powertrip9000

its funny to see the progression of the tone of the comments on this announcement. First its all congrats whoot now its OFF WITH THEIR HEADS lol. 

its not necessarily the wipe its the being lied to completely. EA didnt even do this they just dont say anything and not pretend to care. Its okay wipe em watch the reviews and rating of this game tank. That is well within our rights as customers. 

Bunch of salty vets go to new servers gl new players ur gonna need it.

There is a huge argument on various forums on wether or not consoles are getting the platform nerf can we confirmation on either way? @Jat

Platforms count 19 against dino vount really............ what a load of uknow what

21 minutes ago, Arkasaurio said:

More like a life saving tourniquet . This may not be your favorite solution but it's the best middle ground for the WHOLE Ark community. Any other option would have lead to lot more PO'ed people.

I also have no idea why you're so sure you're server is going to die off. Maybe it's not the go to choice on day one for people who don't know anyone currently playing Ark, but there's a lot of folks who don't buy EA that are going to go play with their friends (who do buy EA) on legacy servers. Also, over time the difference should become a lot less pronounced, as legacy servers are getting all the updated code, eventually most of duped/glitched/etc. advantages will fade out. I really think a strong community move would be wiping very low population servers every quarter, no matter the game mode or cluster (not unofficial of course). Might encourage people to make their servers decent places to play.

Or maybe you're right and overtime the whole player base moves to the new servers and legacy completely dies. All that means is there aren't enough people interested in playing there. If that vast of the majority of the player base doesn't care to play legacy it probably shouldn't even exist, but at least WC is letting the community vote with their feet (play time) rather than just wiping (or giving no new servers).

people are still duping and not by ddosing. Every time they patch people find a new way to cheat. spreading out the player base like this is only bad for everyone. PVP i understood completely pve on the other hand it is a serious mistake. New players wont be on even ground no matter what unless u separate people by experience but even then ull get smurf accounts. its going to work initially like day 1 after that the gap between the experienced players and nubs will grow. Jaded experienced players with new players = people are going to get griefed. With arks stellar track record of fixing issues and amazing customer service this is a recipe to loose a  large player base and hurt the game as a whole. 

4 minutes ago, Musketeer said:

For people who plan to play the game for another year+ it's just better to move to new servers. For them staying on legacy servers is just a waste of time.

For me... it just buys me some time before I move onto something else. I love the game, but things don't last forever.

i agree completely, i didnt cheat i played hard and have great tribemates to build up fast. I totaltyy restarted 5 months ago and we built up to have 4 egg tribes etc. etc. i am not going through all that effort again. gg ark Oh yeah there are 5 other ways to dupe right now that you dont have fixed or takes ddosing. So problem not solved.  The big tribes will take less than 3 days to become extremely established. poor nubs aint going to know what hit em. 

2 minutes ago, Sunshinemya said:

That is extremely disappointing that we will not be able to transfer to the new "official servers" on ragnorok or any non-legacy servers, regardless of being official. That absolutely sucks and truly disappoints and discourages my gameplay. It's Disappointment because many people would like to check out the new map plus exclusive new animals, but won't even be able to transfer said new animals if they wish to return back to their old server. Let's be realistic, the new servers coming out for Ragnorok will be a lag fest. There is a guarantee of server crashes left and right. I'm from PVE and always PVE, as PVP is not something I enjoy on Ark. So not being able to cross transfer is disappointing. I know many people have been preparing to transfer to Ragnorok more permanently, but they are in a surprise to see that all their preparation and wait will be nothing. You guys have put so much hope and excitement into this new map and you've only disappointed, especially for XBOX platform as it's pushed back further with no date, again. So what's the real appeal, few new animals and some changes? Not really worth what you've put your customers through.  I would have rather you guys just wipe "ghost town" servers and call it a day. Why did you have to throw in no cross transfer? Because if you can allow cross transfer from Scorched Earth to The Island or the Center, then why exclude Ragnorok?

pve isnt getting legacy servers, read the comments above

yes and pvp point?

1 minute ago, Picolo XL said:

 

pve doesnt need new servers, they are not as savage as pvp , u build , breed dinos, defeat bosses tthats it. There is no unfair advantage. It is only going to help new players by having the older tribes around. 

great job not doing legacy on pve doesn't make any difference, if anything it will help new players in pve enjoy all aspects of the game. Its not like pvp where they will get destroyed. 

thanks tons for the clarification