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No, you don't get to twist my words like that and expect to get away with it. Again... "Even if we factor in that the customer service for Conan has degraded since FunCom was effectively bought by TenCent, they still have an overall better history of customer service and a better history of bug fixes than WC/ARK have had. Over the lifetime of these two games, WC has focused more on quantity over quality, FunCom has focused more on quality over quantity." It would be dishonest to "put aside" either company's customer service when the point you were replying to was about comparing their customer service. You've made claims about FunCom's customer service so you can't just duck out of that conversation now and pretend it didn't happen. Even if we take into account that FC's customer service is not as good as it used to be, it's still better than WC's has been. Advantage: FunCom. No, ARK's DLC is not mostly cosmetic. Almost all of their DLC's have been direct gameplay DLC's and all of them have included power creep features. And just so you understand, no one's complaining about paying for maps during ASE, so don't get the idea that anyone (including me) thinks that the original ASE maps should all have been free. The complaint about the paid DLC maps in ASE was that they all included power creep, that is the crux of the issue being discussed. This one specific DLC, Bob's, is the first DLC they've ever produced that's mostly cosmetic. All of their other DLC, for the entire history of ARK, has been functional game DLC, with no cosmetic DLC before now. In the meanwhile, Conan has been selling entirely cosmetic DLC for years. This is the first time WC has tried cosmetic DLC, and even now deliberately included items that affect game play and cause power creep. game Bob's has 39 items in it with 17 of those items affecting game play and some of them being OP items. So even now, when WC is putting more DLC into this cosmetic pack, its still has a substantial number of items that affect game play and introduce power creep to the game. Whether you like or dislike the Oasisaur, whether you think it's weak or strong, is beside the point. It's still true that the Oasisaur affects game play and so do 16 other items in the pack. If "Bob's" had been entirely cosmetic this would be a different conversation, but it's not entirely cosmetic, which means it's still inferior to Conan's entirely cosmetic DLC's. Advantage: FunCom. All of which completely misses the point. You can argue all day long about which game gives you more cosmetics for your money but you're having the wrong argument. The point is that the Conan DLC's are all cosmetic, which means the DLC's in Conan are entirely optional. If people don't want to buy them there's no pressure on the player to do so, if people do want to then the player can decide whether or not it's worth the price. But all of the DLC in ARK includes items that cause power creep in the game, with some of them being OP items, which means that a player has to buy the DLC if they want to keep up with the power curve of the game. WC deliberately builds their DLC to create considerable pressure on players to spend the money or fall behind. In Conan players spend the money because they want to, in ARK players have to spend the money or they are weakened compared to other players. Advantage: FunCom. Then you've been extremely lucky in ARK. Many, many (MANY) people have experienced plenty of catastrophic bugs in ARK equally as terrible as anything that has ever happened in Conan. There have been multiple bugs over the years that resulted in "entire bases being destroyed", people losing all or most of their tames, etc. As we've already discussed, FunCom is not as good about bugs as they used to be, basically since Tencent took them over. But (again) even if we take into account the fact that FunCom has deteriorated somewhat they still have a better track record of not-breaking-the-game than WC has. Advantage: FunCom. The difference is that every new DLC in ARK causes power creep, which puts pressure on players to buy the DLC or get left behind. That is the very definition of coercion. No one is "forced" to buy ARK DLC but if they don't then they will be weakened compared to other players, that's what coercion is. When Conan released Siptah they found out that players were able to use transferring between the two maps to gain advantages over players who only owned Exiles. After some time they decided to stop transfers so that all players on the Exiles map were on a level playing field with all other players on the Exiles map, and the same with Siptah-vs-Siptah players. But in ARK the new maps include power creep on purpose, it's a deliberate part of WC's plan to coerce people into buying the new DLC/map or fall behind the power curve. WC could have introduced new maps in such a way that they did not create power creep, but instead they see power creep as a feature they can leverage, a tool for driving more sales, they are deliberately coercing players to buy each new DLC by putting people at at a disadvantage if they don't. FunCom wants their players to have a level playing field, WildCard deliberately uses power creep as a way to coerce people into buying each DLC. Advantage: FunCom. False. The facts are calling you out and you're waaay off. 17 of the 39 items in Bob's affect game play, and some of them are truly OP. Technically that's 56.4% RP, but even that number overlooks or ignores just how much the power-creep items can matter in the game. Even if you were right, even if it was 99% RP (which again, it's not, that's way off) that other 1% would still matter if it was OP. Adding any power creep to a DLC is inferior to a DLC that is entirely RP. Advantage: FunCom. Eventually yes, you could do that, but only after the people who bought it early were already far ahead of you. And to be clear, there's some truth to what you're saying, I agree with you in part, and for PvE this is more nuanced than for PvP. For PvE players and single-players, if they were willing to wait until the next free DLC map was released they could gain access to the power-creep features that were introduced with each paid DLC map. That's something WildCard did that was good. But it still doesn't change the fact that making people wait for months to have access to the recent power-creep content was a form of soft coercion. It's reasonable to argue that PvE and single-players could simply exercise some self-restraint and gain access to that content when the next free DLC map was released. But this still means that Conan DLC has almost all been free, almost all cosmetic, and each new DLC has been equally available to all players in the game at the same time. In Conan people no PvE, PvP, single-player all gain access to each new DLC at the same time as everyone else. Advantage: FunCom. Now we move on to PvP, where things are worse. For PvP players that "generosity" meant nothing. If someone was a PvP player when a new paid DLC map was released they had two options - a) buy it right away or b) get a beat-down from people who bought it. By comparison, the only time Conan ever released a DLC that gave an advantage in PvP was when they released Siptah, and then FunCom made the decision that this was not a fair way to treat PvP players and ever since that one release they have made sure that all PvP players in the game have access to changes that affect gameplay at the same time. Changes to thralls that affect PvP? All PvP players get it at the same time. Changes that affect weapon performance? All PvP players get it at the same time. Changes that affect attacking/defending bases? All PvP players get it at the same time. But in ARK every DLC that has ever been released, including Bob's, gives an immediate advantage to people who buy it right away. Again, using power creep as a tool for coercion. Advantage: FunCom. And again, the Oasisaur is only one small part of the picture. A significant portion of of the items in Bob's affect game play, and some of them are truly OP. That goes way beyond any discussion of whether the Oasisaur is good or not. Also again, every Conan DLC except for one, Siptah, has been 100% cosmetic, not one paid DLC for ARK has been 100% cosmetic. Advantage: FunCom. True. After releasing Siptah, FunCom decided that it was P2W and reversed their decision, stopping map transfers so that players on both maps were on a level playing field. WIldCard, on the other hand, has deliberately ensured that all of their DLCs, including Bob's, are P2W by adding power creep to every DLC as a way to coerce people into buying them. Advantage: FunCom. True, but pointless of you to mention. Of course they're both businesses, and of course they're not charities, because duh obviously. That's neither here nor there because it has nothing at all to do with the discussion. The issue being debated is which of those businesses treats their customers better and has less predatory business practices. That's objectively false. WildCard's model for DLC is much more coercive and predatory than FunCom's, for all of the reasons listed above. Advantage: FunCom. Repeating your lousy argument doesn't make it better. Setting the bar low for WildCard doesn't argue in your favor, it simply shows that know your position is weak and you're trying to make excuses for WildCard. If you have to make excuses like that for WildCard then you already know FunCom is doing a better job. Advantage: FunCom.

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Wnats about Custom Cosmetic System Phase 2, launching April 1, will automatically download them in the background when encountered during gameplay. Note: Clients can disable usage of these globally or per-Mod-ID. Servers can disable globally or use a whitelist (we suggest servers use our official whitelist, which will be the default). The cosmetics allowed on official servers will be dynamically-white-listed on a daily basis by Overwolf and Studio Wildcard to avoid any exploity or issue-causing cosmetics. Where is that?

I like cake

You guys still haven’t fixed the single player crashing issue

Careful what you say Petja or you will get banned like i did off the ark official discord they don't like it when you talk about problems with the game.

Such thrilling news, absolutely love to hear it! But is there any update on fixing meshing, cheating and other game breaking exploits?

Please fix OASISAUR, we bought but is uselless, everytime i return to it its dead, just a head on the ground, or refund.

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Looking for a tribe to join recently just hopped back on the game I could probably get 2 more of my friends to come as well if wanted I’m on Xbox series x and I have discord as well lmk Discord: Un0tHim

Yo... Devs can you tell is if new scorched earth servers will launch in the near future?

Whenever official server 5139 gets full I keep getting pushed out to dashboard when someone trys to log In. I've been in the middle of flight, fight and building when this happens. I've lost tames equipment and structures because I can't get back in to log off inside. People will "kite" my tames and my bodyjusy to get at my inventory. Something really needs to be done about this. Either up the server limit or come clean out the "weekend warriors" who only log In for 3xs events

Sounds to me like you just got crazy lucky on those first 12. Bps aren’t a guaranteed drop so it’s not a bug, just a poorly thought out feature. and the phoenixes to my knowledge don’t passively drop bps, which would be another good way to source them, making the phoenixes no longer a useless trophy tame

I’m kinda the opposite lol, but maybe that’s cuz I don’t really care about rag. idc if it gets another vote, and you have a point, it probably does deserve one considering we’ll have had the raptor for probably close to a year before rag releases either way though I would prefer if the raptor still gets moved over as it was intended to be unique to rag and I don’t see a reason to undo that

Nah screw that. Micro transactions don’t belong in survival games why would you buy a game and then pay extra to not have to actually play it if you don’t like grinding mats then I’m sorry to say, but maybe Ark, and survival games in general just aren’t for you

Another empty crunch, 3x is nice tho

anyway we can get the cat ears mod on official too? Vault//Storage display name mod still isn’t working on official i almost wish there was a dedicated report section for the mods so we can get this stuff fixed sooner

why is it so hard to get 6 active memebrs

Fix transfer character deletion

official orp, why is that so hard to implement??????

In celebration of today’s International release of ARK: THE ANIMATED SERIES, the "Dear Jane" event has received an extra-special update: Now, when survivors equip the Animated Series “Bob” costume, you'll hear Bob's voice (Karl Urban) reacting to gameplay actions and delivering witty quips when using emotes! Watch now on Paramount+! Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-bowser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week! This video features: Cliffans Sci-Fi Wardrobe by Cliffan Dino Cartoon Pack by SurviveDeimos J-Cosmetics by GaiaDanny YuryServer CCS by Yury_JP HorrorDevMods Custom Cosmetics by HorroDevMod Scorched Acrocanthosaurus by Garuga123 Cliffans Horses by Cliffan Edestus by Schmitto Cliffans Sci-Fi Wardrobe by Cliffan Dino Cartoon Pack by SurviveDeimos J-Cosmetics by GaiaDanny YuryServer CCS by Yury_JP This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, April 22th. PVP/PVE: 3x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding Small Tribes: 5.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 5x Breeding ARKpocalypse: 6x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Help us discover your talent by tagging your art with #ARKPhotoMode or #ARKFanart on social media! Creator: Freyn To celebrate the end of the Dear Jane journey, Freyn created a comprehensive guide on how to find all the notes and unlock all the skins. Creator: Skwirrelle Was the Morellatops merely a product of imagination, or could it have been a real-life creature waiting to be unearthed? Tune in to Skwirrelle's "Was It Real?" series and let's uncover the truth together. The gladiatrix from the animated series! by laind003 ark snow owl by polarmolecule.art OMG SPINACH HI!!!! by @naeriie Two animals and one man surviving in the desert by @RISHICA123 Desert by hiimcat My yutyrannus doodle by mimiksaur Part 5 of drawing every Dino Dossier by cascadingcaramel Photo Mode by toastaleenix Got his back... well back. by donnsensei Photo Mode by joltss1 Photo Mode by strides993 Photo Mode by cosmicman5455 Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg View full article

I know you said you are sure the ports are open, but I just need to ask to be sure that both ports are open. By default, the server will listen on 7777 and 7778, and steam will listen on 27020 for their own server list. If you have ASE running as well, there may be interference because they may not realize they are both listening on the same ports. After that, when looking for your server make sure you're searching on un-official with password protected checked if you have one enabled, as well as player servers. This resolved the issues I was having of not finding mine in the list.

Welcome to The Exiles! Come join our crossplay server as a -NO WIPE- PVE Community with 10X Harvest rates and 15X taming speed! We have faster breeding, taming, incubation and some fun mods! This Community will be very active with Admins on daily and around to assist new members. Please check out the Discord and come join in on the fun. We will be actively seeking suggestions from the community on new ideas and how to improve the server. We are looking for fun, mature people, who want to play the game! We have contests and giveaways, which range in prizes from free breeding pairs, rare dinos, to store credits! We offer a free starter kit for all members! For both Scorched Earth and The Island! We will be clustering all maps as they come out! ✦ Ascended Additions (all mods) ✦ Dinosaur Discovery ✦ Automated Ark ✦ Pelayori's Cryo Storage ✦ Super Cryo Storage ✦ S-Dino Variants ✦ Z-Dino Variants ✦ Omega Teleporters ✦ Super Spyglass ✦ Draconic Chronicles ✦ Death Inventory Keeper ✦ TG Stacking Mod ✦ RR- Decor ✦ DinoPainter ✦ Breedable Rhynio ✦ And many more QoL, item, and balance mods Server Settings //General// Speed Leveling: On 5x Boss Kills Taming: x15 Passive taming: 50% faster Engrams: Auto unlock //Breeding Rates// Mature speed: x50 Incubation speed: x25 Baby Food Consumption: 0.5 Mating Speed: x10 Mating Interval: 0.1 Imprint: 100% with 1 imprint //Player Stats// Player food drain: 0.5 Player water drain: 0.5 Stamina drain: 0.5 //Everything Else// Flyer carry & Speed levelling Flyers in caves Max 20 in a tribe Upload expiration: 12 days Always allow structure pickup Unlimited respecs Unsnapped core structures auto decay (12hours) Custom Loot Drops Cave & Underwater crates are official //Community// Search in Unofficial Session List: (US) The Exiles - No Wipe - (US) The Exiles - No Wipe SE - Discord Invite: https://discord.gg/34PX3HHu8g