Xbox Play Anywhere
In addition to the Aberration update, barring any cert issues, Xbox will receive the Play Anywhere update on December 12th. This update will allow crossplay between the Windows 10 version of ARK and the Xbox version. Survivors will be able to choose to allow crossplay on their unofficial servers or non-dedicated sessions with a simple checkbox on the host menu.
hi, i have been searching for A LOT more info on this and no one seems to have any answers. i want to rent a server from nitrado with crossplay enabled for my xbox and pc friends to play together. i called nitrado, and they literally know nothing. they didn't even know this is apparently happening on the 12th (crossplay). how is that possible? how can nitrado not know ANYTHING about crossplay when it is set to release in 2 weeks? i spoke on the phone with customer service and literally got an "idk"... seems like there is pretty crappy communication going on between wildcard and nitrado. no one on the nitrado forums seems to know anything either. this is all such a clusterf*ck...
i don't want to get shut out by a lack of servers and i know pre-ordering is a thing, but i don't know whether or not i should buy a pc server or an xbox server for crossplay, what happens to the xbox players if i run mods on the crossplay server, when the windows 10 version will be available, if it is still free if you bought the xbox version, etc. there are so many questions and wildcard is being very shady about this. i have tweeted them several times over the past few days but they ignore me every time. i get that tweeting straight to the top probably is not efficient. i get that they are very busy. i just wish they would hire a dedicated customer service team so i could CALL someone and literally get the answers i am searching for. i have 10 friends who are kind of in the dark right now, asking me questions daily about this stuff for the server i told them i would host for all of us, and i look like an idiot cause i have no answers. a lot of these are friends who i used to play with on xbox but are done with the shadiness of wildcard. i just got a gaming pc and i told them we get a free windows 10 version since we bought ark on xbox and they are willing to try it out on this server, but then this happens and it reminds them why they quit... i am a dedicated customer who has bought this game twice (xbox and steam) as well as scorched earth twice, and i just feel like now that wildcard has my money, they are done giving a crap...