The Evolution Events are the only thing that keeps me interested in Ark Official Servers. The rates for official servers are set to low on weekdays. I am a casual player, I have a career, home, and a family to take care of but I do enjoy playing Ark in my free time, typically a few hours every week-night and weekends. With the normal official rates, it takes prohibitively too long to tame bigger/useful dinos so I rely heavily on the Evolution Events but as of lately, even the Evolution Events have not been as frequent as they used to. This "every other weekend" idea is unbearable.
Wildcard as an avid consumer I must make it known that whenever you have new DLC's to purchase, I do so times 3. So that myself and my kids all get copies for their account. I believe it is fair to say that I bring a considerable increase in your bottom dollar but if the Evolution Events continue to be only available "every other weekend" and the current Official server rates remain the same or less, then I may no longer be supporting your product.
Your product is a great one and I have had plenty of fun moments within your game but the timesink is getting way out of hand. I feel deeply that your loyalism to your players is left wanting...
You do not create enough innovated new servers they are usually just the same old PVE or PVP server number 200......blah blah. As a casual and single player I do greatly appreciate your Offline-Raid-Protected servers but even then for us casual players, they are typically overwhelmed by Asian alphas spamming their square characters and blocking off all of the vital resources.
I recommend that you create a new server for casual players that are both "Offline Raid Protected" and "NO TEK" combined, that should also limit tribe member sizes, prevent tribe alliances, and is completely isolated (no character/item uploading or downloading at all). This way the server you start on is the very same server you stick with throughout your entire time playing. The TEK was always a crap idea for casual players as we were never going to be able to enjoy that aspect of the game and TEK only serves the larger alpha tribes which only widens the divide between casual players and Alphas.
Wildcard, I sure hope that this is the best forum to post this suggestion/complaint as your forum is really large and confusing.
Thank you, Sincerely,
Vaylain