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I agree with everything in your post. ASA = fun removal that does look good .. when it works. But The best games are not winners because of the looks. I have a feeling all of this is done so that it works in Crossplay. The same happened in 7 days to Die.

Right so short term gain but long term pain as I think this will make a significant number of players back off. I bet there are many people that play on servers of just 3 or 4 people that want to play with their own settings. Either that or if you are going to do an exclusive deal make sure that the environment is a fit for your product. However I do understand commercial necessities but should you really make you customers pay for your past bad decisions and if you do like I indicated what will the long term effects be. I already see a huge amount of bad press out there regarding this. That said, Nitrado refunded us quickly.

I bought the game. This is my experience. Myself and several friends purchased the game to play together. 2 of us myself included do not have the machines to play this well but we do have Geforce now. On geforce now neither of us have been able to sucessfully play for more than an hour, ASE plays perferctly. Regardless of this the group clubbed together and rented a server from Nitrado. The server was expensive but what we did not realise was the absolute lack of features and settings that the server allowed, there might be ways but we are non technical and all busy working people so did not want to spend the time figuring out settings that are just basic features on our normal server provider (GPortal). Further to all this the other non Geforce now players have experienced significant issues with the game in general. One is running a 4080 with 64 GB of ram and a recent I9 processor, he reportes very poor performance at times. Another player runs a 7900 xtx and he experiences regular crashes, he suggested that its interface related. Current situation. We asked for and got a rufund on the nitrado server. We do all want to play Ark again but we are not big pvp players and have pretty much done everything in ASE .. we did want to experience the more immersive world that ASA seemed to offer, but with the issues we have canned our plans for that for now. To sum up I think its safe to say that the shambolic launch and the server policy has lost Ark 4 more players, we all feel we wasted our money and would not advise someone browsing this thread to make a decison to spend well earned cash on the product. Whats worse is that for me it brings what Ark 2 might be into serious doubt and significantly damages Wildcards reputation. The partnership with Nitrado is beyond me, I must be missing something. We have a new version of Satisfactory to explore we will spend our time there for now.

Gotcha, my bad.

I think I heard October for the play anywhere stuff ... do quote me though thats just from a vague memory.

Yes we do ... its a game launch day .... and game launch days things are going on

Oh the temptation ... but I smell a trap ... rep anyway just incase lol

Yay your first post and its positive!!!! Rep from me!

BOOOOOOOM!!! There it is positivity ... Well done Sir / Mam / Whatever.

Crapola .... I missed it .....

You see as soon as the servers are down the community resorts to merciless hate and trolling ... Ark when working saves from this as we can vent our frustrations by murdering each other and the wildlife .. and a little bit of nurturing I guess. So I blame WIldcard for this shocking human behaviour I am seeing... we are clearly bugged .. so patch us already.

The voice of reason at last, really if we cant keep ourselves occupied for a few hours then it all becomes a little sad. In ref to earlier comments about Blizzard ... well .... they keep fans guessing for years!!

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You have not played games for very long have you? Comparing them to a carwash is like comparing the Sistine chapel to newspaper sketch.

Cap / Allowance same thing .. mostly a thing of past. I was just fooling while bored .. no malace intended.