fearful for the safety of your hard work, at least we have a dev team that is working with us to find that happy place. It is not perfect yet. It likely won't be for quite a while. The scope of this game is pretty far-reaching so it may be a while until they find the sweet spot. But they are working on it. They are trying to keep us informed. That is more than you can say for a lot of companies. We can flame em now and solve nothing, or we can get involved in the forums moving forward and hope for the right outcome. We often forget the role we took as early access testers. Just as much as they owe us our money's worth, we owe them some understanding and some cooperation to make the game what it could be. My 3000 hours say that they have been doing a pretty alright job so far. But it does suck pretty hard when you have to worry constantly that some bullpoop tribe will come in and ruin a great server completely unchecked...

Please don't speak for me. I, as a customer, understand they are a business and I will have to pay money to get the best product. I, as a customer, am being patient with their progress since I don't know what goes on in their studios or in their bank accounts. I, as a customer, accept that if I don't like their practices I can choose another title to play and may walk away peacefully and quietly without flaming on with negativity. What all this negativity does is paint the ARK COMMUNITY in a negative light, not the development company.

If I may give my opinion.... I know there has been a firestorm of negativity about the paid content, but think about ARK when compared to your basic Triple-A game on the market. Let's even take a "big" game like Witcher 3 or Fallout 4. A hardcore fanboy/fangirl will maybe spend a few hundred hours on those. Some will spend more. Most will put anywhere from a handful of hours to a couple hundred. I am one of those people that can truly devote myself to a game or a franchise and run it into the ground. I gave each of those examples about 100 hours give or take. They are incredible games that cost me $60 each and got me about 100 or so hours each. I paid $30 for ARK (no damn sales when I wanted it!!! lol) and have now played in the area of 2000 hours. I paid half the price for 20 times the experience. Naturally, that is just me and you all may be different, but I certainly know a lot of players that have 500-1000 hours. There are many that have 2000+, 3000+ hours. I see no argument in charging $20 for content. What many forget is that Wildcard just had to pay out the ass to a former employer of one of the developers. Is that that consumers' fault? No. But it is the reality of the situation. These developers are not in a slave-labor camp where they can just hack away for free. This is a business, these are people that need to pay bills, and paying for content will have to happen. Aren't we all glad that they aren't charging monthly for play? They could have gone that route. Another way that I view this is that we just paid for more of the core game. We don't know the mythology of ARK yet. These ARKs are obviously not just singular entities. There are multiple ARKs and they apparently tie together somehow. We weren't charged the full $60 price tag that one may expect only to be told that "the other half of the game will be out in the next year or two". Instead we paid less, got limited content early, then paid more for a more full game. And did you all forget about the Center? That was free!!! And it is incredible! I understand that money can be tight for some. No one wants to spend money. Without spending money we would have no ARK at all though. Wildcard needs money to function. Just some things to ponder. I will now step off of my pedestal and rejoin the peasants in running from Allos.