"Preserving the integrity of our official network".
Hate to break it to you Cedric, but you are living in a fantasy land with this statement. There is no integrity to be preserved, as the game is completely overrun with cheating and exploits at this point. Your team should really be in crisis mode trying to fix these problems or your player base is going to die.
We've had three tribes quit off of our official server on console this week. All three were meshed resulting in a total wipe. These tribes had played on the server for months, with large well defended bases. The players responsible were taunting the entire server and openly admitting to meshing. Our tribe offered to help the meshed tribes out with supplies and tames to get back on their feet, and all three tribes refused. Why rebuild when it is just inevitable that you will lose everything to exploits again anyway. I can hardly blame them for quitting, and if my tribe gets meshed I know that I will be done with the game as well.
Meshing ruins the game in itself, however, its only one of the huge game breaking flaws of Ark.
Our server gets DDOS'ed almost daily. People are selling server and player IP's on facebook. Anyone with a computer or phone app can just casually take down your servers and make attempting to play on them a nightmare. DDOSing is completely out of control.
Fortunately you guys made what is quite possible the best open world sandbox game available. You can preserve and restore your player base if you start taking these issues seriously, and listen to the players. Please fix the game.