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How many times are you creeps going to remove the PC version for the windows store? This is getting hilarious.. it hasn't even been updated since launch.. crude fullscreen support, xbox one controller support botched.. oh my.. you guys make so much money on this yet take a HUGE dump on customers. I can't believe you are legally able to walk back all the BS talk in EA that never came to fruition, and probably was never actually planned... oh man this is horrid.

Yeah it works now, you can set it up. There is some monster lag in non-dedicated for me at times, no clue. If you have a modern PC you could theoretically run the dedicated server and another instance of the game as a client, but it's locked purely by the DRM with your xbox/windows account. You can only be signed in 1 at a time on each device. Hrmm.. I didn't know that, I just checked and you're right. The tether will easily be removed soon enough, but as for now I guess it's only for split screen. Cheers

You can now, they fixed it i'm in my own game now running the xbox dedicated and connecting with my PC. It appears to be resolved for the moment. Invites are sending and being received. Cheers

Try it again, it seems they fixed it overnight, invites/game joining from the xbox app on PC or on xbox is working now. * You are correct, they don't update this too often, the official forum, instead we get to seed through retweets and personal off topic stuff to get info on twitter or reddit hah.. it's cool, at least it's fixed at the moment. Now for the PC version to be massively updated, with like.. fullscreen and resolution changing..

This is where I get a bit iffy on this whole debacle of a release. 2 tweets saying they are aware and blame MSFT is hardly tweeting all day.. just saying! This is the game forum.. people want to come here to get the info, not follow randoms on twitter for this game's updates. That's ludacris.

Since the mods and 'volunteer' mods go MIA, i'll easily answer this for you. 1) You do not need to buy another 100euros worth of ARK. You don't even need xbox live to play multiplayer from a PC if you buy the PC version from the store (gives you the xbox version), but you do need it to play the xbox version online. 2) Correct, you cannot host a dedicated and play from the same machine on either PC or XBOX. Unless you plan on playing when he's not, or have like 20+ people connecting (the reason for a dedicated server), then you should have him host a non-dedicated session on the PC so you get the benefits of no tethering etc. The thing is, it's not working right now, invites to friends, among just trying to join from the xbox or the PC xbox app for Windows 10, it's not working yet, but when they get it figured out, you're good to go that way) 3) This is unlike any other Play Anywhere title, and thus far not in a good way. It's supposedly "out" for 4 months retail, then Play Anywhere added later (Dec.14th was the real release for the Windows 10 version), but it doesn't work Cross-platform right now.

Still here, but in the studio's defense, this was said soooo long ago, like a year at least. People had a huge amount of time to decide. They clearly said that the steam version would not be cross-play. It can easily change down the road, but people always blame MSFT instead of Valve. Cheers

Yup, same here. This seems to be the consensus. It's just not working right, I was really surprised to see they somehow 'fixed' this without updating the game on either PC or XBOX.. interesting *while sitting here BS'ing in the forums I've restarted my server 6 times, 3 times on each my XBOX and my PC, inviting my other gold tag and searching each time. We can't be sure if it's everyone, or even regional. Sorry to hear you guys even tried restarting your save, ouch! I feel your pain. Fun Fact for all - Some aren't aware we don't need xbox live on PC at all, and probably never will for lack of a player base. You just need the account you bought the game with to install it and on logged in PC, It's not hardware specific, even better than game share on xbox. Cheers

What does that even mean?! They DID buy ark. Gamesharing/Playanywhere is a great thing, in fact it gives me 3 copies of this game. One for my xbox, one for my gameshare, and one for PC. It's not working correctly as advertised, don't blame the consumer hah..

Since there was no actual update for the game this morning for PC or xbox to replace code, what was actually 'changed' to allow this? Are you guys saying this was on the server side and not all of our install local copies? I was expecting an actual update at least on the windows 10 store or something. Can you please clarify that cross-play dedicated hosting is actually cross play, and not just xbox hosts connecting to a PC server? I only see people wanting to host a dedicated server on PC and connect xbox clients. I want to host on XBOX and play with my PC which looks and runs light years faster. I have another made account on my home xbox that I use and share gold with, which is on my friend's list. This issue has nothing to do with silver/gold status. I'm gold on both. Correct, we still can't join/invite friends games on either xbox or PC, and vice versa. Something must still be up, we can't see our games in the list either. On the xbox app for PC, it still looks the same as before this was 'officially announced' this morning. It shows the account with the controller in the friend's listen, meaning it's a joinable game, but indeed is still greyed out, even after this morning. Surely we don't have to reinstall the game. Thanks